Line Check with TT in the HJ Facing a Raise from a Sometimes Gambler on a Dry Flop
2/5, effective stacks 650.
V is loose aggressive. When he has played 1/2 with me, he buys for the max and runs over the scared money. He gets caught often with marginal hands but never totally bad ones. One orbit ago, he opened A7o in the LJ and played it fast to showdown, winning a huge pot.
Hero is playing 2/5 for the first time. He has a TAG image.
OTTH
Button straddles to 10. V in the SB calls. LJ calls. Hero in the HJ with TT raises to 50. Button folds. V calls. LJ folds.
Flop (110 after rake): 75Qr
V checks. Hero bets 35. V raises to 125. Hero folds.
10 Replies
I would raise more pre after a straddle and 3 callers to like 70/80.
With the q otf I would just fold instead of going to war with the rest of our stack. You said his hands are "never totally bad ones" anyway.
Seems fine, but I would recommend bigger preflop as well, 65 would be my preference.
You could check flop for some deception and bluff catching as well. I like to do this sometimes vs tricky aggressive opponents that check raise a lot so I can keep the pot smaller w middling hands and bluff catch.
i dont see how can you anything but fold, you have plenty better hands to call with here like KQ, AQ, QJs, overpairs, QQ, 77, maybe 55
check back flop sometimes is good too, this hand is worth one street and maybe that street is a turn bluffcatch.
I would raise bigger pf and call his raise and see what he does on the turn.
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
Wouldn't hate a larger raise pre.
Don't hate the c-bet on flop. Wouldn't hate a check back for pot control.
The BTN straddles makes weird $h1t happen pre with the players in EP. Is V double-flatting strong Q's, 77, and 55? Is he getting to the flop with some combo that makes 2P here?
Is V going to fast play a Q, or 2P+ on such a dry board? Could he have some bluffs here, like 86 or 64 with some backdoor FD? Could he be over-playing something like A7 or A5?
I dunno. My first instinct was that this is just an automatic fold. I guess it is at this stack depth. But if V is capable of making a play based on your tight image, and he's been running over the table, I might be inclined to turn TT into a bluff here, and come back over the top.
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You can go bigger pre, and if you are going to bet so small on the flop, you might as well check. Then it's easy to call and see a turn. In other words, as always, I hate the small flop bet and it only got you in trouble.
BTW, if I did bet that small for some reason, I'm not folding to his raise.
I’ve been following Ed Millers strategy of c-betting 2/3 pot on wet/dynamic flops and 1/3 on dry/static flop, also c-betting 1/3 after a V calls my 3bet pre.
But once you c-bet so small, you can't fold to a raise by the described villain. I'm never folding here to this guy: he buys for the max and runs over the scared money. He gets caught often with marginal hands but never totally bad ones.
