The early morning hours are upon is in East Coast slippery blue chip land and the herd is starting to thin. The stuck and steamin' have moved on to sleep off their emotional pain which has left us six handed. We pick up 9
9
a couple off the button and raise. Button three bets and we are the only caller.
Button Read:
Ex-online crusher who has converted to a live game crusher. We'll call him YY. For practical purposes, I consider him to be like playing an exploitative bot that hand reads well. He's the best I've come across at identifying leaks and exploiting those tendencies. Against me he's probably a little value heavy as I tend to err on the side of calling instead of folding in decisions I consider to be close.
The flop comes good for us 8
7
5
. We check and call.
FPS Decision Point #1 - My standard against weaker players would be to check raise, however I intentionally decided to delay until the turn on this relatively low board. Bad idea? If so, what range of hands would you check raise in this spot with our positions to stay balanced?
The turn comes a 10
. We check and raise.
FPS Decision Point #2 - So we follow through with our plan on this relatively safe card. Good decision or bad decision?
Open to all feedback - thanks for your help guys.
J Lot