JJ on BB vs maniac

JonLines · #1 03-17-2005, 10:34 AM

This is from memory.... but the gist of stacks is right. Villain is an idiot... very aggressive, will raise all streets with Ax Kx Qx possibly even Jx.

William Hill 6 Seated PL £0.50-£1 Max £100 buy-in

SB (£60)
Hero (£100)
UTG (£220)
MP1 (£40)
Villain (£65)
Button (£70)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

UTG folds, MP1 folds, Villain bet pot (£3.50), button folds, SB call (£3), BB re-raises pot to (£14), Villain calls, SB calls.

Flop: (£42) T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero checks, Villain bets £20, SB calls (£20), Hero re-raises all-in, Villain calls (£31 all-in) SB folds.

I re-raised pot pre-flop in the hope of isolating Villain, I was happy to go all-in pre-flop as at worst im 50-50 (he had called some awful all-in earlier but caught). I was surprised when SB called, I checked because I expected Villain to raise regardless, was surprised again with SB call, but I put him on over cards because of no re-raise (I assume he also doesn't respect Villain, but no real reads yet)

Any thoughts on any streets would be appreciated.

noggindoc · #2 03-17-2005, 10:39 AM

I like the preflop and the flop play. Standard?

JonLines · #3 03-17-2005, 10:44 AM

Would you of still liked the play if SB called? Just wondering.

zaxx19 · #4 03-17-2005, 11:19 AM

Seems good to me...great flop for your hand.

JonLines · #5 03-17-2005, 11:27 AM

Oh ok.... when I made the move I thought it was good, but when I thought back over it, Villian or SB could of had AA, KK, QQ, TT, 99, 88, JQ.

Though I guess they would of re-raised it, and even if they did have it I still had outs. Cheers guys.

If your interested, Vilian had Q8, turn came J and river was a 2 or something. Vilian wins with straight.

jtr · #6 03-17-2005, 12:46 PM

Do you always re-raise with JJ from the big blind? Maybe I don't play enough 6-max but I don't think I'd be auto-re-raising here. Did you have a read on the villain as having especially loose preflop raising standards?

Edit: OK, so he's on the cutoff and this could well be just an attempt to buy the button. Forget what I said, I clearly don't play enough 6-max. I like your play in the rest of the hand.

JonLines · #7 03-17-2005, 01:02 PM

Yeah, as I said at the beginning 'Villain is an idiot... very aggressive, will raise all streets with Ax Kx Qx possibly even Jx.' So I really expect myself to be ahead of Vilain here. My main problem with the hand is I think I was overly disregarding SB, and possibly due to the fact he was in the hand, I shouldn't of re-raised pot.