Street by street vs TerrorOfSweden, EPT Barcelona (Hand w/ masters?)

[Ansky]

Since we never do those anymore, this is as close as a decent hand I could think of to do one, and I wanted to post a hand before EPT Baden starts on Sunday.

25/50 blinds to start the tournament, 10k starting stack, Day 1b of EPT Barcelona main event, 8k euro buy in.

For most of level 1, I was in the restroom feeling deathly ill, and evacuating my bowels like there was an air raid siren in my intestinal tract. I missed probably half the hands, and whenever I was at the table I looked like hell, and was sweating and looking very uncomfortable. I think I had 1 too many paellas.

So by 50/100 the table probably thinks I'm either some donkey satellite winner who is terrified and is panicing, or think I am crazy.

Finally after about 30 minutes into 50/100 my stomach feels fine and I am playing some poker. 2 to my left is a mega euro LAGtard, TerrorOfSweden. He is reraising or raising almost every single hand, NEVER folding to reraises once he has entered the pot, and his vpip is prob over 90%. He is completely fearless, and prob doesn't care if he loses in the first hour.

I have about 12k (ToS covers), and probably a relatively tight image thus far.

I open A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] utg to 300, ToS makes it 850, folds back to me.

Fold, Call, RR?

[IWEARGOGGLES]

99% of the forum will say call so I will say it for them.

Call please. 4-betting is bad. You're out of position. Call down on lots of boards. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Euro LAGtards. I can't wait for Monaco.

[Beachman42]

Call. I'm not a fan of building a big pot OOP with A/J. However, you are likely ahead.

Another thought - if ToS doesn't know that great and almighty Ansky, how can you BEST use your unusual table image in this hand? Lots of calls followed by a river push? Just tryin' to anticipate where this is going . . .

[0evg0]

call but 4betting isnt that bad at all

[mikeJ]

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call but 4betting isnt that bad at all

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[Ansky]

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Call. I'm not a fan of building a big pot OOP with A/J. However, you are likely ahead.

Another thought - if ToS doesn't know that great and almighty Ansky, how can you BEST use your unusual table image in this hand? Lots of calls followed by a river push? Just tryin' to anticipate where this is going . . .

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Well, to play devils advocate, if I had to guess waht I was going to do post flop I'd say... It depends on what flops!

[Beachman42]

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Call. I'm not a fan of building a big pot OOP with A/J. However, you are likely ahead.

Another thought - if ToS doesn't know that great and almighty Ansky, how can you BEST use your unusual table image in this hand? Lots of calls followed by a river push? Just tryin' to anticipate where this is going . . .

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Well, to play devils advocate, if I had to guess waht I was going to do post flop I'd say... It depends on what flops!

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LOL I wasn't tryin too hard to be a smartAss, but IMHO your unusual image is a tool to be considered in this hand . . .

[g-p]

id call and i would fold 0 flops

[yellowsub]

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id call and i would fold 0 flops

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you want to c/c on 765 monotone? k54r? T96 2spades?

gonna get us in a lot of trouble if your mentaility is c/c any flop imo

[mikeJ]

OH well. I guess I shall just vote for bet/3bet on flop, though, unless he's really overaggro, he's just going to be folding a lot of the air he's would've bet if we checked and flatcalling w/ a lot of his 1 pair hands for pot control. Of course, if he was raising lots of air, this becomes the easiest bet/3bet ever.

But overbet c/r seems meh and a regular sized c/r leaves you in a crappy spot if you get called on flop. I kinda like c/c, but it sucks if he gets to showdown w/ like a small pp or bottom pair.

Idk, I think it's close between c/c and b/3bet.