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Preflop a bit loose and small but it's fine I guess??
Turn is fine, maybe bet a bit bigger to set up better jam on river
River what is there to think about?? like all draws missed besides T7. This is obvious bet for value. Jamming is probably only size? I guess we can also bet smaller then fold to jam?

Would dump this pre - you still have 7 ppl to act, you'll be OOP most of the time, even on Axx flops playing OOP you're not too thrilled. Would go bigger OTF, as played bigger OTT. OTR I think a fair range is ATo+,JTs, I guess he could have 99/88. We definitely want to bet - way more Ax combos than JTs. I think the sizing comes down to how these games play - if he has AJ/AQ will he fold to a jam vs a half pot bet? Think this is just a live situation where you know better than us

Like your play across the board, but I just can’t range this guy - maybe a hand similar to yours

The straight draw that came in, is very unlikely.

I think you have a value hand and if you bet it like a bluff (jam all-in) then you will get folds and no value.

However, your relationship with villain should surely be a factor. We can’t tell you what kinda game to play with this guy. Tease him into a call, odds are against him having A9.

Fold pre. On other streets: Well played. Maybe raise to 120 on the turn for an easy shove on a river brick. You get value from many bad players calling with Ax

He knows im capable but in this configuration im probably underbluffed , im tripling only 3 combos of bluff JTcc, QTcc, KTcc , not sure he knows that though.

Grunch:

PRE - Raising A8s seems reasonable on the surface, but EP limpers tend to under-fold, and our raise has to get through the rest of the field. I'd think we should either let this go, or raise to a bigger size, to make it more likely we get this HU and IP.

FLOP - I think I'd like to over-bet here, to target all the AX and potential OESD's in their ranges. Probably betting $90-$100.

TURN - When we catch such a good card, one that improves our equity even against A9 and sets, I'd want to size WAY up, still targeting all their combos of AX and draws, especially all their combo draws. Probably making it $225, so that they feel like they need to jam or fold.

RIVER - V called our raise pre, not closing the action. He called our flop c-bet, next to act. He called our almost 60% turn bet, next to act. He had some sort of hand, or some sort of draw.

Occasionally, he shows up with T7, 99, 88, or A9. More often, he has some AX combo we beat, or a busted draw. Options are:

A - Check, hoping he'll bet worse AX for thin value, or bluff with his missed draws.

B - Block bet, hoping he'll call with something worse than AX, or possibly turn something into a bluff and raise. Hope he doesn't raise with better.

C - Bet big, targeting worse AX combos. Hope he doesn't have T7, 99, 88, or A9.

As a general rule, I don't like checking to induce at low stakes (option A). Most players don't bluff or bet thin enough. Even good players will check back here rather than bluff at the correct frequency.

You just don't have that many bluffs in your range here. If you bet big (option C) he's going to over-fold. He probably would have 3B pre with strong AX combos, so his range is weighted towards worse AX, which includes some A9 combos, but also includes AT, AJo, AQo, and some worse aces-up, like A6 and A3.

He could also have 99/88, and occasionally T7s. There's a slim chance we value-own ourselves versus a better value hand, and a chance he bluff-catches with worse value, but mostly I think a big bet folds out worse and just gets snapped off by better, when V is a good player, unless he got really unlucky with A6/A3, which isn't that many combos, and not very much of his range.

That leaves option B, block-betting. Before we choose a size, decide if we're bet-folding or bet-calling. It's counterintuitive, but I generally go smaller when I'm planning to bet-call, and larger when I'm planning to bet fold. The sizing ranges here are like 10%-20% pot for the small bet, and 30%-40% pot for the big bet.

If V is a good player, and you block small, like 10%-20% pot, I don't think he's going to raise with all his better hands. He wouldn't want to raise 99/88 when we can have AA. He might raise A9, blocking AA/99, but we could have 88 here. He'd definitely raise T7.

If we block for a bigger size, like 30%-40% pot, we won't have enough behind for him to generate any fold equity with his bluffs, and so therefore he shouldn't have any bluffs, and should only be raising with very strong hands. That may include over-valuing A6/A3, but could easily be T7/99/88/A9.

This river dilemma is why I'd prefer to raise bigger or fold pre, c-bet bigger on the flop, and barrel larger on the turn. I don't like getting here with only a PSB left. We've somewhat painted ourselves into a corner, where we don't really love any of our options.