DrStrange
4 of a Kind
We are playing 1-2 live, five handed. It is a cold rainy night over the holiday weekend. The game was a spur of the moment session where the three 'guests of honor' didn't show up even though the asked for the game to be set - - - Grrr. We are missing a lot of the action players, started with seven and now five are left.
Cast of characters:
The small blind has $400, but on a $700 buy in. He is the perfect calling station. Hyper loose, very sticky and rarely bets or raises without a hand.
Hero is in the Big Blind with $500, solidly ahead. The night has been good to Hero - preflop hands have been mostly garbage or gold, not so many to get into trouble with. People joke about how tight Hero plays but they call even so. This hand is playing out a hour after the pocket kings hand.
UTG has $200. He is tricky/trappy quite loose {perhaps correctly in a five handed game} and sticky. Notable - UTG is normally a losing player and avoids this game but he came last session and won ~$2,000. This has emboldened him and improved his game. UTG was the villain of note in the pocket kings hand.
Villain has the button with $750 in chips. This is our old friend, Crafty. If you judged by appearances, you might mistake him for OMC or a nut peddler but after a few hands you would reassess your read. Crafty is a seasoned, wily LAG. To be fair, a better description would ultra loose, somewhat aggressive preflop and thinking aggressive post flop. Marginally profitable (though he would argue otherwise). Even so, he is capable of complex reasoning and deep thinking. He knows Hero very well.
Special conditions this session. Early in the night Hero gouged out a big chunk of villain's early stack in two hands where hero got to play out of character cards from the blinds (in Crafty's opinion) in a limped pot. {94o and pocket twos} Crafty announces that Hero isn't every going to see a limped pot in the big blind again. Hero poured gas on the fire by making his share of snarky comments.
Crafty has been true to his word. Hero hasn't seen a limped pot from the big blind again except the few times Crafty folded his button preflop. Since we are playing so short handed, this has been a lot of hands. Crafty has had a lot to say about how easy it is to steal Hero's blind and its true. It is also likely true that Crafty is trying to provoke a confrontation with Hero is good position.
The hand:
UTG limps, MP folds bringing us to Button who bets his normal, blind stealing bet of $6. SB calls.
Action on Hero with . Fold, call or raise, if raising how much? If hero calls, it borders on 100% certain that UTG will call. If Hero raises anything reasonable, there is almost no chance Crafty will fold given the table dynamic. {hero might raise to $100+ and take down the pot, maybe}
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Cast of characters:
The small blind has $400, but on a $700 buy in. He is the perfect calling station. Hyper loose, very sticky and rarely bets or raises without a hand.
Hero is in the Big Blind with $500, solidly ahead. The night has been good to Hero - preflop hands have been mostly garbage or gold, not so many to get into trouble with. People joke about how tight Hero plays but they call even so. This hand is playing out a hour after the pocket kings hand.
UTG has $200. He is tricky/trappy quite loose {perhaps correctly in a five handed game} and sticky. Notable - UTG is normally a losing player and avoids this game but he came last session and won ~$2,000. This has emboldened him and improved his game. UTG was the villain of note in the pocket kings hand.
Villain has the button with $750 in chips. This is our old friend, Crafty. If you judged by appearances, you might mistake him for OMC or a nut peddler but after a few hands you would reassess your read. Crafty is a seasoned, wily LAG. To be fair, a better description would ultra loose, somewhat aggressive preflop and thinking aggressive post flop. Marginally profitable (though he would argue otherwise). Even so, he is capable of complex reasoning and deep thinking. He knows Hero very well.
Special conditions this session. Early in the night Hero gouged out a big chunk of villain's early stack in two hands where hero got to play out of character cards from the blinds (in Crafty's opinion) in a limped pot. {94o and pocket twos} Crafty announces that Hero isn't every going to see a limped pot in the big blind again. Hero poured gas on the fire by making his share of snarky comments.
Crafty has been true to his word. Hero hasn't seen a limped pot from the big blind again except the few times Crafty folded his button preflop. Since we are playing so short handed, this has been a lot of hands. Crafty has had a lot to say about how easy it is to steal Hero's blind and its true. It is also likely true that Crafty is trying to provoke a confrontation with Hero is good position.
The hand:
UTG limps, MP folds bringing us to Button who bets his normal, blind stealing bet of $6. SB calls.
Action on Hero with . Fold, call or raise, if raising how much? If hero calls, it borders on 100% certain that UTG will call. If Hero raises anything reasonable, there is almost no chance Crafty will fold given the table dynamic. {hero might raise to $100+ and take down the pot, maybe}
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