1/3 NLHE, 9 handed.

Game just opened on a Saturday night and the room is buzzing. Today's line up is out-of-towners I don't know and a couple loose passives that come in time to time. The button hasn't even done one orbit yet.

H - Hero just sat down with 400 and has won a couple hands and is up to 450$. BTN.

V - Irish kid. Seen him a bit. Massive ATM. Buys in for 500 max and just calls and calls and calls and calls. It's horrendous. Cold calls 3-bets frequently. Calls next to act with marginal hands. Calls with all kinds of trash. He bleeds down to 100-150 and then spazzes usually before rebuying and losing that and then going home. (Not sure of his zodiac davo srry). He played one hand so far and lost half his stack. 250$ CO.

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Folds to V who limps, Hero to 15 with A A, only V calls, HU IP.

Flop 30 (235 back) - 3 4 5

V checks, H bets 15, V raises to 45 (never seen this before from him over about 20 hours total time together).. Hero?

Spoil: before going on maybe tell me how you handle this spot?

Turn ---

Bet smaller on the flop, almost all pairs have 2 outs and the other stuff like QJ needs running cards. When he raises it sucks, some will have 66/65/64/22 maybe even A5 ... but almost everyone will have all the sets, almost all the 2 pairs and maybe even all 16 combos of 76.
So you need to be sure V can have a lot of bluffs to call.


Turn sucks, if I get here I call and hope he got screwed with 55 or anything that might think we have AK. Not the end of the world if he has 2x or 76.

I would check the flop. As played I call flop raise and cant fold now on turn vs a younger player that has shown the ability to spazz. If he has a straight you have outs and he has all the lower sets you are rarely losing to those. And then the spazz factor.

Heads-up with an spr of 8, it is borderline spew if you were to get all in with an overpair on this board. A couple things you have going for you are the gutshot draw and the villain profile as being a bit spewy himself.

The suggestion to check flop should be considered, and it has to do with stack sizes. We can more comfortably play this as a 2-street hand

As played, I would call the flop. Turn, with villains range including lower sets, two pair, and air, is a call, tho I am expecting to see some stupid hand with a 2 in it a lot of the time.

I would probably have checked flop. As played I call. I would expect to see all sorts of stuff including sets, jj, qq, kk, ak, etc. sometimes he will have you but even then you have outs. Some of the time you have him crushed.

Guessing you know my feelings

Result:

Depending on where we are I will often limp in but that's me. But HU in position, so nice result.

SPR is 8 on the flop. I pretty much never look to stack off in an SPR 8 pot with an overpair. So with that in mind I would lean to either checking back the flop or bet/folding the flop. Bet/folding can sometimes be difficult to do, so if I'm not comfortable doing that against this particular villain (fearing he might sometimes overvalue worse), I would lean to checking back. So as played, I just make the nitty flop fold (in general, when calling stations raise, they have one pear beat).

Ug, stoopid turn spot. We're probably forced to call it off now that we move ahead of all two pear / sets and can still bink if we're up against the straight. Although this pricing sucks.

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You have two choices. Call him down all of the way or give up now. That's not a good flop for AA with someone who could have anything.

idk i think its ok. id size up flop vs him if u think hes station tbh, i think the advice to check flop is somewhat results oriented and ignoring villain description entirely. is unfortunate to get xr but vs small you have enough equity to call ip (and we generally dont want to soul read fold overpairs in hu srps to xrs) and i think you just need to die on this particular turn