NL400 2 weird hands.. need help

FiSheYe · #1 01-09-2007, 05:16 PM

40/21/3.6 wts:9 / 73 hands

Opponent seemed to be very unreasonable and quite agressive.. A fold might have been to weak and if I 3bet flop he might call with a weak pair as well (quite unreasonable guy).. His Raise could be a pure bluff and I think my ace was live, too.. I thought he is agressive enough to hang himself on that turn..

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $4 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

UTG ($444.80)
MP ($33.40)
Hero ($565.85)
Button ($281.20)
SB ($791.80)
BB ($232.20)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
2 folds, Hero raises to $16, Button calls $16, 2 folds.

Flop: ($38) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets $28, Button raises to $70, Hero calls $42.

Turn: ($178) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks.

River: ($178) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)

Hero bets $104, Button folds.

Final Pot: $282

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29/12/2.1 wts:22 / 350 Hands
loose guy, haven't paid too much attention to his gaming lately, but he seems to be capable of playing super poor poker. Might overplay hands...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $4 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

SB ($400)
BB ($995.65)
UTG ($211.80)
MP ($400)
CO ($162.05)
Hero ($780.60)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $4.
2 folds, CO (poster) checks, Hero raises to $20, 1 fold, BB raises to $128, CO folds, Hero calls $108.

Flop: ($262) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks.

Turn: ($262) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
BB bets $104, Hero raises to $236, BB raises to $424, Hero raises to $652.6, BB calls $228.60.

River: ($1567.20) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)

Final Pot: $1567.20

Extremely sick hands lately.. A huge preflop reraise from a idiot.. Maybe AK, AA-JJ hard to predict.. I've seen player doing that freaky [censored] with worse hands than that.. May I muck preflop or raise? I liked to call and reevaluate on the flop.. I would have folded directly here but he allowed me to see a free card and bam Set Queens so how do I play that?
Flop check screams for a monster but raising that much preflop is just bad.. so what can I do ? Just running extremely poor lately, seems I lose every deepstacked pot so I feel a bit afraid about my performance. Thoughts appreciated..

schwza · #2 01-09-2007, 05:48 PM

since villain is pretty short, i'd push flop. sure, he might call you with a marginal hand, but he might also be raising air and have to fold. also it's going to be a bitch to play oop on the turn/river whether or not you hit, as you saw.

on the turn villain has 200 left in a 178 pot, so i like the check. he's going to bet a lot of weak hands like 7x7d and Tx and then he'll be committed.

it's hard to think of any hands that villain can have that will call a river bet but would not bet if you checked to him. Jx or better will bet pretty much every time, and call a c/r since it'll be small. i doubt he has a T after this action, since he didn't bet the turn. anyway, he may bet the river (dumbly) with a T. there's no reason to think he has an 8, and i doubt he's calling anything with a 6.

so i'd c/r to get it all when he has something decent and give him one more chance to let him bluff.

hand 2

i have no idea what he has with the big 3bet. i'm definitely not folding, and i like calling better than reraising. from there, looks totally standard.

Hoopster81 · #3 01-09-2007, 06:18 PM

1. Donking turn for 1/2 pot works well against poor players.

2. Standard.

callme · #4 01-09-2007, 09:10 PM

In hand 1 - if thats the kind of player i suspect - just lead the turn again (just make it 100) mostly they will call you if they see the slimmest chance to improve their hand