Understanding how to hero down
2/5 NLHE 9 handed.
Table - Wild. People showing down everything from 73o to KK. Straddle and double straddle on to 20$ almost every hand. Buckle up.
V - One of the more yo-yo players in the room at 1/3, haven't played much 2/5 with him. He's a very sticky player with middling hands. Tries to trap with premiums and bluffs a lot with air. He'll call IP with a lot of weak disguised hands like 75s or 34s even when he doesn't have the IO. I've seen him bluff before but I don't really know his bluffing frequency. At this game he has bluffed a couple of times and showed it. Once multiway in a suicide spot on a paired board where he could have easily been snapped since people are calling wide too. Covers. BTN.
H - Has the nittiest image at the table. Sat down with 1000$ and has just bled down. Only been at the table 2.5 hours. Card dead for 3 orbits. Then opened TT OTB for 5x over double straddle, got 5 callers to a K-Q-X and folded to a donk for full pot. Just hasn't had any way to play a hand - can't connect with the board when I get dealt a playable hand and can't hardly get a playable hand in the first place. Not tilted though. Just bleh watching people shovel 1-2k back and forth with 97o while I'm folding folding folding. 500$ HJ.
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UTG straddles to 10, folds to H who makes it 30 with A♥ T♥, V calls BTN, UTG calls (LP losing player). 3-ways 2nd to act.
Flop 90 (470 back) - A♣ K♣ 7♣
UTG checks, Hero checks, V bets 35, UTG folds, Hero calls.
Turn 160 (435 back) - Q♦
Hero checks, V bets 120, Hero tank calls
River 400 (315 back) - 8♠
Hero checks, V shoves, Hero?
Advice on how to play these kinds of games postflop would be helpful too. There were a few hands where I had something like TT on K-Q-3r and check folded. Do I just narrow my continuing range to premiums and hope to double up? I feel like I'm just burning money 3-betting pre and whiffing. One hand a guy cold called my 3-bet from the SB, I had AKo, he had J2o, flop 8-6-2 I check fold, he goes to showdown with another player and runout is 8-6-2-J-2 and he boats up.
PRE - seems fine.
FLOP - just check-call seems fine.
TURN - mostly folding against the population. Against this V, in this game, it may be time to take a stand, and check-call again.
RIVER - I don't love it, but we've played the hand so passively to this point, I don't see how we can fold.
I don't really care what hands we could have that would be better or worse to call down with, when it's a monotone flop and V either has us crushed or he's FOS. If this dude is playing ATC this way, top pair $h1t kicker isn't much worse than top set.
If he rolls over a better AX with no flush cards, just pack it in for the night. Poker gods obviously want to make us miserable enough to lay down in traffic.
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Your decision here isn't on the river. It's on the turn. Your choice there to call means you have to call on the river. You're basically saying that your garbage ace is going to win against his bluff.
On wild tables, everyone has a different strategy. I' try to keep the pots small, continue only good wtih decent made hands and let the idiots bluff off of bed with bad hands. You'll lose some pots and win some. Be careful of where you raise as they will pay attention. For instance, you have AQ, just called, and flop is A, 6, 2 rainbow. If you raise them here, they'll be like oh he's got it easy fold. The only time to really raise against idiots like this is on the river in position of if you think they have a good made hand but yours is better.
Also, do feel free to coach people around the table on how to play against people playing garbage.
