What do you think of this player/hand?
1/3 NLHE 8 handed
I'm not in this hand but it was played by a guy that comes by my room sometimes, let's make him the "hero". I used to think he was quite a good LAG but now I don't know if I've gotten better or he's gotten worse. What would your exploits be against this player (assuming this hand is representative)?.
H - young fat asian guy who is very arrogant and talks a lot of strat at the table. 600$. MP.
V1 - asian woman that is very straightforward and plays face-up for huge sizings. So with AA pre for instance she'll just ram her stack regardless of sizes, you could open 10$ and she'd ram 300$ or maybe make it 100$ to go and then ram all flops. She can read a flop so if she has KK and flop comes A-7-2 she's checking and check-calling. She has no creativity and tries to simplify her decisions. 500$. CO.
V2 - loose passive losing player, fairly standard, trying to learn the game. 325$ BTN.
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V2 straddles BTN, folds to Hero who sees A♦ A♥ (I'm proud to say I was only half watching this hand play out and I ranged him on exactly this hand), H makes it 15, V1 raises to 25 (there's a discussion as to whether this constitutes a raise after which people realize it's a legal raise), V2 calls 25, Hero calls 25. 3-ways OOP.
Aside: I have no idea what this "hero" thinks of these two Vs, these are my reads on Vs, here imo the woman has a hand like KQs or AKo, maybe AQs something premium but not something she wants to commit to.
Flop 75 - J♦ 6♦ 2♥
Check, check, check
Turn 75 - 8♦
H bets 35, V1 folds, V2 raises to 75 leaving 225 back, H calls
River 225 (225 back) - T♣
Hero checks, V2 bets 100, Hero calls...
2 Replies
I think the pre-flop call is horrendous. The click-raise from V1 and cold-call from V2 are disrespectful plays that can and should be punished by a wide variety of 4bettable hands, including bluffs and thin value. Calling to "trap" when multiway and OOP is just terrible. Anytime you are in this spot where you can and should have a lot of bluffs, you have to play your value aggressively.
The post-flop play is whatever. Guessing he lost to JJ or 88, maybe JTs that was going for a "stop-raise" on turn and then binked two pair. Check-raise bluffing river would be interesting if the players were deeper, but is definitely bad here. Shoving turn over the clickback is probably OK, too.
Pre-flop is terrible -- definitely need to raise the $25. Flop is 100% a bet -- can't imagine what he's thinking. The rest is whatever -- nothing else you can do.
"H" is definitely not a LAG.
