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Originally Posted by OmahaDonk
Utg limp first hand is good, especially if you’re still settling down by unracking your chips and in the phone logging the session.
This guy isn’t folding, just make it 142 for easy stack off.
RESULTS: So my thought was that there are two reasons why players of this type make these stupidly large preflop raises with JJ/TT hands:
1) they hate playing post-flop, and
2) they want to KNOW whether they’re beat preflop, so they make it such a huge size that the only way someone can 3-bet them is if they have AA/KK.
And obviously number 2 is relevant here, because—especially with this stupid sizing and especially with my limping UTG—if I make it $142 even Simple Simon is gonna know what I have. This dude is making it $42 so he’ll have an easy fold to anyone who raises him! (Now, granted, I haven’t been quite ballsy enough to test this by reraising EVERYONE who does the stupid “I have pocket jacks and am scared” preflop overbet open—even when I have rags—but I have been tempted!)
So yeah. I decided the way to make money on this hand was to just call, pray for an 832 flop, and have him stack off drawing to 2 outs.
So I called. And…..another guy in MP called too. Ok! He started the hand with two $100 bills, which he had because he’d just gotten stacked as I was showing up, and I don’t know what he had, but the guy raking in the $400 pot had QQ and the flop was J72.
So we see a flop 3 ways:
FLOP: Js6s3d (pot: $125, 3-handed). A ****ing Jack. Why did it have to be (a) Jacks.
And the Small Blind leads for $66. I call—I have to call down now, maybe it’s Queens, maybe it’s Tens?—and…the MP Guy calls too?
Turn: Js7s3d 9c (pot: $330, 3-ways).
Small Blind checks
thank God, I bet $100, they both fold.
Small Blind shows me pocket Tens. “Just one off!” Blissfully unaware that if the flop had instead come 9-high he’d have given me $300!!!