AT&T instalment plan comes due

Fold pre
x/c flop
Once you get to river might as well ship and pray villain had a marginal hand.

Hope you are keeping track of these barrel offs so we can learn something from it.

Questioning the wisdom of 3! Preflop against a villain you see as passive. Are they at least somewhat positionally aware? Even still I don't like the move.

im not convinced you arent a troll or arent posting reverse hand histories vs. whales.

anyways just jam i guess and get top pair to fold. hope you like variance.

pre is just dumb, there is no reason to do anything but fold to this size. you have $3 invested who gives a flying f

Don't be afraid to go broke here. V may have an AT&T bill to pay too, or at least a side chick to keep happy.

You said V came in trappy. This is a good reason not to put any more money into this hand. I’m with nittyoldman1, fold pre and wait for a better spot.

Yep. There’s a reason why so many of these dumpster fire threads involve playing a crappy hand from the worst possible position. And for some strange reason you insist on raising and playing a monster pot with junk against those without a fold button.

Pre is a punt. Didn't read the rest or the entire essay of irrelevant crap before the hh

From the descriptions from other threads, this game is wild. This isn't a 1/3 nitfest at 11am. Sure you can nit it up and go in contrary motion but there's nothing wrong with diving in and riding the wave. And 3betting ATo a minraise from the blinds, even with a double straddle, is far less egregious than calling KTo vs an a large EP open.

V description is hard to judge, loose passive and tilted but also not afraid to cold 5bet jam AKo vs a nit.

I know it's only a backdoor flush but that and having the As gives you an extra smidgen of entitlement to a jam here. Plenty of T9/T8 type hands which you still need to fold out as well as the weaker Jx. Id probably pull the trigger.

Any idea what the small open smells like? Suited connector sorts of hands (NB 76)? Or big pairs?

Seems fine to mix in a 3b attacking a very weak open from a wide position. The rest of the hand plays itself, now bet 700.

I don’t like to raise from the bb
I really don’t think you understand position

It’s so hard to realize your equity without info
Villain could be letting you own yourself
He called your check/raise

The point is that by folding this hand pre-flop, you avoid tricky situations….

…..like getting to the river with nothing after putting more than 500 in the middle

*Strong hands, in position, with the initiative

You have a dominated hand from OOP. Once you build the pot, then hard to slow down.

However, the flop hits villain's range more. You wouldn't play AA/KK/AK this way. Maybe you could have JJ for a set or QQ for an overpair and gutshot.

You are represented that you were representing a big pair or AK preflop, but didn't have it, but not you have QTs or a set or something, and he should believe you.

Villain can have T9s/JTs for the same draw with a pair. If you hit an ace, it often isn't good. If you make a set, there is a 4-straight on the board. If you make either straight, you could get stacked by a higher straight, and you could chop.

This is always the same type of post. Questionable preflop play and blast away with a weak draw.

Maybe these are troll posts.

Grunch:

PRE - just flat call. Don't raise. If you must raise, you could just click it back, to shut out the two players behind.

FLOP - check or over-bet. When V bets 1/4 pot, and we have the OESD, flat call. If you want to x/r, you need to go bigger, lile $300.

TURN - I wouldn't get here this way. But if I did, I'd probably check, and pray he checks back.

It's not impossible for V to have KTs and will cooler us on an Q, or AK/AJ and also cooler us on an A. Not ruling out AA or JJ that still wins on an A, or KK/QQ/JX that still wins if we get a T.

We're basically praying for a 7. And V might just have QTs.

RIVER - sunken costs fallacy comes to mind. Either sacrifice the $520 you've put in or risk the remaining $1180.

Our read is that he's tilted and bleeding chips. Probably calling too wide on every street. Probably not the guy we should be bluffing on every street.

I probably check, and when he checks back, say, "I flopped it", and fast roll my hand.

Take a walk if he shows 9x or worse.

if he's not trolling have no idea why banana posts here. he posts essentially the same hand over and over, everyone tells him he's dumb, and he makes the same mistakes over and over again anyway. so obviously he's not looking for advice because youd think eventually something would stick. maybe he likes getting kicked in the balls over and over on the felt.

Result:

Nice hand.

You played with Mike Postle like perfection. You were ahead the whole way. Charged your opponent on every street for his draw. Then checked river to induce a bluff.

i think pre is ok at some frequency and while each individual street of postflop is probably ok ev wise, collectively they dont seem very good. like look at the board. there's a ton of pair + sd hands that are going to see the river. so for you to bet small ott and give up otr basically without much sdv (you beat idk KT) when you have NFB seems like a big enough mistake that it probably significantly reduces the ev of earlier streets. idk you just seem to click in all of these hands, and that can be fine if you're a nit that's just value betting but you can't really be bad and / or scared and play aggressive / bluff or you are going to lose all of your money really quickly.

attention / dopamine is the obvious answer lol. is not clear to me if op would rather play a hand well or make a post with a funny title that gets 30 responses. its the equivalent of a girl continually posting thirst traps on ig or something. you can see it too. just mass spam hh's, dont engage with any input from people, post results, and vacate the thread. begin the cycle anew.

the forum makes a lot more sense when you realize literally no one is actually here to improve. every single poster thinks they are the best player on the forum (and in some cases even wider than that!) and doing the rest of them a favor by posting and "coaching". this is problematic given the average / overall skill level here is basically advanced beginner level

not bluffing this river is absolutely god awful given the amount of pair + straight draw hands in villain's range and the amt you invested previously.

I don't think banana was bluff catching w/A high lol

I was being a smart ass. I think banana said he chickened out. The point I was making was that if H knew Vs exact hole cards then H played perfectly. Hence the Mike Postle reference.