Deep and Marginal

[Genitruc]

Villain seems to be playing lagg pre and kinda snug and smart post. He's running 26/21.

My guess is that he's calling lots of speculative hands pre in this spot. His opening range is obv pretty wide from CO pre.

From memory :

Eff stacks of 440$, nl200

fwiw I'm running 23/19 and haven't been out of line. Haven't done anything spectacular or terrible at the table.

Villain raises to 7$ from CO, I repop to 32$ from SB w

flop is .

I bet 50$ into 65 ish (decision #1)

Villain raises to 140. I call (decision #2)

turn is

I check, villain bets 150$ into 280ish. I have 270 total and would have 120 behind if I called this bet.

Help plz.

[sauce123]

if u 3bet just make it 26- not cause its more/less correct but cause villain will put you on a wider range and so he will be easier to play postflop, cause here im rly not able to know whether he puts you on a big hand preflop a large % which makes his flop raise super-tough to play against.

so really as played i fold flop and hate it.

given ur line preflop though i think check/call flop is best cause we just really, really need to misrepresent our hand on some street this deep oop- so make JJ/QQ the top of our flop check/call range seems like a good place to do it.

definitely, definitely fold turn.

calling preflop is also not a terrible option here and there are many good players who would advocate it though im not sure im one of them.

[thizzSantaCruz]

I would advocate smooth calling pf. This is a hand where we want to play a medium sized pot so why put ourselves in a difficult decision by 3betting?

As played by calling his flop raise you are effectively commiting yourself when he bets the turn, which will be a large percentage of the time. I think you have to fold and move on.

[giraffe]

i fold on the flop. i don't see the point in calling. you have to make the decision on the flop whether you want to play this hand for stacks and it's not good enough for 200BB

[Genitruc]

maybe not as interesting as I thought

fwiw I was villain w

[mixchange]

actually it is pretty interesting to me gen. I would have played it like sauce.

how can you call someone 3betting out of the sb like that with a mid suited ace? I would consider it a mistake, unless you had a good read on sb and its almost a2c for you.

[Genitruc]

I called cuz we are deep, I have position, and I think his hand is well-defined to me (prob TT+, AJs+) while my range is probably not very well defined to him

[thizzSantaCruz]

wait so did he look you up?

[Genitruc]

nah i don t even know if he had JJ lol but it's kind of what it felt like... he folded turn.