2-5, 1k BI, about an hour in, I don't recognize any Vs

V1 SB Covers - 20s guy trying to win, but way too many hands so far, bet sizing seems bad as aggressor, lots of stationing too. He won a couple sizable pots off of UTG.
V2 BB $900 - 20s pretty quiet, almost certainly a rec, not much to go on.
V3 UTG $900 - 30s rec. Stationing hard pre, bad aggro post, free money.
Hero CO $1300 - 30s avg looking white dude. Won a few smallish pots that anyone would have won, clean image.

V3 open limp, Hero $25 76, V1 call, V2 call.

($100) AT3
V1 check, V2 40, V3 fold, Hero call, V1 call.

($220) 5
V1 check, V2 110, Hero call, V1 call.

($550) 8
V1 check, V2 check, Hero?

Pre?
Flop?
Turn?
River?

pre is bad given the lineup.

Postflop is ok. I would probably raise flop small (95) and Bomb turn (3/4 Pot) and river on this runout.

as played:

Bet 390

really looks like V2 had AxK and V1 has something like QJx.


Pre - I don't care. Unlike most of this forum, I am all about preflop aggression, opening a very wide range, and only limping with big hands if you are trapping an aggro lag.


Flop, I am just calling. Even if he is not there yet, he still has a decent amount of equity and we don't have to raise and guess if shoves over the top over us.



Turn - I am bumping that to 300 and calling a shove when he only leads out half pot. No rec flops the nuts and donks out twice. Honestly, I just want to take it down right there. We know V1 is not there yet because with his imgage, he would be raising if he was.

River - I prefer going for small value that V2 is almost always going to call. something like 155. 175. Or, we could shove and make it look like missed spades, but against a timid rec, we are hardly ever going to get called unless we have a dirty dirty image. which we don't.

$275 turn -> shove river

AP $375 river

I don't mind pre, either. I think it's a good raise, actually.

Flop is fine. I can go either way on the turn and see merits to both. I like the call knowing it will keep V1 in and I don't want to lose them now, although another spade would suck.

Bet river (~$200) and hope for a crying call.

Bet $85 to induce and call any raise. Someone is in this hand with the nut blocker.

This.

Thanks for the feedback. I still remain a bit torn on the turn play against these two, but am leaning toward the raise+bet non-nut changing rivers (agree V2 is unlikely to have a better hand, though V1 ck-cold calling two bets ott with plenty of stack behind would have to be taken into account). Flatting turn seemed to build in a whole lot of easy-to-play rivers that one or two of these guys would so often ck-c wider than they might have on the turn.

@probono - I'm personally not raising flop ever here, standard call w my whole c-range facing a donk on monotone. I'm also raising pre with a whole lot worse than 76s, but understand how you might find it a bit loose.

($550) 8
V1 check, V2 check, hero $235, fold and tank fold.

Pre is a MUST ISO vs. this villain.

Flop, I think a call is fine, but you could raise too.

Turn call seems standard.

River, bet 1/2 pot.