Quote Originally Posted by seven-deuce View Post
Here's a hand I played earlier vs a total fish.

Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (4 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from http://flopturnriver.com/

Button ($5.36)
SB ($7.20)
Hero (BB) ($19.95)
UTG ($5.45)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 10, K
2 folds, SB raises $0.18, Hero calls $0.15

Flop: ($0.40) Q, J, 8 (2 players)
SB bets $0.25, Hero raises $0.65, SB calls $0.40

Turn: ($1.70) 4 (2 players)
SB bets $0.95, Hero calls $0.95

River: ($3.60) Q (2 players)
SB bets $4.25, Hero calls $4.25


Villain's stats - 41/35/75/68/20.9/80/50 - 107 hands

Layout - vpip/pfr/steal%/Fsteal%/3bet/cbet/fold to cbet
I think preflop is a wondrous spot to discuss how we play our range as a whole. Villain is likely opening almost ATC here, but luckily, given his sizing and the quirks of the 5nl blind structure, we only *need* to play 38.9% of the time, though we should obviously play as wide as we get away with.

Since this particular player is just so non-stop aggro in every way conceivable (I'm willing to bet he 4bs a lot more than he flats 3bs), we should play our range very linearly. That might sound ldo, but if villain had a cbet of 50%, let's say, it would change everything. Since villain probably cbets more than 50% of ATC in this spot we want to make it to the flop with a very strong range so that we can not only call often, but also raise plausibly with a good mix of overpairs, TPGK, elite draws along with the usual set and two-pair binks. *This* in turn, means we're going to be flatting preflop with a lot of hands that we would otherwise 3b for value. *This* in turn, means that we can't 3b a whole lot of uncallable garbage before we start to get ourselves in trouble. It also means that we can't flat preflop with hands that can't stand a lot of heat and rely on simply outplaying him, even though he has a massive range, we're deep, and we're IP.

We can probably still flat with 87o, A6o and any two cards 8 or higher, but 53s and Q2s won't flop well enough often enough to warrant a call, and our 3b range is too thin at the top to 3b more than just the very best of our uncallable hands/blockers.

Anyway, I say all that because if it weren't for the fact that we're trying to make our flop range as strong as possible so that we can raise a lot of flops and call down two+ streets a lot, then I would be inclined to 3b KTs against this type of player this deep.

As played, woohoo, we got the perfect hand to raise a flop with (or call flop and raise a turn with if he's as aggro on turns as he is everywhere else). I would raise flop quite a bit bigger, though. Not only does it set stacks up much better for when you hit (especially important since you don't have the NFD), but it makes villain much more likely to flat flop/check turn. We're also not super interested in firing multiple barrels at this player IP, so we might as well get our bullet's worth on the flop and not give him any reason to think he's priced in to peel one.

As played, shove river. Someone playing this aggro is going to think any trips is the nuts, especially bvb. This is not your type of player who's gonna get down on their luck because a 3rd heart came; this is the type of player who once he trips up, figures he finally got that hand that's gonna get him paid after everyone has thought he's so full of shit all the time.