Doing this in stages hand ID for me to post later - 628863153
Ok this hand is a bit wierd so decided to post it, would like thoughts on firstly the decision on the flop.
Reads on opponent. they've just joined table, i did have a note but it basically said - loose passive. Given so far i think it was outdated as they seemed to be playing very LAG.
So flop decision, do we raise or call.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceThe_Don90Small blind £0.05£0.05£25.78nanockBig blind £0.10£0.15£22.15 Your hole cards55 xRaise £0.30£0.45£19.55always4551Fold The_Don90Call £0.25£0.70£25.53nanockCall £0.20£0.90£21.95Flop A75 The_Don90Check nanockCheck xBet £0.45£1.35£19.10The_Don90Raise £1.20£2.55£24.33nanockFold xRaise £1.50£4.05£17.60The_Don90????
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Let him keep firing with his big ace (which i think he has), and raise the river for value, and hope he isn't capable of folding top pair lol.
EDIT: just realised your the small blind not the villian, your oop so yeah re-raise the flop and if he calls, fire away the turn and the river haha.
Time for me to sleep i think, what was I thinking, you're obviously the one in the bold writing haha.
The trouble with check-raising is that it's impossible for us to really represent a draw on this dry board. That's the same problem we have when deciding on the 4-bet. I feel as though we virtually turn our hand face up with a 4-bet and we rely on our opponent being not great or too strong to fold. We have bottom set, though, so the only hand that's too strong to fold that we beat is likely to be A7 and that's not terribly likely.
Meh. After getting this far I probably 4-bet. Flatting the 3-bet looks just as strong as 4-betting, I think, and we don't get as much money in if our opponent is going to spew with AK. We also end up checking the turn if we flat and then he could check back all his weaker hands so we lose value on two streets.
So I'd say 4-bet now pretty big and try to commit his stack. Definitely would check-raise bigger or lead in the first place to make that easier.