Hey Max, great thread. I can't believe I didn't notice it until now, but I never read this forum. GL at 3-6.

Quote Originally Posted by Massimo
Villain in this hand is a pretty good semi-lag. He seems pretty aggro, c/r flops a lot when calling from the blinds. I feel that he made a relatively bad call because he's never seen me do any big bluffs.
I don't mind his call that much for a couple of reasons.

First off I don't necessarily agree with the logic of him having to give you credit because he's never seen you three barrel before. He knows that good players are often going to fire another barrel when the king comes, and he doesn't have to have seen you personally make that bluff to know that you're the type of player who might do that. When I played Danny heads-up at 10NL a few months ago when I was Internet busto, less than 20 hands into our session he re-popped me with 54o and he said he thought I'd give him credit for a good hand because it was the first time he re-popped me. No, I already know before we started playing that he's a good player and he's going to re-pop me a lot so I don't need to give him credit just because it's "the first time" (and only 20 hands in at that). I think he can expect you to bet that turn with most of your range which makes it standard for him to call with second pair.

The river is the interesting street I think. He almost never has a better hand than second pair the way the hand went down, that's why you're making the bluff in the first place. I think he should fold this river a lot of the time, but he has to call some % of the time or else he's getting exploited too easily with his style of calling PFR's from the blinds.

Well I rambled on a lot longer than I meant to here. I just wanted to make the point that a lot of times you can infer that a person might be three-barreling or three-betting light or whatever in a certain spot without actually seeing them do it firsthand. What do you think?