1/3, home game, 9-handed, no rake.

Table is extremely loose. All other players are known to me, they are all regular poker players of varying calibre, all loose but different levels of aggressiveness.


Villain A (40yo white male, $180, 35/20, 3B 12%, massive spewy loser) opens to $12 in EP
Villain B (30yo white male, $300, 50/10) calls in EP+1
Villain C (35yo white male, $1400, 40/20, 3B 6%) re-raises to $45 in MP. There is a deep enmity and mutual disdain between Hero and this Villain. VillainC basically thinks Hero is an impotent fish post-flop and has been known to bluff-raise, check-raise bluff with air against Hero. Also known to light 4-bet with air. Villain C is breakeven to slight winner at the casino going by past history, he wins ~ 45% of showdowns and goes to showdown slightly more often than optimal.

Hero ($470) 4-bets to $180 in the SB with QdQh

Villain A calls for his whole stack.
Villain B calls. Villain C calls.

Flop ($723): Kd 7d 6d

Villain checks, Villain C moves all in

What do you do? Are the odds enough to call?

Very easy call, imo. The math is complicated by the main/side considerations, but your call will represent at most (assuming Villain B folds) 22.25% of the pot.

You are drawing to the second nuts (even one out to the nuts), already have second pair, and the pot is massive. Villain C has basically all the AK and KK combos here, as well as some other stuff, but even against just that you have 32.67%.

This is always a snap call. If he flopped an A-high flush then nh sir.

Given the read, you have to call. Curious about the enmity and distain. Any particular cause and is it mostly on your part or he's. For example, Red Sox fans hate the Yankees but Yankee fans treat the Red Soxes as one of several division rivals.

At home games I've played in, I've had people that don't like me simply because of the way I play. There was one guy who was a complete dickhead to me and I never said a bad word to him or anyone else at the game.

yea call.

and koko
if you disguise the way you play and act they wont hate you.

Given my experience back in 2003 of almost getting jumped at yankee stadium for cheering a David Ortiz double, I have to throw a major challenge flag on this one (FYI I was a skinny 17 year old kid in summer 2003).

As for the hand, never folding. Probably calling off any pocket pair with a diamond in it. If he has top 6% hands, then the only hands that have you dead are AdJd and AdTd. Add some KQs, KK, AK, and YOLO jams with AdQ and lower pocket pairs with a diamond. You’re actually flipping against a range of all 12 combos of AK, all 3 KK, both KQs, 99-JJ with a diamond, both AdQ combos and AdJd/AdTd


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