What do you do in this spot?NL 5/10 blinds casino boat

[Krytemaster]

First of all I think his call preflop seems a little strange unless he actually has a decent pocket pair himself. He might also call with a lower pocket pair hoping to get some other players into the pot as well - giving him better odds to draw to a set, since he doesn´t have any HU vs you.

So, the two options I would be thinking about here are either a small bet - something like $200-300 to lure him in to the pot or overbet it and maybe even push it all. It all depends on what you think he will think of you and what he will take your bets for.

As someone else pointed out, a good player might fold JJ, QQ or KK here to a smaller bet here if he is quite sure you are trying to trap him and maybe call a bigger bet since he didn´t think you would do that with AA, rather do it with an AK or a smaller pair (that you might have been making a play with).


Krytemaster

[DcifrThs]

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As someone else pointed out, a good player might fold JJ, QQ or KK here to a smaller bet here if he is quite sure you are trying to trap him and maybe call a bigger bet since he didn´t think you would do that with AA, rather do it with an AK or a smaller pair (that you might have been making a play with).


Krytemaster

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Well this is what i was thinking. So after taking about 90 seconds to think after steve quickly checked (by the way steve is not the guys real name obviously so if somebody named steve DOES play here any connection is entirely accidental) i moved in and he thought, looked at me hard for about one minute and finally slowly and deliberately mucked his cards.

i think he had QQ or JJ. everyone at the table wondered what i had and spoke verbally to the fact i always take time ...usually more than just 90 seconds anytime i was in any kind of decision and of those times i'd made one call (previously mentioned in this thread) and one fold that i found out after the fact was good: i folded a flush on a paired board that paired on the river but also gave me my flush, i felt i was being trapped by a set since he was playing differently than i was accustomed too...no longer mr. fast bet, he did things slowly and more calculated.

so after all this he just folded and i took down a few hundred...

any other thoughts?
-Barron