Pocket 10s vs very loose player

[Jeremiah]

Hello everyone, ok so I’m in a 1/3 game with straddle of up to half your stack from any position.. loose player has been straddling about 60% of hands as much as $40.. I’m UTG+1 with 10s $100 behind. UTG limp. I raise to $15 lojack calls and button raises to $35 with $500 behind which is the loose player.. SB/BB/UTG fold back to me. I shove all in $100 lojack calls and button calls. AAK flop lojack checks button moves all in lojack folds. Runs Out J then 4 he turns over KQ of suit. Should I just call pre and see the flop and then shove or with my low stack pre flop shove is best for my stack..

[Daniel Reightneour]

I believe that your line makes sense given the read and the stack sizes. With him playing so loose and with such a large stack I think your shove makes sense. If you flat call the 35, you have 65 behind. The pot would already be 92 assuming that the lojoack folds, and 112 if he calls(which he does). On a flop, you are only looking for really 2 cards, the other 10’s, while trying to dodge most over cards. This makes most flops hard to play with a small stack and almost no fold equity against a loose player. Also, by reraising pre you have some fold equity against the lojack. He needs to call $85 with a player behind just to see the flop.

Now as an aside I think that folding is actually better than calling. With two people behind you will reach a lot of flip situations where you are dodging three or more over cards(A9s and QJs for instance) and flush and straight draws. With this in mind and seeing that calling helps the lojacks pot odds bringing him in more often I would take folding over calling. That’s just my opinion though

[Paul Hewson]

Hi ya, Jeremiah.

So, LJ calls your raise pre-flop, so probably fair that we can rule out JJ+ AQ+ as these would be re-raised. So LJ range is: Ax, broadways, suited connectors and low/mid pairs.

Button raises, so super-loose player in position raises. Can we give him a range of 88+, A10+, J9s+?

So highly likely you are ahead of both LJ and B pre-flop, so we can rule out folding.

If you flat, you are offering LJ 4.5:1 to call and your facing 2 players from out of position with less than a pot-sized bet behind, with a hand that won’t like the flop 1/2 the time. From my thinking jamming
to force the LJ out, and either take down the pot or get heads up with the loose button range would be the most profitable line.

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