Hello all!

Can you give me some thoughts on this hand?

Hero is in MP with $230.
Villain is in LP and covers.

Table conditions: it's GAMBLE night at the casino! K5s for $20 pre? why not? cold call a 3 bet out of position with A2o? Sure! Indeed, at least one opponent has been playing as if his software doesn't have a fold button pre-flop .

Villain has been loosey-goosey preflop but i haven't seen anything crazy post-flop.

Hero and Villian have only hand history together... About 4 hands ago, a known maniac had blasted flop, turn and the river on a Q-LLLL board... Hero called down maniac's bets with QT and won against maniac's ten high... villain had also been calling down and claims he had QJ and folded instead of overcalling against me on the river because he thought i was playing snug. I got lucky and scooped a nice pot because villain failed to overcall. Sometimes you get lucky in poker .

Preflop Pot is $3.

Hero has AdKs. 1 limper and it's on hero. Hero raises to $18.

Villian coldcalls in LP. The rest of the table folds.

Flop Pot is $41.

Flop is Ah Jh 7c.

Sweet! Hero should be good here a lot of the time... and sitting pretty against a large part of Villian's range.

Hero c-bets for $20. This seems like a super-standard C-bet because Hero wants to get value from all the weak aces that Villian will be cold calling with (and there's a lot of them ), and hero also doesn't want to give draws any free cards. Not to mention that hero will be c-betting against a lone opponent on an ace-high board a lot of the time with his missed hands too. Agree?

Villian insta-shoves all in!

Pot is now $273 and its $192 back to hero. Hero?

Thanks for your thoughts!

-Buckethead2

Fist pump call

1) vomit
2) fold.

This is the same guy that called down two streets with TP3K and then folded rather than show down with you. He's not jamming with AQ.

You should have c-bet more, be glad your c-bet was only half pot and fold.

Naaah, when you cbet half pot you can do it absurdly often and induce light calls via aggro dynamic. It's a very underrated move imo.

I actually like the amount you c bet. Since you were oop you saved yourself a little money cuz you must fold here. I will often bet about half the pot oop and closer to the full pot ip for situations like this.

I feel like people are saying fold because it obviously worked out badly for the hand to have been posted on here. Results oriented.

He CLAIMED to have thrown away JQ on the river after calling hero down, hero didnt actually see his hand.

If you are at a super aggressive table, and villain is that loose preflop (so can be in with alot of draws on such a draw heavy board), and we have TPTK, is it really that clear a fold? I dont think it is...I think we see villian turning up with alot of combo draw hands here.

Far as what beats us...AA is highly unlikely with only one combo, JJ he would have 3bet if he was that loose pre, so that leaves 77 as a possibility, as well as AJ and A7. Does he really snap shove top 2 pair on the flop? I really doubt it.....Im not saying its a fist pump call, but I do believe its a call.

Against only combo draws we're 55%. Against combo draws + only AJ we're 30%, and if we add A7 and 77 we're 25%. Save your money. Tell him you reallllly think he's bluffing and to show one time after you fold, and then readjust.

Easy fold imo. Yeah there is some history with villain, but the history involves him cold-call/folding with top pair. You say he is loose but is he loose aggressive (bluffy, tries to make moves and take down pots) or loose passive? Based on the one hand you told us about, he is loose passive. I am not comfortable stacking off with top pair versus a loose passive villain who suddenly goes aggro. There are better spots to get stacks in, let him take this one and pay close attention to see if he does this again.

Thanks for the replies. It seems that the majority of posters think its an (easy) fold. I feel a lot better because hero folded, as played.

To be honest, I feel like I played the hand pretty well...although some posters might disagree .

For what it's worth, Villain promised to tell me what he had after our session ended. A few hours later when the table broke and villain racked up, villain told me he had a set.