[Das Budrick]

Your initial flop bet is pretty standard because it takes the pot down a lot and if we raises or smooth calls we know we are pretty much beat and done with the hand. When he raises, this is an easy fold.

An unknown villain at 10NL will very often have garbage here; the problem is that it's mostly garbage that beats you, AXs, KXs, AX0, KXo, not to mention good hands like 22, AK etc. You're behind a lot of his raising range so just dump it. As played, turn is a standard c/f, c/r is terrible.

Going with your read is fine when you have a read, but by definition when villain is unknown, you have no reads on him. Only do this if you have a solid read that villain is doing this with air a reasonable amount of the time.


I wrote this as though you were shoving the turn for value. If you are trying to represent a monster and get him to fold a better hand, he is NOT paying attention to what you have at 10NL. He is paying attention to what HE has. If he has an ace he isn't putting it down.