TPTK against LAG

[Cloodie]

Villain is very very loose (64/12/4). He's difficult to read as his bet sizes are all over the place. My image is pretty loose by my standards (29/7/2.4) as I've been limping into quite a few pots with KJ, A9 etc. However I've been folding the flop when I've missed.

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UTG+1 (Villain)/ ($36.65)
MP1 ($17.30)
MP2 ($5)
MP3 ($23.55)
CO ($24.35)
Hero ($11.82)
SB ($4.75)
BB ($6.10)
UTG ($5.30)

Preflop: Hero is Button with T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 (Villain)/ calls $0.25, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $1</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG+1 (Villain)/ calls $0.75.

Flop: ($2.35) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, T/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Villain checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $2</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Villain raises to $4</font>


Do I call, fold or push at this point?

[VLV]

I would call and see what the turn brings. I mean its a min bet (I hate min bets) and he could have easily just paired a ten or a seven.

I'd check behind on the turn if an A or another T doesn't come up.

[Cloodie]

Calling was the last of my prefrered options. I was really in push or fold mode.

[Debaser]

You have less than 50bb with tptk against a maniac. Either shove or just call and let him bet the turn, you don't want him folding something like 33-66. It's all going in either way. Whatever you do don't fold here ever.

[matrix]

villain is a moran - we have tptk.

call - call his turn bet ad plan to call or push river all-in. If he checks the turn bet small into him to entice his overaggro ass to raise you so we can get it all-in.

If we push here he just folds most of the time with stuff we beat. If we "show weakness" with a small bet on the turn he'll probably c/r all-in with a lot of hands we are ahead of "to put us to the test" or something like that.

You still lose your stack just as often, but you win a lot more in the long run.

[LordBrun]

Hero ($11.82)

Reload

[Cloodie]

I was dying to isolate him and I did push, unfortunately he had made trips on the flop (that's the way it's been going for me these past few days).

I reloaded as he was soon up to $60 and I fancied getting some chips back from him. Unfortunately I couldn't catch anything and had to watch as everyone else quickly whittled down his stack to nothing. It was pretty frustrating.