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drizzt

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I'm really trying to plug some of the many holes in my game, and I'm wondering if I played this right

Villian is 35/3/5 after 37 hands, in the BB

Stacks:
BTN with $1.91
SB with $2.00
BB with $1.33
UTG with $0.32
UTG+1 with $0.20
MP1 with $0.50
MP2 with $2.00
MP3 with $2.61
CO with $1.43

Blinds: $0.00/$0.00
Site: Full Tilt Poker
Dealt to BTN:T♣ T♦
Sklansky group 2
Preflop:
1 players fold.
UTG+1 calls [$0.02]
MP2 checks
2 players fold.
Hero raises to $0.11
1 players fold.
BB raises to $0.20
2 players fold.
Hero calls [$0.09]
Total folds this street: 6
Potsize: $0.43
Flop:
3♦ 2♥ 5♥
BB bets [$0.40] Hero....?

What do you do here?


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Villain is a passive fish. The passive (preflop) fish 3-bet you preflop. This means he likely has a big hand.

Villain just bet close to pot, but not quite. This means he likely has a big hand.

If you could ever fold an overpair at $2NL, this would be a good spot for it. We can't really call the flop without calling the turn either. I'm torn 50:50 between shoving all in and folding.

I say shove because I could never fold an overpair at $2NL, and because villain will likely call us with stuff like AK, 77, ect. Also, villain doesn't quite have a full stack.

I say fold because, well, its just so likely that villain has a big hand and AK still has a lot of outs to beat us.

I'd lean towards shoving all in on the flop, but meht, its probably not a big EV difference between shoving & folding IMO. If villain had a full 2$, calling & folding the turn if bet into might be an option.
 
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Excuse my ignorance but what does it mean you write 35/3/7 after 37 hands. Is it the number of hands played followed by other stats?
 
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this could be a AK-cbet....like C9 said 50/50 between folding and shoving. I probably shove besause people did weird things at 2nl.
 
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Excuse my ignorance but what does it mean you write 35/3/7 after 37 hands. Is it the number of hands played followed by other stats?
35 is that player's VPIP (Voluntarily Put $ In Pot) - This number gives you an indication of how tight or loose a player is preflop. 35% is certainly loose, unless you're playing heads up.

3 is that player's PFR (Preflop Raise Percentage) - This number tells you how aggressive this player is preflop. 3% is tiny, and indicates that this player very rarely raises preflop. Thus, when he raises, he probably has a very strong hand.

7 is that player's AF (Postflop Aggression Frequency) - This is how aggressive they are postflop. The higher the number, the more betting & raising they do, and the less calling they do. So this player with an AF of 7 is pretty insane, raising & betting whenever possible, and rarely calling.

So to sum it all up, we just say "Villain is a 35/3/7".
 
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My thought was a big hand. He's shown down some quality hands, laid down against me after calling my raises preflop and folding to a c-bet. I was, as you all are, torn between shoving and folding. I would normally shove here, but then I haven't had much luck lately so maybe that's my problem?

I folded, let it go. My feeling was he had a nice pocket pair. He's never reraised anyone pre flop that I had noticed.

Hope that was the right play, guess I'll never know
 
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Against villain with that stack size I'm more inclined to shove pf. But min raisers tilt me so maybe not best approach here. Then again it's only 37 hands history so villain could have been card dead a while and his raising range isnt quite as tight as top 3%. Leaning to shove pf again. Always seem to find excuse to shove on min raisers.
 
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On the face of things villain should be holding a monster: JJ+/AK makes sense. The only thing that makes me think he could be wider is that he's raising over what looks like a bog standard button steal.

The size of the bet on the flop makes me scratch my head a bit too - surely JJ+ would want to be betting slightly smaller to extract some value from us? It makes me think it's more likely to be AK, or maybe AQ.

It's hard to be sure about that read though, because players at $2NL have all kinds of funny ideas about sizing value bets and how you need to bet people out of the pot when you've got aces but there's a flush draw...

I'm like c9, I have a really hard time folding an overpair here and I think a lot of the time I just shove over the top hoping it's AK (or worse).
 
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hmm thats a hard one i feel that ur 10 10 would be good at this stage although there are a few outs that could bet u on the turn and river , i think u should just use ur gut , so many donkeys out there on these stakes , but ur sort of pot commited u know ?>???
 
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