1/3 on a Tuesday after work.

Main Villain ($1000): Fish running incredibly well. Has been playing literally 80% of hands, even to big openings. He's been calling down very, very light, but keeps getting there. He is capable of bluffing, but hasn't chosen his spots well.

Limp-Caller ($250): New to the table. Has limp called a lot of hands. Seems pretty ABC, but slow played a flopped set once on a two-tone board.

Hero ($500): 40-year-old in jeans and a t-shirt. I've been at the table for about and hour and have been completely card dead, so my image is tight.

OTTH

Villain straddles for $6, two limpers and I make it $26 with TT in the highjack. Villain calls and one limper calls with ~$250 behind.

Thoughts on the sizing? In hindsight I'm thinking maybe I should have gone bigger.

Flop ($78): 974
Checks to hero. ??

Sizing seems decent if we expect it to get the result that we did, 2 callers is normally a good number.

Hard to comment on the rest without reads on the limper.

Good point. I'll add those to the original post.

Would c-bet black tens, x/b with a heart.

sizing is fine pre.

flop im making this 70. Rec player and 80% vpip wont be folding Flush draws or TP here IMO and we always have to inculde 1 gappers and probably 2 gappers as well.

so either way Im potting, folding if 1k stack shoves over, calling if new guy shoves.

if either villain shows strength on turn then I think we should lean more to folding.

Start with a bet. 1/2 to 2/3 pot.

So I decided to bet $50. The main villain cuts out some raising chips, tanks for a bit, and then just calls. The limper folds.

Turn ($178): 974 -- J
Villain checks. Hero?

Bet 70-75% pot and check back on almost every river. Villain's gonna continue with all of his one-pair hands with a broadway heart (and possibly even worse), so we want to extract as much value as possible from those hands OTT. And we're obviously snap-folding to a raise.

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I agree with above. Bet a decent munt, fodl to agression, go for cheap showdwon on river.

sickness would be if he donk shoves on all missed hearts on river.

Yeah, with two limpers and the loose straddle, I would be making this bigger preflop, with my goal basically trying to isolate the loose straddler. Probably $35.

I'd probably bet the flop. It's likely we have the best hand but we're fairly vulnerable, and our flush draw is meh. I'd probably go $50 and evaluate from there.

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I'd be cool with this plan with like AA/KK, but the lower our pair starts getting (more vulnerable to overs and our flush draw less valuable), the more I lean towards betting.

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I'm torn on the turn. Sounds like he can call down light, but also sounds like he can bluff in poor spots too.

Overall, we have a fairly mediocre hand at this point, and it sounds like this guy might even be able to put us in a gross spot on the turn (we'd hate to be check/raised here with our possible flush outs being good). So I'd check behind. There's a good chance he bets any river and we can snap call. If we bet again, it sets up some pretty gross turn check/raise river donk spots (which at this point may be for stacks).

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Pot sized raise was $34 pre. When in doubt, pot is a nice default. I'd go 30 or 35 generally.

I don't like b/f turn against described Villain.

Would need to be pretty spewy for b/c > checkback. I lean checkback and snap call all non-heart rivers under a Q. Hearts and big cards would depend on sizing. But that is the safer route and b/c might be better.

I ultimately bet $75. If I could do it again, I'd bet bigger. Maybe $125. I think the smaller bet might encourage a bluff that would put me to a hard decision.

Villain cuts out raising chips again. Tanks for about 45 seconds, and calls.

River ($328): 974J -- A

Villain checks rather quickly. Hero?

I like this point on preflop sizing over limps.

Incredibly easy xb, we're never getting called by worse.

Just think what you'd normally raise to (so say 3x for instance), and add another bb per limper.

Check river for sure. Unfortunately, he's going to have a lot of Ah that hit the river but I don't want to try to make him hero fold that.

River looks like a pretty easy check back (especially with A/J single card flush draw moving ahead of us on turn/river). We're never getting called by worse (right?) and it sounds unlikely that this guy will fold better.

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Don't think we're gonna be getting value from much on this river. All of his ace-high flush draws just made top pair and I doubt he's folding that, so seems like a pretty clear check back with good showdown value

Curious in what way you think river is a decision?

ez check back here.

we lose to all his NFDs now obv but I offer an alternative line......

why was Villains action on turn to raise or show aggression? does he have J :h: ?

Are we really ranging him that tight that he only has the NFD?

I think on very specific spots and say we had something else to go off of on, i think I'm shoving with your description. I understand people are saying we are turning our hand into a bluff, but why not fold out a J?

If we're talking about ranging tight, then narrowing his hand to Jx is exactly that. We have too much showdown value to turn our hand into a bluff against the majority of his range, imo.

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yea, i mean I wouldnt shove there but i thought it was a fun idea.