NL400 6-handed 6-max game on stars.

Hero is playing kind of wild.. stats 38/20
Villain is Lukieplaya.. solid, very tight, very agressive player. Capable of moves but when a lot of money goes in, he usually has the goods.

3 folds

Hero ($435) opens for $12 on the button with 6c7c.
Villain ($471) calls in the SB.
BB (covers) calls.

Flop 9c 5h 4s

Villain leads for $25. Villain has led at the pot where he wasn't the preflop raiser several times now, never going to showdown. BB folds, hero calls.

Turn: Qh
Villain leads for $60. Hero calls.

River: Th
Villain leads for $125. Hero thinks and raises to $292 (almost a push).


Can anybody analyze this hand? How is hero's call down here? Is a flop raise better? As played, what about the turn call.. does he have the implied odds to call against my range? What about the river bluff? Spew?

What kind of range are we putting villain on?

How is villain's play here if he has...

QQ (deceiving smooth call pf followed by a real fast play to try to get a lot of money in against A9/TT/JJ type hands as quickly as possible, improving to the nuts on the turn.)

Jh8h (real loose preflop call with a stone cold bluff on the flop using a tight image, picking up a strong combo draw on the turn and continuing as a semi bluff)

44/55/99 (does it matter which set it is? - not a rhetorical question. Played too fast against somebody who is generally going to have a very weak hand after the flop since he raises so much preflop?)

45s (betting strictly for value)

22/AJ/air (wheeeeeeeeeeeee)



I'm posting this because I find that sometimes you'll find players that have no idea what to do when faced with a good agressive opponent. Most people tend to play very passively post-flop when they don't raise preflop, which gives such a tremendous advantage to the preflop raiser it's not even funny. Wheeeeee let's check/call, check/raise our sets and hope the guy is a donkey and can't get off his top pair or overpair or other transparent, marginal 1 pair hand. Anyway, let's discuss this.