88 reraised pot

villian is fakesky on ftp
25-50 are the blinds
red 88 is the hand

its early in the match so we havent tangled too much yet except for one hand he won earlier where he bet/called all in w. red 77 on 6 high monotone flop vs my KQ(q hi flush draw) and held.

ive played him a lot on PS HU sngs and hes decent taggy capable of moves now and then and usually pretty passive preflop but shows decent pressure postflop in position.

he raises to 150, i make it 550 he calls

J 6 4 three [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]s
I cbet 500, he raises to 1400

5k effective stacks. he views me as laggy in position and tag OOP. im sure he assumes i am capable of cbetting anything i reraised with which, as i said, is a pretty tight range but def includes whiffed overcards, underpairs, etc type hands that i may bet/fold with so he is prob capable of raising flop with a semiwide range as well. not sure about him but i have seen some agro monkeys make this play and fold to a shove HU in some weird looking flops.

with that said I figure I can have the best hand here a decent % so I don't think folding is best. question is who likes a shove and who prefers to see a turn?

if turn blanks do you prefer check and let him bet with plans of felting all in or should we just openjam turn?

if turn is diamond who and we check and he bets ~1/2 pot who thinks 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] is good enough to felt and who thinks its easy c/f?

first person to vote said:
call, openshove, openshove.

care to explain your thoughts on openshoving a diamond turn? doesn't it seem that he folds almost any nonflush hand (occasioanl crying call from sets trying to pair board) and never folds better? it's a pretty close call whether or not he calls with 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] but I think he's capable of folding most of those

[greywolf]

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villian is fakesky on ftp
25-50 are the blinds
red 88 is the hand
he raises to 150, i make it 550 he calls

J 6 4 three [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]s
I cbet 500, he raises to 1400

5k effective stacks. he views me as laggy in position and tag OOP. im sure he assumes i am capable of cbetting anything i reraised with which, as i said, is a pretty tight range but def includes whiffed overcards, underpairs, etc type hands that i may bet/fold with so he is prob capable of raising flop with a semiwide range as well. not sure about him but i have seen some agro monkeys make this play and fold to a shove HU in some weird looking flops.

with that said I figure I can have the best hand here a decent % so I don't think folding is best. question is who likes a shove and who prefers to see a turn?

if turn blanks do you prefer check and let him bet with plans of felting all in or should we just openjam turn?

if turn is diamond who and we check and he bets ~1/2 pot who thinks 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] is good enough to felt and who thinks its easy c/f?

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bump, more voting plesae

[IcarusJam]

I'm gonna start by stating the obvious. It's heads up and three cards to a flush drop. All scare cards, and you C-Bet. Hu it is standard (soemtimes) to raise that C-bet on scare cards that missed you. Cold calling here should freeze him up unless you have him. The flop call is emminent, and if it turns a diamond, idk flip a coin. :-D

that doesnt answer the question of what to do if you check and he bets on a blank turn

[TheWorstPlayer]

push the flop. then you dont have that question.

[AcidKnight]

I'd rather get it in on the flop here. You will often have either the best hand or the best draw if you are called and you definitely have FE against better hands at this point. If you flat call the flop, the pot gets bloated and you're each left with about 1 PSB each, so there isn't much wiggle room there.

[iRock]

Why did you c bet so small? was it to induce a raise or keep the pot small? I think you should c-bet a little more and then your decision becomes easier. Once I cbet here, I would prob fold, as weird as it sounds.