$1/$3 slow played AA against strong line
Don't have great reads on villain, I haven't played with him before and I'm on my second or third orbit at the table. Game is $1/$3 NLH but we play a PLO hand once per orbit and I did see him bet the K high flush hard on the river on a 88853 board so I'm thinking he's capable of some bad play post flop. He's loose preflop and raising a lot, probably playing 40/20 or something like that.
Effective stacks are $650ish
I'm the button in this hand and I've button straddled for $6
SB folds
Villain complete the $6
Folds to me on the button
I look down at A ♠ A ♣ and raise to $26
Villain raises to $135
I call
SPR is going to be 2ish with his reraise so I didn't see a reason to 4b. Plus 4bs are rare in this game (as are 3bs, at least less common than they should be) and I expect to fold most everything out if I do it. JJ+ might get stuck, everything else goes away.
Flop ($271) J ♠ T ♦ 6 ♠
Villain checks
I bet $85
Villain calls
Turn ($441) Q ♥
Villain bets $125
I call
River ($951) 5 ♠
Villain shoves for $300
Hero ???
On one hand I'm getting 4:1 and the SPR was 2ish on the flop, tough for me to find a fold here. But, what am I ever beating? Could see him check calling the flop with any broadways that he 3b with, but all I'm beating at this point is AQ (which I block) and KQ. Don't know. 15 combos of those if I really think he shoves them. This whole post is probably results oriented (SPOILER!), maybe this was an easy spot.
Did you read the whole thread, or somehow just zero in on that one line?
If you read my earlier responses, my point should have been pretty clear.
I fake-tank for 10-20 seconds, then 4B-jam pre, and pray it looks like I'm over-playing some worse hand.
If he folds, he folds. Now we know he has a limp/flat-raise-fold range.
So, with AA here, we 4B, and V either folds something we assume is worse than KK, or he 5B-jams, and we play for stacks.
V limp-raised from the BB. If we 4B and V folds, then we know that his limp-3B range includes hands that he will fold to a 4B, which obviously are not AA, and probably not even KK, so he has a limp-raise range that includes more than just AA/KK. He has a limp-raise-fold range, which does not include AA, and probably not KK.
That information can be used in the future, helping us make up for lost value if he folds to our 4B in this hand. It allows us to 4B him with more than just AA/KK, because we know his limp-raise range includes hands that will fold to a 4B, hands that are probably worse than AK and QQ.
This goes to the discussion of what hands we can have in our 4B range, depending on the stack depth, and if there's enough for V to flat call, or for us to 4B-fold.
