2/5/10 2,500 effective with AKo in LJ vs 3b and cold 4
Game is 2/5 with time rake except for a $2 promotional drop. There is a $10 button straddle that gets ultimate last action no matter what.
V1 is a recreational player in 60s, maybe early 70s. He is fairly loose with his open raises, open limps, cold calls, limp-calls, overcalls. Has not 3bet very much. Hero's image should be fairly tight. 1,300 stack which he ran up from a few hundred after getting felted earlier and then offering someone cash app for cash, Hero covers.
V2 is a professional as is Hero. We have hundreds of hours together and have similar familiar preflop styles. 3betting/4 betting with A5s, A4s, you know the type. Hero stack is 2,500, villain covers. I know villain has cold 4bets which I would generally assume have to be pretty tight. From what I remember he does not have a cold calling range to 3bets generally, except maybe in ultimate last button straddle or when a rec has already cold called.
V3 is a bad loose recreational player on ultimate last button straddle with $1,000. Will cold call quite a bit, for example cold calling a 3bet with 98s.
Folds to hero in LJ with AhKc, hero opens to $30, v2 in CO raises to $75, v2 in SB raises to $300, folds to hero. V3 button straddle will get last action no matter what happens. No specific reads on v3 this hand. Hero?
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I knew I theory this would be a 5bet or fold, and my thinking was if anything I would probably overfold this spot to adjust for a tight rec range and a tight cold 4 range. I decided to randomize and got 1/12, so I figured I couldn't go wrong folding. I fold and rec folds.
Spoke later with villains and the reception said he had AK and the pro said he had AQo. Pro thought villains 2.5x sizing was a BS size so he thought he would make a real raise, probably raise folding.
I also figured that I am either jamming or folding here because of the awkward stack size with the rec. 250 straddles deep vs a cold 4bet is not a great spot.
I did think that the pros range was likely JJ+ and AK. I wasn't sure if he would even have mixed AQs, KQs, A5s type hands here at a frequency, certainly didn't expect AQo. Still, given then inomplete information and potentially much tighter range for the rec, I am not dissatisfied with my choice.
So confused by the OP. I need a players card to keep all these dudes, their descriptions, their stack sizes, and their pre-flop actions straight.
Without the benefit of that - we opened AKo to $30 off a $2500 starting stack, got 3B to $75, and 4B to $300?
Stick in a smallish 5B, to $750.
Tons of dead money in the pot. We have position on the last raiser in the SB, who I think is the only player whose game we actually respect? When we make it $750, it puts all the pressure back on him. We're not yet pot-committed.
He can 6B-jam with AA and hope we call, 6B-jam with KK/QQ and hope we fold, 6B-jam with AK and we probably chop, or he can just flat call and play the flop OOP, or he can give us credit for having a hand strong enough to 5B, he can fold, and move on. How does he flat call and not commit himself to jamming any flop that isn't A-high, considering what the SPR will be?
The smallish 5B that doesn't pot-commit us is a killer move.
