Home game, BVB huge pot.

So my friends and I have a little home game, $.05/$.10 binds $20 buy-in. A couple of us play casinos regularly, but most of my friends just like playing really small. Game tends to be pretty loose, some are ultra aggressive and a few are ultra passive.

I'm in the SB with a regular casino player in the BB. He's pretty weak over-all and he loves to gun for me. I have KK, I raise to $.50 opening from SB, he reraises to $1.50 from the BB, he might be doing this with damn near anything, because he loves to play against me and try to "show me."

I reraised to $4.75 and he called. Effective stacks to start the hand were about $16 and I had him covered.

The flop is J T 9R. The pot is $9.5 and I bet $6.5. I don't love this flop as JJ, TT and 99 are in his range and so is a lot of junk that he'll have to fold and I won't get paid, but he's also got QQ, AJ, KJ and QJ. He may also have JT, yes he'd 3 bet me and call a big 4 bet with any of these hands.

I still don't feel like checking is a good option. He tanks for maybe 30 seconds and calls which leads me to believe he has the straight draw or maybe a tough top pair kind of hand like KJ. The river is a blank, like a 4 or 5 and I move him in. He insta-calls with 88.

I was having a pretty bad night, on my second buy-in. Seriously took no less than 3.5 hours before I took my first pot, had QQ lose to K4 stuff like that. This hand seems pretty standard to me, but I can't say for certain that I was being totally objective and making good poker deicisions I wanted y'all to have a look and see if you think I was just being stubborn getting it in with a really rather weak hand for this board, or is it kinda the standard spot I think it is?

Did you forget to post the turn card?

Sry, it was either a 4 or 5, can't remember. Should have been a blank.

assuming the rest of the money got in on the turn...

you have a 4-bet pot with an overpair and redraw and 1/4 PSB left so there's no decision.


would probably just shove the flop or bet really small to induce a shove-over -- he has at least a pair or straight draw and sometimes both on that flop.

getting it in seems fine

Too much money went in pre-flop to no commit here.

Yeah, I didn't think there was any way of ever folding, but it's just one of those spots where I had been forced to lay down all of my strong hands for hours and I wanted to make sure I wasn't just deciding, "screw it, I'm not folding this time," rather than objectively evaluating and making sure it was the right decision. Since he never has AK here, I knew my redraw was esentially the nuts, which really made me think this was a good play.

Anyway, result spoiler, he calls off his whole stack with 88 and spikes an 8 on the river. A few hands later, I won a pot where I doubled up through someone else with AQ vs KK when I hit top 2 on the turn and we got it in, then I played against the original villan a little while later where I opened from the btn with T9C.

He called from the SB and the BB folded. Flop was 6, 7, 8 with 2 hearts. He donk bet, I raised and he called. The turn paired the 7 which sucked, he donk bet again, I went all in and he called with 99 so just drawing to a 7 or 9 for a win and ten for a chop. He didn't get there and I ended up almost being stuck 400BBs to being 150BB winner. Fun game.