apologies...me: £150, button: £300, sb: £120

playing 1/1 @ international london (rocks!)

spewy aggro player just joined table, bullying everyone around (no showdown) - terrible betsizing (e.g. 14 into 6 on the flop etc). he's waiting to re-buy into the £110 tourny. making fun of how soft the game is, see's me as a nit for folding my blind twice to obvious steals

button (good thinking chinese player, won 1 hand vs me; my semi-bluff that didnt hit and he called a river barrel with 2pair), he raises to 6 (bit more than norm, 3-5£)

villian in sb, calls
me in BB,   

flop: 

chk, villian bets £34, we..........? (raise or call)?

pre - i thought about raising but think i would have got 2 callers, and button's range is 22-AA, and AK/Q/J

Hi all,

had a similar spot twice last night. playing 0.5/1$ on partypoker (don't have hand history on this pc)

9-handed, everyone is re-loading for max ($100), some stacks around 150-200. im playing ~$120

UTG am dealt 99o, i make it a standard 3, folded around to MP 2 callers, then BB makes it $18... we??

i folded once to a new player, and called against an aggro russian.

also, on these games everyone seems to be at it - stealing in late position and you rarely get 3bet. how often do/would you raise with trash. currently im only raising the button/small blind with offsuit connectors or better

do we ever consider he has the same hand here?  for example?

fair enough...he had Aces, i put him on AK/QQ (thus less outs than the 14 i calculated).

yeah noted..maybe in a tourny, but not cash.

i should quit!

hi all,

playing 1/1 at aspers stratford...1 big whale at table is the main reason the remaining competent players are there (he's not in this hand)

UTG raises to £6

2 callers

me in BB -  . have been folding these hands, but i think there's enough in the pot to justify a call..

flop comes  , UTG leads out for £18, 2 folds...i'm playing £150 total, think for a few seconds and then jam...my rationale being that calling £18 and then calling £30-£40 on the turn is bad and i'd just end up bleeding 30-50% of my stack chasing my outs. i'm putting him on AK, JJ, QQ something in that range. i think he has fold equity and he's a tight player so he wouldn't insta-call unless he had a set or 2 pair. Obviously this way i get paid the max if i do hit my hand

what do ppeople think of this move here? i'm thinking i have 14 outs...

cheers for the replies guys, the tourny was titled WaSop: Warwick Series of Poker!

i have 16-17k, middle position, i've got average(ish) chipstack

hi all, I know it's just unlucky but wanted opinions on whether pre-flop I played this wrong..

playing £55 f/o, 45 min clock, deepstack (10k starting stack) student tourny at g casino.

68 runners, 2 day event. down to last 30. I've just moved tables and played 3 hands, winning 2 (pf raise) and folding one to a cb re-raise. table mostly TAG's. Blinds 200/400 (25), level 6.

UTG+1 raises to 1300
UTG+ 2 calls

me:   

sb: call

bb: call

I call because at this stage I'm not prepared to call the all in if UTG+1/2 decides to push. bad play? raise to 4k?

anyway flops comes:

   

happy days, goes check check, I bet 2300 (thoughts on size)

sb fold, bb thinks for a minute then ships (50BB!+). Fold, fold, insta (all in) call from me (I have around 16k)..he has  and hits  on turn. I know its unlucky but

a) should I have re-popped pf
b) bet size on flop?
c) his ship is bad play on his part right?

any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

updates on Gurpreet (Sunny) Nagi [free_rollin] when he gets there would be much appreciated

Pyso, i like your line of thinking. He did say before my hand was flipped over, "you got aces?" - at which point I knew I was beat. I guess raise more pre? bet stronger the flop? check behind on the turn after a flat call on flop?

he shows  , opinions now?

First post on PHA guys, so i'm sorry if its a little bit long winded!

I've been playing for about 2 hours, with a TAG reputation. Steadily increased my stack to 3-4 times what i bought in for. Anyways, table is pretty mixed- 1 or 2 action players that love straddling and betting at every pot but mostly pretty standard players. Most dangerous player (villain) at the table has accumulated a massive stack (>£600). I've won two big pots off him, both times with AK- once hitting the flop, once not. Anyways, my mate gets knocked out of a tourny so I tell myself this is my last hand. I've got about £200 in front of me, pretty much the same as most of the other players. Villian is a good player, capable of creative plays and good reads and isn't happy i've won two pots off him without showing either time.

Dealt to me UTG+2 and I see   

Raise to £9, folded around to button who flat calls, bb (villain) calls.

Flop:   

It goes check, I bet £18, fold, flat call (BB). I'm thinking maybe hiding a set, flush draw poss or he's got some K10 kind of hand.

Turn: 

Check, I bet £40, he thinks for a while, asks me how much I've got and pushes me all-in. Now i'm thinking maybe he is on the flush draw, can't really put him on AQ or something. Gut instinct is that he after the flop he knew he would check-raise all-in on the turn. I think about the above for a minute before calling.

What do you guys think of my play here? Would you have folded?

Agree with above. Even if you re-raise to 11-12k, he's probably gonna push at which point I'd find it hard to fold. If it was just on the bubble then I might lay it down.