Prior history:

Hero sits down at new table, after his previous one broke with exactly $300.
Here receives 53 (Hero has an affinity for 53 suited) in MP and calls an EP raise of $11, which gets called in 5 places.

The flop comes down A 5 Q
EP (Original Raiser) bets, Hero 3 bets, 1 goes all in, EP and Hero call.
4 on the turn and stacks go in. Hero loses buy in on first hand to EP's 10 J higher flush.

Hero takes a walk, but knows he over played his hand. More importantly, he knows that the table (including Villian) know this.

1 orbit prior to hand in question:

Hero was card dead and was lulled into limping several hands in a row.
Hero picks up A5 in late position, and limps along with 6 others including Villain on Button.

Flop is 3 5 10 rainbow.
Checked to Hero, who checks.
Villain (Button) bets $10
Here C/R to $25 with middle pair hoping Villian is just trying to pick up blinds.
Turn is a blank and is checked through.
River is another 10 and Hero check calls a $20 bet and mucks to Villian's trip 10's.

Villain definitely doesn't have much respect for Hero at this time...


On to the hand:
Hero ($450) is playing TAG right now, but probably has a loose, if not, reckless, image at the table, especially Villain.

Villain ($400) is solid to above average player, who seems to be picking his spots pretty well. Villain has seen Hero lose entire buy in overplaying baby flush on first hand at table, and from his perspective play a hand verse him poorly as well.


Hero picks up AK UTG+2 and raises to $12
Villain calls from MP, one other caller.

Villain is a good player and hasn't been to out of line. However, like I said, Villain hasn't seen much from Hero up to this point that should concern him. As such his range is wide. 22-10, A10s-AQoff, suited connectors and broadways are definitely in there. I think he 3 bets for value vs me with JJ+

Flop ($34)
A 7 3

Hero is first to act:

Hero bets for value.

Bet a causal $20 and see how others respond. It looks weak also. Good chance he rr w Ax and your drawing solid... Get info based on bets and reactions.. Max value here is important. Your only getting money from him now w no clubs in his hand. Any club on turn or river and he's done (unless) he makes 2 pair and can boat draw..

20$ and see what he does.. Def def def 4b if he rr

your only goal now is to build a pot. make close to a psb.

Bet small to underrep your hand and get worse to raise and call your cbet. You kinda have the deck crushed to this point

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Bet/call $28 for value.

so much this, we can bloat the pot on later streets for now we need a customer.

I don't think I'd consider someone stacking off with a pair + flush draw in a SPR = ~4.5 pot to be very reckless / overplayee. I'd actually perhaps label him as slightly passive since he didn't shove the flop in that hand. Anyhoo.

Preflop looks standard.

I would probably just donk pot on the flop. We most likely have the best hand otherwise we have a good draw to the nuts. I'm guessing we get looked up fairly light here due to our image.

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I like this more than making a pot-sized bet here. We don't care if draws continue; in fact, we want them to do so.

Easy c-bet. Given deep stacks, we want to build the pot as much as possible.

We're way ahead most of the time, but we have to bet given our image. Try $20-$25.

I like larger due to the fact Hero has a bad image. Thus, any AX is calling, which would not be the case if our image were solid.

I felt like the majority. My line was to lead out for roughly 2/3 the pot and hope my image worked for me.

Flop ($34)
A 7 3

Hero is first to act:

Bets $20
Villain looks at hole cards, thinks for 15 seconds and calls the $20
Other player folds.

(Hero believes Villain is either on a set of 7's or 3's, already there with a made flush, or sitting on a hand like AxJ or Ax Q With Villain looking back, hero is weighting range towards Ax X)

Turn: ($74)
Hero ($~$400)
Villain ($~350)

Turn is 4

Hero acts: ??

Bet/call $40.

c/r. The dynamics in the prior hand set this up pretty well.

+1

You have to take the lead here and hope the queen of clubs comes along for the ride.