NL100 - Call AI on flop with whiffed AK

[PBJaxx]

Villain is my favorite player in all of the world. He is 65/34/2.3 over 600 hands. The numbers are scewed, though, as he is only slightly laggy 1/2 the time, and crazy-ass, whacko all-in preflop with ATC the other 1/2 of the time. After losing any reasonable sized hand, he opens AI preflop the next few hands, battles back and forth for stacks, etc.

I just cracked his aces a few hands ago, yay!

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: $194.40
UTG+1: $232.90
CO: $118.05
Button: $28.35
SB: $41.30
BB: $95.50

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $4</font>, 3 folds, SB calls, <font color="#cc0000">BB raises to $15</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $53</font>, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($110, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">BB is all-in $46.5</font>, Hero insta-calls.

FWIW, I decided to go all the way on this hand regardless of the board when I 4bet.

-Jaxx

[mikechops]

Put him all in pre-flop, if you are that confident he will call with a wide range?

[PBJaxx]

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Put him all in pre-flop, if you are that confident he will call with a wide range?

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I would if I thought he would call. What I have observed with this guy is that he will ALWAYS call a pot-sized 3 or 4bet preflop but I have seen him fold to big overbets preflop even when tilting. With this hand, I decided to treat is as if I was AI preflop and just take what I assumed was most likely a 60/40 or a 70/30. In general, HE has to have the chance to be the aggressor.

All that said, with some dead money in the pot, getting him to fold while I'm only a 60% fav may have been higher EV. I should do some calcs.

-Jaxx

[WutRUTryin2Hit]

As described, there is no choice but calling. He's a wacko on tilt and you prob either have the best hand or definite outs. Even against a non-wacko, if you have put in that much money preflop, I don't see how you get away from this flop. I mean 8c9cTc or something you can maybe fold on, but I just don't see it here.

[wuwei]

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All that said, with some dead money in the pot, getting him to fold while I'm only a 60% fav may have been higher EV. I should do some calcs.

-Jaxx

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My sense is that this is the case, you might as well just take it down preflop if he'll fold. But anyways, I think your plan to reraise half his stack and put the rest in on any flop is fine against the guy you describe.