1/3 nl
Eff stacks 260

Hero image lag
V image just sat down but he had lost a decent size pot by overplaying his hand

Hero utg ajos
V mp

Hero opens for 10
V calls
2 other callers

Flop (40)
25j dd

Hero leads for 30
V calls
Others fold

Turn (100)
8
Hero leads for 75
V calls
( I considered checking for pot control here but was pretty sure he either had a fd or kj,qj,j10 kind of hands. So I'm betting for value but also to protect against fd's.)

River (250)
6
Hero bets 150
V calls
(I'm betting for value here from kj, maybe qj sometimes calls. I discounted all sets as I'm sure he would have raised the turn. I'm slightly worried about j8 but I also think he raises the turn with that. I could always just fold pre in this spot but what are thoughts as played and what do you think V had?

Looks really good; I'm betting river if he resembles anything of a station. I might be leaking in soft games but in lineups where villains have a clue my sizing would probably be a bit smaller, like 30flop/ 65-70 turn/ 125 river

Looks pretty standard. Nh

I'm folding AJo UTG at alot of tables. As played, bet more PF.

I'm assuming you're posting this because villain showed up with 34 for a straight, or J6 and you're wondering if you should have bet more somewhere in a vain attempt to push a 1/2 fish off of a top-pair hand.

This is why I'm folding this hand in alot of games. You have to put in too much money before you get a reasonable picture of where your hand stands.

Seems fine to me. Opening AJ off utg is -EV at most tables imo. Did you chop?

Tbh given my image I think opening aj os utg is fine here, I had a very large image and had been opening pre pretty wide from ep, so a lot of the time they're not expecting my to be as strong as aj, so I can value from a10, kj, qj if my if I hit my pair. I do agree in part though, with a more tag/abc image aj os could easily be folded pre here

I'll post results now as going out, the guy showed up with 86dd, sick. I really thought I played it pretty well at the time but helpful getting some reinforcement about that. Thanks everyone for feedback.

Look at the bright side, he called a 3/4psb otf with a middle flush draw then he called another 3/4 psb OTT with the FD and 2nd pair. I don't think the phrases 'calling station' or 'fish' do this guy justice. I'd be psb all hands against him that I have TPGK+ Knowing he is calling down light

I probably fold AJo from utg.

But given that you got to the flop, nice line. A lot of 200nl and 300nl players won't go for 3 streets of value with just 1 pair.

I think you played this fine. Oh well, he got lucky on you. I don't think much changes if you check the river and he bets because you'll probably just call off with TPTK thinking he's bluffing with a busted FD.

Yeah, i actually considered checking to induce a bluff from a busted fd. Either way my money was going in. Just a sucky hand