NLCASH: Top two vs passive player
 

About 200 hands into a session against a pretty passive player, hasn't been putting many chips in the pot without something good as far as I could tell so far.

Full Tilt (Cash Game): $0.50/$1 NL , 2 players
Fri Aug 17 02:24:26 PDT 2007
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SB ($138.10)
<font color="#ff8c00">Hero ($372.35)</font>

SB is the button.

Precards:
SB posts the small blind $0.50, <font color="#ff8c00">Hero posts the big blind $1</font>.

Preflop: Hero is dealt Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 active)
<font color="#6495ed">SB calls $0.50</font>, <font color="#ff8c00">Hero checks</font>.

Flop: 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($2, 2 active)
<font color="#ff8c00">Hero bets $2</font>, <font color="#329632">SB raises to $4</font>, <font color="#ff8c00">Hero raises to $13</font>, <font color="#329632">SB raises to $35</font>, Hero...???

Re: NLCASH: Top two vs passive player
 

With the reads you've provided, re-raise to like 78 and call a push. Against an agressive opponent, I probably c/push the turn. However, villain in this hand being passive, no reason to slowplay cause he prolly has something good esp since he 5-bbet lol.

Re: NLCASH: Top two vs passive player
 

Hmm so you're losing to sets, 99 and QQ aren't likely because there's only one combination of each. He's most likely stacking w/ a worse two pair here. I see passive players get married to KK-AA here a lot and stack off with it.

Re: NLCASH: Top two vs passive player
 

With a passive player, that 3rd raise almost always means a huge hand. I discount him having AA or KK here, becase I think he would have raised preflop (he usually limped, but he had min-raised preflop a few times). The only hands I see him putting in that 3rd raise with are 44, Q4, 49, Q9, QQ (unlikely) and 99 (unlikely).

Is that 3rd raise from a pretty passive player enough of a read to maybe try to keep the pot small? Or does everyone think it's just a cooler if he has us beat?

Re: NLCASH: Top two vs passive player
 

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it's just a cooler if he has us beat

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If villain's most likely holdings are 44/q4/49/q9, you're ahead. Also, I don't see why it's totally out of the question for villain to have AA/KK.