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Originally Posted by spikeraw22
Preflop: I would have gone $75. Nice work.
Flop: I would have made it $90. You're a little short of that but not awful. You got what you wanted. Calling seems obvious. Honestly from what you've describe he doesn't seem good to me at all. Just aggro and donkish. Usually these guys are just used to people not being able to read hands coupled with being weak and they just run them over even when their line makes no sense. There are only a few hands to fear and his game is pushing chips in. Lets call and let him do what he does best.
Turn: CMV likes to jam but I prefer to check. I'm not folding really and his description is that he'll put money in bad. Check and expect to call a ship and end up happy.
The description of Villain is that he likes to push people around with "big bets". This is a min-raise though. It doesn't fit the usual pattern. That's why I think there's something strange about this. It's like Villain's hand is so good that he has to raise, but because it's in his DNA that raising is for when you want folds, he raises as small as he possibly can. (There was a reg in my old game who played exactly like this.) If this is true, then we're behind.
I'm not about to fold, though, because it could also be possible that:
1) Villain is raising the flop so that he can take a free card on the turn with whatever draw he flopped. In that case, we shouldn't check the turn because then he gets what he wants.
2) Villain's hand is such that he wants to leave himself room to fold to a flop shove. This is why I don't want to 3bet the flop--if Villain has this kind of hand, we send him false information by just calling the flop, but by lead-jamming the turn we can confuse him into calling then.
The main thing is that I just don't think he has air. From the description, it sounds like if he were going to raise with air he'd size it bigger. Something else is going on here--he's not just barreling off for no reason. That's why I don't particularly want to give him a chance to check the turn.