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Originally Posted by NeverScurred
In general OP, the fact that your opponent is likely bluffing should actually make you less likely to call with your draw. Since you only have Jack high, even most of his bluffs will beat you at showdown, and he won't often have a good enough hand to put much more money in when you hit (whereas if he has a strong hand, your implied odds increase because villain will almost always stack off when you hit). However, as another poster alluded to, the best option in spots where you have a draw and your opponent if often bluffing is to re-bluff them, because you can win the pot that way despite your lack of showdown value, and even if they call you semi-bluff you can still potentially hit your draw and win. On this flop, given your read, check/raising all-in would be your best move.
Continuing the theme of playing aggressively and having a chance to win without showdown, you'd be much better off raising this hand preflop the first time action gets to you, as others have said. But once you limp and he raises, I'd probably just fold rather than play the hand out of position and without the betting initiative.
Thank you, this makes a lot of sense. Believe it or not I actually do tend to raise rather than limp in, but a couple times a session I just have brain farts and play hands horribly from the jump. I think the fact that I was running so horribly affected my judgement on this one. Plus I am reading all these posts on here and lately it jus seems like I have a million things going thru my head when I'm playing...I hear all the advice on here and it's just not flowing smoothly in my head yet.
As it turned out I got very lucky that I just called flop because my read was correct and he had nothing, then the turn must have given him 4 hearts cause he called my $120 turn bet and folded the river to my shove. I asked how he coul fold there and he said " I assumed you beat ace high" so I'm guessing he had Ah. Luckily he played the hand even worse than I did and my opinion of him changed after this one.
But I do see how horribly I played this, and I knew it at the time, that's why I posted it on here. An that's why I post the hands I do post... Just to try to eliminate these bone head lines I seem to take 2-3 times a session