$1-3 NL – Inducing Action Part 2 of 2

This hand occurred the very next had from the previous. I nearly stacked villain in the previous hand and I think he had a lot of game in him.

Hero stack: ~ 400
Hero hand: AKo
Hero position: UTG2

Villain stack: 130
Villain hand: ???
Villain position: SB

Preflop:
Hero opens to 15, MP calls, villain raises to 45, hero 4bets to 90, MP folds, villain calls

Pot: ~200
Flop: 4 6 K r
Villain checks, hero bets 25, villain calls all-in

Pot: 250
Turn: blank
River: blank

MP player had been fairly active as well, calling most of my preflop raise and making large raises of his own. He had been showing up with made hands in single raised pots, or when he raised himself.

Villain 3bet, at the time seemed like a tilt raise. I have a good hand here, but did not want it to go multiway. 4bets are rare and they usually mean a big-pair. I thought MP would pickup on that and would fold if I made it too expensive for him to call. So I 4bet to isolate and he obliged. He claimed to have 88 after the hand.

The flop was “favorable.” I was holding out 25 to put villain all-in. He saw it and checked and made the crying call on the river.

I could’ve gotten some more value with MP calling the 3bet preflop, but I was happy with my decision. The equity lost by allowing a third person to enter the pot is not worth the marginal value gained.