£1/£1 blinds

Villain seems to be OMC; but only played with him for a couple of hours or so.
Hero TAG

Hero bb A T

Villain hj £200 effective


MP raise £6

MP2 call £6

Villain CO call £6

Hero call £6 - Should I be squeezing here? I figure I'm getting a good price to call and some of the other callers have been very sticky and I don't really want to play a bloated pot OOP. That said a Raise to £30 probably takes this down the majority of the time; and I have an easy fold if 4-bet.


Flop (£21) T 8 4


Checks to villain who bets £11

I call - I think this could be a raise too given how wet the board is but I don't see what worse hands call here - other than combo draws - in which case we are flipping at best.

MP call

MP2 fold


Turn (£54) Q


Checks to villain bets £21

Hero call - This card is really interesting; it completes J9, gives potential straight draws top pair now as well as brings the flush in. I don't really like my call here as I think I'm probably behind, but I have the nut flush draw and a potentially live over card and I'm getting 3/1 to call; but could I raise here and fold out Qx and maybe some weird 2 pair hands, knowing that if I do get called I do at least have a redraw to the nuts? I leant towards calling to try and entice MP2 to call to increase my odds but he folds


River (£96) J

I bet £45

He snap folds a flopped set of 8s


I feel like I played this hand far too passively and obviously I got very lucky to win the hand, but I was never in control of the action, the betting. Having said that he had me crushed on flop and turn and doubt he folds flopped middle set even on the turn Q

There is no valid reason to raise the flop or turn here.

Raise or fold preflop.

A ten high flop is usually good but being OOP, you are likely going to be forced to give free cards and play your hand as a bluff catcher throughout.

An Ace high flop can be very expensive.

I would probably raise to $40. We want a lot of folds preflop.

As played, flop and turn are fine. No reason to raise. On the river, your bet screams value. I would either go really big or really small depending on the Villain. Either $20 or a jam.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Having thought about it some more you're bang on Dream Crusher.

I don't know, maybe going runner-runner to make the nut flush vs a set made me feel kind of fishy.

Anyways, appreciate the feedback guys.

fold pre to the raise

Thanks for the feedback PPG. I think it's either a fold or a squeeze pre after giving it some thought; at the time I called because 1) I was getting a decent price to call (there was £18 in the pot before I called - think I messed up the pot total on flop) and 2) because I'm closing the action pre.

Admittedly playing OOP multi-way with ATo is far from ideal, so I think with all the dead money in the middle a £25-£30 squeeze is the better option. I had no reason to believe original raiser was massively strong and if he does come back over the top, I have an easy fold; if he calls I at least have the lead and will have no doubt thinned the field.