Is it worth messing with this guy?

[dalecooper]

My table image = mega-LAgg. I'm not up that much but I've taken a bite out of everybody at the table, and a couple bites out of the villain. (On a previous hand I raised from the button with JT s00ted and ended up rivering a straight against this same guy's pocket jacks to take down a pretty nice pot.)

***** Hand History for Game 3009565253 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, November 09, 17:59:18 EDT 2005
Table Table 66478 (6 max) (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: garchooch ( $72.23 )
Seat 3: BlazinHeat ( $29.04 )
Seat 5: ademm ( $106.51 )
Seat 6: Dave5000 ( $46.40 )
Seat 4: stressball10 ( $74.65 )
Seat 2: Jarhead_11 ( $31.05 )
Jarhead_11 posts small blind [$0.25].
BlazinHeat posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ 9c Ah ]
stressball10 raises [$2].
ademm folds.
Dave5000 folds.
garchooch folds.
Jarhead_11 calls [$1.75].
BlazinHeat folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, Ks, Td ]
Jarhead_11 bets [$6].
stressball10 ??

[STIdrivr]

you are under the gun with a very likely dominated hand, i think you should fold pre flop or you are going to run into trouble more often than not.

[Surf_Thug]

Usually people wait for strong hands to play back at an extreme Lag, which is exactly what you want. So don't give him the benefit of paying him off. Just get out of the hand at a minimal loss and start raising again next hand.

[dalecooper]

you are under the gun with a very likely dominated hand, i think you should fold pre flop or you are going to run into trouble more often than not.

If I'm going to run over a table, I'm going to run over it. For the purposes of this discussion, ignore the pre-flop action; I'm not interested in changing that part of my game. (I don't always raise A9o UTG - I don't usually even play it in that seat. But when I'm LAgging it up, I certainly do. And sometimes with a lot worse than A9o, frankly.)

In this actual hand I figured he had flopped top pair and just folded it. I will mess with people but this seemed like a bad occasion for it. A better occasion would be a hand like this one:

***** Hand History for Game 3010810858 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, November 09, 21:37:26 EDT 2005
Table Table 66878 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: paulshen ( $42.49 )
Seat 2: bigball111 ( $67.30 )
Seat 5: eddiefeltzon ( $38.05 )
Seat 6: optikloon ( $48.60 )
Seat 3: stressball10 ( $44.50 )
stressball10 posts small blind [$0.25].
eddiefeltzon posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ 4d Qd ]
optikloon folds.
paulshen folds.
bigball111 calls [$0.50].
stressball10 raises [$1.75].
eddiefeltzon calls [$1.50].
bigball111 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, Kd, Ac ]
stressball10 bets [$2].
eddiefeltzon raises [$4].
stressball10 raises [$6].
>You have options at Table 66084 (6 max) Table!.
bablumuncher has joined the table.
eddiefeltzon folds.
stressball10 does not show cards.
stressball10 wins $15.90

[Pingviini]

First is a standard fold.

I agree with your PF standards, which are suitable if you are an experienced player. If the table isnt too aggro my PF standards are about the following. Raise any non-suited onegappers, suited two gappers, any PP, almost any Ax, any 2 faces, in any position. I might tighten up a bit OOP if they start playing back at me.

I guess you had a really good read on the guy in hand #2.

[dalecooper]

Pretty good, yeah - I knew he was testing me a lot with re-raises and this seemed like a good opportunity to rep the ace, if not AK specifically.

[Miffed22001]

gotta fold the top hand. obviously he likes his hand enough to bet it at you so id just fold it. Pingvinni's preflop hands looks good to me its similar to my selection although im not so sure on unsuited one/two gappers but hey ill learn. raising A9 utg as a loose player is not a bad option imo, this was just a scenarion where you needed to drop it i guess. Nice read on the second hand, i only wish they'd believe me when i did that with jack.

[Pingviini]

What is it here everybody spelling my name wrong!! ***** foreigners

EDIT: typing corrected

[STIdrivr]

i didnt really pay attention when i read this at work so i didnt know it was 6-max, that changes things.

[Miffed22001]

**miffed slaps pingvIIni with a large fish**
shhh penguin

apologies for spelling your name wrong