I sit with 240 bb and 8x AJ on the CO with 3 limpers in the flop, I end up with one caller about 110bb deep who was the last limper in the crew. He is a fairly good player of what I have seen, he knows pot odds and likes to get the last bet in. He is somewhat tricky, but lost a buyin recently. He loves to see flops with alot of speculative hands. He checkcalled my cbet once with 75 on A72rainbow
I think my image at this point was position aware and pretty solid. I have been valuebetting second pairs but I also was caught bluffing on the hand above.

20bb to the flop:

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Now he bets like 13 bb, my instant reaction is to raise and protect my hand against the draws, but after contemplating this for a while I feel like what do I do if he 3bets allin.
If I raise I will make him lay down many made hands that is worse than mine, that he might wanna continue with if I just call, and if he ships it in I wont really know where Im at. He might also put me on a draw and barrel alot of turns. I decide to take a more passive approach and just call and evaluate the next street. If a Q or a heart falls I will consider folding other scary cards Im thinking of maybe herocalling.

46bb to the turn which brings a miracle (non heart) J

He leads for 22 bb and at this point there will be 90bb in the pot if i call so I figure I can aswell put the rest in here.

Is this line just totally awkward and insane?

Your hand hasn't improved, unless he l/c with QQ+. Not likely.

Therefore, I'm happy to call this. If he can't beat trip jacks, he's folding to your shove. You're not giving him odds with a shove for his draw, so he'll fold. Obviously if he has a FH, he's calling.

On the river if you think you're ahead, you can get it in at that point.

I basically took TT+ and AQ+ out of his range on the preflop action.
So yeah, i pretty much know its few hands he will call me with that I beat, unless he has the case jack obviously.
Is it ok though to let the flushdraws see another card? and how much can I call the river if a heart comes?

Were you playing with 2 decks?

I think I like a flat call here. Bettor is not betting out into you with a flush draw much of the time when the board pairs. Only hands you getting to fold are hands you beat or maybe a crying call from QJ/JT or KJ.

Call turn, value bet river if checked to.

nddst you quoted the flop action and replied with turn action suggestion? just making sure you didnt misread.


What do you think about the flop play anyways?