5/5

~$500 effective

UTG is an aggressive fish who bluffs frequently.

HH: I saw him betting with AT on a 99646 board and calling all-in for the rest of his stack on the river.
He called my preflop raise with Q4s and bet the pot on a 8873 turn after I checked back the flop and then gave up on the 8 river.
He also made a triple barrel with 96 on a KJ653 board, turning middle pair into a bluff.

UTG calls, Hero(BB) raises to $25, UTG calls

Flop($55) A 7 4

Hero checks, UTG bets $60, Hero calls

Turn($175) 4

x x

River($175) A

Hero checks, UTG jams for ~$400, Hero - ?

I mean, even though this guy is a bluff machine, here I can only beat nonsense.

Im calling. He has more air than Ax.

Yeah I'm calling. Club draw and straight draw didn't come in, and we have a bluffy player.

Even a bluffy player shows up with the goods sometimes, so not reading much into results. If we're good 50% of the time here, we're making money.

Call

tough one tbh. i think we want to bet 10% pot otr, honestly not sure what to do now. would be ecstatic to call some sizes, this is not one of them. i dont think you want to pure call range bluffcatching vs 2+x pot even if his line doesnt look too much like an ace. u really gotta be careful when people start going huge bc alot of the population just never bluffs for this size, and its a size that isn't overbluffed even online. im whatever about calling here would probably randomize. i understand the OP is more or less set up to encourage us to tell him to call, but you do need to be much more cautious here than in most spots.

am convinced people just read villain description and then tune out the rest of the hand, river is what? 2.5x pot lol

one of the few hands on here that i would discount hand reading a bit and look at mda / what he's doing on the river

So hand 2 he bets pot when you checked back, but then gave up? (although lots of people give up on the 8).


Hands 1 and 2 he tripple barreled? Seems weird, esp. in hand 1 when he calls. Sizings would be useful there.
The fact he checks turn in this hand isn't great ... probably means he thinks he has the best hand. Seems very unlikely that he doesn't continue with 65/cc hands ... maybe checks back 7x, but turning that into a bluff on the river would be very special.


Pots flop with anything due to the check and then on the river he might just sees all the checks and decide to rip it with any2. Maybe.

Bets pot with like A3o because he hit top pair, then checks back turn for pot control and rips river when he's only losing to 44/A7 and you probably have close to 0% of each.


Both seem reasonable, you have a lot of better hands and not many worse hands that play this way. Hopefully you are playing a decent amount of Ax this way, if not most to all of them?
As crazy as it sounds I think I'd rather call this than 77, would also prefer no diamonds and def. no clubs.

I've seen maniacs screw the pot up and not realize how big shoving is, also assume you'll snap fold QQ.

If I've seen him overbet bluff on any street I probably call, and lean sigh fold otherwise.