Hi guys, this might belong in BBV but this hand has been eating at me a little. Does anyone have any past experience with this player RENA79? He is a Russian player, Sharkscope has him winning a modest 12.1% ROI over 35k games. I played with him in the Biggest $55 and his play was very spewwy. I only saved the one hand I played with him but, I might have to go digging for the others... It just seemed so illogical I thought I'd see if anyone else noticed anything odd about him, or maybe just to keep an eye out.

PokerStars, $50 + $5 - Hold'em No Limit - 25,000/50,000 (6,250 ante) - 9 players
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UTG: 2,572,675 (51 bb)
UTG+1: 895,223 (18 bb)
MP: 22,622 (0 bb)
MP+1: 224,744 (4 bb)
LP: 850,894 (17 bb)
CO: 85,843 (2 bb)
BU: 1,720,563 (34 bb)
SB (Hero): 1,590,224 (32 bb)
BB: 1,208,373 (24 bb)

Pre-Flop: (131,250) Hero is SB with K♠ A♦
7 players fold, Hero raises to 150,000, BB calls 100,000

Flop: (356,250) A♠ 7♥ J♣ (2 players)
Hero bets 124,688, BB calls 124,688

Turn: (605,626) 2♣ (2 players)
Hero bets 284,644, BB calls 284,644

River: (1,174,914) T♦ (2 players)
Hero bets 1,024,642 (all-in), BB calls 642,791 (all-in)

Total pot: 2,460,496

Showdown:
SB (Hero) shows K♠ A♦ (a pair of Aces)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 64%, Flop: 81%, Turn: 91%, River: 0%)

BB shows 8♦ 9♥ (a straight, Seven to Jack)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 36%, Flop: 19%, Turn: 9%, River: 100%)

BB wins 2,460,496

in the hand RENA INSTA CALLED flop and turn. I can see this happening with a losing player but what strong reg would make this kind of play? It doesn't make any sense to me. In other spots he made weird donk bets and just illogical calls, often winning him/her the pot in bizarre ways

To quote ACT from SSMTT:

I'll look thru my other hands and see if I can find any anything more substantial. Sorry for posting the bad beat fam.

Its a blind vs blind situation and he did not give you credit for an Ace. He probably chose to float the flop and the turn with his gutter with the idea of jamming the river if you checked or bet small otr. Unfortunately for you, he binked his gutterball. Better luck tomorrow.

My opinion is that your bet size post flop just killed the hand.Even with a weak ace,he still have chances over there,as only your kicker was high.If you bet below 50% on flop,you should either go 75-80% on turn,or just check check.Even with a weak ace,there's a posibility to make him fold and in that position you have to fear either pairs,set or a draw.As long as he already paid preflop and 2.4bb on flop,he could pay with no issues another 5.6BB on turn,because he still have chips left to play
And russians love to play for a 4 outer hand

sTurn is a total blank besides BDFD, 75% pot OTT leaves a SPR of less than 1:3 OTR.

The first thing is that you dont want to lose the pot,especially when there's so many posibilities on the flop and turn.If you decided to bet les than 50% on the flop,you want to squeeze as much as you can on the turn(you dont want a clean showdown over there) because : 1.You play vs a russian. 2. you didnt hit the king to make top two pairs and 3rd. you really want to fold any draws over there.
If you will check all the hands with AK off,you will see that with this style of play,you lose at least 60-70% of the hands,especially when the russian is in BB.
So i strongly say that you played very bad postflop

This is completely nonsense


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Not much to add but this looks to me like what happened here.

yep, I agree. can we /thread this everyone? Thanks