We play with an optional max 3BB straddle but even when it is on, it only gets splashy when certain players are at the table and they're down. I was card dead for a good portion of the night.

In the first hand UTG is wild and will raise with top end and just about anything else if it is suited, double gapped, etc. from just about any position. Super chatty and goofy until he hits a hand 2pair or better. Will call very light and loves 52o (plays it every time to the river).

Hand #1

Hero dealt J♠︎J♣︎

UTG ($75) straddle $1, HJ calls, CO calls, Hero ($90) raises $7, UTG 3! $14

This is where I made my mistake. This should have been a 4! jam. I thought about it, knew better, but oh well. Now I know.

Hero calls

Flop ($31.75)
3♦︎2♣︎8♣︎

UTG bets $14

Against this particular opponent, I wasn't expecting a check. His smaller bets are usually a mix of weak pairs and hands with strong implied odds. So I put him on the bigger draws and maybe a smattering of weak pairs, including his 52o hand. I think against most opponents the response needs to be a 4x 3! on a board like this, but not really sure. I felt like I was ahead or flipping against most of his hands and I was card dead... Hey I had the jack of clubs so that eliminates some of his draws! I never make great decisions when I'm card dead. Anyway...

Hero goes all-in, UTG snap calls

At the speed and seriousness of his snap call I felt like I was no longer ahead. I've only seen him make serious, snap calls with strong hands. Neither of us wanted to run it twice.

Turn ($150)
8♦︎

River
A♥︎




This next one was interesting because while the players involved are all very experienced, UTG is mainly an MAWG tournament player and MP1 is a younger cash game player, I consider both average within this makeup of players.

Hand #2

Hero dealt 7♣︎7♠︎

UTG ($100) limps, Hero ($250) raises $4, MP1 ($280) 3! $14, MP2 calls, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls, Hero calls.

Flop ($56.75) K♦︎T♣︎3♣︎

UTG checks, Hero checks, MP1 bets $20, MP2 folds, UTG calls $20, Hero folds

Turn ($96.75) K♦︎T♣︎3♣︎2♥︎
UTG checks, MP1 checks

River ($96.75) K♦︎T♣︎3♣︎2♥︎Q♥︎
UTG bets $20, MP1 raises $60, UTG begrudgingly folds face-up



After hearing him mutter to himself about there was nothing he could have done there, I made the mistake of trying to ask him about his thought process preflop. Oh well.

seat open in this homegame? seems juicy

It’s a fun group, that’s for sure.

You should wait 24 hours before posting results. Not sure if it's an official or unofficial rule, but they take it pretty seriously here, whichever it is.

H1 - 4B pre against a wild V seems fine. Flatting to let him blast off is also fine. But if you flat his 3B pre, it's not so you can jam flop. It's to let him continue to bluff off or v-bet worse hands. We can just flat call flop, and look to play poker on later streets.

Case in point, you jammed flop here, and got lucky when the 8 came on the turn, making you a better 2P. You could have just flat called flop and turn, and he probably would have just checked to you on the river. Even if he bet, by that point, it's an easy call if the bet is small compared to the pot.

H2 - you made the correct call pre and the correct fold on the flop. Not sure what you're looking for here, unless it's some insight into UTG's decisions pre-flop.

He limped UTG, which isn't really a thing unless he was planning to back-raise in a splashy game. Then he cold-flats a 3B OOP against the initial PFR and 3B'er. Also not really a thing. It's so not really a thing I'm not even sure if I'm using the right term for it, or if there even is a term for it.

If he thought you and MP1 were both FOS, he should have raised as a bluff. His hand kind of sucks as a bluff candidate, and odds are at least one of you is probably not FOS, so he should really just fold, because you could 4B and then he'd HAVE to fold. I'm sure that limp-triple-cold-flatting a 4B is definitely not a thing.

His check-calling flop seems fine, though if he's going to play his hand the way he did pre-flop, I could see donking on the flop, to rep exactly KT. His checking turn seems fine if he's not going to donk-lead or x/r flop. His river bet is terrible, and his fold is pretty obvious.

Other than torching money, he played it fine.

I think both of these are basically okay, though I'm unsure if the theoretical 4bet in hand 1 would be a jam or not, since your opponent just minraised. I assume everyone else folded?