Not the usual AJo hand

[BigEndian]

MP3 will raise with a wide variety of hands (17% PFR, 51% flops, but only over 30 hands). SB is a solid player that I respect (7.8% raise, 17% flops).

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: BigEndian is CO with J/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BigEndian 3-bets</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB calls (after a few seconds of thought), <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 caps</font>, BigEndian calls, SB calls, UTG+1 calls.

Flop: (18 SB) A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets</font>, UTG+1 calls, MP3 calls, BigEndian calls.

Turn: (11 BB) 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets</font>, UTG+1 calls, MP3 calls, BigEndian calls.

River: (15 BB) 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, UTG+1 checks, MP3 checks, <font color="#CC3333">BigEndian bets</font>, SB calls, UTG+1 folds, MP3 folds.

Final Pot: 17 BB

- Jim

[Rico Suave]

Big Endian:

You forgot to raise the turn.

--Rico

Edit: Haven't seen you around much, what gives?

[private joker]

I like this the whole way. Nice hand.

[Grease]

Good one. Nice river bet. I like the 3-bet PF as well.

[BigEndian]

Maybe I was giving up too much respect to the player, but my thoughts at the time:

His range of hands to cold call in the SB with were not ones that I would want to raise with when he bets out into the field and into a 3-bettor.

My quandry here is the flush draw and the long shot draws like pairs spiking if my Ace is good. But I was so locked in to thinking this player had me beat that I couldn't bring out a raise. One of those situations where you feel like your read is so strong that you doubt where your value is in the raise.

This also lead me to wonder why I bet the river if I felt my read was so strong.

I've been taking a bit of a break. I haven't logged 20 hours of poker in a week in a long time. Some of it was frustration, some was just getting distracted by other things. Ironically, I haven't had a huge downswing. Thanks for asking /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

- Jim

[Joe Tall]

You've got to raise this turn if you are behind the SB this time the overlay from the clowns will make up for it.

Peace,
Joe Tall

[Alobar]

I fold pre flop. I don't think 30 hands is enough to someones 17% PFR is high enough that I want to 3 bet AJo

Raise the turn. If SB 3 bets you have an easy fold, you are closing the action and no one raised so none of the other players have an 8. Make them pay for whatever crap/flush draw they are calling with and it will subsidize you against the SBs hand.