Villain 1: middle age, LAG, 700$, MP. Has been raising close to 50% of hands and took down most of them. Played with him before and he is always fairly aggresive, not a manic though, definatly a winning reg.
Hero: 700$, BTN, YWG, joined the table an hour orso ago, been all in twice already vs a manic in like 20 mins won 1 lost 1.

OTTH: 3 EP limpers, these guys are the kind of limpers who always call raises and never l/rr. Villain makes it 24 in MP (normal size). I look down at 79 I call assuming the limpers call and think this hand plays fine post. All limpers call.
Flop [120$]. 2510 checks to villain, he makes it 28$ I think for a bit and raise to 102$ (good size?) limpers fold, villain shoves for like 600$ total. Me???
I haven't seen villain bluff yet today, but if anyone will ever bluff here on the table it is def this villain.

You're probably ahead of some % of what he may perceive as a "value shove" here like sets, and aces with ace of spades, kings with Ks, etc.

Not value shove but if you're perceived as capable of raising "light" (which may be the case when you're all in twice in 20 mins.) with hands like QK w/ 1 spade, or A3 w/ a spade, then villain may lean towards ripping in the aforementioned hands to deny equity.


I ran it in equilab with villain capable of shoving w/ hands AJ,AQ,AK w/ one spade, all sets, the same Ace high hands but flushes, and a few other flushes, and you're looking at ~68% equity against that range, so I'd be calling.

Previous post has some good points.

Plus, a thinking player slowplays nut (and other) flushes here a lot. I'd snap. Sucks if he has a higher flush, but it's so whatever.

Raising the reg cbet are you putting him on a draw? Wouldnt it be better to call and collect some extra calls from the multiple limpers instead of isolating you self with the better player?

If you havent seen the reg bluff on this day, do you remember his bluff lines from previous sessions? Or how he plays his hands that are drawing? You already gone all in twice with the reg. Does he enjoy all in with draws? Do you like varience by finding out things yourself by putting yourself in difficult situations vrs the stronger player of your table?

A hand I remeber with the reg was I had 99, pre and raise some callers he squizes big I call flop was (He likes to squize a lot!). xxJ flop he checks I bet 1/3 pot he overbets shoves and had AA
all-ins today where not vs him.
And I think raising flop vs 1/5 bet is neccairy I just need to protect my hand and get value from worse.
Havent seen him go all in on the flop / turn with a big draw yet

+1

Woops... noticed I did not post results. Ended up calling and he had AsKs for flopping me close to death feels bad ...
Remeber in a previous hand he was talking to me when I was making a decision for an all-in on the flop spot and he said if you dont snap I am good etc (this was 1-2 months ago). and he had the nuts in that spot. Since he was silent during this hand I thought he was likely not to be super strong. I dont play a huge amount of life poker, do you guys think basing a decision partly on tells is fine or just go with the strategy?

Why is no one saying this should be most likely a fold preflop. I mean, I understand that all these limpers are passive and will call, and you're playing with absolute position on them here, but still, there is an iso raise from a good, aggressive regular and I don't think it will be a profitable call. You're only counting on flopping a very strong draw, made straight or a two pair, your hands will be often dominated postflop and even in position it won't be that easy to realize your equity 5way.
As played though, I like the raise and I don't think we can really fold to a shove which was already explained above.