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Really fishy...

I'm most active player at the table by far...to my right is prob 1 of 2 other players who I would describe as being competent and he is the tightest player at the table.

It's late on in the night and I'm playing around £800 and the tight villain on my right is playing around £450. We haven't tangled in any pots so far.

Villain opens the button to £7
I 3 bet from the small with  Ac Qc to £22
Folds back to OR who 4 bets to £58
We call.

Flop   Tc Ahrt Qs

We check, villain checks.
Turn  5d
We bet £54 Villain raises to £156
Thoughts?

whats his 4 bet range?

I mean if we think this is the top of this range then we arent in great shape unless he has exactly KK, and his play seems weird to check flop raise turn with that holding?

Also struggling to see why he doesnt bet flop with AK in position to

Call now, for sure, river is probs a jam to get value from AK, and surely he checks kk behind anyway? Just sigh when he shows you QQ!

no way

Really depends on how you see his range! I can't think of a hand we get value from, nor one that villain bets river with that we beat given his jam is only 50% pot

Call then check/decide no value in raising, might miss a smidge of value vs AT but he has a lot more better hands/bluffs than that.

Need a major dynamic to do anything else.

Probs rage fold pre too.

surely you've just listed reasons why we shouldn't jam?

absolutely - i wouldnt jam...................... see thread title

(i would be sigh calling off river on that board, which i think my comments inferred)

hmm it doesn't seem to infer that

Ok, you must be right

Yeah I was thinking through the hand is this some sick set up with AA or QQ but i would certainly expect him to bet that flop with a set so when he checked behind I was slighly confused, and thought he may now have KK.

The raise on the turn I felt was really strong. I had not seen him 4 bet pre all night and I could tell he avoided me in pots all night and now was showing strength.

I sigh called...and oh hello beautiful Queen on the river...now here's where I'm beating myself up....I checked. Thoughts?

Changes nothing other than card removal for his quads

I don't hate it fwiw.

In fact it might improve your chances of him betting ak as there is 1 less q you can have and it kills your AT A5 holdings

I am more inclined to fold than I am raise. Sucks that he only reps 2 combos of better. However his 4bet range is going to be JOKE tight imo. Atleast for most live players anyway.

Title should be "How do we get to showdown cheapest/river a A ball"

:D

we have a bluffcatcher.

looks like an easy bet/fold for me.. when he's on our right, if he's going to try this once and orbit... gl to him. abuse him the other 7/8 hands!

how much do you prpose we bet?

If I get to the turn like this (would sometimes, would've clicked pre again some% also)
Then im betting 65-85, dont expect to ever get raise abused with that sizing (however as pfr I would do that sometimes - ckb air and click any turn lead)
Vs the majority of 'normal' villains here, i probably do one of the following
- bet 65-85 Ott and cc <140 on bricks
looks like a stab/ give up

- cc turn and cc <100/ 140
Looks like Ax at best, should induce

- chk turn lead river for 125 in 5 or 2 chip format.
Looks like a stab


Thoughts?

The point I'm making is that by the time you make any meaningful bet on the river you simply can't fold because he has 200 back

On phone so tough to see stack sizes, but if i have a bluff catcher (effectively what this is imo) i will happily bet 110 and fold to a shove of 200 total.

He's not bluffing with worse... Its just burning money to bet/ call AQ there.

You don't have to bet fold!

And folding Aq for 90 more into a 700 pot is a disaster

Yeh course you would. You'd show it too so everyone can go batshit

An easy bet fold?? There's over £400 in the pot and villain has £200 behind. Your going to bet £100? And fold when he shoves losing only to AA?

So I checked...and villain insta checked behind with the flopped nuts KJ. Did he miss a bet here? He had a half pot stack shove behind. Should be pull the trigger? I was surprised he checked, unless he put me on AQ exactly then surely I am going all in on the turn with AA/QQ/TT over his £158 raise?

Think about it in his spot though. He has pulled the trigger and with his heart in his mouth, after seeing you've called he has flopped the joint, the nuts, the whole shbang. His heartrate has increased, his pupils dilated slightly and he straightens up in his seat just a touch. Then you check and he checks. His mind has slightly clouded at this point and he has reverted back to his basic poker instincts, nuts= check...

His mind races as he watches you tank on the turn. All he can think about is Vegas and the fucking mirage. All he can think about is stacking a huge pot having pulled the trigger preflop. The river card descends slowly in our villain's eyes. He agonises and the fateful river is dealt. A pair up. His thoughts of stacking stupid tourists for a massive pot with rolled up aces into kings disapear. His anger and pain blind the thought of betting for value,, his heart has gone.

Ask him if he cuts up cows for a living.

Cause he fkin butchered that hand

Recreational players will often check flop and raise turn with the flopped nizzles. I see this all the time at both micros online and 50/1 1/1 live.

That's exactly what I said...

He has independantly done two things that are nutty inone hand = NUTS!

He 4bt pre.. - doesn't have to be nutty but often is.
He's combo check flop IP and raised turn... Bad players barell in bad spots as bluffs... They dont start checking and raising as a bluff.

Its a super easy bet/fold otr getting 5-1 with the best bluffcatcher.

The majority of people won't have AT pre, so we lose to TT/ QQ/ AA, potentially chopping with AQ.

Saying I have to call for pot odds seems weak in these spots. Id be tanking TT to a raise Tbh, probably meh fold and not diary it.

And dont fold face up.. Its a joke.
I try to not turn my cards over... I have done a couple of times recently with nice friendly businessmen types in the pot who I want to create a relationship with.  Its worked as well.

you want to b/call turn and bet river guys? wtf lol

so much nonsense itt, call turn and c/decide river.

this.

some crazy responses itt

i like this. Us it your own work or been lifted from somewhere?

I think KJ is literally the only hand checks the flop and raises the turn with for value because people have AA/QQ they dont want the turn to come a K or a J, imo.

OFC it makes much more sense, if you're going to check a nutted hand back OTF to check AA because its takes away a huge amount of hands they can call you with. Obviously should always bet the flop, always.

This being said I don't think you can fold the turn, can't trust people to not be rolling their faces and you're getting a good price, combined with half a chance he's going for a very weird value line with AK (thin I know, but sightly possible)

I think shipping the river might be the best line, now that QQ isnt possible, we're going broke vs AA everytime, he has exactly zero hands that need to bluff and some hands which willl never fold to a jam might check back once in a while.

had we not rivered the queen, I think it's a c/f.

Blonde should have a 'like' button

This. Very good JB

His line up to the turn indicates a range of AA/QQ/TT/KJ and a few bluffs (i don't think we can discount spazzes even from competant players when playing live). Generally i'll be calling turn and check/deciding on almost all rivers... probably tending towards a fold, because as Pleno says, we have a bluff catcher (assuming AT makes up a tiny percentage of his 4-bet range pre and its super-unlikely he plays it this way even if he did 4-bet pre.

Once the turn pairs the Q, i'm rarely checking. Seems like villain has ~200 back into a pot of >400? Seems like a really clear jam. Getting called by all of the above range of AA/QQ/TT/KJ, but obvs he has a lot more TT and KJ combos than the only remaining combo of AA he can have beating you. He'll probably give up on spazzes a decent % now too. I guess in a tough game I might be checking here a decent % as good villains will be value-shoving KJ/TT otr, but not so much in a soft 1/1 game.

careful about folding rivers because we are going to be getting a really good price, with a boat in a 4b pot against an unknown.

I dont think anyone meant

check flop
bet/call turn
lead river

I think we meant
check flop
bet turn
bet river

OR
check flop
check turn
bet river



I think I've literally c, b/c, b like once in my life.. and I'm fairly sure I rivered a meganuts hand.



fyi

me.ga.nut.s
/meh-gah-nut-zzzzzz/

Noun
A very strong holding in a game of cards, generally going to be the best hand possible.  "I just made the meganuts bro, and he paid like a boss!"
Synonyms
nizzles - nutsbrah - you lose

Lol

Op has AAQQQ otr

Haha that is quite possibly my favourite post on blonde of all time hahahaha

I think I kinda let my head rule over this pot... It was 5am and I was booking a pretty decent nights work on a crappy 1/1 table and I had a horrible feeling I was being coolered on the flop and turn, and think I was just kinda relived that I didn't have to make a disgusting fold on the river when the Queen peeled that I acted too quickly and checked.
Looking back, and my instincts would have been to shove the river.
I felt like his check back on the flop didn't indicate a set, and was unsure he would just 4 bet me for fun with KJ, but I don't think he would raise the turn with less than top 2 pair, so were chopping (sigh) or im behind on the turn, but like you said it was a good price for the call incase he was going abit spazzy with something weird, and possibly he may raise the turn with AK, if he noted how active I was...AK is pretty nutted there too vs my 4b call range on the night. Just feel I missed the lot on the river.

A good point you made was, "in a tough game I might be checking here a decent % as good villains will be value shoving with strong hands like TT-KJ.
I keep giving people too much credit at times after being schooled for months on end at DTD that when I go to places with obviously weak players im not adjusting, but also at the same time, adjusting too much by sometimes not giving them credit at all. This thread has given me a lot of good advice to think about. thanks guys.

The only thing I would throw out there is that we accept his pre flop line and turn line are nutted yet they clearly contradict one another.

So as much as we tell ourselves he has kj on the turn, it's very difficult to go back to pre flop and tell ourselves in this one hand that he goes crazy pre for the first time and just so happens to flop the bojangles! In game, and we have all been there, this can be difficult to rationalise as we peer down at our top 2

thing is though, I'd expect him to take the pre-flop line with KJ over AA way more than id be surprised if he 4bet us with KJ, if that makes sense.

I just think that people DONT do this with AA or QQ all that often (speshly with QQ) post-flop.

Nice diary Liam.

One question, noticed you having a dig at your ex's current partner being a bit of a step down from you on facebook. As a tall handsome guy I imagine your ex to be like one of them super hot babes who hold the number boards up in British Superbikes. Any chance of posting a pic of said ex on here just to see if I'm right or not. Thx

im sure its not hard to find a picture Jason lol

Really?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=liam+batey+bmx&hl=en&client=safari&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wn0lUfCvMY6Y0QXw8ICQDw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=480&bih=268#i=9

I liked superman and the catwalk model too but saved your blushes :)

Confirmed not on any of them ha!

The bmx talk forum's equlivant to blonde poker forum's smashedagain trolled all them photoshopped pics and did a funny but weird thread on the Great Britain cycling team few years ago and the pictures still pop up near the top of google. Sigh

Roflcopter! Liam's always having lil digs at Tom "lolster". Just check out his predictions for Fridays cash game!

Haha lolster isn't the downgrade though. He wishes lol. Nothing to do with that ex gf.