Villain: Mid 30s Asian female. Gambler type. Way too loose preflop. Fairly aware postflop and mixes her play. Somewhat sticky. Stack = $800.
Hero: Viewed as TAG, covers Villain.

Villain posts $10 straddle.
EP opens to $25, MP calls, Hero in SB 3b to $100 with AK, Villain calls, fold, fold.

Flop: AJ4 (pot=$250, effective stack=$700)
Hero bets $80, Villain calls.
Turn: 8 (pot=$410, effective stack = $620)
Hero bets $200, Villain calls
River: T (pot=$810, effective stack = $420)
Hero?

I actually like a check/call here. I don't think you get another dime from her if she can't beat AK unless she's extremely sticky. Is she really calling w/ AQ or A9 or worse?

If she won't bet w/ worse or as a bluff (busted diamonds?), it might be a check/fold -- that read is up to you. The river is a pretty bad card.

I think you can reasonably only get value from AQ and that might even be a stretch.

I don’t generally like to call jams from 1/3 players, especially women. So, unless you have a soul read that she could jam AQ or missed FD I’m check folding.


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I might bet/call $100. Shoving is ok if u envision any Ax calling off. Chk/eval obviously fine too…

Agreed/

I bet different on the turn. We're OOP, dbl suited board, other big cards are ugly (could have QQ, JdTd, KQs). ~1/2 the deck is ugly

Does anyone like a turn jam here? I'd rather jam this turn than fade half the deck on the river. We don't have a three-street hand here.

AP: check and cry call river. Agree with Java. We get good odds if she jams and I think we're good enough times to call getting 3-1.

I'm cool with preflop sizing (gives poor 8:1 IO for setminers, which is typically difficult to do at this stack size but easier thanks to the straddle).

Wow, you're not kidding about way too loose. Is it standard to take $100 3bets cold to the face in your game?

SPR is 3 and we have TPTK OOP on a drawy board against a loose player. So I consider myself committed here. Even though the SPR 3 dynamic is slightly different than normal thanks to this being a 3bet pot (where technically ranges should be far tighter), I'm not going change my default plan in this scenario. So I ~PSB the flop to setup a turn shove. I'm not a fan of the small cbet when committed on a drawy board; I would leave sizing like that to instances where we are not committed.

Turn/river are just kinda awkward thanks to our cbet sizing, imo. In these small SPR pots on drawy boards against loose players when committed, I just think we should be sizing to get things in ASAP by the turn, charging the max when likely ahead and avoiding a myriad of stoopid runouts / stoopid situations where we likely can't ever fold. But that's me.

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