Table is 8 handed 1/2 with a 300 max buy-in.
Villain: Mid 20's white guy, normal-ish. Seems relatively loose, passive preflop but has shown some aggression postflop. Has limped into multiple pots encouraging family pots. But has raised and cbet seemingly appropriate scenarios and shown some reasonable hands.
Hero: Hero bought in for max and has been playing very tight. Showing strong hands as winners and playing position. His suckout vs villain is his only perceivably spewy play.
Seems to respect Hero and we've become "friends" sharing observations about the rest of the table with eachother. He says some fishy things I can't really recall, but overall gives there rest of the table too much credit for thinking at all. Hero stacked villain earlier with a questionable call on the turn with Hero having top set and calling villains less than PSB shove on a 4 Spade board then rivering a full house against his flush.
$1/2 NL (10 handed)
UTG
V1 ($520)
UTG+1
Hero ($800)
Hero is dealt K
J
V1 limps, Hero raises to $20, 6 folds, V1 calls $20
Table is rather loose and has been typically straddling. With straddle and callers my raises have varied between 25-35 and typically got 2-4 callers. They fell asleep and didn't straddle this one, so I scale my raise back a tiny bit but not enough to induce a light 3bet because I "look weak". When villain calls here I think he could have almost anything based on his VPIP. SC, SG, Axs, Kxs, pocket pairs all the way up to AA and even AK. I think he sees my range as a lot wider from this spot than it actually is just based on the likeliness of him projecting his own range onto others[/COLOR]
Flop ($34) K
,J
,3
V1 checks, Hero bets $25, V1 raises $50, Hero raises $150, Villain raises $300, Hero raises all-in for $200 more
I was really lost here. Every decision felt wrong and folding felt the most wrong. I was worried if I just call the flop there are a lot of turn cards that either counterfeit my hand or kill the action vs hands that I beat. Obv he can have 33. The question is how often he can limp AA, KK, or JJ? I'm one combo ahead there due to blockers. Now does he play QTss, QJss, ATss, maybe other Axss or Jxss, K3s or T9ss this way? I just felt like my hand was too good to fold and calling and seeing a turn felt gross too even though after he minraises my flop 3bet he's like never folding ldo. Should my flop raise be bigger? [/COLOR]
Last edited by gbb187; 03-21-2024 at 06:12 AM.