SBW vs drunk maniac
1/3 NLHE 9 handed
No one wants to leave the game. Two dingbats have sat down at 2 am. One is getting really drunk and putting it all in blind each hand, the other is calling him next to act with 60-70% of ATC. There's some other fish too and a few winning regs. Waitlist for our game has several people.
V - drunk maniac. Has gone through several BIs and has now doubled up to 1k. He says he's not looking at his cards but he's had some really strong hands for AI blind - KK, JJ, KJs but also some trash 96o 84o etc. I'm 90% sure he's actually going all-in blind.
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Aside: Before this hand we've been card dead for a long time, we bled down to 350 from 500 BI just seeing nothing, then doubled up and won a few hands. We've been folding for what feels like hours.
UTG straddles, UTG1 folds, H in MP sees K♦ T♦ and makes it 20 off 900$, LJ folds, V in HJ to 100, folds back and we call. HU OOP. V says he hasn't seen his cards (I'm about 90% sure he hasn't seen them, they're scattered apart and he's put chips on them to cover them up).
Flop 200 (800 back) - K♥ Q♣ 4♦
H checks, V bets 200, we shove....
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You strongly imply that villain has literally ATC and presumably will call the shove with K2o A4o QJo etc. so flop shove seems fine to me.
If villain will always call a shove pre blind but will check and fold flops he misses, you may be better off jamming pre as a 61% favourite. If there's not much difference in his checking what he has, then flatting the $100 and then jamming favourable flops is significantly better.
I'm a little confused. I get that most of his pre-flop action is blind, but does he NEVER look at his cards on later streets? And if not, does he just keep betting blind? When we jam, does he call blind, or look at his cards and decide?
If he's going to keep betting blind, but look at his cards when we jam, I think we're better off just check-calling the whole way. If we jam here, and he looks at his cards, he can call with his best hands and fold his air, which he might have kept betting if he's betting blind.
Always calling here and letting him punt his stack on the turn.
I've played against opponents like this and if he has random no pair garbage there's a very good chance he'll shove the turn but he isn't going to call a shove.
To answer some questions:
1.yes he does check his cards when people play back at him.
2. hes been all in pre every hand for two orbits or three
3. theres some controversy at the table as to whether or not he looked because he's had several premiums AI pre
Answer this question - what does SBW mean?
To answer some questions:
1.yes he does check his cards when people play back at him.
2. hes been all in pre every hand for two orbits or three
3. theres some controversy at the table as to whether or not he looked because he's had several premiums AI pre
Knowing all this, I would (a) make sure he is actually playing blind, (b) limp preflop and see how everyone else reacts to his preflop action, (c) shove over his raise preflop to get him all in, and (d) as played just let him barrel off to us blindly.
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Result:
Spoiler
V looks at one card and then the other, has KQo, turn is a T, river blanks
Wait he didn't look when he 3betted???
Isn't this snap shove preflop?
You sure it wasn't the “of course I lied, it's poker phil” thing?
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