£20nl - scary board

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Live game, blinds 10p/20p, 4-handed

Hero: £20 stack
Villian: £40ish

Villian is an aggressive player who likes to reraise people, especially on scary boards such as the one we're going to see here.

Hero is in BB with KhTh.

Villian (UTG) raises to 60p (standard for this game)
Button folds
SB calls
Hero calls

Pot: £1.80
Flop: AKQ spades

SB checks
Hero checks
Villian bets £1.20
SB folds
Hero raises to £2.40
Villian raises to £6
Hero ??
 
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How many chips did both of you have?
 
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What's your reasoning for raising the flop?
 
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I can't really answer that because I'm the villian in this example - I'm not telling you what I had here :)

I found this an interesting hand so I'm posting it on two different forums with the roles reversed on each :)
 
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I am not the hero of this piece but was present.

I think the hero's reasons for raising were basically that the game is very loose and aggro, and that a reasonable percentage of the time villain may be taking a stab with air/worse than middle pair
 
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Looks like a clear fold on the lead flop bet. I just can't imagine when it makes sense to call a bet on that board.
 
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ChuckTs said:
What's your reasoning for raising the flop?
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CfPoker said:
I can't really answer that because I'm the villian in this example - I'm not telling you what I had here :)

I found this an interesting hand so I'm posting it on two different forums with the roles reversed on each :)
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Heh, well it was a terrible raise and hero shouldn't be in this spot in the first place. As played it's a very easy fold. Unless villain is a complete maniac, he shouldn't be in here with at least a semibluff which has good equity against us and probably won't let go of his hand, so we have to fold.

bungle said:
I am not the hero of this piece but was present.

I think the hero's reasons for raising were basically that the game is very loose and aggro, and that a reasonable percentage of the time villain may be taking a stab with air/worse than middle pair
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Alright, but what kind of result do we expect, as Hero, to come from raising air or some weak pair?
 
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