check in the dark

[paulhouk03]

DTD 300 at the weekend. Still at our starting table, we have a veritable plethora of different styles, Barry Neville , George Geary, Roberto Romanello, James Browning.

In seat one is a young guy who I didnt know of. he was certainly not short of attitude, having already called the clock on George Geary, and I was getting the impression that he thought he was better than he was. anyway, the blinds are 100/200, I have about 14K, young guy has about 10K in the small blind. I am UTG and get dealt  . To mix it up a bit I raise to i think 650, and it is folded round to the SB who calls. GG folds the big blind.

Before the flop comes down young guy extravagantly bangs the table and annouces "check in the dark".

Flop comes  .


your move ?

lead 40% of pot then call his reraise if reraised
on turn if he leads i would reraise him small
or lead if he checks in the dark again
i would also not be folding

why 40% of pot? what if he checks in the light? this is not a complete strategy! until it is i'll hold back my criticisms 

because u want him to reraise you. you could bet smaller but he might call with  or a 

if he checks in the light then
maybe do a rounders overbet
or do a bet that looks bluffy

[dousche]

DTD 300 at the weekend. Still at our starting table, we have a veritable plethora of different styles, Barry Neville , George Geary, Roberto Romanello, James Browning.

In seat one is a young guy who I didnt know of. he was certainly not short of attitude, having already called the clock on George Geary, and I was getting the impression that he thought he was better than he was. anyway, the blinds are 100/200, I have about 14K, young guy has about 10K in the small blind. I am UTG and get dealt  . To mix it up a bit I raise to i think 650, and it is folded round to the SB who calls. GG folds the big blind.

Before the flop comes down young guy extravagantly bangs the table and annouces "check in the dark".

Flop comes  .


your move ?

lead 40% of pot then call his reraise if reraised
on turn if he leads i would reraise him small
or lead if he checks in the dark again
i would also not be folding

why 40% of pot? what if he checks in the light? this is not a complete strategy! until it is i'll hold back my criticisms 

because u want him to reraise you. you could bet smaller but he might call with  or a 

if he checks in the light then
maybe do a rounders overbet
or do a bet that looks bluffy

i think he reraises a more standard looking c-bet (1/2 - 2/3 of pot) more often than a weird 40% bet. then again if he's decided he's taking this pot off of us our line might not be that important