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?