TP2K Polarizing
1/3 NLHE 8 handed
Table is a mix, only one good player, me, and a few people who have never played, and V.
V - losing reg. plays 2/5 usually where he's an ATM, he's decent by 1/3 standards. He has a lot of leaks like he tilts and goes into punt mode, he also plays his hand quite face up post. We've been battling tonight.
Battle 1 - V straddles BTN, BB limps, H to 25 with 78dd in HJ, V calls, limper fish calls. Flop A-J-7 dcs, fish checks, I cbet 25, V calls IP, fish folds. Turn A-J-7-6r I barrel 100 into 125, V calls, River Qs I shove for Vs remaining 250 into 325 pot, he folds.
Battle 2 - Folds to me in CO, I open J8ss, V 3! 3x OTB next to act, I call OOP HU to A-K-K one spade, x x, turn 6s, I bet 3/4 pot, V shoves I fold. V shows AQo no spade.
---- H effective with 460$ ---
I straddle UTG, V double straddles UTG1 to 12$, folds to H who sees K♣ T♥ and opens 50, V calls, HU OOP.
Flop 100 - T♣ 6♥ 4♠
I cbet 35, V calls
Turn 170 - 2♣
I barrel 75, V pauses and calls
River 320 - Q♣
I shove for 300...
5 Replies
Grunch:
From the prior hand histories, it sounds like you're both playing bad and trying to one-up each other. This is ego-wars.
PRE - I think this set up is basically the same as blind-vs-blind, and we either want to flat call with our entire range, meaning we have no raises, or if we have a raising range here, I'm not sure, but I think we'd want it to be linear, where KTs is pretty cuspy, at best, and may just be an open-fold, limp-fold or limp-call.
If we do raise, I'd think we could raise smaller, like $35 or $40. This >4x open off of $460 seems unwise. We're only starting 38 BB's deep if the double straddle is $12.
FLOP - I'd mostly be checking range from OOP as the PFR when HU. No real reason to be scared of letting V take a free card, and we'd like it if he started stabbing at the pot now. But if we're going to c-bet, this $35 into $100 sizing seems fine.
TURN - Assuming he's 3B'ing pre with JJ+, and raising flop with 2P+, I think I'd size up on the turn, to set up an easy river jam for less than pot. Probably making it at least $100, if not $120-ish.
RIVER - What hands are you targeting for value here? We lose to any QX combo that gets here this way, and all his BDFD's. We block combos of KQ and QT, and club draws, so I'd think we could check or bet really small here, to get called by all his worse 1P hands, or possibly induce him to bluff at it.
What sort of range are you giving V on each street? When we open to $50 pre, maybe he flats with 77-99, and continues across the flop and turn, but I'd think all his worse 1P hands fold the river, unless maybe he decides to make an optimistic call with some pair that includes one club.
The rest of his range would seem to be over-card combos that weren't strong enough to 3B pre, which is going to include a lot of Qx combos that run into top pair with a good kicker, some 1P + BDFD combos that get there, like 76cc or 65cc, some slow-played 53 that made a straight on the turn and probably isn't folding now, and some slivers of showdown value that may not call a jam.
I dunno, man. Maybe he's so tilted that he calls this off with worse, but otherwise, I think you misplayed this with the small turn bet size and the huge river bet size.
Result:
Spoiler
I shove river and he calls with my image being crap, I'm good.
At first glance it looks ok.
At 2nd glance, it might be a little thin, since ppl live don't call down that light.
At third glance, looking at spoiler, you won, so what's the problem?
Did he show what he had? Really curious how light he called. I'm guessing 77-99, or possibly worse TX. If he called you lighter, like 55, 6x, or just ace-high, he's seriously tilted, and I'd go for max exploit against him. Even if he called with worse than JT, that's a pretty wide defend pre, and a pretty light river call, on this run-out.
Like, when you see him get this way, you absolutely cannot bluff him, but you can go for razor thin value, and size up with your bets.
Nice that you won, but I'd suggest being careful not to get too OOL pre-flop against this guy, when he's playing this way. If he's getting to the river with worse Tx, like JT, he's getting there with QT.
