Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Nu Zuland bru
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Daven is, of course, completely right, but it was a friend's 21st with an open bar at a nice restaurant, so it was kinda easy to get carried away. As they say, it's not the drinking, it's how we're drinking- I didn't really mean I'm gonna hold off on getting drunk for a while, just hold off on getting stupidly vomit-inducingly drunk! 
Okay, a kinda interesting hand for review today. I liked my thinking throughout it (and more generally the fact that I am thinking throughout it), although there are a couple of spots in it that I'm not sure on.
$0.05/$0.10 No Limit Holdem
4 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com
Stacks:
CO Hero ($13.65)
BTN just4cash ($9.75)
SB Scareface63 ($5)
BB nothingoth ($18.35)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15, 4 players) Hero is CO  
Hero raises to $0.40, 2 folds, nothingoth raises to $1.40, Hero calls $1
Flop:    ($2.85, 2 players)
nothingoth bets $0.90, Hero raises to $2.40 ...
Villain is 24/10, this is the only time in 30ish hands that I've seen him 3bet.
Preflop: I've got position, we're 135bb deep and since this is the only time I've seen him 3bet I think his range is really strong, along the lines of {JJ+, AK, AQs} if not tighter, so I think I can call and hope to hit a J here. I dunno if this is standard practice or not.
Flop: The flop comes and I don't hit a jack, so my first thought is that I'm folding to his cbet. However, he thinks for a little bit, and then fires out a bet of 90 cents into the almost $3 pot. I feel like with strong hands villain would bet faster here, and would bet much more. So it feels much more like villain has {KK, JJ}, doesn't know what to do, and is just firing out a small bet to try and end the pot right there. So I put in a small raise, with the idea being that if his range really is just those hands that are trying to pick up the pot and will fold, it doesn't matter too much how big a raise I make it, and if he sucks at betting for value or is betting to induce, then when he calls/raises I can still get away from the hand without having put too much bad money in there.
I realise everyone's first instincts is probably to just fold this flop once we've called pre, but I really think the timing and bet sizing show a lot of weakness.
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