Ok, made me a new account with a cool new name, mainly for the LOLz.
Main question: How do you do determine early ranges of pre-flop limp-callers? I just set Flopzilla to ~50%, then cut the junk and add speculative hands. What do you do?
OTTH
Hard Rock Tampa
2/5 NL, $300-$1000 buy-in
Effective stacks of $1400
PRE-FLOP
Mississippi Straddle ($10 on BTN)
SB limps.
Blind limps.
LJ (VILLAIN) limps. Appears like a rec.
CO (HERO) raises to $75 with K
K
.
Folds to LJ who asks for stack count, then calls.
FLOP ($180) J
10
4
Villain checks. I have their range at the following, but I have little confidence in this read. Should the range be much looser? Narrower? Different? How do you respond to the limp-stack-count-request-call sequence?
Hero bets $75.
Villain calls.
TURN ($330) J
10
4
... 6
Villain checks. All this passivity on this board has nearly eliminated made monsters from villain's range IF villain is competent, but we don't know that. I left in 44 to represent the slim chance villain is slowplaying. Combo draws are still in. Basically hero is miles ahead of villain's range.
Hero bets $200.
Villain check-raises to $500, making their range: huge draws and the rare slowplay... right?
Hero ?
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I think it's obvious how one can reach drastically different reads and conclusions here, mainly because interpretation of the limp-call can vary so much.
What do you think?