1/2NL. 5am, 8 hours into session at table with same players for a while.

-SB Just lost a huge pot and is crippled, ready to go home asap
-Villian 1 is very new player, mid 20s, has been leading out and folding to flop raises a ton, typical newbie overvalues pairs etc.
-Villian 2 has decent history with me, late 20s. His view of me is very TAG, but i have got into a few pots with him in last couple hours, so seems to have a vendetta against me. type of LAG player who would call off a stack with any overpair despite flop texture. He's stuck $500ish at this point

My table image is that im quiet, solid/nitty player who hasnt shown down many hands, or lost many at showdown. Ive squeezed a few times in position but overall the table has been respecting my raises, except for V2 who haas made a point of playing back at me often.

6 handed

SB $17
BB (v1)$200
UTG(v2)$400
BTN (h)$350

v2 Straddles to $5. Hero raises to $15 w K7. SB shoves for $17, v1 Calls, v2 calls, Hero Calls.

Flop: KJ9

v1 bets $15, v2 calls, hero raises to $50. v1 folds, v2 thinks (looks at me intensely) and raises to $150 pretty quickly. Hero tanks one minute, and goes all in for $150 more ($330 total) v1 folds, v2 Snap-calls.

Turn: Q

River: 2

SB shows AJo no spade. v2 shows J3 and mucks. Hero show K7 and collects pot ($723)

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thoughts? My reasoning for the flop raise is that if i did this raise and v1 4bets i can consider folding.

When v2 raised, i figured he didnt have a hand of strength - against me he would have rasied any pairs or broadways from his straddle. I figured he was making a move with a weak holding like one pair or a number of drawing hands.


*I know there is a strong case for folding the K7 pf, but we were 6 handed and the SB was pretty much gonna put it in blind so thought i might be against him only.

Felt decent about the shove until he snap called me. honestly put him on a garbage jack or a drawing hand that i was ahead of.

Did i play this horribly?

It's bad. V2's range is Q10 or combo draws almost 100%.

You're never getting better hands to fold.

It's a marginal spot even if he is playing face up. You can find better spots than this in 1/2.

Pretty lucky some dude is putting 150bb in otf with MPTK. Whole thing seems like dumb luck.

A bit of a rarity, and obviously you were wrong with your read, as you said yourself you expected him to have raised you pre-flop with broadways.

This hand is the equivalent of necking 15 tequilas and somehow finding your way home.

V's range isn't combo draws 100%. he's way more likely to c/r a combo draw than donk-lead 25% pot with it into 3 players. But most likely, he'll just c/c with all of his naked draws.

Because the board is so wet and its a 3-way pot, he will lead out a lot of his range that he wants to protect against drawing hands. Based on his sizing, I think he has some weak king or maybe a weak draw or pair + draw that doesn't want to call down big bets with. This is basically a "see where i'm at raise". He doesn't know wtf else to do with his marginal hand.

Especially since its 3-way and v2 called, you should fold. You're almost always either behind or behind vs their ranges - which are going to be better Kx, pair + draw, and naked draws.

Poster you quoted was talking about V2's range and you are talking about V1's range, at least I think.

Oh, I mis-read the action.

Still, it doesn't change much. Villains calling range to your all-in will be Kx, naked draws, and pair + draw and you aren't doing well against that.

This hand is all around bad. I hope the reason you posted it was for people to tell you it was bad, because that's the case.

Preflop: Why raise a trash hand if you know the straddler is going to play back at you a large percentage of the time?

Flop: Awful. The only reason this worked at all is because the guy was on some kind of weird tilt. You're throwing money away playing like this.

Seems bad lucky for you villan played it worse.

Pretty f-in bad. Above posters did a good job of explainingn why.