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canbora
Rock Star
Silver Level
- Game
- Hold'em
- Game Format
- No Limit
- Stakes
- $.02/$.05
- Table Format
- 6-max (6 seats)
- Currency
- $
MP limps in, I have QJ suited (clubs) on the button. Normally in a situation like this Ill just min raise. I know everyone's calling, I just want to sweeten the pot in case I win, to induce action. I felt I had the best hand and I figured the SB would fold and it would be 3 to a flop. So I bumped it to 3x. Again, not trying to induce a fold, just ultra sweetening it. The villain, the BB. Is someone I've played with a lot. Hes, like 90% tag, 10% maniac. I have him labeled as violet colored on poker stars, which to me, means volatile. We've also had a beef or two in some grueling hands. So there's history, (no words ever exchanged)I start out with something around 130BB effective, Villain has around the same
BB, the villain, raises it up. This is sort of our thing. MP calls I have QJ suited and I'm on the button. This is what he does to me. I have odds, its a cash game. I'm calling to at least see the flop.
Pot: 50 BB
To my surprise, SB calls and so does BB and so does MP... OK, here we go.
Flop comes 9 h 10 h 6 c
It checks around to me, So I elect to see a free card. I check
river is Q s
it checks around to me a second time. I thought about it a second. I bet half the pot. It double checked to me there's definitely no strength there. I have top pair, plus the open ended straight draw. I genuinlly feel I have the best hand now and I have much room for improvement.
SB folds.
Villain goes in the tank long.. 3/4 of all available time. This is genuine. This isn't a fake out. He makes the call. MP folds.
Pot: 100 BB
Turn comes K h
Before the graphics even finish settling on the screen, villain goes all in for the remainder stack. 75 BB
(Zack Morris time out: This guy hides nothing. Anytime preflop he has a good starter hand, ...and I dont now how does this, he must be close to a server with low ping, he will slam a preflop raise before the cards are even finished being dealt. VERY straight forward, makes no hiding of anything he has....but like I said, hes 10% volatile. Sometimes he gets scared and slams pots to steal. He doesn't' do it with nothing/garbage. He has something, but he's sensing weakness and trying to push you out.)
I know he has something. But so do I. I do make a lot of calls like this, usually I'm right about half the time, which money wise, I'm ahead/ profitable. But this a huge pot. If he had ANYTHING on this board that means he has strength and he would have bet that earlier FOR SURE. He hides nothing. Which includes two hearts. I KNOW I was ahead on the turn.
What say you? Do I call 75 bb to win 175 bb?
BB, the villain, raises it up. This is sort of our thing. MP calls I have QJ suited and I'm on the button. This is what he does to me. I have odds, its a cash game. I'm calling to at least see the flop.
Pot: 50 BB
To my surprise, SB calls and so does BB and so does MP... OK, here we go.
Flop comes 9 h 10 h 6 c
It checks around to me, So I elect to see a free card. I check
river is Q s
it checks around to me a second time. I thought about it a second. I bet half the pot. It double checked to me there's definitely no strength there. I have top pair, plus the open ended straight draw. I genuinlly feel I have the best hand now and I have much room for improvement.
SB folds.
Villain goes in the tank long.. 3/4 of all available time. This is genuine. This isn't a fake out. He makes the call. MP folds.
Pot: 100 BB
Turn comes K h
Before the graphics even finish settling on the screen, villain goes all in for the remainder stack. 75 BB
(Zack Morris time out: This guy hides nothing. Anytime preflop he has a good starter hand, ...and I dont now how does this, he must be close to a server with low ping, he will slam a preflop raise before the cards are even finished being dealt. VERY straight forward, makes no hiding of anything he has....but like I said, hes 10% volatile. Sometimes he gets scared and slams pots to steal. He doesn't' do it with nothing/garbage. He has something, but he's sensing weakness and trying to push you out.)
I know he has something. But so do I. I do make a lot of calls like this, usually I'm right about half the time, which money wise, I'm ahead/ profitable. But this a huge pot. If he had ANYTHING on this board that means he has strength and he would have bet that earlier FOR SURE. He hides nothing. Which includes two hearts. I KNOW I was ahead on the turn.
What say you? Do I call 75 bb to win 175 bb?
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