[Soultwister]

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It has to be one hell of a read for me to not make a normal c-bet and fold to further action.

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From the action I've seen by this player the reads seemed pretty reliable. The only hands he played normal were hands where he had huge hands, like at least TPTK. So his play became quite transparent.

Making a normal bet and then fold would be too costly compared to the % of the times I'll make the best hand and villain has a nice second best hand he wants to continue with.

On this flop with 1 club I have between 27-30% equity vs a one pair hand, and I estimated bluffs would make up a large part of his range, about 20%, 15% at the least.

So my only options here would either be to check-fold or bet pot, price myself in, and call shove. C-betting normally would get me raised to around potsize nearly 100% of the time, which would also resort into me having to fold.

After calling villain showed KQ, Q hit and I won thanks to kicker.

Obviously being more patient would be the less-variance filled option here, but variance is something I do not really care much about.

I just thought this hand was interesting because when you have reliable reads, got a maniac like this one at the table and do not want his playstyle to take advantage of yours (and worse, want to prevent his stack ending up in some nits hand while he leaves table), some more risky plays can beat his style as long as it's mathematically correct.