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Tourney is Ukipt Edinburgh  level 3 blind 75/150
Villain in hand is Skandi but has not done anything out of hand or showndown any weak holdings either, i would think he perceives me as fairly tight as i dont have the best seating position with him 2 to my left and a good agro scotsman 3 to my right who is opening lots of pots so i have sat fairly tight as been card dead for first 2 levels but also were are in the next 2 tables to break so im happy to grind obv in the early stages.
My stack is 12500
Villain holds 17000

It folds to me in the Hijack and i open to 400 with  Td Jc and Skandi flats the button with both blinds getting out of the way.
We flop  Ac 2h 8d and i cbet 575 into 1025 which the villain flats again.
My thinking at this point is he is defo capable of floating to see what i do ott but also he is allowed an A as well but im defo prepared to barrell the turn.
The turn improves my hand when the  Qd pops out so i continue as i feel this is the best way of getting to the river cheap enough for my double gutter and lead again for 1150 and the villain flats with little thought.
The river brings the   9d  there is 4475 in the pot
What are your thoughts on hand so far and also best line on river?
Does C/C < B/C < B/F?

Bet call for me I think but its close.

Check shove for me. But bet call may be better.

bet 1400/call. internet kids love turning a10dx into a bluff here.

This for me except might make it slightly bigger, maybe 1800

Why we betting less on the river against what we've bet other streets ? we've pretty much half pot flop and turn so same again for me.  2100.

Also, why would we B/C or B/F ? what are we now scared of ? Why would we not raise to get it in here ? No Diamond draws from flop have got there surely unless he's got A2dd or floated with KJdd which seems highly unlikely

yh agree with bet call. you should NEVER have a hand this good in this spot

i like 1600 with 3 500 chips and 4 25 chips

Doesn't check shoving make it pretty much impossible for anyone with worse to call?  I bet to like 1900-2000 and call it off.  You are massively underrepped at this point and a smaller bet may induce someone to try and get you off your one and two pair type hands.

btw love how poker progresses, in 3 months it will be best to bet 3700 here to induce. <3333

I would bet half the pot on the river and call it off if reraised. Sounds like he has a set maybe...88?

Raises turn with set. he iether has axdd or air when he raises river.

Possibly, but not necessarily...what's the outcome of this hand?

I will post results later on but having Pm'd BITB he said he actually plays the villains hand exactly the same as well!!!

Say we bet something bigger like 3500 and get moved in on whats the thinking then?

Hi Mate
Everyone so far is happy to call it off i think?

Hi mate, thought id contribute after our chat at UKIPT, and i edited it to 3500 if that makes any difference. i meant more pot, i had a simialr situation where i bet callde but he flips over a set but he didnt have to much left, i guess if it was a higher % of my stack i woulda tanked a bit harder!

bah, anything he calls with bets surely (hes not calling ak here correct?). Prolly c/c river as his calling range to a river cr is likely only AXdd and i hate b/c readless in a soft mtt. Yer im going out on a limb that with your image c/c and lets get a tiny bit out value from his floats that improved turn equity which he'll  now sometimes bluff. Guess if he's sharp he'll realise his AJ has no sd value and might bluff that too.

he is far more liekly to bluff aj if we bet than if we check imho.

I took Alex's line and went for the C/C which seems to be the less favoured option in this thread, but is one that on this occasion kept my tourney alive for a short while longer as the villain bet 3800 (85% pot) and i called it off to be shown  Ad Jd.

As im working with Pleno atm i asked him what he thought of the villain's line and he said he thought he played it perfectly and would take the same line in the villains shoes.

Thx for thoughts

yeah i mean, pre is fine, you opened cut off, you should be opening semi wide (you are opening j10..)

flop i hate raising, and folding is out of the question

turn you bet relatively small, sometimes i would fold here if i didnt have the flush draw, but i think its fine to call especially now with NUT flush draw.,

rive, obv betting too, when u bet the turn i actually give you a storngish range because i dont expect u to barrell the 8 too foten as its quite a blank so i think ur going into c/c mode.