AK Against Maniac and Sheep

Bobbrt1329 · #1 04-13-2005, 01:43 PM

The setup: The only players I know a lot about are "Maniac" and "Sheep". Maniac plays every hand, raises preflop with anything half decent, and ALWAYS bets/raises scary boards (three flush, paired board, four straight, etc.). Sheep has been letting Maniac push him around and keeps asking Maniac how he could be so good. (LOL)

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Preflop: Hero is SB with K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG :#A500AF(Sheep)/ raises, UTG+1 :#A500AF(Maniac)/ calls, 4 folds, CO calls, 1 fold, Hero calls, 1 fold.

Flop: (9 SB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)
Hero checks, Sheep bets, Maniac calls, CO calls, Hero raises, Sheep calls, Maniac calls, CO calls.

Turn: (8.50 BB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (4 players)
Hero bets, Sheep calls, Maniac raises, CO calls, Hero 3-bets, Sheep folds, Maniac folds, CO calls.

River: (17.50 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets, CO folds.

Final Pot: 18.50 BB

Looking back at this hand, I played it VERY differently than I normally would (usually this is a preflop reraise and a flop bet). I'm not sure why I played it this way. I guess I was in a bit of a sneaky mood so I wanted to hide my potential strength preflop and then scare the sheep with a checkraise on the flop.
On the river I figure that CO either missed his flush draw or is on a weak king. If he missed a flush draw, the fact that he didn't raise the flop indicates that he's not aggressive enough to bluff the river, so I bet out, hoping he calls with a king.
What do you think?

cold_cash · #2 04-13-2005, 01:49 PM

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Looking back at this hand, I played it VERY differently than I normally would (usually this is a preflop reraise and a flop bet).

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Yep.