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    Default Ok, here's a couple hands I played strange vs same opp

    I saw someone wanted some more strategy hands posted in here, so here's a couple I played pretty strange. What do you think?

    Villain is a tough regular, cool guy and we chat a lot but he plays a hard aggressive game. I call his re-raises quite often with small PPs and other stuff so I also sometimes call with these hands insetad of 3bet preflop.

    How about these funky lines?


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    Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with A K
    UTG folds, Hero raises to $40, Button folds, SB raises to $115, BB folds, Hero calls.

    Flop: 5 A A ($240, 2 players)
    SB bets $200, Hero calls.

    Turn: Q ($640, 2 players)
    SB checks, Hero checks.

    River: 4 ($640, 2 players)
    SB bets $350, Hero calls.

    Results:
    Final pot: $1340









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    Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG+1 with A A
    UTG folds, Hero raises to $40, CO folds, Button raises to $120, 2 folds, Hero calls.

    Flop: 4 2 J ($255, 2 players)
    Hero checks, Button bets $215, Hero calls.

    Turn: 3 ($685, 2 players)
    Hero checks, Button bets $420, Hero raises all-in $954
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    I don't play these limits but I think you played both of these very very very well. You successfully masked the strength of your hand in both cases. I like the river call in hand 1 in particular. There's no point raising because no hand that you beat would call a raise.

    Nice hands.
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    Hand 1; You seem beat, but I guess it's fine. I don't see a reason for Villain's flop bet btw.

    Hand 2; Standard. You can play it a bit different for metagame reasons, to set up bluff lines etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ravageur
    I don't play these limits but I think you played both of these very very very well.

    Nice hands.
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    1st hand - If he had QQ would he not continue betting on the turn instead of trying a c/r?
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    i like hand 2 a lot, i'm not as sure on hand 1 but I can't really see anything i'd change.
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    who is villian in hand 1?
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    next time please post stack sizes
    1st hand- I like it
    2nd hand- standard slowplay
    I don't see what's all that strange about how you played these hands
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    Oh yea, I did forget to post stack sizes, I believe they were all around 100-150 bbs. I thought the first one was different because the opponent found it strange when I called him down all the way without ever raising. Second one was different because I don't usually slowplay big pairs that hard. Opponent was facial_hair in both hands.
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