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.
