5/10 NL live double checkraise and possible sick river call

[cero_z]

Hi McStinky,

I understand your thought process here; you have a stronger hand than you would need to raise pre-flop and bet this flop, your opponent knows this, and he's very bluff-happy, so you are trying to induce a huge bluff and pick it off. Fine; not a bad strategy in general. But here, your hand is simply not strong enough to risk that.

If you had 2 pair or a set on the flop, your play would make much more sense; maneuver him into making a big move when he's a 2:1 dog or worse. Similarly, you could do this on a less coordinated board with just tptk or an overpair. Here, you made the mistake of thinking that you could spring the trap with just a pair on a board that contains all sorts of ways for you to be crushed.

As played, you should've checked the turn behind IMO with the plan of calling a lot on even terrible-looking rivers like this one (since your opponent is nuts), or better yet, you should've checked behind on the flop and rope-a-doped the rest of the hand. In other words, pot control, even though this is the type of player that you sometimes wouldn't have to use pot control against with tptk. On this board, you do.