It's only a bluff if it is sized as a bluff. Do you think a $10 bet would be a bluff?

If you arent betting for value, and if you arent betting for protection, (board's frigging dry!) then why are you betting?

Out of all hands that you beat that V cr'd the flop with, the turn is a scary card for that range. If V was cring bluffing/or to "see where he's at" with a smaller pair, then it's hard for him to continue the turn if you bet.

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Let's say he cr your turn bet again big, because you bet $10 or whatever you said, are you going to fold or are you going to level yourself into calling because "you bet so small so they want to try bluff you again"? Kind of a sucky spot to be in when you arent trying to induce.

And if you bet $10 are you planning to bet tiny again on the river? If we bluff catch the ~$50 here otr successfully, then we would've made more than betting small each street.

I would bet larger than $10. My point is that a bet isn't necessarily a bluff. I'm comfortable that $50 isnt a bluff and I dont think $75 would be either. I'm usually folding to a raise. If my opponent attacks small bets like that, then I will exploit it in other spots.

Anyone have any good strat on sneaking lunch/dinner into the casino?

I seem to get really hungry consistently after about 5 hours. 6 hours in I'm in need of the foods but am a life nit so hate spending gamblin' manies on casino food.

Plz advice

Protein bars. Healthy and filling, depending on which you get. I bring 2 with me when I go to the casino. Quest bars are what I go for, they have all kinds of flavour.

Fruit and nuts are easy and nutritious.

Go for a walk

I always bring food. Apple banana grapes sandwich pretzels nuts. I toss it in my backpack.

Do they check your backpack?

I've never brought a backpack to a casino

Ummmmmm depends on the room's policy but I doubt you are not allowed to bring food. Seems like you could just have a cooler in your car if you want a full blown meal.

What casino do you play in that doesn't give any comps when playing poker? Most casinos I play in I can get a nice big lunch for playing 6 hours of poker. Maybe smaller casino doesnt comp or charges more for food?

Why am I responding to this it's like the easiest thing to figure out on your own. Put some cliff bars in your pockets

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Backpack is allowed in poker room but not in main casino floor where table games are. They are seperate entities where I play. They do not check my bag. Our comps are only 60cents/hr of poker playing.

I played this hand slower than usual and lookin for feedback. We all start with 300bb (600 bucks)

I'm the button.

CO makes it 14. I call with Ac4c. SB calls. Bb calls. I flop top pair with nut flush draw. As9c3c.

(60). Sb bets 15. Co call. I call.

Turn gives me two pair. 4s.

(105). Sb bets 30. Co calls. I call.

I was really pretty sure my hand was best. I for sure had co beat no question. Sb I have beat almost always. I thought tey both had something like AQ. I didn't raise because I thought they would fold those hands. I also thought one Of them may be on a club draw and if it hits I stack em so I dont want to blow them off their hand.

Thoughts?

You need to get $$$ in and it should have been on the flop. AP, gotta go for gold raise to 150.

We should've been playing for stacks here. Not raising the flop with a monster in position is a small disaster.

I'm not so convinced.

I mean yeah sure we can get value from other FDs but not other Ax and when/if the club hits we can stack off.

OTT when we have two pairs now we can raise and get thick value from Ax and XXcc

We don't need to get crazy OTF but a smallish combo raise can get called by worse and potentially fold better. I'm n thinking raise to $45-50 is the way to go.

+1
Except to add that a better ace (with a flush blocker potentially) will never fold the flop and you are behind that

If I tell you guys that in my games AQ gets folded a lot if I raise here would you say I'm crazy?

I can make a case for both calling and raising the flop, depending on how your opponents play. Ditto for the turn.

If this is the case then raise away my friend.

No IO against Ax by making a flush or disguised two pair on that event and might as well just turn your hand into a bluff.

If that is really the case you should probably just call preflop with ATC and raise every single flop.

EZ game

Eff Stacks 380
Hero is UTG+1 with AQ
UTG raises 5, Hero makes it 12, UTG calls. Flop TK5, Hero bets 15 UTG calls. Turn 8, UTG check calls 40. River is a 2 UTG donk bets 5.

All we know about UTG is that he seems to be a pretty bad reg. Yes this bet is absurdly weak on the river, and his hand is probably also pretty bad. However, I am not sure if a bad reg will ever block bet/ fold on such a dry board.

Thoughts about raising to say 65-75?

He's got Kj type hand. Raising looks good to me.

I agree this is almost always 99% of the time a weak K. But do we think a bad reg will fold his weak K on the river after betting a block bet enough to make this raise profitable?

Eff stacks 450.
V is super gambly. Saw her put 100 in pre w AJsuited vs me when I only had 150 behind. She is calling pre with any two suited cards for big 3bets.

Game is 1-2 but playing like 2-5 there is so much action and everyone is deep.

I raise JJ utg. Aggressive kid makes it 45. Fish call. V call. I call.

(180) 9s 4s 5c.

V bets 100. I jam for 400 total.

Standard? Awful?

Personally I think yes. In my games a weak reg folds 1 pair hands to my aggressive line here. I also have a tight image though.

It's player-dependent. I know some players who will level themselves into thinking they induced a bluff-raise and call with top pair.

I wouldn't be shocked to see a player turn over AK or QQ here.

Once every few months, I find a spot where I can make this sort of bet to induce a light raise from an opponent who would have folded to a normal-sized bet.