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Originally Posted by Garick
1/3NL
Hero ($620) has aggressive winning image. Has just shown down QQ as a winning hand twice in the last orbit or so. First was an open over a straddle, half-stack V 3-bet and hero 4-bets AI. V called, and never showed. Second was a straddle with a couple of calls, hero raises to $30 and gets one call. Hero has super-aggro image at this point, esp in straddled pots, so decides to show after V folds to c-bet.
No straddle this hand. 3 limps to Hero OTB, who looks down at AA. This game has been playing more GG-style, with folks reluctant to fold even to big raises after they limp, so Hero sizes up a bit, and goes $25.
Turns out I could probably have made it even bigger. Both blinds and all three limpers call. Stacks vary from $80 left in the tilted half-stacker's rebuy, 3 V's in the $200-300 range, and two who cover.
Pot $145
Flop Ac8d2c
Everyone checks to hero who ??
Preflop result is standard.
After 3 limps and a lot of the field having $300-, I would have probably gone $30 just to have a decent chance of getting in 10% of stacks (my personal TP commitment goal, which is admittedly on the conservative side). Things get a little more difficult if the two bigger stacks are likely to come along (in which case I wouldn't hate overlimping the Button to reraise an aggro blind).
I PSB the flop. For realz. The only action you're getting here is from good hands or draws, and draws ain't folding to one bet. No one came to the casino to call a $25 raise preflop, flop a flush draw, and then fold it to one bet. Other than that it's very unlikely anyone has anything else that continue since we're hogging up most of the TP outs. So simply bet an amount to target the hands that can continue, cuz pretty much nothing else is continuing to any bet size.
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