50NL - Top Two gets c/r on flop

[Blixx]

Hero pushes.

If he has 88 then reload but he could easily have AK, AQ since you've been laggy and a number of straight/flush draws or pair+draw hands and is trying to move you off AK or thinks your just full of it.

If he has a set/straight you have outs to a fullhouse, a backdoor flush draw and if he has AK you'll probably tilt him.

[Landlord79]

AQ is a good possibility. Limp/Call UTG, ck-raise his TPGK to smoke out any bad CBs. Sounds legit to me.

[mxp2004]

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If he's tough I bet he 3-bets AA/JJ pre-flop. He's probably got some kind of combo draw or a big ace and thinks you are full of it. He checks and then thinks hmm another c-bet from this guy, I prolly got the best hand/draw, I raise.

That being said I think I like a shove b/c half the deck either kills you or kills your action.

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Isn't this a classic case of only being called by a better hand if you push?

When OP has to make his decision, there's $31.50 in the pot. If OP pushes for his last $37, that makes the pot $68.50. Villain is now only getting just a little more than 2:1 to toss another $29.50 into the pot.

With those pot odds, Villain needs 15 live outs to make a call +EV if he's behind. There aren't too many hands Villain can have that gets him there.

Now a donkey would call a push with lesser hand values, and that could make a push a superior play for the reasons quoted by the above poster. But if the Villain is a rational, tough player, he folds to a push, and he calls with the hands that has OP crushed.

[ship_it_trebek]

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AQ is a good possibility. Limp/Call UTG, ck-raise his TPGK to smoke out any bad CBs. Sounds legit to me.

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This happens enough to make this push profitable.

[wikemang]

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