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1/3NL: TPTK in EP, Facing Pressure from Solid Reg Deep
Villain in this hand is one of the two or three biggest regs at this (small) card room. I put my notes on villain below this hand because they're very lengthy, and they're moreso notes on dynamics than very certain reads on how villain plays.
Hero (covers everyone) opens for $13 EP with AsQc. Villain (~$700) flats in LP. One of my fit or fold marks flats in the blinds.
$35 to the flop, and the board comes Tc 7d 2c.
I bet $24, villain calls, the fish folds.
$83 to the turn, which brings a Qh.
I bet $56. Villain reaches for greens; for a second I can't tell if he's calling or raising, but it doesn't take long before he's clearly thinking through a raise size. He raises to $215.
I hate life, and I don't make much of a secret about it. I try to count his chips, and ask "How much do you have left? Like $300?" I notice I underestimated how many greens he has and says, "Oh wow, nevermind, you have a lot left," villain says he has about $400, and I dismiss it as though the answer might as well be that he has infinite money behind. I go hard into the tank.
Hero ??
Relevant notes:
1) I have every reason to believe that he is not intimidated by absolute money, and will make whatever play he thinks will turn a profit.
Villain used to play 2/5NL back before all of our neighboring states legalized table games and the room thinned out. He's willing to play whatever big-bet game and seems overall confident that he'll have an edge. We started the table together with a couple of other players, and I sat my chips at a seat directly across from him basically saying, "Let's just stay out of each others' way," and I went to the bathroom and came back and he had moved to my direct left, bought in for the max amount ($500). I was the only one bought in for more than a couple hundred.
This is the villain I stacked for 133bbs on the SF > Top Boat > Mucked cards that I mentioned in the November SSNL Chat Thread just a couple days ago, and though he gave a standard "Wow, that's sick," he was completely unperturbed. He's always bought in full. He would play whatever big-bet game, and I get the sense that he feels confident he has the advantage regardless (Michael Phelps has donked away a lot of money at 5/5 PLO at this room, and I think villain was one of the big beneficiaries.)
2) It's hard for me to say exactly how he views me, but I have been a bit of an iso -> cbet monkey in our two recent sessions. I haven't been at this card room for months, and I doubt he remembers me from before. The last session, I ran a little hot PF as of when he sat down, and the table had started to adjust by calling very light against me preflop, and I even noticed villain in this hand calling me from the blinds for large amounts a few more times than I would expect your standard internet TAG to. I showed 86o once when the table l/f'ed to me. He never showed down in these hands. He 3b me once and I snap folded.
This time, I am absolutely steamrolling the table. I have doubled my initial $500 without ever winning a big pot. I showed some barrel bluffs early and have gone to shown-down with T8o and A5o in pots I opened.
3) I have wilted very easily in the face of pressure, snap-folding my PFRs to 3bs from the fish at the table, x/f'ing a good deal of flops, snap folding to flop raises, but this has mostly been against fish, and I'm not sure if this will make villain respect me more or less. My decisions have been very straightforward in the face of aggression, and I haven't so much as called down with second pair this session.
I didn't initially realize the game was 1/3, and I only bought in for $300. Once I realized, I told dealer I had an additional $200, behind but changed my mind once I realized the only player more than $200 deep was the reg to my direct left. As the people to my left picked up chips, I added my money on top, and I seat changed a few times until I was directly across from villain and to the direct left of my two marks (high %age l/f'ers, who were fit or fold postflop).
Very early into the session, villain won a $200+ pot off me when I opened in EP, cbet T-high tt flop for 3/4 PSB, continued on a flush turn and tanked when he raised me. He raised me, I tanked a bit, apologized to the table for taking a bit of time, and ultimately folded. Villain showed an offsuit Q and said I musta had JJ. (I assume the other card was the FD Ace and he was showing me to tilt me).
Villain and I had two other sizable pots together, but they weren't huge, and I don't think they help with this hand much
4) Misc. reads on villain's overall play: He plays preflop a bit more like I'd expect from someone who learned the game Live than Online. He doesn't hesitate to open limp in EP, and I've never seen him consider any play other than call or fold when iso'ed. I have a strong sense that he's tempted by playable hands and hands with outs much more than hands with absolute hand strength.
I don't get the sense he's much of an FPSer. He's capable of aggression and putting his opponents in tough spots, and there was one hand where he clearly adjusted his value range against the cardroom's ultimate OMC, but he hasn't raised anyone's eyebrows. He claimed not too many hands before this one that he was running card dead.
Biggest cliffnotes is that I have plenty of reason to think that I'm on the laggier side of aggressive (at least preflop), though I haven't shown any sign of being splashy postflop. All of my light isos were obviously in LP, and I have no idea how much he respects my EP opens.
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