NL10 FD completes, weird donk action
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG: $10.35 (104 bb)
MP: $9.80 (98 bb)
CO (Hero): $28.05 (281 bb)
BU: $28.11 (281 bb)
SB: $19.43 (194 bb)
BB: $6.89 (69 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is CO with J♥ K♥
2 players fold, Hero raises to $0.25, BTN calls $0.25, 2 players fold
Flop: ($0.65) 8♥ 6♦ 5♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $0.48, BTN raises to $1.29, Hero calls $0.81
Turn: ($3.23) 9♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.02, Hero calls $1.02
River: ($5.27) K♠ (2 players)
Hero bets $1.41, BU folds
Total pot: $5.27 (Rake: $0.24)
CO (Hero) wins $5.03
Villain is 20/14/6 2.33 AF on 1k hands, reg, on the nittier side, but nothing extreme.
CO vs BU, don't we love it. So the not with low 3bet calls me on BU vs CO, immediately I think that's a lot pocket pair heavier than usual. Suited connectors and probably a lot of AJ, ATs also. Stuff that should be 3bet mostly, but can also sometimes be called. He is capped a bit towards overpairs and AK as I am pretty sure anything JJ+ he will definitely 3bet here IP with a 6% value, even against villain with reg stats. Don't get me wrong, he will need to 3bet more BU vs CO with the 6% overall 3bet value, however these can be almost surely excluded from his cc range.
Now comes weird flop, I bet high this time, maybe should actually bet low, but I still had this bet high looks strong in current meta on low wet boards vs reg villain thinking. IP I would probably check a lot of these boards behind, but here OOP I want to bet for sure, also because of a lot of overcard outs vs condensed pocket pair range I thought. Together with the FD I got tons of eq anyway against this range, right? Range wise, as I said, I probably will switch to bet small on these boards now.
Even on my bet on the bigger side he raised, but not very high. I think Call is the only viable option anyway. Turn completes the Flush and now I am a bit lost. Kinda too obviously to donk immediately and I will definitely lose value from all his air that continues bluffing. So I go x/c turn. He bets small anyway, weird size really. Doesn't look very strong to me this sizing unfortunately.
On River I lost my nerves though. I jsut thought it is a lot of weakish hands, maybe even some sets he wouldn't wanna fold. Also he could go over the top and jam some air against blocks. So, I go donk block for bluff induce. Will 100% call jam of course. Nothing really beats me except nut flush, which he can have, but it's just one combo. Okay, he can also have 6h7h, well.. another combo.
Any ideas here? Something terribly wrong with my thinking? The hand looks a bit like an accident at first, but when I go street by street I kind of accept my decisions.
