20/40 stud hi.
I played this hand vs. a very solid thinking player. He thinks roughly the same about me.
The hand doesn't involve necessarily hard decisions, but I thought it played relatively interestingly. As the stud forum tends to be quiet I thought I'd look to post a hand here or there. I'll post the hand street by street to see what people think, and after any discussion I'll post what I did and my reasoning behind it.
Again, not an amazing, crazy hand, but I did enjoy the thought process.
Playing 7 handed. Villain is low with the 2
He brings in in for $5, folded to me. Board was roughly clean of paint as I recall. A few medium/low cards out, but his door and my cards are clean.
6
and 2
behind me.
Hero holds (J
A
)J
I make it $20 and the 6
folds.
Over the last 20-30 minutes I have raised frequently in this spot. I'm not above stealing with any two hole cards given a high door card, but in fact I have had a run of high pairs or other quality raising hands, so I haven't needed to fold out any iffy stealing spots to randomize said steals. Villain is almost certain to be aware of my activity over this period.
I have not needed to show any of the hands over this brief stretch.
Villain makes it $40 to go. Villains range is very wide in this spot, but no pure garbage.
Pot ~$80
Hero?