1/3 Home Game that plays pretty big
Hero ($2000) I usually deal this game but tonight I hired a dealer and decided to play. My image is probably a little on the loose aggressive side, although I am probably more on the TAG side. I have extensive history with the whole game from both dealing and playing in it. Everyone in the game has seen me get caught bluffing in huge pots and knows I am capable of spazzing a bit.
Villain 1 (About $600): Tight Passive type fish. Will limp call with a lot of medium strength pairs 66-JJ, maybe even QQ. Flats a lot with his big premiums. Rarely ever 3bets. Kind of has monsters under the bed syndrome; it's really easy to barrel him off a large portion of his value range with 2 and 3 barrels. Rarely bluffs.
Villain 2 ($500): extremely loose, calls big opens with any two suited regardless of position. Has a propensity to overbet his draws and oftentimes air when checked to. Extremely sticky postflop as well. It's possible to get 3 streets of value from him with a mediocre top pair. Doesn't fold draws, or anything, very often at all but plays his draws pretty aggressively most times.
Villain 2 Button Straddles for $5 (Button straddle in this game is 5 as opposed to 6 to keep the game more dealer friendly)
Villain 1 Completes from the SB
folds to hero in MP who makes it $25 with A
A
and both of them call.
Flop ($80) 7
8
3
Villain 1 Checks, Hero Checks, Villain 2 Checks
My standard is to cbet here probably 90% of the time. I know the majority of you will say flop is a bet. I checked in this instance primarily because of the fact that the player behind me bets a ton when checked to. I wasn't really comfortable getting the stacks in against Villain 1 since he doesn't generally stack off with one pair hands and didn't want to have to b/f here.
Turn ($80) 5
Villain 1 Leads for $75
Hero Raises to $225
Villain 2 folds
Villain 1 gets really mad and starts making a speech. He explicitly says "**** do you have a set? I can beat an overpair but not a set." he rambles a little more and calls.
River ($530) 3
Villain instantly jams for $320
Hero?
After the speech I had him pretty exclusively on 78 but when he just bombs the river after insinuating that he had me ranged on an overpair I'm kind of thrown for a loop here. He plays often and does think about how board texture changes. He would generally be cognizant of how overpairs now beat 78 so I don't know why he would bomb it in. The timing was pretty instant though so maybe it was premeditated. Thoughts?