Inducing a bluff with trips against an aggressiv semi-good player.

[swedeD]

Villian is a decent, semi-loose, AGGRESSIVE player that fires big 1-3 potsize bets.

Do you ever check this kind of hands? I know it's always dangerously stupid to give a free card, but if your opponent is really aggressiv and there is a possible hand he can try to represent (a straight) or a draw he can semibluff with (straight/flush), I feel sometimes I can almost count on a bet.

I'm also curious about thoughts on how you can/should handle aggressive players that raises big with drawing hands. OOP those players can be a pain. Should I, like I did, start to checkraise them with strong hands? Then they will, maybe, start to figure that I will only bet my decent/weak hands, so they can start to buy pots when I just bet OOP. Should I then start to checkraise decent/weak hands too? Well, even at this level players will learn that if a player always and only checkraises his strong hands, they can easily get away when they are behind and buy pots otherwise. I usually prefer to bet/bet/bet my strong hands and bet/bet/check (or sometimes bet/check/bet) my decent hands, but against these kind of players I will face a hard decision every street or I can just bet/fold with decent hand (even when I know he probably just is buying the pot) and bet/reraise or checkraise with my strong hands. Ok, if you have read this far, I just want to point out: the players I'm talking about is not a tight, AGRESSIVE, good player; it's a semi-loose, AGRESSIVE, quasi-thinking player that often stays alive and sometimes even win a lot.


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Hero ($23.90)
CO ($21.82)
Button :Villian ($33.77)
SB ($24.60)
BB ($24.50)
UTG ($35.88)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.10.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $1</font>, Hero calls $1, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button :Villian calls $1, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>.

Flop: ($3.35) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets $2</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $5</font>, Villian calls $5, UTG folds.

Turn: ($15.35) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Villian bets $17.9</font>, Hero calls $17.90 (All-In).