Hi all,

Small .2/.5 home game. V1 SB ($100) is solid reg, V2 UTG+1 ($70 - fourth rebuy) is bluffy amateur who often pays people off and has been drinking. Hero BB ($120) is perceived as tight aggressive who bluffs occasionally. Hero is dealt 9c8c. V1 and V2 limp in, hero checks.

Flop: 8d-8s-10h.

V1 bets $1.50, hero calls, V2 calls. Pot $6.

Turn: Ks.

V1 bets $3.50, hero raises to $10, villain tanks and shoves all-in for remaining $65, hides his head and starts hyperventilating. V1 quickly folds. After hero had been tanking for a minute or two, V2 calls clock multiple times - a bit ridiculously as he'd been tanking all night. Hero? Hero is worried about 10-8 and K-8, and of course trips with higher kicker (A, J, Q). Limped pot, so all these holdings possible. We're getting around 7:3 or 42%. Can we win a little less than half the time?

Thanks!

- DT

Considering the read you have on him, I think it's a call. I could easily see this being a spade draw or JQ.

If you're not gonna snap-call the shove, don't raise the turn in the first place.

If you notice people getting excited one way or another they tend to have a big hand. Also nobody calls the clock when they are bluffing.

I'd be very careful about making generalizations like that. I've seen clocks called in all kinds of situations.