Hey guys.
Here’s a fun hand from our latest home game. The group have played together for many years and I have extensive history with villain.
He is loose aggressive, plays a lot of pots with a great variety of holdings. He is positionally aware however and will not play super wide from oop. He is sticky and tricky and does not like to give up pots too easily. He likes to put his opponents to the test. Bluffs too much in my opinion but nothing too crazy.
He can make some strange plays such as raising weakish top pairs/middle pairs on dry boards but can generally navigate well thereafter.
He will generally play good draws fast. He can slowplay nutted hands but usually not on wet boards.
I’m considered the best player at the table. I have a pretty solid image although they generally give me a lot more bluffs in situations than I actually have. I play pretty loose and splash around but will usually have the goods in big pots. I have been caught running huge bluffs a few times over the years and I guess those have made an impression.
On to the hand:
we’re only 4-handed this time, playing a dealer’s choice of hold em/crazy pinapple/plo.
Blinds are 2/4 swedish krona (=$0.2/0.4). We all bought in for 1k. I have been making a bunch of second best hands and have rebought for another 500 and villain has lost a buy-in with set over set vs another player and has rebought for another 1000.
Texas hold em
Hero co/utg ~950
Villain sb covers
I straddle to 8, button folds and villain makes it 27 from the sb
I look down at:
and make it 87. Villain pauses for 10-15 seconds before making the call. Flop comes:
(174)
villain quickly checks and I bet 125. He thinks for a short time and then makes it 290. I have a little more than 570 on top of the 290.
Do you jam or call? If you’re calling, how do you proceed on club/connecting/blank turns? Do you play anything else differently? Bet sizing?
Here’s a fun hand from our latest home game. The group have played together for many years and I have extensive history with villain.
He is loose aggressive, plays a lot of pots with a great variety of holdings. He is positionally aware however and will not play super wide from oop. He is sticky and tricky and does not like to give up pots too easily. He likes to put his opponents to the test. Bluffs too much in my opinion but nothing too crazy.
He can make some strange plays such as raising weakish top pairs/middle pairs on dry boards but can generally navigate well thereafter.
He will generally play good draws fast. He can slowplay nutted hands but usually not on wet boards.
I’m considered the best player at the table. I have a pretty solid image although they generally give me a lot more bluffs in situations than I actually have. I play pretty loose and splash around but will usually have the goods in big pots. I have been caught running huge bluffs a few times over the years and I guess those have made an impression.
On to the hand:
we’re only 4-handed this time, playing a dealer’s choice of hold em/crazy pinapple/plo.
Blinds are 2/4 swedish krona (=$0.2/0.4). We all bought in for 1k. I have been making a bunch of second best hands and have rebought for another 500 and villain has lost a buy-in with set over set vs another player and has rebought for another 1000.
Texas hold em
Hero co/utg ~950
Villain sb covers
I straddle to 8, button folds and villain makes it 27 from the sb
I look down at:
and make it 87. Villain pauses for 10-15 seconds before making the call. Flop comes:
(174)
villain quickly checks and I bet 125. He thinks for a short time and then makes it 290. I have a little more than 570 on top of the 290.
Do you jam or call? If you’re calling, how do you proceed on club/connecting/blank turns? Do you play anything else differently? Bet sizing?
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