Playing around in Ignition today for fun. I haven't played online much the last few years so this was just a time-killer basically.
Hero has 29k @ 80/400/800. Around 30 players left out of 124. Pays 21.
V1 has covering stack of about 50k. Not much interesting hand history. He seemed to be playing pretty well. Not too aggressive, no major bluffs. He pushed me off a K9dd river first to act with a bluff into a side pot after a pre-flop AI from a short stack when he had two lower diamonds. We both missed the diamonds and I folded my K-high and he took a small side pot with no SDV. Nothing out of line though, really. He definitely had a limp range of all types of medium strength hands.
V2 is the short stack with 11k.
Preflop:
V1 limps UTG. V2 raises the BTN to 2200. SB folds, Hero 3b to 5600 with KQs from the BB. V1 flats. V2 jams. Hero?
This sucks all around. V1 flating almost screams AA or KK being slowplayed UTG so I might find a fold here eventhough I really want to jam it in myself. I bet V1 calls with AA, KK, QQ, JJ, and AKs. V2 most likely has TT+ and AK, AQ and AJ here. Fold is best here. Can't wait to see what happened.
It was more entertaining than I expected it to be.
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I actually didn't think this was a KK+ spot as I've seen people limp/raising and limp/flatting in some interesting spots but never this one exactly, so I figured anywhere from maybe 55-JJ was possible and that he'd fold the bottom end of that range. I was correct in my read of him being fairly weak, as I "shoved" (I missed the slider by a bit and only put in like 90% of my stack instead of the whole thing) and he shoved over top for the last little bit with 66??? He held for the side pot and V2 scooped the main with TT. Was shocked he'd put so many chips to a 5b shove after a cold 3b but I guess he had a virus installed on my PC and read my soul.
Or.. $11 donkaments is probably the easier explanation.
It was more entertaining than I expected it to be.
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Spoiler:
I actually didn't think this was a KK+ spot as I've seen people limp/raising and limp/flatting in some interesting spots but never this one exactly, so I figured anywhere from maybe 55-JJ was possible and that he'd fold the bottom end of that range. I was correct in my read of him being fairly weak, as I "shoved" (I missed the slider by a bit and only put in like 90% of my stack instead of the whole thing) and he shoved over top for the last little bit with 66??? He held for the side pot and V2 scooped the main with TT. Was shocked he'd put so many chips to a 5b shove after a cold 3b but I guess he had a virus installed on my PC and read my soul.
Or.. $11 donkaments is probably the easier explanation.
WOW!! Well I was right about V2s range at least. And, $11 donkaments will def see that crap.
fold pre.
You mentioned that V1 "seemed to be playing pretty well". He limped pre from UTG. It probably means that is set mining guy, but ready to fold if V2 BTN shoves with his 11BB. This is reasonable play IMHO.
BTN..what the F he is doing..it's so weird to raise here as he only has 11BB and it's push/fold situation. If he is so inexperienced, then his 3-bet strategy is simple AF - he 3-bets only with strong hands.
So, you have :
V1 : small pairs
V2 : med+ pairs, AJ+,
fold pre.
If V2 Jams over a UTG limp with 11BB I'd not be folding KQs so I don't see why we wouldn't just Isolate or just jam ourselves.
If we want to really nit it up because of some reads I guess calling isn't the worst option either but I think this spot is much better to play aggressively with KQs so I liked how you played it.
