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Villain has played quite a few pots aggressively in these early stages, usually betting 2/3 or full pot. He has only shown down once and that was against a short stack. He had AQ on a Q high flop. I have him down as a solid player, but of course I could be wrong.


Blinds 50/100. Villain opens from seat 6 for 285 from 6.5k in mid position.

I raise to 900 from 5.5k in seat 7 with  Ad Ahrt  all fold, villain calls.

Flop  8c 9c Kh

Villain bets 900.

OK so far?

How should we proceed?

Get it in.

I don't often give first thoughts on PHA as I think there are better players here to do so. I've decided to think bollocks and reply anyway as this may help me long term rather than just reading other peoples thoughts. Celtic is obviously correct IMO in that we want to get it in. I think his 900 (~ half pot as apposed to 2/3 or pot) bet into just under 2k is a draw. I'm raising to get it in here.

Ya shove

Hope someone disagrees soon....

click it back
he calls
fold when another club falls
(i would not do this stick it in)

I assume you flat called Tom?

This is good because it massively underreps/disguises your hand and may mean villain value towns himself with Kx or bluffs/semibluffs off another barrel on the turn.

The problem with it on this board is that there's not many good turn cards that we're happy to see him barrelling. We don't like a K or club at all. We don't like a Q or a 7. we don't much like a J or T either. So that's about half the deck that's bad. These cards also may scare him from betting again.

By raising now you can also rep some draws, you don't always have to have a monster. Him donking also suggests to me he might be a bit of a fish as not many good players donk bet. So if you raise he won't realise quite how strong your hand is and will stack off with any Kx plus he's getting all his draws in.

For those reasons, I'd make it 2.1k and call a shove.

time down then make a small raise. 2.1k is puuurrrrrrrrfect

jam or call, dont raise imo looks super strong

Agree and I wanna call, we have very few draws in our range. Folding/jamming depending on the turn card. What site is this on?

If Red-dog pins him down as a solid player i'd be inclined to think in this format he could be a decent reg more often than not and isn't calling off flop with KQ.

I flat call

The turn is the  Qc

He bets 900

I almost always flat here.

nut worst card

fold

type in a preparatory "I'm never playing on this fkn rigged site again" in the chat box and push. 

Definitely raise flop but it depends how you've played your other hands.

Personally I'd bet pretty much every flop with pretty much every hand I've opened so I have to continue that with a strong holding.

If you're normally passive then flatting to continue that passive line is fine.

Turn is horrible. Just call and hope for an even horribler (cool word) river so you can get away.

If the river's a brick hope he doesn't bet too much because you're about to get value towned.

Snap fold the turn yeah

When villain donks flop there's bout 3k chips in the pot and you have a 4,600 stack. So already roughly 2/3 of your stack is in the middle. The SPR in this hand means shoving is your only option esp because we have vulnerable hand on wet board. Raising not good. If you raise to 2.1k there is 5k in pot and you have half of that left in your stack. As your oppo I now know this early in the comp you either suicidal nutter or you have top of your range so you allow me to play perfectly. Calling is well greedy. You could use those 30bb's in the middle to better effect in lots of situations early doors rather than gambling on how unplayable this one turn card will be. Best of all shoving is simple cos now i don't know what you should do, sorry.

If you're gonna fold turn when he barrells a scare card you should absolutely not be flatting flop.

yup