Straight Flush
Join Date: Dec 2005
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haha very nice sick spots.
1 thing to remember when reading Sauce's posts is that he plays on Stars. In my experience, Stars low and midstakes are a million times more aggressive than the loose-fishy Euro sites. Ppl tend to play much more passively on sites like Prima and Crypto.
To be honest, I think both hands are coin-flipping situations ; there are strong reasons to call both hands but you're obviously beat a whole lot in both cases.
In hand 1 it sounds like you and villain have history. It would help to know what the dynamic was at the time of this 1st hand, esp how villain views you.
His line looks more like a bluff-catching line (with a hand like 99-1010) than a strong Q so I feel very tempted to call since he may see that you're scared of the Q and try to shove to take you off a slightly better medium strength hand or slightly worse (88 type hand) if he think s you're aggro enough to 2 barell with an underpair. Folding is fine though.
Hand 2 is a much easier call imo since this type of villain who limp-calls UTG could be on suited cards (we have outs) but he can also be overvaluing and Ax with a straight draw or simply Ax that made 2 pair.
Since we're crushing that part of his range and we have equity when behind I like a call in hand 2.
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