Blind battle AQo

[Percussion]

I always get in this situation, and i fear I could be getting outplayed. second hand at the table, and no read on villian...

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Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, BB calls.

Flop: (4 SB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: (4 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: 5 BB

[EgoSlasher]

That's a fine line vs a passive opponent, the more aggressive they are the more I'm likely to show down Ace high. if you really want to know where you stand bet/fold the turn and check the river if he calls.

Good raise pre-flop.

I think I would have folded the flop, though. Seems like Villian likes his hand. If he had reraised pre-flop, then I'd consider calling down because it could just be a blind protection war.

To me that doesn't seem consistent, but maybe I'm wrong.

[crunchy1]

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if you really want to know where you stand bet/fold the turn and check the river if he calls.

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How does this line give us any information on "where we stand"?

[krimson]

There is no correct answer to this hand. If you always fold here you're making a mistake, if you always call down, you're making a mistake.

Players will often raise air on the flop and bet the turn as a blind defense strategy, it puts the pressure on you to make your hand and many players don't have the HU experience to deal with it.

In this situation, the K on this board is a bit threatening, but the rest of the board is pretty dead. I'd be inclined to call this down ~50% of the time. This is also giving a bit of weighting to the fact that I want to improve my read on this player. He's on our immediate left, so he has position on us, and we'll likely be HU against him quite a few times this session, so lets get some information from him while we can.

If the board was something like Kd9c7d, I would give more weighting towards a fold, as there are more cards in the middle-ish defending area that he could have hit.