6 handed .25/50 home game effective stacks 75ish dollars with main villain other villains have decent stack sizes as well around 50 dollars.
V1 (BB): best player at the table by far. He seems to play a good tight aggressive style I have history with him we have played together in this home game many times. He has seen me check aces on the flop but also knows I am capable of firing the river on missed draws. I think he views me as a good thinking player capable of mixing up my play.
Two loose passive players limp to me on the button I look down at Ad5c raise to $3.00. This is definitely an area of my game I can improve on I’m not certain about adjusting my overlimping range from the button, usually I just default to raising all the hands I want to play and adding 1 bb per limper. This hand is on the bottom end of a button open range but I am definitely opening it if it folds to me. However this hand plays pretty poorly multiways which makes a limp behind seem bad here seems like a good spot to raise it up and try to get it heads up against the weaker range of the limpers so that’s what I opt to do.
4 callers
Flop (15$)A
K
4
checks to me on the button I ?
I decide to check here to protect my checking range, this is one of the weaker aces I can have here and there are very few draws on such a dry flop that I can risk giving a card to
Turn 9
checks to me I bet 7.50 bb calls saying “did he really check an ace again”
River (30$) 4
Bb checks I bet 20? In the hand I thought he might have an ace but we are always chopping with an ace here because he raises AK preflop and I think he leads A9 on the turn. I considered overbetting but chickened out and ended up betting 20$.
However in hindsight I think he actually leads a lot of aces on the turn and his verbal tells further supports that he is very unlikely to have an ace. Therefore I think a more standard bet is actually correct to get a lot of Kings to call. Curious to hear what you guys think