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08-21-2014 , 07:39 AM
Blinds £0.25/0.50
Birmingham Casino UK

Seat 1 Very Good Tag (£170) ( Mid 20's, Casually Dressed, Slowly Grinding, making good plays, always tends to have the goods)

Seat 2 Calling Station (£30) (Chinese businessman, who just keeps on buying in for £20 and losing it calling every bet)

Seat 3 Hero (£100) (Mid 20's, Casually dressed, tended to play quite tight, made a couple of moves but every time showed the goods)

Seat 4 Villain (£150) (Drunken teenager bought in for maximum, Only been sat down for 1 hour made pre flop raises up to £20, bets really agressively, has showen a couple big bluffs already, called £50 all in with second pair on flop against nit and got lucky catching two fair on river)

Seat 5 Nit (£10) (asian guy, plays hardly any hands, looks to me only plays 10-10+ and A/10s+ AJ+ KQ)


Tag (UTG) Folds
Calling Station (MP) calls £0.50
Hero As Ac (CO) raises to £6.25
Villain (button) thinks about it for 10 secs and calls
Nit (Sb),Calling Station (bb) both fold

Flop Ad,5h,6h
Pot (£13.25)

Hero bets £10
Villain calls

Turn 10c

Hero checks
Villain bets £20

I maybe should not of checked the turn, but my fault process is that i could get more money out of him. I feel i lose value if i bet the turn and he has nothing.
He could of floated the flop to bluff the turn and river.

What do you think?
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08-21-2014 , 08:15 AM
Preflop sizing depends on the table but 12 1/2BB should be fine. Flop bet is OK. Turn you should bet into villain. The board isn't dry enough to check and let villain bluff off his money. Your top set here blocks most of the middle strength hands, so villain mostly will have a very good hand, a decent draw or nothing. In that situation, go big, I like 25 on the turn.

If villain will bet 100% of the time if you check to him, I might have gone for a check/raise on flop but on turn stack sizes make it awkward. You really have to check/shove on turn and it's too big, it folds out all but the very best hands.
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08-21-2014 , 12:05 PM
I think it's OK if you knew V would bet turn if checked to. If you had any doubt, you need to lead. Now you must raise him. I'm not sure what your question is, though? Is it to call or raise? Raise, definitely -- at this point it's all in.

I like the bet on the flop.
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