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Hi all!
Playing 1-2, Full-Handed. Villain is a reg who has a rep for being loose, but not idiotic. Effective stack is his at about $90 (which I didn’t realize he was short stacked until the river)I have AK off in early position, I raise to $11. He calls from the small blind, we go heads-up to a flop of A66 rainbow. I bet $12, he calls. Turn is a Q, and I bet $15. he check raises to $35, and I think a little and call. Looking back, I feel like I could have folded here – I did not realize he only had $32 more behind that check-raise, so it was effectively an all-in. River is a K, so I make top 2. No flush draw on board. He shoves his $32, I snap call (no choice at this point). He turns over 10-6 off suit…So he called the open insanely light and just got lucky he hit a dry, dry flop.
I put him on a high card or a mid-pair until the turn, but even then I didn’t think he’d have a single 6…and after the turn something more like Qx, Ax, medium pair, or maybe even AQ.
Is there any way to get away from this, or am I just always losing the max at showdown here?
If you have these players at you table, bet bigger pre-flop. Charge them to call with their garbage hands. When you hit the flop, keep betting. Odds are you are ahead and these guys bleed money at the table. Can’t really fault yourself here when he hits trips on the flop. I’m never folding top-two here.
Faced this situation a few times. They only thing you could have done to get him off this hand is raise more pre-flop. If $11 does not get him off the hand then maybe $16. There has to be some number that will cause these kinds of players to fold.
I agree that with AK gere there is no other way this hand plays out.. but The question I have here is do you really want to get these kinda guys to fold or do you want to keep them in the pot? My experience is that to get such guys out of the pot you need to bet Insanely large amounts (10 -15 BB).. and if you do that regularly u certainly need to narrow down your range significantly or play a deeper stack. A 6-8 BB raise is mostly keeping such players in and technically that is great (you are getting your money in good).
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