I'll split these up into separate posts if needed & will try to keep everything as short as possible.

Hand 1

Villain: $280 eff. Middle aged white guy. Biggest leak pre is that he limps to often, calls bets a bit wide. Otherwise, he's raising decent hands and seems to be positionally aware. Post flop, nothing noteworthy. Hasn't been at the table too long.

Hero's image: TAG.

H iso UTG limp w/ AK in EP to $17, 3 callers, including V in BB, the only to act before me. Limper folds

Flop: $67 AQJ

check, H $55, f, f, call

Good spot to check this?

Turn: $177 4

$208 left in stack, check, Hero?


Hand 2

1 orbit after previous hand. $300 eff stacks. Important to note I'd been getting good hands in EP. I'd done a similar open 2 times before HAND 1. One got all folds & the other I took w/ a c-bet.

V only been at table for past 4 orbits. Another MAWG. Limps a lot (33%) and raises ~ 15-20% thus far. Talks to others about all the plays as if he's the ultimate authority but he's full of bad-reg fallacies, such as "there's always an A when you have KK"

Hero open UTG+1 to $16 w/ AK, folds to V on BTN who 3b to $35 with an aggressive look like he's getting sick of my young overly aggro ways. I felt like he was fairly wide here from his look of combative discomfort. I thought about 4 betting, but decided to flat. I know we're OOP, but it's cheap and keeps his range as wide as possible.

Flop: $70 QT8

Hero checks, V $65, Hero? Fold > c/r > call? We've got 2 overs, a gutter, & rrFD.

Hand 3

V is James Woods.... like THE James Woods in the flesh. Him an I have a history. He flopped a set on me which turned quads, but I didn't loose that much, just check/calling for 2 streets for 1/4 psb. He also doubled up from me as a $100 shorty when I tried to iso him w/ QQ, he called with A5, flop 955, he check calls, and check calls AI on a blank turn.



H iso's UTG+1 limp w/ AKo $20 in UTG+1. JW calls in MP, BTN calls(V from HH2), UTG calls. $235 EFF

Flop $80

664

4 checks

Turn:

A

check, H bets $50, JW AI, fold, fold, Hero?

H1 ck back is good

H2 AP ck-f to this sizing.
Its either one or the other, his 3b range has adjusted down to you (unlikely) and you needed to 4b for value OR his 3b range remains the same and you can call and look for Axx/Kxx/ssx to Gii.

H3 bet 1/3 pot on the flop turn and riv. AP call

I miss playing cash with Woods, moreso bc of his infamous 20x upton-esque sweat than for any other reason.

Hand 1: Check. Be interesting if you had Kc, still lean check. Maybe that is wrong?

Hand 2: C/F. Prefer 4b to $115-$125. Would call a jam as well.

Hand 3: B/C is fine.

H1 if you are going to bet there's no way I'd put $55 out there

H1: $30 accomplishes everything your large sizing does

H2: 4 bet!!!, most your range wants to flat. So 4 bet QQ+, AKss.......as played fold

H3: Again with sizing issue. Bet super small. Probably only targeting Ax, at this point anyways......fold now

Edit: changed my mind. He likely has way to many bluffs in his range. Call H3

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Also, if your going to post someone's real name. Then have decency to post your real name.

Sure he wants some anonymity. (Well maybe not him). But in general it is rude.

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H1:

AK in EP for me is all about stack sizes, looseness of table, difficulty of table, etc. This table looks kinda loose with medium stacks, so I might go for an overlimp/raise here, or just pop it much bigger preflop (i.e. $30 if I have a $300 stack). I think our result is quite sucky, in that we're 4ways giving our opponents about 20+:1 implied odds to stack us having gotten in only 6% of their stacks, and yet SPR will be very small ~4 (good luck getting away from TP postflop) and we're OOP to boot. *If* you find postflop difficult here, then do something different preflop.

I might just check/evaluate this flop. This flop crushes a lotta peoples preflop ranges for calling a raise, and even if we're not beat now someone could have a lotta equity against us. I just wanna see who does what before deciding what to do (which might just be a check/fold).

The turn is part of the problem with preflop. We've just setup a situation where we have no room to move postflop or figure out what is going on. Shove? Check/fold? I don't really know, which is why I play preflop differently.

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H2:

The minnish type 3bet is a little scary, it certainly looks like he wants action. There's also no other dead money in the pot. Looks like we've got an aggro image, and it seems we think he could be playing back at it. We're getting a good price to call, but we'll be OOP without initiative where we'll probably have to check/fold most flops. We're only crushed by 2 hands, and other hands will have a difficult decision against us. I probably lean towards a 3bet to $100 to shove any flop (possibly slowplaying a A/K flop), or even just flat out shove now for maximum FE. But it really depends on how often I think he can 3bet without nuttish hands (and a lot at this level simply do not, but it really is situation / player dependent).

This flop should probably have hit him fairly hard, as he has lottsa sets here or TPTK or pair + gutshot. Not really convinced we're getting him off much here other than a complete bluff preflop.

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H3:

Looks like stacks are shortish and table is obviously loose. I'd typically make it $25 here, or if table is aggro limp/reraise. The result is similar to H1 in that we're going multiway with a small SPR (good luck doing anything else other than stacking off postflop with TP), but at least thanks to smaller stacks and slightly bigger preflop sizing our opponents are only getting implied odds of 15+:1 while putting in 9% of their stack (so much less profitable spot for them).

I rarely bet air in 4way pots, but I might bet a lol $20 here if no one plays back at that. An ok chance we're still best, plus draws could pay us off. I'm also cool with a check/fold.

Kinda gross spot on the turn as we look to have exactly what we have and yet he shoves anyway. But in the other two spots he was fairly passive with his monsters, and he could still be doing this with hands we crush (AQ worried about the draws, etc.). So I call.

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