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Originally Posted by LovePocket10's
The hand in question happened in a 1/2 game against a villain capable of making moves and putting pressure on opponents. However, I have never seen him get out of line or donk away his stack, probably the best player at the table.
Hero has a tight/aggresive image, one of probably 3 players at this ten handed table that will open pre with something other than JJ-AA or AK. Has respect of the other players and isn't known to get out of line.
I feel like the image break down in this hand is important, because of the action that transpires.
Villain ($1200) is on the button and has a $10 straddle on.
Action folds to hero ($650) in MP who opens to $25 with AsKc
Villain defends straddle and flop comes ($53) - Ks4s3d
Hero puts out a continuation bet of $30, Villain Raises to $105, hero calls.
Turn ($263) brings the Ac - Hero checks and villain grabs a stack of green chips and bets $500 , essentially a double pot size bet and basically putting me all in.
My thoughts at the moment were the obvious sets of 44 and 33. I could also see this player defending his straddle with a hand like 52s and trying to take it down on the flop with the raise then getting there on the turn. The fact that I had the Ace of spades really ruled out the flush draw for me, and there were almost no other two pair combos that would have taken this line and I would suspect he would 3bet AK nearly 100% of the time. The fact that the Ace hitting the turn didn't slow him down really got me as well.
Would love to hear some feedback on this one.
Sorry if the format is bad.
Size is really bad pre. Btn straddle is incentived to call this. We’d much rather leave his $10 dead in the middle. Make it like $50. Something where he’s getting a bad price.
Call. We are near the top of our range and he has plenty of reason to use this as a bluff card against Kx/sticky pairs like JJ. He might not even use this sizing with a set, fearing AA/KK in your range.
But once again, back to preflop. If you actually charge them pre, they don’t have random 52 in their range. It’s bad for us when their range is an unknown entity while our range is defined.
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