3-300 @ Bellagio. $500 effective stacks.

Hero has been playing for an hour or so. I should have a fairly loose image. I’ve strattled utg a couple times. Have yet to play a big pot but have called down a few winners in and out of position with hands like K5s, KTo, and 56s. I haven’t showed down any losers.

CO is mid 20s. Seems competent and one of the tighter players at the table. He hasn’t shown down a hand since I sat down.

Folded to CO who raises to $10. Hero calls on button w 56. BB calls.
Flop: J47 ($30)
BB checks. CO bets $15. Heros calls. BB folds.
Turn: 8 ($60)
CO bets $40. Hero calls.
River: A
CO bets $80. Hero shoves.

I think you know you're gonna get a lot of "fold pre"

I like flop cuz you can rep spades and I like turn as it keeps your range wide and still sets up a good river jam if he leads again. TBH that was like the best river card ever.

If he folded he probably wasn't calling a smaller raise. nh

It's not even sooooted, bro.

Postflop is well played, but this is almost literally the best possible runout.

pre is horrendous

raise turn

I considered this. What are you hoping for by raising the turn?

Preflop's terrible. I don't care how many people say it and how unwilling you are to hear it, it's just truly bad. It's one of the few hands I would open fold the button with if it folded to me and I was using a min-raise strategy. Calling a 5x open with it is far worse than that, not just because you can't win the blinds by calling and not just because your range against a 5x open should be considerably narrower, but just as importantly, it plays horribly in your preflop flatting range. 3bing the 5x open is miles better for those reasons, and still bad.

I'd play J74tt with an overall aggressive strategy as the preflop caller, but we can't nearly as much with both the BB defender spoiling our party and with our preflop strategy making our ranges so bloated that we just have to be more selective in general. (See how having ****ty preflop strategies makes it harder for us to LAG it up?). The dry, non-nut OESD plays as one of the worst draws as a flat, so I'm inclined to raise with it as a standard.

Again, you have to pick your spots given your range, but this would be one of them because what tight 1/3 player bets 1/2 pot on this wet of a flop three way with a hand they like?

As played, definitely raise turn. What do you mean what does it accomplish? It gets value and it protects equity. With the double-suited board, the BB falling out of the hand, and various pairs picking up SDs and losing SDV, there's plenty parts of our range would appreciate being able to rep value here.

River obviously plays itself.