Prehand Descriptions
Villain: Aggressive regular who has consistently won pots without showdown. Quiet reg type.
Hero: Busted first BI showing KQo against AKo on KXX board. Quiet but probably looked up as fishy.

Table is a good mix of drinking tourists and headphone quiet regs.

$1/2 NL (9 Handed)
Straddle Villain ($250)
MP Hero ($375)

Hero is dealt A♠️J♣️ in the MP.

1 caller before Hero, Hero raises to $15 in MP, folds back to V in the straddle who calls $15, original caller folds. Heads up to the flop.

Flop ($37) comes J♠️9♠️4♦️. V leads with $25, Hero calls $25.

Turn ($87) comes T♥️. V leads again with $25, Hero raises to $50, V snap re-raises to $125 (with less than a PSB behind).

Hero should.......?


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Would appreciate your thoughts here. This one chewed on me for a while and is the reason I made a 2+2 account.

Grunch based on title alone. Fold. Clear Baluga Theorem spot.

OK off to read OP.

Post grunch. First, welcome to the forum, OP. A "grunch" is a reply without reading any other replies. As it turns out, when I did mine, there weren't any, but I was just responding to the title.

That said, after reading the OP, I don't change my opinion at all in terms of folding. I do wonder why you min-raised on the flop, though. usually that will only fold out hands you clearly beat, offer good odds to the semi-bluffs that are drawing, and commit you against hands that beat you. If you think V is semi-bluffing a lot, you should raise bigger. If you think he is donk betting with a mediocre made hand, you should call to keep it in, imo.

AP, this is a clear fold, especially given the history hand, as he is likely to think you will stack off with TP and is trying to set you up to do so.

Also, I removed the results, as they tend to bias responses, even when put in a spoiler. Let the thread go for at least 24 hours before posting them.

Fold. Vs reg who saw you stack off with top pair and you raise the flop, he likely have to be pretty bad losing reg to do this with many hands you beat. You have the As which takes away the majority of those hands as well. Also dont understand what you are trying to do with a strange minraise at these stakes on the turn holding the As.

Just call the turn.

As played fold to the raise. Turn raises particularly snap raises like this vs perceived calling stations are pretty nutted. You're probably drawing dead to KQ.

Appreciate the thoughts here and the welcome!

Thought on the turn min raise was to build up the pot some more as I believed I was ahead up to that point.

Didn’t know about Baluga and that sent me on a little rabbit hole - if y’all got any other recs on what to read up on will definitely take it.

Noted on posting results of the hand in the future.

turn raise is horrifically bad what are you trying to accomplish?

in low limit poker, when people show aggression the idea is to not counter that aggression with more aggression with marginal holdings.