Originally Posted by gingerwizard

I find there are two kinds of players who lead at the lower stakes OOP when not the aggressor.

1. The autobettor: Leads whenever he has the chance to on flops. This read takes about 1 or 2 orbits to pick up and if I have it I'll raise to see how they react. (Gold when you can note that he folds to aggression.) These guys want to scare people away from pots, and don't think too much unless they have to make a decision for a lot of money. You can win lots of slightly inflated pots from these guys.

2. The clever opponent: Leads with monsters to inflate the pot early, hoping you have a high pair, a good TPTK or won't let pretty missed preflop hands go. It goes like this: You raise pf with AKs and small blind calls. Flop is KQ7 and he bets 3/4+ of the pot. You're like "WTF is that bet supposed to mean" You raise and he either flat calls and pushes turn, or pushes over your flop raise. Now unless you're seasoned (and I'm not as I fell for this only last night) its bloody tough to lay this down so early in a hand, because you just can't imagine any donk playing a set or top 2 pair that fast. You convince yourself they are pulling a big semibluff or whatever and call and sure enough they show you minimum KQ and you kick yourself. This play works even better if you raised AA and the flop is 965 and villain hits a set.

I'm going to start doing it more with monsters (and the odd draw thrown in for balance) because I really like the premise behind it.

Harder to spot the 2nd type of player because these situations don't come up too often, but i'm often wary of seemingly tight players sitting on large stacks.

Amazing what you start to spot when you TURN OFF YOUR HUD!

Originally Posted by thizzSantaCruz

I have been encountering this a lot recently in micro stakes. It is kind of frutrating to repeatedly get donked into and have them call my raise and lead the turn again.