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$1/$3 at a large casino that has a good size poker room
Villan: late 20s, early 30s white guy with tattoos, SF Giants hat, headphones on
Hero: sexy TAG asian guyVillan’s hasn’t played many hands at all
Hero’s image – been opening a lot with premiums, suited connectors, pocket pairs, when it folds to me; could be seen as loose?hand folds around to Hero in the HJ – 77 – hero opens to $15
Villan raises to $45 on the button – hero thinks for a moment and then calls (would he raise to $45 with AKs, AQs, AJs? probably not..he’d probably just call $15 if he had those holdings; hero puts Villan on pocket 10+)flop comes AKJr
(pot $90) Hero bets $45 trying to represent Ax and get Villan to fold pocket 10+
Villan raises to $145
Hero tanks..thinking pocket 77 could not be good here..hero is already representing pair of A’s..what would Villain raise with? Q10? not likely given the raise preflop to $45. maybe AA, KK, JJ, or even TT
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..Hero folds and Villain arrogantly turns over 56s and the entire table goes crazy, applauding Villain’s bluff
What would you guys have done in this situation? Is there any way I could have played this better to sniff out Villain’s bluff?
Given action preflop, I would say villain will be holding JJ+ and AQs+ maybe some small suited connections or even something like A5s-A2s if he has a balanced 3 bet range.
Once we decide to call the 3bet OOP we should be looking to setmine or semi-bluff some of the better flops for our range. On this flop I would look to check fold here since villains range heavily connects with this board. If you decide you want to continue, I would take the check call line because if we lead and are raised it puts us in a very rough spot.
Once he raises we should be done with the hand.
I see your point. I just felt a check on the flop would be too weak, and he’d attack my weakness with a C-bet with any holding – and I wouldn’t get much extra information about his hand if I were to check-call.
With his re-raise on the flop, I thought it was enough for me to fold. Turns out I was wrong, but I’m not sure there was any way to get away from this bluff. He had the balls to make a move and he lucked out, it’s how I see it.
Way more times he has an actual hand than times hes getting out of line with suited connectors, he has to be pretty dumb to try to bluff there, because that flop tends you hit your range hard. I wouldn’t feel bad.
Now that I think about it – I wonder how often someone would actually re-raise me on the flop of AKJ. Seems like one of those way-ahead, way-behind scenarios. Who can he expect to call his re-raise on the flop if he’s representing a set? Only better hands would call.
If he had a set and put me on AK, AJ, AQ, I’d think a set would just call my $45 flop bet.
I guess his re-raise on the flop doesn’t make too much sense. That could’ve been one sign that he was weak. The thing is, I was only holding 77 – 88-10 could’ve beaten me, also.
I did my analysis before the spoiler and figured villian for a big hand, maybe even trips or a straight on the flop, raising to charge your possible straight draw or two-pair hands.
Recently I got beat when a gal cold-called a large four bet with 3-5 offsuit to beat my (3 bet) queens on a 10-5-3 board and low card run-out.
Sometimes people get very lucky making stupid moves, sometimes they get snapped off. I prefer to have them in there making stupid moves on the hope that I can be the one to snap them off. I like that the table applauded him, hopefully encouraging more of the same kind of play against my disguised hands.
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