1/2NL: NFD 150bbs deep between a strong range and an inscrutable one
It's been a strange table with a lot of dynamics changes, but that's probably not important because V1 is new to the table and V2 is pretty straightforward. At this point, the table is pretty weaktight.
V1 (~$280-290) is a middle-aged white guy who's a little rough around the edges. He's a confident reg, and when he sat down, someone was like, "No 2/5 games running right now?" He likes to be the hero. A year or two ago, I remember barreling him on an A river, and he said, "That's a scary card, huh? I call" and slammed his 3rd pair on the table face-up to win the pot. We rarely run into each other at the tables for whatever reason, though I see him around often. I'd be a bit surprised if he remembers me specifically, but I'm young, I'm sitting on $700, and I'm shuffling chips, and that's about as much as he knew about me last time he made a hero call, so it probably doesn't matter really. There was another time where I was playing at a table with his wife (who is also a reg), and he came over during a tournament break and talked about how he'll be out soon because someone sucked out on him, and ~"you know how I get, I start making bad calls"~ etc.
So, yeah, he's that kind of player. That style probably works well enough against all the young, aggressive bucks at 2/5NL, and I don't get the sense the game has beaten him down at all. He definitely has all the standard preflop leaks; he doesn't value position, he doesn't raise enough, and he puts far too much faith in his ability to outplay people postflop with a wide range from any position. I've never seen him do anything particularly aggressive postflop, but again, VERY limited history. He sat down with $300 and hasn't won a hand, so he's got a little bit less than that now.
V2 (~$250) is a middle-aged white guy who looks more straight-edged. He's really quiet, pretty tight and very straight forward, so even when he had the biggest stack at the table for most of the time ($700+), he was very easy to forget. We've been at the same table for a couple hours at this point, and I've changed seats and restraddled a LAGtard and have been doing a good amount of PFR'ing and betting, but I'm on friendly terms with the table and have a winning image, and this guy seems far too straight-forward to really take any big stands (and he has shown no signs of adjusting to me).
V2 lost most of his stack in a set of circumstances that might very well have been tilting to many people (hit and run by an unknown with 77 > big pair AIPF), but he seems totally unperturbed, and his game continues to be exactly the same as far as I can tell.
Anyway, he's tighter than most preflop, and he never ever seems to make it to the turn in hands unless he's a big player in that hand.
OTTH!
PREFLOP:
Folds to V1 in EP who limps, folds to me in MP who looks down at A4cc and I make it $10, folds to V2 in LP who makes it $25. Folds around, and V1 instantly calls and I count to 5 in my head and call.
I had been alternating between $13 and $10 and mixing in some $6-7 in steal situations, though I'm not sure how much of that V2 has seen and I'm not sure how much V1 cares.
FLOP: ($72 post-rake)
9c 9s 8c
V1 and I check. V2 makes it $75. V1 thinks for a good long while before calling, though he seems totally comfortable and I never really got the sense he was close to folding or raising. Hero ???
V1 appears to have something between $150 and $200 left behind, and V2 has no more than $150 behind.
I'm open to critiques on all 3 actions I've taken to this point. If your recommendation is to call, please provide plans on each of a:
- Red K
- Red 2
- Club
- A
