AR_poker
High Hand
Got a hand from last week’s home game that I’ve been thinking on for a while now, curious what y’all’s feedback is.
Background:
$0.25/$0.50 weekly home game with good friends. 7-handed, been playing for about 3 hours. Villain (CO) is a good friend from high school. Usually a very solid player. We have a history of getting into big pots together, go to the casino together to play $1/$3, and I think he’s the winningest player in our regular game. Gets *very* tilt-y when he's down or suffers a bad beat, but he's up big tonight. Plays wider ranges than I would, but good at just milking money out of the weaker players in our game. Definitely capable of bluffing (including double and triple barreling), but slightly tilted towards value as a profile. He’ll usually raise RFI rather than open limp, but he also hates when I 3bet him (and knows that I 3bet aggressively), so his limping range does seem to expand a little when I’m on his immediate left (as I was on this night) or close to it. I’m not crazy about his limping strategy when he implements it (we’ve discussed it), but something to be cognizant of. Hero (BTN) is the effective stack with $200. Villain covers by a little.
Pre-flop:
UTG folds
LJ folds
HJ folds
CO (villain) limps
BTN (hero) bets $5 with KhJd
SB calls
BB calls
CO calls
Pre-flop thoughts:
Game has been getting pretty deep for $0.25/$0.50, and ~$4 has become the standard open. I size up to account for the limper, and because the players in the blinds are very likely to call incredibly wide. KJo should be ahead of lots of HJ’s and the blinds’ ranges, I’m almost never expecting to be 3bet in this formation, and I’ll have ultimate position postflop. If the blinds make a hand, we'll hear from them, and CO should be capped here in a normal limp calling range fashion. Some small-ish pairs, some offsuit broadways, some suited connectors, some AX, etc. Onward.
Flop:
($20 in pot)
Qd Tc 4d
SB checks
BB checks
CO leads for $10
Hero?
Background:
$0.25/$0.50 weekly home game with good friends. 7-handed, been playing for about 3 hours. Villain (CO) is a good friend from high school. Usually a very solid player. We have a history of getting into big pots together, go to the casino together to play $1/$3, and I think he’s the winningest player in our regular game. Gets *very* tilt-y when he's down or suffers a bad beat, but he's up big tonight. Plays wider ranges than I would, but good at just milking money out of the weaker players in our game. Definitely capable of bluffing (including double and triple barreling), but slightly tilted towards value as a profile. He’ll usually raise RFI rather than open limp, but he also hates when I 3bet him (and knows that I 3bet aggressively), so his limping range does seem to expand a little when I’m on his immediate left (as I was on this night) or close to it. I’m not crazy about his limping strategy when he implements it (we’ve discussed it), but something to be cognizant of. Hero (BTN) is the effective stack with $200. Villain covers by a little.
Pre-flop:
UTG folds
LJ folds
HJ folds
CO (villain) limps
BTN (hero) bets $5 with KhJd
SB calls
BB calls
CO calls
Pre-flop thoughts:
Game has been getting pretty deep for $0.25/$0.50, and ~$4 has become the standard open. I size up to account for the limper, and because the players in the blinds are very likely to call incredibly wide. KJo should be ahead of lots of HJ’s and the blinds’ ranges, I’m almost never expecting to be 3bet in this formation, and I’ll have ultimate position postflop. If the blinds make a hand, we'll hear from them, and CO should be capped here in a normal limp calling range fashion. Some small-ish pairs, some offsuit broadways, some suited connectors, some AX, etc. Onward.
Flop:
($20 in pot)
Qd Tc 4d
SB checks
BB checks
CO leads for $10
Hero?
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