Set mining with 33
1/2 9-handed
Typical table of mostly loose/passive fish with little 3betting and not much aggression.
V: YWG (BTN, covers) one of the better players at the table. Aggressive, gambles when short (called a pre-flop 3bet to $50 from a tight player vs another tight player w/ QJ (he had already called the first bet), flop TKX, OR bets, V shoves $160, and hits his straight vs KK and AA), runs another game that plays bigger. I play PLO with him, too. He does have a tell of acting weak when he is strong.
H: MAWW (MP, $400) had to rebuy for $300 but have won a few pots. V has about $150 of my first buy-in on a hand I played horribly but didn’t show, so they don’t know what I had. If I had remembered his tell, I would not have lost the money:( Tight, aggressive – raises and 3bets more than anyone. Usually a winner in this game.
Couple of limpers, and I limp w/ 33, HJ limps, and V makes it $40. This is a huge raise for this game, so I think he’s just trying to buy it. Folds to me and I call. I think HJ is going to come along – he plays almost every hand, even for a raise (23 soooted for $20), but he folds.
Flop (~$80) 236 rainbow. Hero? Lead? Check/raise/shove? Check/call?
anything besides a xc on the flop is really bad
You don't want to make a habit out of it. I usually always check to a PFR as you don't want to do a lot of leading. I could be wrong, but that's typically how I play and it's worked out well.
depends on your image sir - I think check call is the best play most of the time, but raising here is fine sometimes but kinda hard when you call $40, especially if they think you are tight.
depends on your image sir - I think check call is the best play most of the time, but raising here is fine sometimes but kinda hard when you call $40, especially if they think you are tight.
It's a 4.5x SPR pot where OP's read is villain is trying to steal it preflop. We are so massively far ahead that doing anything other than continuing to give villain the option to keep bluffing would be a huge mistake.
