$20 (Party 40k): Mr. Bluffer makes a move

[comatozz]

This is 4th or 5th hand played. Hand before last villian bluff raised and got called till showdown with < top pair. So he's definitely capable of bluffing but one datapoint may not be reliable.

I was completely confused as to what he could have here.TT was a possibility, 44 or A4 may be less so. But then he may be semi-bluffing or just being a donkey. What do people think? Also, do people find folding here easy?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t40 (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

UTG+2 (Villian) (t2092)
MP1 (t3000)
Hero (t3400)
MP3 (t2960)
CO (t3648)
Button (t2940)
SB (t2960)
BB (t3000)
UTG (t3000)
UTG+1 (t2940)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t40, <font color="#CC3333">Villian raises to t111</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t300</font>, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 (Villian) calls t189.

Flop: (t700) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Villian checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t500</font>, Villian goes all in

[uclabruinz]

In these donkfests you're better off minimizing investment until you have a strong hand and then value betting the hell out of the donks. So in this hand, I smooth call preflop (he ain't folding to your raise) and check behind the flop (he ain't folding to your cbet).

[sccrneo]

Call preflop or at least make it a bit more. I would personally just call preflop w/ position. If you are giong to raise, at least make it more, probably around 500 or so.

After reraising preflop, I would just check behind here. As played, I think you have to fold to his raise. With 6 outs or less, your not getting the odds to draw when behind.

Also, if you just called preflop, the hand plays out much easier as you can fold to a flop bet or just check behind if he still checks to you.