[Albert Moulton]

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I'm sitting on a little over $100

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You would have more options if you had more money. Buy-in full at a game like this, then play very tight. And don't bluff much.

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UTG limps, lagtard bumps to $15, guy to his left calls $15. I'm basically discounting the caller as a fish, seems weak-tight.

First Q, shove/call/raise (how much)?

I elected to go $45.

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$45 is good. It's less than a full pot-sized raise, but not so much that you won't get a caller (or two) in a game like this. If you get 1 caller, the pot is over $90 and you only have $55 left, so all your money is going in on any flop unless a K or A flop and somebody donk bets into you all-in. Even then, you might have to call if the donk bettor ever bluffs in a situation like that without at least top pair.

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The guy behind me tanks for a few seconds (I'm assuming that he was thinking about his RR), and puts in his whole stack of reds ($220ish) ... [other players] fold ... Villain is showing his cards to the two guys to his left.


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After making a big bet, sharing cards is a tell from Mike Caro's book of tells that he has a big hand. He wouldn't show it to his friends if it was a bluff, JJ/TT/some other marginal hand. So, it's probably KK or AA. Your problem is that so much is now in the middle relative to your remaining stack that if he ever has AK here, then you have to call. And given the loose aggressive nature of the game, I think he will have AKs here often enough, "showing off" big slick to his friends, that you have to call.

I wouldn't vomit. When you play with a 1/2-sized stack this kind of thing is going to happen all the time. And it isn't necessarily bad. The fact that you are not full-stacked actually increases the chance that the guy has AK and is willing to gamboooool for just $100 + the other money in the pot.