Confused in Scugog

[Diplomat]

Live 20-40. Somehow I got Gamblor to drive us to the casino for some live action. I had almost forgotten what chips feel like. Anyway, so-so 20-40 game with too many tight-boring types and a couple of tricksters for flavour. 11-handed.

Thinking but tilting posts in the CO. He's probably played over 200 hours with me and is smart enough to remember how loose-whacky I play.

Anyway folded to him who checks. I raise on the button with ATo. Both blinds call. Both blinds hate me and would call here out of spite.*

Pretty standard stuff here. It would be pretty odd for the CO to check any playable hand here after it was folded to him, so I'd love to get HU or steal it all. And AT isn't bad from that spot.

Flop: A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Checked to me and I bet. The small blind calls. The big blind folds. The CO checkraises. I three-bet. The small blind calls two more. The CO caps. I call, the small blind calls.

Where the crap did that come from? My bet is obvious, the small blind's first call is whatever, but the CO checkraise scares me a bit. I doublt he'd check any ace pre-flop, so I discounted that pretty quickly. He's got a tendancy to pump some hands in an effort to get my off something because he knows I'll fold tens or something similar. Let's go for an infomation three-bet.

Then the small blind calls two cold. Ok. 75, flushdraw, or a monster. I put monster as the least likely as he'd three-bet me pre-flop with everything but 68 here. Ok, draw.)

The CO caps. Hmm. Ok now I begin to seriously consider that he has either 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] or 68. I'm calling, but trying to spike a non-heart ten or ace.

Turn: Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. SB checks. CO thinks for a couple seconds then checks. I rub my head and check.

Ok. That was odd. I really felt that the CO was trying to checkraise the turn here, punishing the small blind to draw. I loathe the idea of giving a free card, but not as much as I loathe getting raised with only a few outs. I plan to fold to most river bets if a scare card comes.

River: 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Checked to me again. I bet. The small blind thinks for a few seconds and calls. The button thinks for a good five seconds and calls.

Results to follow. Comments welcome.

-Diplomat

*Earlier that night the small blind tried to shoot an angle on Gamblor, myself and another player when the feeder game broke. After that, he tried to shoot an angle to get his river bet back after I four-bet his aces on the river after making a runner-runner straight. I had the floor make him put the bet in. He was raging mad. The big blind is his buddy and hates me by association.