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Hand 3 (Day 2, few hours in)
Villain in this hand is a female nutcamper. However, she will bet into draws, steps up the betting when they hit, slowplays very strong hands, etc. Her preflop raise-calling range probably involves any pair, any decent ace, and reasonable connecting cards 78o+ (though less likely from EP unless a lot of other players are in the pot). She doesn't necessarily bet her strong hands all that hard - and frankly I'm a little freaked out by her in this hand.
SB ($200ish)
Hero ($225ish)
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with A Q .
UTG folds, Hero raises to $10, 5 folds, SB calls $10, BB folds.
Flop: ($20ish) A T 3 (2 players)
SB bets $15, Hero calls $15.
For the most part I should have reraised this flop for information or pot-building if my hand is best. AT is definitely in her preflop calling range, as are TT and 33...not sure about AK but I would not be at all surprised if she just called with this hand preflop rather than reraising it. I elect just to pot size-control call and try to determine her hand strength on later streets.
Turn: ($50ish) A (2 players)
SB bets $15, Hero calls $15.
I just can't be sure that this lady doesn't have AK, AT, TT or 33. However, the fact that she merely bets the same amount on the turn should have tipped me off to the fact that she probably has a weaker ace than mine. I just couldn't see her calling preflop with a weaker ace that didn't already have me smoked (AT mainly). I should have taken control of this hand on the flop though, in which case I could just value bet here. Now I'm not sure how big of a pot I want to play yet, and it's a pretty nice pot anyway, so I just call again...pretty ridiculous. This player's prior showdowns basically tilted me into playing poorly against her and possibly not getting maximum value from my hand.
River: ($80ish) K (2 players)
SB bets $15, Hero calls $15.
Results in white below($110ish):
SB has Ah Js (three of a kind aces, K-J kicker)
Hero has Ad Qd (three of a kind aces, KQ kicker)
Hero wins $100ish.
Now there's no way she's betting that little with the nuts or even AT on the turn, or even KK on the river (which she would have reraised preflop). Since I haven't reraised before this point I certainly should have at least bagged another $30 out of her on the river. Mistake...got a read from it for future hands, but really lost a lot of value here along the way and looked like a donk.
So I let myself be tilted by this player's prior holdings/showdowns, rather than going based on standard betting pattern reads and playing from those...lost value stinks.
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