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Easy fold for me preflop. Our implied odds are only 15x. Being in position does not make up for playing a dominated offsuit hand here, imo, especially when we'll have to fold to his cbet often.
As played, I'd feel committed against shortstack V2 but not deeper V1. When V1 checks the flop, I feel like I always have the best hand and thus would probably PSB the flop to go against V2.
Weird postflop line by V1. Our flop bet certainly was on the small side, so maybe he's picking up on a perceived weakness. The question is whether he would really let this flop check thru / not check/raise with a big hand. This kinda looks like the 3 actually helped him or he's doing a weird semibluff (but wouldn't he semibluff the flop?). Tough spot. In the end, it really depends on Villain. I play with a lot of Villains who are insanely loose preflop, but then actually fairly ABC postflop (and hope their preflop looseness gets paid off), so against these Villains I would fold.
ETA: I can understand why people want to see a flop preflop (either calling or raising). I think at times I'm too tight for my own good, but I also don't think a fold here is terrible; he's going to typically apply pressure to us postflop, and it's going to be difficult to continue to that pressure a lot of times even with TP, let alone when we flop air (which will be the majority of the time). And given the way Villain played his monster draw on the flop, we obviously don't have a very good handle on what he has or how he plays them; really, who among us thought he flopped a monster draw given his flop play?
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