you're not confused as to whether he has logic behind making an aipf call with 93o surely

obviously without the 6 i am doomed! but as it hit, have to shove to get max value as his hand can either 100% call, or 0% can call..

a standard spot that comes up in cash games, the sb/bb 3bet from button open. i open all my buttons (when i don't auto pilot), so i should say, i intend to open all my buttons.. and i looked at this guys 3b from blinds, it was ridic high over 1.2k hands (17% from both) so any pair on the flop and i was calling all the way. as i know his barrelling tendencies, next time i'll just flat with the AA and milk him again

but yeah, not a whole lot of hands he can have here, i mean ofc he's repping the overpair, he snapshoved the river, he'd at least think about whether or not to check as i could have a draw of some kind that missed, and i've also noticed when people barrel draws of some kind they bet weird figures like 222 in this case, but he may just do that with all hands..but yeah, i call turn i call river ftw

with this hand, you can either just flat preflop or 3b. it depends on the opponent. i like to try take down the pot pf vs a guy who i know plays 600 and 1k regularly so may just fold nearly all hands pf. ok could argue that he'd 4bet then i'd be in a bit of a **** situation and could miss the opp to flop a set vs a hand like AA/KK ... but anyway, rare chance of scenario. so, bet flop is standard, as is the turn. when the river comes down, i ask myself, am i folding if i check and he shoves? no, never. so i may aswel bet all in here and if he has the J or runner spades, then ok, but there are too many combinations of 2prs that would hero call me, but would just check behind on the river...so i had to shove for max value in this spot, imo! He had KQ fwiw

this is against a recreational player, a typical 31/12/2.6 player. he is down 24buyins in 5.3k hands and only plays 5/10. he hesitated a lot on the river, but all he can have here is 10x and a rare 89 but still, i've seen him check behind 'the nuts' before on a few rivers, so was a snap call here with all the draws that have missed..

this is vs the guy who 3barreled the KQ vs my KQ... now i'm going to never 4b any of my AA/KK vs him and let him spew off in style

in this hand, the table was just breaking, so there is an argument that i'd be trying to steal the last pot as i've seen a lot of people try do that which makes the dynamic for the last hand kinda crazy! that said, i wasn't too worried as this villain doesnt play 6max much so maybe doesn't know that. anyway, his hand here is kinda face up...weak! if he has the 6, then gg. but the vast majority of the time its a hand like 77-88. the only worry is (apart from him having 6x) is that he floated with a hand like AJ and will call me down, and also potential that i could have had a diamond draw on the turn, but yeah i overbet here with AA/KK just to get hero'd by 77/88 jx hands so also have to play my bluffs like that. I think 77/88 snaps me off if i bet standard size, so gotta put villain to the test

so yeah, 3bet vs the fish 100bb+ deep, bet flop as standard, regardless of me hitting, its a flop that he will rarely ever hit.. when he leads the turn he bet within 0.5 seconds of the turn coming, so in my head i straight away thought he's either got one of two things. 1) pure air, trying to take the pot down, or 2) he's got 6x or 444. i think he'd check call with a 9, and him having 99 also so rare as i have one 9. overpairs i ruled out as from what i've seen he gets that in pre. once the river came my plan was to always call river, but when he snap shoved, again under half a second, I really thought, wtf , would he really do this with a bluff?? very few hands he can actually have here, and i doubt he'd do it with overpair, as fish would be scared i'd have the 6 (thats my thought on how they think), so would just flatcall any value hands.. so yeah, i eventually made the call and he had what i thought he had on the turn, high cards trying to randomly take the pot down....tough hand though

This is against a player I was playing 4 tables of $10/20 with. raise button, he calls. I flop fd with 1pair so i'm very happy anyway, on drawy boards, I like to overbet my made hands like sets and two pairs, even just ak/aq here to get value from worse hands. i like to overbet alot of the time in my game, for many many reasons.. just a few include: take control of the pot.. put opponent to test.. harder to play against..find out where I am..get more $ when i have winning hand, bluffs work more, confuse opponent, etc. anyway, in this hand, i know the argument against is: there is a fd and many straight draws, your hand can look like that and just get called by pair of A.. but regardless, i have any 8, any 2, any club (luckily in this hand it didn't come) all which can help my hand, and even if it doesn't come, he could fold A on river (although that would be argued as bad) to my river overbet. there are no sets in his range, as he was raising a lot of flops, so ofc would raise this flop , with the draws, and deep stack etc.. so i knew with my turn bet he wouldn't be raising it (he'd 3b aj pf as he was 3b 28% pf).. anyway, this time he got lucky to spike the 6 and make the call, not sure he'd call if he didn't improve his hand. suprising he didn't checkraise this flop as he was cr'ing all his other flop draws.. but yeah, regardless of this hand not working, i've set up a great dynamic here for getting value in future hands (in the next 15mins i stacked him 4 times and he quit, because of me getting paid when i was valuebetting). p.s. this is the only table he had a nice stack on

so preflop I decided to just flat with JJ, mixing it up a little that time. it was 3b from the BB by a guy who was deeper than my stack of 205bbs, so could potentially win 400bb+ pot so here, I am now setmining / (calling him down ) as my hand is under-repped here..so if it did come down a board like 22475 or something, he'd 3barrel it and in his eyes potentially make me fold 88-99/tt/jj.. flop came A K J so although that is a great flop for me, i could also be drawing to 1 out (but ofc am never folding). so he leads, $320 into $450, a betsize where I think, ok he's connected with the flop well, i think he'd bet anywhere from $180-$250 if he had low cards to set up a cheaper turn bluff. could argue to raise the flop as if he had AK and the turn was a Q or 10, i could easily have a straight and possibly would lose value... (again a rare scenario though), so 9 on the turn, a complete blank, and I think here is check call is very weird/bad. Ok so it's obvious I don't have AK to him (as i 3b that hand pf always, and if i don't id 5b squeeze it pf) so the only hand he can be worried about is JJ/QT. if he put me on random hearts, he should bet or as he checked, CR and get it in.. (AA and KK are obv out of my range too), so he played the turn very weird. So--> he decides to check call the turn, which I think he may actually do with hearts, but again small % of that hand, QT he doesn't have, and as i thought he wouldn't squeeze with AJ, and he'd bet AK, and QT, i really had no clue what he had here (ok, i had a clue, but i just thought wtf you're playing this hand weird).. so river came 5 which , although could be bad if he did have a random heart combo... it could have been worse.. once the river came i finally put him on AQ , so any 10 i'd check behind and lose value from his actual hand --> I decided to just shove and get value (esp as he knows I float a lot and may try to trap my flop floats with his made hands) from weird but trappingly played AK/AQ/AJ and just rely on him not having higher sets (as he'd bet or checkraise them on the turn) or a flush (which is actually a possibility).

would like to explain what went through my head, but I can't. no theory applies here apart from, lets rep something big to get him to fold & oh, you can be bluffing me so i raise..."