1/2 with $5 straddle OTB, $600 effective, 5 handed at the moment. I'm not sure what my image is, if I have one at all. If she's thinking at all, she has me labeled as tight and probably aggressive. Villain is MAWW and she's all over the place. Here are a few hands:

1. CO LAG opens $20 over villain's $5 UTG straddle, only villain calls.

Flop ($43): J 7 3. Villain checks, CO bets $30, villain calls.

Turn ($103): J. X-x.

River ($103): 5. X-X. Villain has AJo.

2. LJ LAG opens $15 over villain's UTG straddle, loose passive BTN calls, villain calls.

Flop ($48): A T 5. Villain X, LJ bets $25, BTN folds, villain calls.

Turn ($98): 6. X-X.

River ($98): 2. Villain bets $30, LJ raises $90, villain calls and is good with T7o.

3. Borderline maniac straddles HJ $13, villain raises $40 OTB, loose passive calls +1, borderline maniac calls.

Flop ($123): J 5 2. X to villain who bets $60 and only HJ calls.

Turn ($243): A. HJ checks, villain shoves ~$300 (HJ covers), HJ calls. Villain has KJo.

4. CO straddles $5, hero raises $25 OTB, loose passive calls +1, villain calls HJ, CO calls.

Flop ($103): 6 5 2. +1 checks, villain bets $25, CO raises $80, hero folds, +1 and villain call.

Turn ($343): J. X around.

River ($343): 2. X around. Villain had 96s.


OTTH

Again, we're 5 handed at the moment, or I would've gone larger pre. Villain straddles $5 OTB, hero raises A K $25 BB, only villain calls OTB.

Flop ($51): J 3 2. Hero bets $15, villain calls.

Turn ($81): 4. Hero checks, villain checks.

River ($81): K. Hero bets $60, villain raises to $300. Hero?

Boy, you're not kidding about her being all over the place.

I hate the flop dopwnbet, but you know that. It's especially bad against this kind of V, though.

Against most Vs this would be a snap fold OTR, but given hand 3, I think you have to call here.

Probably can't fold given how she has over player 1p hands some of which aren't even top pair.

But she does seem like she's trying to be trappy and might have been what she was going for in the 1st hand. Either way I sigh call.

I don’t blame you for calling but none of the previous hands involve her raising, especially large and on the river. The KJ hand on Ax turn is the most damning but she has no reason to believe she’s beat.

I would fold here

Me too. Also her big sizing is not giving us a very good price with a call, so we need to be good a very healthy portion of the time here to profit.

I'd lean toward a call given H3, but folding to this size is usually the best option.

Postflop - I'd go into X/C or X/F mode once she called pre-flop IP.

Sure, let's go with "she doesn't think the Ace changes anything".

That means she's willing to raise with (sort of) top pair good kicker, why can't she be doing it now?

That was a shove after a check

Ah you're right.

I like the small flop bet with this specific hand because if she is floating really wide, we can get value from all of her floats. There are also so many hands that we have six live outs versus, and can also get to fold on a Q/T turn.

This is where I sit. While the poor lady appears to be suffering from a nasty concussion, the KJ hand looks like a donkey deciding to overplay a hand for whatever reason and then just keeping their foot on the gas because they don't know how to poker. The other hands look like standard passive fish behaviour. I can understand a call but I think we see something absolutely infuriating like a set of 4s or K2o too often to make it profitable.