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Originally Posted by sungar78
Read - Vil is fairly nitty and certainly positionally aware. I'm definitely putting most his range as AA-QQ,AKhh, AQhh,AJhh,KQhh... discounting hands like QJhh,QThh,44,22 because of him not often playing them UTG for a raise. I would say that his pure bluff% (JJ-55,AhKx and such) is probably in the less than 5% range.
His perception of me roughly is probably that I have QT+ 60%,Draws 30%, Random steals w equity (63,A3,A5, maybe KhJx stuff) 10%
The first thing I thought of when I read the Villain cbet $10 was that he could be strong here. Based on your description, he doesn't seem like a super weak player. So when an UTG raise from a positionally aware opponent only cbets the same amount he raised preflop, what is he really doing this with? JJ? AK? If he's a decent player, which your description is insinuating, he's likely not doing that with those hands. This is similar to bad players trapping by checking postflop with their monsters.
I will sometimes try to encorporate this similar sizing with my nuttish hands on the flop to sometimes induce raises from my more aggressive opponents because it looks so weak, or to get really light calls from players who hate folding.
In regards to his perception, how did you come up with the assertion that this player is thinking at this high of a level, plus that he's weighing your range of hands? I think you might be overthinking this, especially at live $1/$2. Just my opinion from what I have experienced.
Also, why raise the flop? What hands are calling us that we beat? I can't think of any.
As played, fold to the 3bet OTF. He's almost never cbet/3bet shoving with a hand AQ beats. If he somehow had showed up with AQ/KQ, you hit the absolute 1/10 bottom of his range scenarios. Everything realistically is crushing you here.
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Originally Posted by iraisetoomuch
Nitty positionally aware villain open from EP? I fold.
This. So much.
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Originally Posted by dark_hatchling
Why raise the flop? Unless you wanted to play for stacks. He only continues with such a narrow range, I think.
Have to agree with this. A raise to $50 is never truly getting called by this particular villain by a hand that we beat.
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Originally Posted by Corto Montez
I can't remember the last time I saw a small bet/3B line from a non-maniac on the flop without a set or better to be honest.
Exactly.