Full table. Was loose pretty passive table with several weak fish, getting more aggro lately as good LAG villain is amping it up. 1 very good LAGish reg. couple OK regs.


Hero UTG $1380 40's white, been at table bout 2 1/2 hours had been playing tight, overlimped few times with spec hands. Opened a few times and cbet and took it down HU or 3way. Last 1 hour though much more active. Got stacked 1 hr ago when I check/overshoved about $600 on combo draw, had 56 on a 346 board, into preflop bettor's cbet after everyone else folded(hand posted a couple of days ago). Rebought $500 picked up QQ 2 hands later and 3bet and took pot down with bets on flop and turn. Doubled up 15 min ago when I turned nut straight with 56 in BB and 3bet overbet pot and called a shove by 2nd nut straight(hand also posted). Pretty aggro dynamic going at table now in general past hour. Am up to $1380

V1 UTG +1 $3300 very good on TAG side of LAG reg, aggressive, cbets high %, double barrels some, 3 bets light, stacked me calling with QQ overpair in aforementioned hand vs my combo draw(I turned 2 pair he rivered top set),saw him 4 bet all in for 80BB effective w 99 vs AA and rivered a 9 so can spew a bit especially if he feels he is flipping, shoved a pair and flush draw at a 100 BB stack and won also. He's most of the aggro dynamic here.

V2 UTG+2 $550 decent reg, 50ish woman, pretty tight, little bit passive. Loose preflop. I stacked her in the 56 vs A5 hand

V3 Btn $500 just sat down, mid 20's, never seen him so best guess he's a rec. player, All I know.

V4 SB $1220 meh/weak rec player, limp calls a bunch, passive stationy fish, fit fold but sticky if he has a piece. Has won a couple pots where he chased and caught 2 pair. Paid too much to catch a straight too I think to stack someone.

Hero UTG+1 $1380 QQ opens for $30
V1 UTG +1 $3300 calls
V2 UTG+2 $550 calls
V3 Btn $500 calls
V4 SB $1220 calls

Pot $150
Flop AQT

V4 leads out $80
Hero? I'm inclined to just flat here as I have a donk bettor in front and 3 Villains behind, all of whom unfortunately have KJ in their ranges lol. Not inclined to bloat pot yet before I have some more info. Too nitty?

Small donk bet is usually not the strongest hand, but you never know here betting out into 4 people. I'm more worried about everyone behind me.

In favor of 3 betting here: Small donk bet from fish usually is weak. He may be pricing his draws. I'm way ahead of sets(just TTT really as no one has AAA here) and 2 pairs, though. I'd want to puke though if V1 wanted to play for stacks because I know he'd do this with combo straight and flush draws as well as TTT and KJ. Reraise however gets a lot of money in from draws and weaker hands before a scare card comes off.

Thoughts?

Hero raises to $300.

Raise to $300.

Btw, you should never be afraid if v1 wants to play for stacks here. If your range is right, you're printing money.

The range isn't right. That's the problem.

There's 16 combos of KJ and 3 combos of TTT, 1 KT, 1 K9, 1 JT, 1 J9,1 T9, 1 T8 How low do you think we can go with these? We're big dogs to his 16 KJ hands and OK favs to his flush/straight draws and a big fav to his 3 TTT.

Even if I discount 1/3 of his KJ hands(which is too much I think, then I have to discount J8s and K9s) you try to find me the equity to get all-in vs him for 270 BB. It's not there.

BTW I think $300 here is too big. It opens up our stack and a raise to $250-260 accomplishes the same thing and denies odds well as flushes have only 7 outs and even flush/straight combos only 11.

Raise. Flatting is terrible.

Hero UTG+1 $1380 QQ opens for $30
V1 UTG +1 $3300 calls
V2 UTG+2 $550 calls
V3 Btn $500 calls
V4 SB $1220 calls

Pot $150
Flop AQT

V4 leads out $80
Hero raises to $250
V1 V2 V3 all fold
V4 calls

Pot $650
Turn 7
V1 checks
Hero?

raising 350 otf against a station who leads out. this way turn shove isn't a massive over bet

Bet $500

Yeah this is what my problem is now. 325-350 would have set up a turn shove much much better.

I kept the raise small as I was still a bit worried about the 3 Villains, especially the 1 really good deep aggro player to act behind me, before the fish and now I have a weird stack size and can't really shove here. If I knew they were all folding $350ish is the way to go

Sizing now? $400 or $450, more??

I'd go 450 to deny direct odds to a combo draw. There is nothing wrong with winning the pot right here. If he calls off a combo draw and misses, so much the better, but I want to make sure he is making a mistake if he does.

Call any shove on turn, shove any safe river if he calls turn.

Hero bets $460
Villain calls

Pot $1570
River 2

Villain checks
Hero moves all-in
Villain pretty much snap calls about $480 left

Villain has AT top and bottom pair
I think place where I may have done better is making a bigger flop raise giving me a better shove spot on turn. But my main concern was just getting it all in and pricing out the draws pretty well so no complaints.


Thx for the discussion.