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77 to AA do play differently, very differently. Peopl fold 77/88/99...
Also, I feel your analysis of hero is really poor. These details don't add up. He's making squeeze plays preflop with crappy hands. Showing!! And he plays shortstacked (under 100BB deep). These are all signs of mediocre, losing regs.
You are likely profitable at these stakes, but perhaps you should spend more time thinking through poker, winning styles, etc.
I thought I had mentioned it in the post, but this particular game in Australia is a 200max BI. As such, even being at 190 isnt completely out of the ordinary... I generally top up in increments of 100, but some people play to the felt and some top up in 25's, so whatever floats your boat.
Making squeezes isnt something that is completely ZOMG out of the ordinary, and is does help to an extent in balancing your 3bet range to something other then the perhaps standard JJ+ and AK. In that spot, its looked a perfectly fine play especially when mentioned later that two of the others had telegraphed folds behind. The initial open was a weak 10 raise from somewhere close to UTG against someone who did have a betsize tell in smaller = weaker which I had picked up, and I guessed he did too...
About giving the exact hand, if it didnt matter, people would tell me. I didnt want to make this a ZOMG, he played AA/KK/JJ/whatever hand thread where people make the same LOL overplayed overpair statements. If the hands do play differently, say so but say why. In my beliefs, I felt that basically 88+ played the same as AA on this particular board and given the types of players behind. Im not saying that Im right end of story, but if people think I am wrong, well, tell me why?
I do know what he had because the hand did end up getting to showdown. The rest of the action of the hand isnt the question, its this particular action I am curious about...
