Line check w/ overpair vs tilted V

If villain isn't tilted river is a tough decision. The board is ugly but hero beats all of the two pair combos. Against a tilted villain the river is an obvious call, against a non-titled villain it's a judgement call.
I would also check turn some of the time against a non-tilted villain. With 2 sevens on the board and a good chance that any diamond draws have a ten hero shouldn't be trying to build a huge pot. Hero shouldn't be going away easily but some pot control would be good.

First impression was that turn and river cards are horrible, but V shouldn't have many 98 or KQ unless they're diamonds or spades. You beat JT and the slightly less likely J9/T9 (I think continuing on the turn is fine, although you could obviously check as well).

Clear call against a tilted opponent, but even against someone who's playing normally it's not necessarily the obvious fold it first appears.

What do people think the worst hand V should bet for value here?

If V was playing reasonably, with the river pot bet, the only bluffs that V can possibly have are a small portion of AX of diamonds, AQ and AK as overcards/missed straight draws (very small portion), and any other diamond suited hands (should be most of the range). Meanwhile, their value hands should be QQ (they shouldn't have any KK or AA) to get value from Jx-9x/JT/ T9/ JT, any 8x, KQdd or KQss, or full houses.

Don't wanna do any rigorous calculation right now but my hypothesis would be that your barely getting a good price to call with QQs as a bluffcatcher here. Especially if we consider that AQo and AKo are not obvious hands for people to continue and even bluff with in this board, then we are just condensing their bluffs to missed diamonds.

However, if V is tilted and they have shown tendencies to try to push people off rivers or call runouts with nonsensical hands, or even turn hands like Tx or 9x into a bluff (or thin value?), then this becomes a pretty good call.

Preflop standard and flop standard.

Prefer to check turn or bet smaller.

River: we block nut straight and fd missed. I think we have to call getting 2-1 but it's hardly a fist-pumping spot. We're going to get beat probably 50% but we get the right price. I'd rather call here with QQ than with AA.

PRE - open bigger when V to your immediate left is calling too wide. Make it $20.

FLOP - just check when OOP as the PFR, or as monkey in the middle. Betting 2/3 pot pretty much assures he's continuing with TP+ and draws to the nuts. If anyone bets, we can check-raise, or check-call, and play our hand as a bluff-catcher.

TURN - these middling size bets don't accomplish anything. Just check, and hope he bets, so we can check-raise, or bet huge, to set up a river jam.

RIVER - our hand is basically just a bluff catcher at this point, but he has a lot of bluffs. Just check-call.

Banana, ask yourself these questions, and see if the answers to each question align:

1. Why am I opening to $10 at 1/3?

2. Why am I c-betting 2/3 pot on the flop, when I'm OOP?

3. Why am I betting 70% pot on the turn on this card?

The answer to question 1 may be "I want calls", or "I want raises". But in a game like this, as in most 1/3 games, we'll still get called if we open bigger, and 3B's tend to be rare, only made with very strong hands. We should be opening larger than 3bb's in a heavily raked game, where opponents are calling way too wide, to build a pot.

The answer to question 2 may be "because I want to get value for my hand" or "to deny equity". But really, we should mostly be checking when OOP or as monkey in the middle, even when we have value, to protect our checking range, and to let our opponents make mistakes.

V will bet all his value hands, and most of his best draws, so we can check-raise. If he checks, we can then make a delayed c-bet on the turn. When we bet, he's going to be floating us wide, so we're not really denying any equity.

Opponents are going to make the most mistakes when we check to them as the PFR. They'll make slightly fewer mistakes if we c-bet small. They'll make even fewer, if any mistakes when we c-bet large.

When we c-bet large, we're folding out V's weakest hands that we want to keep in, and forcing him to only continue with his strongest hands and best draws.

When we open small pre, and then c-bet large on the flop, it seems like those don't align. We're letting opponents continue wider pre, but then forcing them to continue with a narrower range on the flop.

The answer to question 3 might be "to make his draws pay", but when we bet $50, we still have $270 back, so there's plenty of incentive for V to call with his draws.

The problem on the turn is the pot size and our remaining stack size. Starting on the flop, we either want to keep the pot small so we can get away from our hand and lose the minimum on a bad run-out, or we want to bloat the pot to set up a river jam - either for value when we think our opponent has a strong enough hand to call, or as a bluff when we think he doesn't.

By c-betting 2/3 pot on flop and 70% pot on turn, we're making it easy for our opponents to play perfectly against us. It's even easier for him when we're OOP.

I limp in preflop but that's me. Even more of a no-brainer with this tilting aggrotard in LP (good chance we get action on a limp/reraise, no?).

SPR is 11 so I simply don't want to stack off postflop (or be put in a position to do so) with just one pear. So I'd often check the flop here, and probably bet smaller if betting.

Ditto thinking for turn. We're just put in such a gross spot if he raises, so I again lean to checking and make sure I get to showdown for a reasonable price. I more bet/fold against non button clickers where we can safely fold to a raise.

Also checking the river. Against an aggrotard and with busted flush draws, I can get behind our bluffcatch here.

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Villain is playing too many hands period. Tilted means you're playing too many hands. Ignore the tilted part. You're giving it way too much credence.

Welcome to poker in 2004.

Please. He advocates limping QQ and checking 3 streets to get and I quote ''showdown for a reasonable price''.

If this guy is ''one of the best'' this forum is beyond screwed.

With that being said. You're clearly no better.

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$10 open is a crime vs. described villain. Just go $15 - the preflop action will play out the same. The world will continue turning.

against described villian id rather check flop and let him think his 33 is good.

I go bigger pre, but otherwise I like it. I like the check/call on the river vs. this guy. No other way to get paid (I hope that's what happened).

Yes, I would play it different depending...