Ok here's the scenario:
Comp=£325 mtt with like a £50k pool.
Standard-Pretty bad, lots of overbetting, bad stories, general spews.
Structure-45 mins levels, 20k stack, 3 day event with levels increasing over the days.
Player 1 is pretty typical of the table, plays too many hands, esp oop, and generally seems to think too late and possibly might over analyse certain situations, not appaulling but not great.
Player 2 is a good, solid circuit reg who i respect and have spoken to in the break, has some lag moves but genearlly tag and won't be going crazy early on without some kind of equity.
I've been floating with position a great deal and mostly keeping pots small unless i have the snizzles or semi so. Think my image is as a bit of a peeler and potential bluffer as opponent 2 earlier picked me off on the river wihen i held q high in a relatively small pot with a missed draw i bet the river as i gen thought he cld have missed a draw too, instead i was owned by 3rd pair.
Anyway lets get onto the hand.
Player 1=15k stack
Player 2=30k stack
Me=20k stack
Level 3 -75/150Player 1 donk opens to 700 at 75/150 utg+1. He hasn't overrsd much pre and i'm thinking he's pretty strong here, big aces, or big pairs. I find
utg+4, on a ten handed table. I peel thinking i have lovely implied odds here and i'm quite sure 1 or 2 others will come along 2, helping our potential to win big if we get some settage. Folded round to
player 2 who peels on the button, his range is pretty wide but i'd expect mostly pocket pairs and std connectors, not too many aces although i have seen him play ak std pretty cautiously previously.
Flop is
Player 1 cbets like 2k quite aggressively into the pot of 2325.
His body language screams ak to me, but as he's the type to make hero laydowns I really don't want him folding and tbh i'd kinda like the button in too on this board, so i peel quickly hoping some1 will think i'm flushing or overplaying some kinda ace. I feel bar maybe on club turns we can build the pot later. Thoughts?
Opponent 2 quickly raises it up to 5.5k, opponent 1 looks like he wants to puke and after tanking for like 3 mins folds what i believe to be possibly aq or ak.
Thoughts now?
After some feedback i'll carry on with the hand. Would really appreciate some people's thoughts on what line's they take here and what range's we can assign player 2. Also do ppl think calling off 5% pre effective is bad here, i thought it was ok as the table was gen passive pre and donkish post where i felt i had an advantage.
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