Making a read

[dalecooper]

What does this player have? Will I win or lose this hand?

Information on katwoman: she is sitting on a huge stack as you can see below. She is an aggressive player post-flop who dramatically overbets when she hits one or two pair, or has an overpair. A lot of her stack has been accumulated by people calling her overbets with worse hands, maybe because they think she's bluffing... but she usually isn't. Pre-flop she is less aggressive and too loose, limping in too often and once even limping in middle position with J4o, then calling my button raise as well. I haven't seen her do much pre-flop raising but she plays a lot of hands.

Information on the table: not too long before this I was all-in against pocket aces pre-flop (I held pocket kings), and lost my stack on it. The impression may have come across that I was on tilt.

***** Hand History for Game 1997775737 *****
$25 NL Hold'em - Wednesday, May 04, 11:51:14 EDT 2005
Table Table 37288 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: pokerMeelis ( $66.65 )
Seat 3: krazyjim ( $21.2 )
Seat 4: Sand_0 ( $1.65 )
Seat 7: Kiplinger ( $49.75 )
Seat 9: Joe_Sweden ( $25.05 )
Seat 10: katwoman924 ( $140.85 )
Seat 6: stressball10 ( $32.55 )
Seat 5: patmann4 ( $25.55 )
Seat 8: g0tch1pz ( $24.65 )
Seat 2: trpvibe ( $19.5 )
stressball10 posts small blind [$0.1].
Kiplinger posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ 7s 7d ]
g0tch1pz calls [$0.25].
Joe_Sweden folds.
katwoman924 raises [$0.5].
pokerMeelis folds.
trpvibe folds.
krazyjim calls [$0.5].
Sand_0 folds.
patmann4 folds.
pokerMeelis: I'll give you one of mine
stressball10 calls [$0.4].
Kiplinger folds.
g0tch1pz calls [$0.25].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, Ks, 7c ]
stressball10 checks.
g0tch1pz checks.
katwoman924 checks.
pokerMeelis: they don't hit though
krazyjim bets [$0.25].
stressball10 raises [$0.75].
g0tch1pz folds.
katwoman924 calls [$0.75].
krazyjim calls [$0.5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
stressball10 bets [$1].
katwoman924 raises [$5].
krazyjim folds.
stressball10 raises [$9].
katwoman924 raises [$10].
stressball10 is all-In [$21.3]
katwoman924 calls [$16.3].

[Element187]

her tiny preflop raise makes me think she wants action on the hand, so im going to say AA

[storm75m]

I think your hand is good. I put her on either AK or AA. Does she do that minraise preflop often? At first I was thinking two pair, but i don't see why she would minraise Kx when you said she doesn't pfr often. Slim chance of her having KK, but you said she usually overbets her made hands.

[dalecooper]

I'm going to let this roll for a bit until somebody comes up with the answer... I think it's fascinating trying to dissect hands like this after the fact.

More info: I had only seen her raise aggressively pre-flop once, when an opponent raised 7xBB and she re-raised him 12xBB. On that hand she turned out to have pocket aces. Other hands she had always limped, called a raise, or min-raised, showing down a wide variety of hands from trash on up to pocket jacks.

[Theeggman]

I think you are ahead here. My thinking is that she has K2, 22 or is playing Ax clubs.

[dalecooper]

Eggman hits it - she had pocket twos and came alive when she hit her set. Pretty tough beat I ended up putting on her.