A Hand From My First Ever 20/40 Session

[ML4L]

Hey all,

Having finally gotten up the courage and the bankroll, I decided to try my hand today at 20/40. I do all of my online play at Paradise, and when scouting the games out this week, they seemed very beatable; some tough players, but a fair number of donors as well... But anyway, I had been at the table for about 45 minutes when this hand came up.

Very loose, very aggressive player open-raises in EP. To this point, I had also seen him open-raise in EP with A8o and JTo. He plays almost half of his hands and puts a lot of money in with them after the flop. Folded around to the SB, who is a seemingly decent/knowledgable player that is currently short-stacked ($132 left after calling the raise). I am in the BB, where I call with A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. The flop comes:

A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

SB checks, and I check as well, quite certain that EP will bet, as he has done every time after his numerous preflop raises. I'm not yet sure whether I will check-raise the flop or wait until the turn. But, it becomes a moot point; EP checks as well...! Turn comes:

5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

SB checks, I check again, EP bets, SB now check-raises, I think for a second and decide to three-bet.

All comments are greatly appreciated.

ML4L