These are only two of many spots where I find myself facing a shove on a board where there's not that I beat but giving odds, stack sizes and reads I feel like a call might be +EV.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Villain here is very aggressive, fighting for every single pot we play. He just won't give up. I have 75 hands on him. He's been calling 80% of my raises in the SB, though never 3betting. He's only folded to my cbet twice out of 6 times OOP and has c/r me once. Also, He's been raising every single time I limp, that's why I decided to 3bet pre.

I c/r his cbet twice before, taking the pot down in one of them (he 3 bet and I folded the other) so I feel like there's some metagame involved in this hand.

I am a little tilted at this point because he's being really tough to play against. He's a silverstar, if that matters.


PokerStars - $3.29+$0.21|20/40 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: 1,505.00
Hero (SB): 1,495.00

Hero posts SB 20.00, BB posts BB 40.00

Pre Flop: (60.00) Hero has 6 K

Hero calls 20.00, BB raises to 80.00, Hero raises to 240.00, BB calls 160.00

Flop: (480.00, 2 players) J K 4
BB checks, Hero bets 320.00, BB raises to 1,265.00 and is all-in, Hero

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I don't have as many reads on this guy, but he's also pretty loose. He doesn't fold to my raises PF, so I'm open limping a lot since he's not raising those. He doesn't like folding to cbets either so I'm making tons of thins vbets against him. I've won pretty much every single pot that went to showdown and because of that I have a feeling that he might be tilting.


PokerStars - $3.29+$0.21|15/30 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: 855.00
Hero (SB): 2,145.00

Hero posts SB 15.00, BB posts BB 30.00

Pre Flop: (45.00) Hero has 8 J

Hero raises to 75.00, BB calls 45.00

Flop: (150.00, 2 players) 9 3 T
BB checks, Hero bets 75.00, BB calls 75.00

Turn: (300.00, 2 players) J
BB checks, Hero bets 200.00, BB raises to 705.00 and is all-in, Hero

Call both as played.

A bit of a fancy play syndrom in hand 1. I don't see why you wouldn't simply min-raise. You want to play as many pots as possible from the SB; it's OK if villain defends 80%.

Also note that your cbet is very big. Usually a half pot cbet does the trick. It's not too bad because you have TP on a wet board, but otherwise go for around 50%.

Hand 2 I'd play similarly, starting with a min-raise.

This, don't get too fancy at these stakes

snap both, as played, especially given history