My aggression factor was too high...
 

15/30 game, 10 handed. Villain is bb, 28/14/1.5. I got nothing more specific to offer about him...

Dealt Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] in MP and openraise. All fold to bb who calls.

Flop J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], and bb leads into me with a bet. I call.

Turn 4 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], BB bets, I call.

River T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], BB bets, I raise.

It just felt to me like BB wanted me to raise so he could toss his mediocre hand, but there were draws I should have maybe punished on the turn?

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

IMO when someone leads into the p/f raiser like this they often are on a semibluff. I think you should raise before the river, especially since you have QQ, AA I could justify playing the way you did.

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

Raise the flop. Especially when the flop includes J10, I find people love to put you on AK. Hopefully he'll three bet and you can cap.

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

Raise the flop. There are too many ways he can pick up a draw with a hand he would have folded to a raise. Barring that, raise the turn. Your hand is vulnerable, make it wrong to draw to all the overcard / gutshot / 1 pair hands.

Good luck.
Eric

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

I don't like raising the flop. It lets them get away from their hand cheaply when they're bluffing into you. I normally raise the turn.

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

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Raise the flop. Especially when the flop includes J10, I find people love to put you on AK. Hopefully he'll three bet and you can cap.

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What advantage does capping have over calling the three-bet and popping the turn?

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

In my experience, people have an easier time folding to a turn raise. However, if you keep pounding them from beginning to end, they are more likely to call, call, call, at times with surprisingly weak holdings.

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In my experience, people have an easier time folding to a turn raise.

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The pot is big enough by the time we raise the turn that with just our overpair, we aren't upset about having him fold.

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

My thoughts: First of all I feel as if I would have been checkraised by him if he held a strong draw. So it seemed more likely that he held a piece of the board and I didn't want to scare him away from it. Second, the pot is so small that I really don't mind him picking up a better draw on the turn (because he is going to be there in any case).

I guess it just seemed to me more likely that he was holding a weak jack, hoping that I would raise and knock him off his hand. Because the pot was small, I would rather allow him to draw to his 5 outs than fold to a raise...

My last justification is that this player really isn't a poor player. I mean he is a little too loose and a little too passive, so I felt like this line from him was just asking me to raise so he could toss his cards. Anyway those are my justifications, bash away.

Re: My aggression factor was too high...
 

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I guess it just seemed to me more likely that he was holding a weak jack, hoping that I would raise and knock him off his hand.

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So you're raising this flop with AK/ AQ then, right?