No fear! (Joker gets aggressive)

[private joker]

I came out of my wimpy weak-tight shell in this hand and might be accused of overplaying it.

Great Commerce 20/40 game. I'm in MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Hijack and CO are both horrible, horrible players. CO is the worst, but HJ has shown some erratic, bad tendencies, mostly peeling anything and everything on the flop, then never ever folding rivers even when he's obviously beat.

Both of these guys have just gotten back from a smoke break and posted their blind+dead blinds, so there's 3SBs in dead money already in the pot, plus the SB and BB. The SB is the only other good player at the table, 2+2er onegymrat.

There's an EP limp, and MP1 to my right raises. He's shown some good aggression so far but is losing. He has no problem 3-betting AQ preflop and also has no problem getting super passive on big streets.

So doing some quick math, I decide to cold-call since we'll be 6-ways to the flop. Hijack and CO both call, onegymrat folds, but the BB folds too. The limper calls and we're actually 5 to the flop for 12.5 SBs.

The flop comes out Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. Checked to MP1 who bets, I call, HJ raises, CO folds, limper folds, MP1 calls. I 3-bet. HJ and MP1 both call.

Turn is the 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Check, I bet, and now HJ tanks. At least 10 seconds and seems genuinely troubled -- not an act. He's a confused, sloppy middle-aged Asian gambooler and not the type to try and psych people out with reverse tells. He's also lost several pots to me. After tanking he raises. MP1 turbomucks, and I 3-bet. Now HJ tanks again and starts cursing himself in Chinese and finally puts 8 more chips in the pot.

The river is the Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I bet!!!