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Old 01-17-2007, 10:11 PM     Post subject: 2 hands with aggressive villain #1 (permalink)  
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 Villain in both of these hands are the same.
Over 905 hands, villain is 30.6/26.59/4.85

We have played a LOT together the last week or so. He is very aggressive. I have seen him willing to stack off several times with top pair ace, weak kicker. He is definitely raising far more often than calling (both pre and post-flop).
He re-raises very light in late position. I have seen him recently re-raise K10s and Q9s on the button pre-flop, on a few tables.
He is also very capable of firing on two streets with a preflop raise, with A high or worse, but he is not a bad player. His aggression helps him win very big pots, when opponents push with even worse holdings.


Hand 1:

-I'm sure many ppl will disagree with me opening from this hand UTG, but try to look past this fact for this hand =)
-I hit flop VERY strong
-After villain's flop raise, its definitely a WA/WB situation, and I likely have no FE
-Is there a point to pushing on any street, given I have no FE, and we are playign reasonably deep? Villain WILL call, whether he is behind or ahead

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No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1
5 players
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Stack sizes:
Hero: $281.14
CO: $43
Button: $63.70
SB: $165.75
BB: $96

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is UTG with
Hero raises to $4, CO folds, Button calls, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: ($13, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $8.75, Button folds, SB raises to $25, Hero calls.

Turn: ($63, 2 players)
SB bets $45, Hero calls.

River: ($153, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.


Hand 2:

-Villain's re-raise on the button means little to me (given that I've seen him do the same with Q9 and K10 pretty recently)
-on the flop, I am confident that my 5's could still be ahead
-The turn doesn't change my read that I could be ahead, and gives me more outs
-how does this river play?
-does this hand play differently, given that UTG is all-in?

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Stack sizes:
UTG: $7.50
CO: $42.20
Button: $239.50
SB: $132.50
Hero: $307.64

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is BB with
UTG calls, CO raises to $2, Button raises to $8, SB folds, Hero calls, UTG calls all-in $6.5, CO calls.

Flop: ($32, 3 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: $30.5, Sidepot 1: $1.5)
Hero checks, CO checks, Button bets $22, Hero calls, CO folds.

Turn: ($76, 2 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: $30.5, Sidepot 1: $45.5)
Hero checks, Button bets $33, Hero calls.

River: ($142, 2 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: $30.5, Sidepot 1: $111.5)
Hero??
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Old 01-17-2007, 11:42 PM #2 (permalink)  
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1-push flop
2-bet 50 fold to a raise
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1-push flop
Mixed feelings here. What are we putting him on? Does he fold AK-AJ to a shove on this board to a flop-I-have-a-draw shove?
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Old 01-18-2007, 02:13 AM #4 (permalink)  
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1-push flop
Mixed feelings here. What are we putting him on? Does he fold AK-AJ to a shove on this board to a flop-I-have-a-draw shove?
Thats what I was thinking as well. Especially as my read said, he definitely was NOT folding any ace.. so I knew I wouldn't be taking him off any better hands, since I had no fold equity.

The only thing I can see in favor of pushing is that if I was behind, I probably had more outs to catch up, than the number of outs he would have if he was behind.
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2 - I have to agree with a blocking bet. Nasty river.
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 Most people are saying a blocking bet is the best play on this river.

Now so far, I've called down with this marginal hand, simply because I thought I was possibly ahead even.

So a blocking bet here, assumes that villain has had a strong enough hand to call a river bet. Is this play better than checking to an aggressve villain, who might bluff with a worse hand, but fold to a bet?

Or is a blocking bet here more for pot control, than it is for value?
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