Quote:
Originally Posted by Brogias
$1/$2 live. Villain is a solid player, has biggest stack at table. Capable of making a bluff here.
Hero SB: Q♥️Q♣️ (197.5BB)
Villain Button: (255 BB)
UTG: Straddles
UTG+2: Calls 2 BB
Folded to villain on button: raises to 5.5BB.
Hero: in SB raises to 17.5BB.
Folded to villain: who calls for 12BB more.
Flop: (45 BB's)
10♦️7♦️6♥️
Hero: Bets 22.5BB
Villain: Raises to 50BB
Hero: Calls 27.5BB more
Turn: 145BB's
8♥️
Hero: Checks
Villain: Bets 50BB. Begins to say 'you should muck, wet board.'
I then asked if he'd show if I folded he said no.
Hero: has 130BB's left
Hero?
So my question is..is this a reverse tell trying to induce a call?
you cbet on the flop looks extremely weak, half pot? You look like someone who has AKo and now feels like they need to bet the flop. His raising could be anything with such a weak lead. What does this villain raise with from the button, is his range extremely wide? A straddled pot raised to $11 is extremely small, is this standard at the table? Because your reraise from the SB was small as well we can't really narrow his range with the call either. so far we've seen him open small from the BTN, call a small raise with position on you, and then you led weak on the flop and he clicks it back. I guess this smells like it could be a big hand, and the way you played it gives you absolutely no information on his range.
He could have raised BTN and raised the flop with hands like:
T9, T8, J9dd, 9Xdd, 8Xdd, QQ, JJ, 99, 88... you see my point? It's almost impossible to narrow his range. Now a gutshot comes in on the turn and he bets super small again, is he trying to string you along and slowly get stacks in or is this a blocking bet with JJ and he's just hoping for a cheap showdown?
A bigger raise preflop and a bigger cbet would help us narrow his range down, but as played I guess you just go with live tells and decide if you're shipping or not. He'll probably snap fold or snap call here.