Never posted a PAHWM but here goes.

Game is $2/5 at a local casino and I've been fairly active. Shown down a lot of winners and pulled off a couple big bluffs but I didn't show them. My image is good. There's a couple fish at the table and a lot of okay regs. I have $2,500 and I'm a white guy in my early 30s.

Button: He's a decent reg. Pretty tight preflop. I don't have any additional information other than he usually has the goods when he's betting and is pretty straight forward ABC. Theres no meta game between us. Stack: $1,500 and he's like a late 40s Asian guy.

I won't spend much time on preflop as it's straight forward...onto the hand

Utg and utg+1 fold. Action on hero who gets dealt 1010 Hero?

Standard open, $15-30 depending on what the rest of the table has been doing.

$20

In my limited experience $20-25 is standard open. With no other info I make it $20 from EP with a good not great hand.

deepstacked table, youre probably betting bigger than the standard 25ish so id say 30-40

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Bet the button calls or raises.


$20-25


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$25-$30.

What is the BTN 3-b range? Seems tight pre, likely folding to a 3b HU.

$ 20 - $25 depending on what is normally getting 1 - 2 callers at this table.
I'd normally base this on the other players at the table, but since we're playing heads up, it's nbd.

Fwiw: You should have a better read on your opponent if you're playing heads up with him.

This is acutally way more complex than most people tend to think it is.

We should ask ourselves:

1) Are players IP likely to overcall a standard small open?
2) Are the super high VPIP guys IP or OOP?
3) Will a certain sizing prevent people from overcalling IP super wide?
4) Who are we targeting?
5) Will people think there is a difference between a 3x and a 6x raise?
6) 3betting etc

20$ - 25$ has to be the standard

This deep I would open to 15-20 if there are action players IP that will call anyway. Keeping the pot small for now.

If there are players OOP in this hand that will give action regardless of the sizing and I can prevent the IP players from overcalling by opening 40 $ .. I am doing that.

So I guess in a vacuum I am raising to 20. But it`s table depended. Even limping can be ok, if it`s likely that a open will get like 4 callers and a limp gets through most of the time. TT in EP this deep has to flop really good to play a big Pot OOP

$25 pre.

$20

Thanks for the replies so far.

Utg and utg+1 fold. Action on hero who gets dealt 1010 Hero opens to $30. It's my standard open and anything less will get more callers. I want to thin the field with 10s and hopefully get the hand heads up or 3 way.

Everyone folds to Villain otb. He calls and the blinds fold. HU to the flop.

($60)Flop: 10QJ

Hero?

That's the suckiest set possible ..

my standard line (let's say Turn and river are low cards) ould be

60
125
165

I would bet/fold on every street. There are basically just two good rumours for you -> case ten or the same two low cards.

$50.

It may be counter intuitive, but I really like check-calling in this spot. It helps disguise the strength of my hand (granted, relative hand strength here isn't what you would normally consider with a set, but our hand is still strong), it induces bluffs/stabs at the pot from our opponent, and it allows for deception and "mixing it up" making it more difficult to opponents to read your hands in general. I would check call at least two streets in this spot, potentially even the river depending on bet sizing, assuming the board runs out harmless (ie turn 7 - river 5 - or something like that).

Ironically, such a move would be a double edged sword

We should be ready to lose a lot of chips here if the board bricks out. Depends how abc I suppose. We're crushing his range here.

Not even sure why I poked my head into this high steaks thread, but this opponent doesn't sound ******ed to me. If he ends up also wanting to get in a lotta chips, how likely is it that we're ahead given our EP raise on this board (albeit with an active image)?

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Worst possible flop for you hand. You are likely still ahead but no way of telling and other then catching a ten anything that improves your hand might be dirty.

Bet flop for $40 and see what villain does, be happy if villain folds. If he calls flop plan to check/call most turns for pot control. You want to get this hand to show down without building a huge pot but your hand is too good to let it go down cheaply either.

we have a completely uncapped range and plenty of worse hands to get value from.

bet $50

I bet $50, he'll call with worse.

He's folding all smaller pp or smaller connectors, but he's unlikely to improve later in hand with those anyway.
Him having AA/KK is unlikely but he'll call with those.

I'm targeting his 2pair and pair+sd hands, he'll at least call with those. Will he raise otf with those, or only raise with QQ/JJ/AK/98s? Is he pretty aggressive post-flop? That would affect my decisions if he raises, and further play in general.

$45-$50.

This flop isn't that bad for us. in fact as it is right now, it's pretty good for us I think.
We will be certain to get lots of value from all sorts of pair + straight draw hands, straight draw + bdfd hands, pair + bdfd hands.

There are hung of turn cards that we don't like however...

I'm not really sure about bet/folding this flop. That seems a bit nitty.

I probably go $20-25 pre, leaning towards $20 if there is a decent chance at being 3!.

Flop $40-45 and calling any reasonable raise.

pretty clear PSB, and calling a raise. No reason to check and give free draw to Ax/Kx/9x/8x, you should get a good amount of calls, you could probably even overbet the pot to like $80. id say $50-80 bet here.

You got 7 outs on the turn, and 10 on the river vs a straight, and he is incredibly deepstacked.