[Preflop]

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Villain is a reg. Not a particularly strong reg, but an okay thinking player.

Here are his stats:




VP/PFR/AF
CB/FCB/ST/FST
3B/F3B/4B(range)/F4B


Preflop

Raising QQ UTG is pretty standard so I make it 3x.

Once he just calls we can eliminate the monster pre flop holdings AA/KK/AK sometimes AQ and JJ and we block AQ.

Flop

I think a lot of the time we are going to be check calling on this flop. Protects our check calling range and also for pot control.

So we decide to check call.


Turn

When the hits I feel he's going to continue a tonne now with a lot of draws that we're beating, especially after the flop check. We can have weak aces or a hand exactly like we have... QQ/JJ/TT. We obviously re raise with JJ, but I think he can try to exploit our range a tonne and continue with holdings we are beating. So we opt for another call.

River

I check and he shoves. I just think this is ALWAYS a bluff. The hand makes no sense for it to be for value. So I call.

Reasons I think its a bluff;

AK - Probably doesnt shove and 3bets pre.

AQ - We block and also doesn't shove often.

AJ/55/99/Jx - Once we check flop, our range never looks strong and its not usually a hand we can call vs three barrels, so wouldn't villain go for a value size that we can possibly call with Ax/KK/QQ or other hands villains beating?

It just smells like a bluff when villain shoves here and I'm pretty confident of calling this river off.


What are your guys thoughts on thought process and the way the hand was played?

Cheers

Abz

The Rastafish is a funny funny man! Bring more RastaFish quotes! Haha

Good updates! Keep em coming. Shame I can't win races otherwise I'm still there.

Hope one of the blonde lot bink it!

Haven't used this in a while, so seeing as I'm there on day 2 and I hear everyone talking about blonde,  I thought I'd give a post a whirl.

42,700 chips

James Ablott.

Good luck all.

See u there.

Really appreciate all the pointers guys and look to take them in

I'll keep posting but restricted to my bloody iPhone ATM due to a laptop charger fault. No online games for me .

Thanks for the pointers and gl at the tables.

Maybe it was the way I posted it. Maybe I should have asked to discuss rather than asked of I should contemplate the fold. Different ways to play the hand?

I was only there half an hour and hadn't played many hands so there wasn't many other hands an definitely no more interesting than this. Just after thinking against the type of player I'm not beating much. He's hardly calling the flop with nothing less than a Q.

Sorry at my first post failure.

I must improve my posts.
I must improve my posts.
I must improve my posts.

Sorry again.

Well my first post and im disappointed. Setting a bad example for the forum that fourth response. Just re thinking through my hand and thought I'd join and ask. No need for a response like that.

Any other lines I could take for those who are half decent on here and could give me some useful info about the hand that may improve my game?

Your disappointment is understandable, Abz, but don't rush to judgement, most of the posters on PHA are quite helpful. "Keylek" is also a very new Member of blonde, & perhaps has not yet caught the mood & tone of PHA.

I rarely comment on PHA, but your hand was just one of those things, a sort of cooler, & you are obliged to do the lot there. If you don't, you are probably doing something wrong.

Appreciate that reply. Thanks. First judgement was bad that's all.

Thanks for the help and welcome guys. Look forward to future discussions.

Well my first post and im disappointed. Setting a bad example for the forum that fourth response. Just re thinking through my hand and thought I'd join and ask. No need for a response like that.

Any other lines I could take for those who are half decent on here and could give me some useful info about the hand that may improve my game?

Arrive at live table with £80 in hand. 100nl. Early morning. Straddling and loose calling....

I hold QJ spades. Raise to £4... UTG +2, 4 ish callers.

Flop QQ 7spades. Checked to me... I bet £16 into £21 ish.

1 Caller with around £150 in CO.  Turn 3spades. I bet £21. Player asks how much I'm playing. Pushes me all in I "obviously"(?) call.

He turns over AQ. river blank.

Could I possibly get away? Flush drawing and trips on turn. Not much history on guy at all....

Re thinking hand on the way home I only really seem to be beating QT Q9 Q8 against this type of player but can I seriously contemplate a fold??