Hero is UTG with 22. Hero has stack of $400. Hero limps in UTG. I would typically fold this, but my implied odds are huge. The SB is an Asian kid who loves to gamble. He will raised to $20 out of the SB with any two cards and pot every street no matter the players involved, stack sizes or board texture. The perfect guy to trap. I literally paid my rent one month after a session with him sitting directly to my right. He will stack off with top pair top kicker every time. My stack was more than $400. I lost a few pots. I had won a huge pot off him with my two pair versus his top pair. Back to the hand.

I limp. CO calls (stack $200 ish). SB raises to $20. I call, CO calls. Flop is J42r. SB checks. Wait, what? He checked? Why? How am I gonna get my money? I lead for $30. CO calls. SB folds. OK. I know CO. Is a donkey who also overplays stuff. I'll stack him.


Turn ($120) T completing the rainbow.
I bet $50. CO calls.

River ($220) Q

Hero?
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Seems like a pointless thread. He has $100 behind, so go all-in.

How do I add a spoiler though? I shoved and he called with AK for broadway.

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BBV that way <<<<<<<

I'm not venting, I'm just wondering if there was any way at all I could've avoided this. I'm thinking no, based on SPR, etc.
Also, is it better to check the river to let the opponent bluff as the river jam could be too strong and he'd fold his weak horsesh*t or does he call the shove enough to justify the shove?

^Why do you want to avoid this?

Checking river makes no sense. He's gonna have QJ, JT, AQ, KQ a bunch and there are virtually no missed draws.

My thought for checking would be if I bet he could fold his crap but try to bluff me. I’ll be honest, playing against players who will invest large portions of their stacks with 9% equity on the turn baffles me because I cannot range them accurately. Never in a million years do I put him on AK on the river. So, seeing as I get blindsided something crazy against these fools, I need to make some sort of strategic adjustment.

Well if you routinely get 50% of their stack in while they have 9% equity, I'm not sure what you really want to change about what you are doing.

Due to having the ATM in the mix, I can understand the limp. Without him in the mix, I would typically fold small pairs in EP.

As can be seen from the flop results, even having SB in the mix doesn't make preflop a no brainer because (a) he sometimes just check/folds the flop and (b) we still have to play OOP against other opponents who are likely attempting to do the same thing preflop (i.e. flop a hand to stack the SB) and in the cooler situation 22 is always going to be on the bad end. Although I guess it sounds like CO is a target too, so whatever I guess.

If you know you'll stack the CO once he calls the flop then I'd bet much bigger on the turn in order to help bring stacks into play by the river.

If the CO is truly an awesome target then I'd likely shove the river as TP on the flop has improved to two pair a decent amount of the time. ETA: Lol, I though we were $400 deep against CO; with just a 1/2 PSB left on the river an obvious shove is obvious (get your map to the BBV at the door, imo).

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The answer is no. Dream runout for bottom set and those stack sizes. If you DIDN'T go broke, we would be chastising you.

Bet bigger on turn - $80. Jam river, obviously. It's pretty difficult to see how AK gets to the river. More likely he has 2p.

If he was bad enough to call you down with two overs and a back door straight draw, he will pay you off when he hits one of his two overs. Unlucky he hit the nuts instead.