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Poker Stars, $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $9.89 (197.8 bb)
BB: $5 (100 bb)
UTG: $3.61 (72.2 bb)
MP: $7.70 (154 bb)
Hero (CO): $8.64 (172.8 bb)
BTN: $5.22 (104.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A K
UTG raises to $0.10, MP folds, Hero calls $0.10, 2 folds, BB raises to $0.45, UTG folds, Hero calls $0.35

Flop: ($1.02) A J 6 (2 players)
BB bets $0.50, Hero calls $0.50

Turn: ($2.02) K (2 players)
BB bets $1, Hero calls $1

River: ($4.02) 7 (2 players)
BB bets $2, Hero??

Villain is playing 32/16/22.2 with a Aggression factor of 3.0 over 38 hands.

So preflop i recently added AsKs to my cc range from CO vs UTG open after i watched some videos from w34z3l, but in this specific case i would always cc because both the BTN and the SB(very deep) are huge whales so i wanted to encourage MW action with the suited A.
On the flop, do you thing that there is any value on raising him? I think a call here is good especially vs an opponent that seems agressive and will probably continue to barrel, or do you think i should re-raise to protect from the diamond draw?
On the turn we improve to 2pair, however i don't think this is actually a great card for us, because because we could beat KK, and now we can't, also QT got and i think that hand might be on villains SQZ range. Just call here as i did or re-raise? I think that by re-raising we might be isolating our hand vs better ones right?
On this river do you call vs the 3rd barrel, do you shove, or fold?
We only need 25% equity, the thing is that is very rare to see someone fire 3barrels with a worse hand than ours in this player pool, and if i had a larger sample on villain confirming that he is somewhat aggressive i would call, but with such a small sample what sould we do?


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AlvisR
Joined: 27.02.2009

i like call in here because we are going for split or worse 2pair, does he have set? Yes sometimes, but not that often. Calling river is a good option imo.


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metza
Joined: 28.01.2012

Calling preflop is a huge mistake here. The reason why weasel will tell you to flat AK vs UTG is because against a decent player we will have trouble 3betting and shoving against a 4bet while still having the best hand.

Here however, the guys stack size makes it clear he is a fish, he is playing 72.2bb stack. He minraises also. You are missing a ton of value here. Fish hate folding pre so you can make it 50c easily. If BTN and SB are huge whales they will still call 50c as well.

Call flop is good, let him keep bluffing. I think you can raise T for value, he will not fold AQ, AJ, AT, KQ, KJ, KT, QJ, QT to a raise of 2.50


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Metza i can see your point in 3beting on this specific situation.
Thank you guys for the help, i did call the river bet and he showed AQ.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

Is push on the river an overplay?


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