BTN is a very good regular that posts here, who has crushed these stakes and higher for a long time. He knows I'm taking a shot.

SB is unknown to me, probably a fish from the stack size. This was maybe the 2nd or 3rd hand anyway.


Poker Stars $600.00 No Limit Hold'em - 3 players
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BTN: $814.00
SB: $437.20
Hero (BB): $698.50

Pre Flop: ($9.00) Hero is BB with 5 K
BTN raises to $18, SB calls $15, Hero calls $12

BTN had been 3x'ing heads up ... this isn't a terrible spot to squeeze, but I had been 3-betting from BB a fair amount when playing the reg heads up, and been getting some credit, and I felt I wouldn't get much here.

Flop: ($54.00) A T K (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $6.00, SB calls $6, Hero calls $6

He had been c-betting frequently and always reasonable amounts, this is the first min-bet.

I've heard tales of mid-stakes regs doing stuff like this to get people to spaz out, but I haven't really seen it before and have no idea where to start with a range here.

Turn: ($72.00) 9 (3 players)
SB bets $42.00, Hero calls $42, BTN raises to $164,

Whatever the trick was, I think I just fell for it.

If I'm strong enough to call turn, am I strong enough to raise turn?

If I raise turn, am I folding to 3-bets from either player?

Is c/r flop a realistic option? I thought that might be falling for the trap, too.

Did SB fold to the raise? Wasn't sure since I didn't see his action.

God awful spot IMO. Not a chance you can raise here and I think I might even prefer a fold. You have zero outs to the nuts and villain could very easily have a higher pair with a bigger draw.

I think both calling and shoving are spew and I would let it go.

yes SB did fold after we both got raised, I should have mentioned that

so as played it was on me to act HU

squeeze pre. As played fold. I know you think he's ****ing with you but he probably isn't.

Calling pre is only barely +ev so I'd 3-bet mostly.

I think you should c/r the flop for value/protection and to set up bluffs on the turn/river. Your hand has some robust turn possibilities and it sucks to define your range to the reg as being extremely weak.

Definitely 3-bet to iso the fish. Easy fold on the turn.

fyi this 'good reg' is actually a fish on a huge heater over a big sample..

as played i think folding turn sucks but has to be done you don't have any nut outs..

i'd have him on AA/KK/QJcc here a lot.. he's been keeping bets small as he probably knows you'll 3bet pre any of ur range that smacked that board (TT,KK,AA,AK,KT,AT,QJ) so he's sucking you in with pair/combo hands imo..

who is it?

btw, anybody else notice JC-TheGuide, only min cbetting now lol.

yeah im loose as **** and i think its a fold or 3bet pre. after that you played it fine but the turn is a fold.

"just" a pretty well known dc pro so I figured he knows a thing or two about this card game

Yeah, on the turn I decided that if calling is incorrect and raising is suicide, then the best choice is to fold, so I did.

I think I could have 3-bet pf, c/r'd flop, or raised turn myself to avoid this spot, but once I get here this way, need to release

lol a 5 mill hand sample? fair enough

i cant remember my exact cards in this hand but i know i had a combo draw and the flop was just a misclick, i typed in a bet on numpad and hit the numlock button by mistake. i do this with very annoying frequency.

i want to say i think i had AQ spades but im not 100%, mighta bene like QTc or something whatever its all the same.

yea?

just wanted to find out who it was :-)

mislickaments ITT

jc-theguide is def. the fish on a heater
include markwin11 too

at first I thought we had KK, and couldnt for the life of me work out what was happening in this thread, and why OP didnt raise at some point.

now it makes more sense.