Quote Originally Posted by gabe
Quote Originally Posted by Genitruc
It also reminds me of one of Strassa's recent posts where he 3 barrels with 2nd pair HU vs Ivey. He got flamed a lot for it, but defended his play (successfully imo) by stating that, in the long run, it makes it virtually impossible to put him on a hand, since he's no longer either betting a monster or a bluff, which is kind of what you've done with your range by playing AJ this way here.
theres a big difference here. in that hand, it was headsup and there were things ivey could call him down with. you'll never see a good villian call down with worse here. also, playing TPTK like a fish (check raise, BET, BET, call push) for metagame reasons doesnt really make sense.

i think i would check call turn and block river, if i decided to call preflop and c/r flop. however, i rr pre and dont usually c/r flop.
is it really all that different if you think you'll be multitabling SH games with the villain? Lukie mentioned he hasn't played with villain a lot before, so maybe it's a waste of a spewy play... but if the guy's gonna be around a lot it seems like an interesting play to me.

Of course you're right about it being more relevant in Strassa's situation because of the brutality of preflop play HU bringing lots more marginal holdings to postflop play...

But I doubt that Strassa's "long run" will include a whole lot more postflop battles with Ivey than Lukie might have with villain here if he turns out to be playing regularly on Stars.