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Playing 1/2 at Harrah’s Cherokee. Villain in this hand is very loose and aggressive with a range of nearly ATC and has hit a lot of boards with garbage holdings and won several pots.
I’m in SB with $275. Action folds to Villain in MP (has me covered) and he raises to $11. Folds to me, I look down at AQss and raise to $25 – which I know is a sizing mistake on my part but not sure MP would have folded to a bigger raise anyway. BB is aggressive but not very loose, a 2/5 reg from what I gathered, ($205 or so) calls and villain calls. $75 pot to the flop.
Flop comes 8sTs4d. I check (mistake??), BB checks, villain jams all in having both of us covered. The only holdings I’m confidently ruling out at this point is JJ-AA, as I’m certain he would have 4bet jammed preflop with something that strong. The best I can narrow it down to is middle pairs, which make 10’s and 8’s possible sets, possibly JT, T8, T9, 98, maybe 67s or a straight draw, or even any Ax holding as a total bluff. Even with me viewing him as borderline maniac, I can’t see him jamming here with something as strong as a set. I hated this spot, but all things considered, I put in the call for my $250. I was surprised to see BB call behind me for his $180 or so, and honestly I was so focused on trying to figure out a range for the villain that I wasn’t even considering him still being in the hand while tanking so I guess that’s something else I need to work on…
The board runs out Jc2c (f***!!), and villain doesn’t want to show. Dealer finally says he needs to see my hand and his hand for the side pot, villain says “I hit the jack” and flips over J9ss. BB mucked. I got up and left the table, mainly because I didn’t want to end up saying something that would get me kicked out of the room, but also because me buying back in would have resulted in me playing full on tilt.
What can you do with spots like this? End result aside, could you make this call? I’m also wondering if I’m far enough ahead on this flop to make it a profitable call long term using the range I narrowed him to (assuming I’m behind 10 and 8 sets). One positive thing I have to say is I’m happy with myself that I wasn’t too far off when trying to narrow down his holding. Putting others on ranges and holdings has been one of the weaker parts of my game for a quite some time.
Well good on you for walking away and seeing you were on tilt and knew what could’ve happen. So being in the SB yeah need to raise a little bigger cause you will always have to go first no matter what or who your up against. Give yourself a fighting chance when you raise better. The check flop is a good play. You are first to act so you have no information. So checking is the best play always when playing out of position. Had MP just bet you have a chance to call see a cheap turn or chk/raise and really put him to the test. This flop you are crushing. Giving them someone what standard call ranges for both player. (bb 17% and MP 12%) You have about 53% Equirty vs 24% and 23%. So calling is a good call on this. This they have a set well its bad luck. But you can’t always be scared of monsters under the bed. Just was bad luck there bro. Even giving that there is another player in the BB thinking your EQ is to good to pass up here.
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