V: middle aged guy who is very talkative at the table. Now's the stuff, making jokes and is playing aggressive poker. Definitely has a clue what he is doing, but he is very loose pre. I saw him stealing pots. Somtimes has a strange sizing. Not much of other history or something i can tell you about him.

Las hand he isolated a small allin which got called from some passive fish for about 180 and another guy coldcalled with q9ss and made his flush on the river against his KJ on a 488 flop.

He lost his first stake which he build up from 300 to about 600 hand

TTH: After this Hand he reloaded for 500 and straddle. 3 Limp fish caller (like always)
Hero is in the BB with AKo. Thinking about just limping by and hoping he is gonna raise it up. But my feeling said he wouldn't do that after this pot. So i decided to pull the trigger and raise up to 50. I expect the other caller's to fold alot because its 50. So i expected to get it hu vs the straddle. I think he has a very very large defending range because of the last hand. How does you think somebody gets influenced by previous hands he lost?


Flop (130): 21010
Hero bet 60 and V1 called. After his call i still put him on a wide range because he is capable of reading a board and floating.
Turn(250): Hero bets 100 with the intention to call a allin of 250.
My thought was that my range is so much better thand his. He has a capped range and i rep Overpairs a lot.
What do you think of this line?

What was the turn?

This is important ^^^^

What do you think his preflop calling range is to defend his straddle? What do you think the cutoff is for pocket pairs that he calls and pocket pairs that he raises preflop? Playing in position, would he more likely slow play a Tx or be aggressive? With T-T-2 on the board, I know it's unlikely he has a Ten but their would be so many combos with a Ten in his range since he called and didn't raise preflop

Oh sorry the turn was an 7o.
I think all pockets are in his range. All suited connectors and 1 gappers. Axss, Kxss, Q9+ But i dont know for sure if he is calling with these stuff to float.

I missed the part about him having a wide defending range. My bad. But when you say he is capable of reading a board and floating, he could he can have a lot of pocket pairs that he knows he is ahead of your bluffs but behind your overpairs. Tough spot you might have to barrel three streets but if he shows down a middle pocket pair, tough to barrel down in the future against Villain. I like the bet sizing on the paired board as long as your betting the same sizes when you do have the overpairs and occasional Tx hand to balance your bluffs. I would C-bet AK on this board but I would prefer to barrel off my sronger AKs with BDSDs/BDFDs

against this villains, common guys having fun at homegames, I normally just x/f and b/f turn if they check turn. it's more of a delayed CB because I'm always never comfortable in these spots even if I hit a A or K.

Turn is a brick. Most people that call a flop bet on that board are putting you on AK and therefore are unlikely to fold a brick turn.

Villain sounds a lot like me so let me illuminate a few things. First of all, the straddle is a trick which allows villain to play a wide range of hands for cheap that he normally wouldn't open in early position. People way overlimp in straddled pots. You should be opening with AK from any position vs a straddler that has a clue.

Since villain just lost a pot he is likely to call wider preflop trying to get lucky to recover his losses.

Your postflop plan and logic behind it is terrible. Why are you trying to play for stacks when you have AK high vs a player that has a clue? You say that your intention is to bet with the intention of calling a shove because you rep overpairs?!?! That makes no sense. If villain puts you on an overpair and then shoves that would indicate that an overpair is likely no good. I don't understand why you think villain's range is capped based on the action. If anything, your range is capped at 2 pair while villain could have trips, boats, or quads.

The flop is a pretty easy check/call. Then evaluate turn. Trying to bluff a tilted player is the exact opposite of what you should be doing.

+1

Since V is tilting, I think we can check/call 1 or 2 streets against this villain (depending on reads, bet sizing, and board texture). We want to keep V as wide as possible and induce bluffs.

After thinking about this Hand i would check call the flop and maybe the turn. I played this hand poorly. He showed up with 22 for a flopped fullhouse, but what if he has the other small pockets like 33-99. I think he would have folded them on the turn. Probably my line wasn't that bad. THe problem is he can decide on the turn if he wants to play for the whole stack. I commit myself...

Straddle sometimes loosens up tight games. I straddle too, but it´s usually when tilted about being down or having a good time when winning or trying to encourage others to do it or put on a double straddle etc.

In other words, I do it because gambling is fun and big pots are fun and loose games are fun. I don´t lie to myself by inventing some arbitrary reason why it has strategical benefits.

The vast majority of players adjust improperly to straddled pots. Even the OP is considering limping AK from the big blind lol.

In order to be good at poker you need patience. You don't need to win every pot. A value oriented strategy tends to be the most profitable strategy at live low stakes. If you're bluffing with this hand that has showdown value you're bluffing way too much. Playing for stacks with AK here is akin to an OMC stacking off with AA when he's never good. Small hands, small pots. Big hands, big pots.

I'd hope you were on tilt to play AK like this. Needless to say, this hand probably helped the tilted reg get off tilt.