1/2 NL Live TT vs. Blind AI (+ a very good player to act)

[ChuckyB]

1/2 NL at the casino

UTG is a very good player. Usually plays much higher. His raise doesn't tell me anything about his hand. It could be AA, it could be a napkin and a condom wrapper. He likes playing deep-stacked and is willing to call bets PF with what most would consider sub-standard hands.
He thinks I'm a rock from the one previous time we played together (earlier this week). He covers us both.

MP3 has $31 and wants to go home. He's a gambler.

I have $180 in SB and haven't been sitting too long.

HERO: SB w/T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

UTG raises to $7, folds, MP3 raises BLIND to $31 (all-in), folded to Hero, Hero...


What the hell do I do here? I'm sure I'm ahead of MP3...if not away ahead. I know nothing about UTG's hand.
If I call, he could call or raise.
If I raise to $60 he could call and see the flop.
If he calls $60, I have less than a pot-sized bet.
But a raise from me might scare him off thinking I have a monster.
And I just don't want to fold.
If I raise to $90, I'd be obliged to call off the rest of my stack if he has a monster or decides to bluff me.

Help...

[Kos13]

This is tough to answer without a bit more information on the good player's UTG raising range, past lines he's taken after his UTG raise was 3bet, how often you think he folds JJ/QQ/AK if you 4bet, if he minds racing for 90 bets at this level (since it's lower than he usually plays), etc.

[canvasbck]

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1/2 NL at the casino

UTG is a very good player. Usually plays much higher. His raise doesn't tell me anything about his hand. It could be AA, it could be a napkin and a condom wrapper. He likes playing deep-stacked and is willing to call bets PF with what most would consider sub-standard hands.
He thinks I'm a rock from the one previous time we played together (earlier this week). He covers us both.



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Use your image to reraise here. If he hasn't seen you isolate a short stack with AJ, AQ in the past, he will likely fold all but premium hands here. In a live game, against a tough villain, your image is the most important read at the table. If he does have QQ+, reload. Fairly tough spot though.

[FireStorm]

Make it $70.

[ChuckyB]

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This is tough to answer without a bit more information on the good player's UTG raising range

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Like in the OP, it's any two cards.

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past lines he's taken after his UTG raise was 3bet, how often you think he folds JJ/QQ/AK if you 4bet

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All of this I have a better handle on now, after the session. But at the time I didn't know at all. And that's part of what concerned me.

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if he minds racing for 90 bets at this level (since it's lower than he usually plays), etc.

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I have the impression $180 is roughly a continuation bet at his normal level...so he wouldn't mind racing it. However, I probably should have really thought about exploiting the way he perceived me (tighter than a nun's pooper).

[holdemvin]

$70

and fold to a shove considering he ''thinks youre a rock''