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10-04-2018 , 11:40 AM

DannyAIC

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Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 270

2/5 NL

UTG - Pretty loose player, at the moment sitting on about a grand in front of him. Had a little history with him trying to bluff me off my hand earlier in the session.

2nd to act - Loose/Weakish type of player, have been able to blow him off a hand or two.

Hijack - Young asian, has been bluffing too often throughout the session and is now very likely on tilt.

Hero BB sitting on 1200. Likely viewed as scary to play against, especially since I'd been making some hands throughout the evening as well as bluffs.

UTG is a forced straddle to ten, 2nd to act raise to 40, fold to HJ who shoves all in for 175 folds to hero in BB with AKs. Hero?

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10-05-2018 , 07:54 AM

TheGodson

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Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 3,217

I'd just call. If you raise or call you are still indicating roughly the same amount of strength. By just calling you give 2nd to act the chance to come in with a dominated hand.

A rule of thumb I follow in spots like this: If calling pot commits you, then just jam. If it doesn't pot commit you, then just call.

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10-05-2018 , 09:33 AM

Chunkamunk

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Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 447

I kind of hate calling here for the following reason:
If UTG and UTG+1 do not try to squeeze you, you will be OOP in a good sized pot with a drawing hand.

Assuming the original PFR has you covered (you need to list all stack sizes as it matters greatly), I would raise to $375 to isolate the Tilted player allin. If you get looked up by either of the players still to act, then we know we need to hit our A or some combo draw OTF to continue.

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10-05-2018 , 11:00 AM

6bet me

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 3,885

4bet to $350 / call it off if anyone jams $1200.

We can 4bet/fold some hands like JJ/QQ, but I consider AKs good enough to 4bet/gii in this spot, given that we're only 120bbs effective.

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10-05-2018 , 12:02 PM

DannyAIC

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Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 270

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Originally Posted by Chunkamunk

This was almost exactly what I did, (400) and this was my rationale. I wanted to get other people's perspectives, in case something I didn't think about.

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10-17-2018 , 01:28 AM

Regurge

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Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 43

Rip to iso

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10-17-2018 , 02:56 AM

bombonanza

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Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,173

did i miss the stack sizes?

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10-17-2018 , 06:09 AM

TheGodson

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Originally Posted by bombonanza

did i miss the stack sizes?

1200 stack. 175 is the short stack. Other player is presumed to have both covered.

Another great thing about only calling here is that you can call with some marginally good stuff and not have a capped range. You can fold to a jam with the weaker holdings, and call with the goods.

If 2nd to act was getting too good of a price on a call then I would agree with raising, but he is already facing a large enough bet to deter him from a call with a marginal hand.

I would love to go 4-way with AKs here. The more, the merrier.

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