My 3rd Time playing at the Casino, Dumb All-in?
IÂ’m playing @ a large Casino in 1/3 NL (8 max) that from what IÂ’ve read and experienced, plays pretty aggressively and large in comparison to other casinos ($500-$100 buy in).
IÂ’ve been at this table for 2 hours and everyone seems pretty capable except for 1 nit calling station who seems to have no concept for pot odds-who was also not in this hand. IÂ’d say 95% of the pots going to a flop have $30+
Anyway situation is as follows: I am UTG with A s K d, and make it 6. UTG + 1 Calls, HighJack makes it 20, Dealer Calls, Folds to me and I make it 100. Everyone folds but HighJack quickly calls. Going to a flop pot is about 230 and I now have 210 Behind, HighJack has 500 behind.
(For context my pre flop image is pretty tight as this is the 3rd hand IÂ’ve 3 bet in 2 hours, 1 of which got to showdown and I had JJÂ… Although IÂ’m not sure if this player took any consideration)
Flop comes Q s J s and 7 h
Within 6 seconds I announce all in (my reasoning is that my range here is comprised of 75% pocket/over pairs here with my only bluff being like AK or A10).
Within 2 Seconds this player snap calls me all in and flips over A h J c. Did I inadvertently make my line look extremely bluffy? Or was this player just an absolute calling station and should have taken more time even if he was gonna call with just middle pair?
Any tips/advice/opinions greatly appreciated.
3 Replies
When OP makes it 6 and gets 3-bet to 20, it may be what it is, someone with a good hand who wants a real raise.
You could flat the 3-bet or 4-bet normally. If you 4-bet normally, you could c-bet fold some when you miss HU.
It isn't a bad situation having pot left and first to act, particularly with AK. I like the shove because you have the straight outs. Villain could have QQ/JJ or AQ/AJ or suited broadway with a Q or J. However, you might get him to fold AJ or some pp and you had decent equity when called.
Your minraise preflop is basically implementing more-or-less the same strategy I use with my limping in strategy: hoping to have some aggrotard behind raise so I can reraise. So I'm cool with preflop (even though I attempt to accomplish the same thing by limping in).
And with just a ~PSB behind I now jam the flop. It's going to be very hard for him to continue with underpairs, and meanwhile we should often have decent equity (overs + gutshot) if he does continue.
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I think his call of the shove is pretty sharp and standard honestly. You have about 50% value and 50% AK if we assume AQ doesn't get 4-bet most of the time. And he has decent equity most of the time if he's behind . Obviously he played the hand very dubiously preflop calling the 4-bet.
I think all-in vs. check/fold is pretty close. I think this is one that you play around with in a solver and see how it plays vs how your opponent is likely to play.
There's a couple of problems with the jam to me: AQ, QQ, JJ are all very likely to arrive at the flop this way and hands you are hoping to fold out like AK or 99 don't always play this way. AK should 5-bet jam sometimes, and 99 doesn't always 3-bet.
