just calling is fine, imo

You said no reads so i'm raise/calling for stacks on the river. Not willing to get owned by raise/folding against a lower flush.

I can see good arguments for raising the turn. I dont think 45, Jx with a spade will fold to a raise. Cant think of many hands that are semi bluffing . Id raise to $16 at this street being this deep.

Loltastic hand in live 2/2 game yesterday.
8-handed I straddled utg.
Utg+2 (just sat down few hands back, seemed reg-ish) makes it 12, btn (solid reg) calls, SB calls (knows the regs, seems to play OK), I pick up A3ss and squeeze to 42. I haven't been to active and only btn knows me. Utg+2 calls, btn calls after he verifies I squeezed from straddle en SB also comes along.
Pot is ~170, I started the hand with ~190, utg+2 and btn started hand ~250 and SB covers.
SB checks in the dark.
Flop 445ss, I shove for ~150.
Utg+2 shoves quite quickly with QQ, btn calls (unknown hand) and SB goes "WTF, I has quads?!"...and scoops ~800 pot.
No 2s on turn or river (in fact all my draws would've missed). Sick setup imo.

Should have played 8-game with a buzz rotation

Lol. I love the straddle for this reason. Straddlers spew huge to protect their 2 bbs.

It's so hard not too though. I find myself calling 3x/4x raises in straddled pots that I wouldn't call in an unstraddled pot. Must defenddddd.

Why straddle?

I rarely straddle. Id only do it if most or all the table is straddling. You can simply RERAISE preflop. Its fine for people who can afford it but I usually cant afford to 2x the stakes. Disregarding stakes I dont want to take whats often a 100bb game into a 50bb game. If its already super deep av. stack 300bb+ then it has merit but again only if you're properly bankrolled. Its often to get pots big against the fish but then you have the odd semi fish who can go from playing terrible to okay by hand selection of 40-50BB and waiting for a spot to sandwich two bigger stacked opponents.

I'm talking strictly button straddled here, I never straddle utg. I play in 200+ bb games. I don't do it that often but when I do there's usually a few things going on. Others are straddling, others are very deep, players on my immediate right are bad, and players on my immediate left are good. Straddling the button under those conditions forces the good players to my left out of the pot immediately and leaves me in larger pots vs bad players with position.

I feel like straddling is discussed in this thread every 5 pages lol

So once a year?

NL100 6-Max on Bovada

Villain is 16/14 but only about 20 hands. Hadn't picked up anything else on him. I've been playing something like 38/30 in the few orbits I've been at the table mostly because of picking up hands.

Effective stacks 110 bb's.


Preflop

I open QQ to $3 UTG villain 3-bets to $10 from the BTN everyone folds and I call

Flop

T43

check/check

Turn

T429

I bet $15 into $21.50 and villain flats

River

T4297

Pot is $51.50

Hero?

Bet/fold $50-ish

check the turn for sure

more on this
preflop I would 4bet with your loose stats. Id go $25 and call a shove.
turn I prefer to check, I think youre setting up for a big pot against TT/KK/AA and he might bet AK here for you where he cant call a bet. Turn check plan would also be to donk some rivers sometimes after a turn c/c
you block QJ draws but dont think he has them much, because this board is so good for our range he can't get frisky against any size you can rep goading him with AK with a smaller size,, you can bet/fold comfortably, I think $50 is overkill i'd go $35. I think if you check you cant bank on KT and AT betting for you where they would call.

Only have 20 hands on the opponent and so far he's playing loose, about 60/35

opponent is a reg running 24/13/14% 3bet
Thought flop was optimistic but that he'd cbet too much and we are in decent shape against a lot of suited connected Q9/QT/K9 stuff
His cbet is 61% total and 71% in 3bet pots which isnt crazy I guess..
does anybody check the turn?
thoughts on river? Feel like we lose too often if we check and he never has 9x with the action unless exactly 99 or 56...

On the turn I put his range on some pairs I'm ahead of that could call like JJ/88, AK which might call once but even if he doesn't I don't mind folding them out, and AA/KK/TT/99 which have me crushed. (If he doesn't 3-bet 88 he probably doesn't 3-bet 99 either so those wash.) I wasn't ready to fold if he bet turn and I thought he might only bet with stuff he has me crushed with so I might as well bet myself since he has stuff he can call with that I beat.

Once he calls the turn I'm sort of in the same kind of spot on the river. I did decide to bet/fold as you and Deurdy suggested (I think I bet $33) and he flatted with KK.

I'm pretty sure this makes calling his 3-bet preflop correct because if he's playing post the way he here with KK it's doubtful he's the type to 3-bet my UTG open much lighter than KK+/AK.

I see you posted some hands. I can't look at them right now but I will definitely get back to them tonight or tomorrow.

QJo hand it's really hard to say without knowing how he plays postflop. If he's kind of passive postflop I would probably fold the river. If he's a little spazzy I would call since he could show up with tons of hands you beat including worse Q's and absolute air. If I wasn't sure I would probably fold.

ATo hand I would rather 4-bet/fold than call preflop. Suited I like a call a lot more. I don't mind how you played it postflop. Maybe pot the turn so your river shove is full pot instead of an overbet. Makes it look more like you were setting up a river shove.

NL25 6-Max Zone

No reads as zone is 100% anonamous with every hand dealt. Effective stacks are 112 bb's.

Preflop

I raise to $1 UTG with AJ and villain flats from the BB.

Flop

AKJ

check/check

Turn

AKJ8

Villain bets $2 into $2.10 I flat

River

AKJ84

Villain bets $5 into $6.10 and I flat.


Normally I would bet the flop but I felt like there were few worse hands villain could call with so I decided this was a good flop to check back and see if he will stab on the turn with his air.

Anybody jamming the river?

The reason you checked flop applies to not raising the river. Maybe there's merit if the turn opened up back door draws (which brick river) but with this runout I don't think he can call with worse unless we're ever capable of floating turn with air.

Thanks. I feel like I'm too passive sometimes and looking for spots to pick up more value. He ended up turning 2 pair but I didn't even have his actual hand in the range I put him on.

Bovada NL100 6-Max

Effective stacks: 108 bb's.

Villain seems solid but has recently lost 2 big hands to coolers. He doesn't seem to be tilting though.

Preflop

Villain open UTG to $3 and I flat UTG+1 with AK

Flop

AJ4

Villain bets $5 into $7.50 and I flat

Turn

AJ48

Villain bets $5 into $17.50 and I raise to $19 villain calls

River

AJ486

Villain checks

Pot is $55.50 we have $81 effective behind.

Hero?

i'd bet like ~66% pot. i think he will fold most of the time but that he probably calls with worse more than he has better to make it worth it.

the Ac blocker is nice. i think we have to fold to a shove getting a bajillion pot odds