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Old 11-26-2005, 03:09 PM
savman savman is offline
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Default Re: AK 400 NL pot to big hand to small?

since noone is responding i will give my thoughts during the hand and maybe then some useful discourse will result. when villain donk opens from EP this means little more than two cards. first, i am immediately suspicious of any player who makes these ridiculous opening raises regularly. it is almost always an indicator of bad play (in hindsight a fact i could have given more weight to in my thinking) so i pop it up to 30 and this should let villain know i have a big hand. as stated in OP there had been exactly zero pf rr since i had sat down at the table so against unknown opponents if nothing else u should skew their hand range towards AA/KK/QQ. villain calls. now considering the fact villain is going to be oop the entire hand i expect him to call here with hands that can stand to be OOP. e.g. all pp's b/c after all i have given him odds to hit his set providing villain obets the 5.10 rule. sometimes i think he hold a big A here but i certainly wouldnt want to be holding it but thats just me. so i immediately assign him a range of all pp's AK-AQ maybe KQ J10. when the flop comes ten high (rainbow btw) when checked to i bet ~2/3 pot. at this point i feel my hand has been pretty clearly defined. my cards here are really irrelvant, i mean i would rather have AK b/c it makes it less probable villan hold AA KK and when he rarely has QQ JJ then i can actually make a hand that will win at showdown, but all in all i might as well have 72o here b/c when i make this play against an opponent who raises too often i am NOT looking to win at showdown...but since villain i may be drawing a hasty conclusion with only 30-40 hands on villian i defenitly want a hand with some showdown value until i get a better read. moving along. when the turn comes a K this is a very interesting card. now if villian has called my flop bet with an overpair that isnt KK AA, i now am ahead in the hand, but if villain called my flop bet b/c he has flopped a monster this could be a bad card for me. he leads into me for 85. ok, this is an interesting bet. villain has unknowingly made a great bet here. when he bets 85 he is really betting a lot more than that. if i call the pot with be like 320ish and villain will have something like 250ish in his stack. since he is unknown i have no idea what range villain is betting on the river and for what amount, also, i only have a pair, for all in know i am drawing stonecold dead, and the times i am ACTUALLY AHEAD here villain is drawing live with pretty good implied odds. (if he had say j10 or something like that) all in all villain has applied a ton of pressure on me here b/c like i said earlier i feel like i ahve defined "my hand" even if he doesnt beleive i have AA KK QQ, any K is defenitely in my range yet he leads into me anyway. thoughts.
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