1/3 too thin value with weakish two pair?
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 8
Posting for a friend says the game was pretty action and game was playing deeper than normal $1/$3
Hero is young loose asian guy
Villain first time playing with him for a few hours seems like a passive fish and a little bit on tilt after being stacked two orbits ago.
Button straddle effective $6
Sb folds, hero limps A2o in the BB, he says he knows he should have folded pre was just being impatient and getting bored says he would fold to any raise.
6 more limps and button straddle checks his option he is the villain.
($48) flop A2T rainbow Hero leads $20, mp calls, and villain on the button calls
($108) turn J Hero bets $45, mp folds, Villain calls
($198) river 5 Hero bets $150
His main question is this bet too thin, should he just be checking, and how about his sizing?
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 12,760
Aside from pre, I think it's fine but river sizing is too big. I'd go ~$100.
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 36,136
Obvious fold preflop is obvious.
I'm fine with the flop donk and sizing. I'm looking to start getting paid off but at the same time I'm not looking to build a hugenormous pot in an eleventeen way limped pot.
I'm fine with the turn bet although I might size it even a bit smaller. At this point a couple more hands have moved ahead and again I'm not looking to build a ginormous pot, plus it is still 3ways.
Bet/folding the river is way better than check/calling for a few reasons. One, we get to be the ones setting the price, and I would have went *way* smaller like no more than 1/2 PSB and maybe like $80 (just targetting Ax and JT). Two, there is far too good a chance he checks back worse hands that would consider paying off a bet. Three, there's really no busted draws he could have for us to bluffcatch.
Thanks to our loose image and villain being a passive tilted fish, I think going for 3 postflop streets is ok, but keep in mind our line is still *extremely* strong (betting into eleventeen players on the flop, continuing on the turn into 2 players, and getting that 3rd bet in on the river). So I would really downsize our bets considerably since so many hands now beat us and we're looking to get paid off by worse.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 4,495
Me likey thin value. Maybe a bit smaller OTR to get called by single paired Aces, but otherwise wp (other than pre-flop which is a fold for me).
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 780
same as all the above, I'm not a huge fan of the sizing. $90-$120 seems right to me