5-10 NLHE hand, Hot Tub Man VS Father Time

[hot tub man # 1]

5 handed no limit hold em, 5 and 10 blinds. 3 Horrible players, myself, and a friendly man nammed Billy who has to be 200 years old by now. He rarely bluffs and probably wins 75% of his showdowns. He has also been playing professional poker on and off for the last 30 years.

I have K [img]/forums/images/icons/club.gif[/img] K [img]/forums/images/icons/spade.gif[/img] on the button.

Father time open raises from early position, making it 50 to go. One caller to me, I raise to 250 total. Father time calls, and MP folds. I have 800 in front, he has me covered.

Flop: Q [img]/forums/images/icons/diamond.gif[/img] 5 [img]/forums/images/icons/heart.gif[/img] 5 [img]/forums/images/icons/club.gif[/img]

Father time checks, hot tub man checks.

Turn is 10 [img]/forums/images/icons/club.gif[/img]

Father time bets 300, hot tub man folds. Comments?

[FatLoser]

Compared to this she played her aces like one helluva man.

FatLoser

[sam h]

Your preflop play is fine but after that it gets kind of ugly, in my opinion. If an old man who has been playing pro poker for 30 years calls 200 more knowing that you only have 800 behind, then he has a real hand, not something speculative like A5s or 56s. If he holds one of these hands, then I'm not sure how he has played professionally for 30 years. And the only real hands that beat you are AA, which most old men would reraise with preflop, and QQ, which might be a preflop reraiser as well in 5 handed action. I would move all in on the flop. Against a player who bluffs a lot - not this guy, as you said - I might consider checking behind to induce a bluff, with the intent of calling automatically unless an ace hit the turn, in which case I still might call but would have to think about it. But I think the better play is to move in on the flop.

[Robk]

First things first I would have put him to a decision for all my chips before the flop. But anyway... That's a big laydown with only 800 left and almost 600 in the pot, especially after showing irrational weakness on the flop. But no one ever went broke by folding when father time bets 300 dollars. I would have have bet the flop and lost all my money to queens full. If the other players were truly horrible though I might have let this one go too. By the way did this hand take place at the Turning Stone Casino in Upstate New York? Oh how I miss the Stone...

[hot tub man # 1]

When he called my two hundred I knew he had a big pair. I dont think he would have called with Jacks, because he knows for me to raise that much I have a big hand. So I figuured it was aces or queens. I showed the player to my left my hand, then told father time, and he showed three queens. Maybe he would have played a lesser hand the same way, which is why I posted the hand, because it was a tough laydown.

[Matt Flynn]

Very nice laydown, and given your stack size I like your preflop reraise size. If you had a different stack size you might have reraised less - whatever will get him to lay down if he doesn't have AA/KK/QQ and maybe AK/JJ. If he comes over the top preflop you lose less, and if your stack is bigger relative to the pot your can poke at it on the flop. But here you don't want the pot to be half your stack on the flop so pot size control supercedes.

Ni han.