Heres a fitting hand that took place last night at the casino:
I am on the button with around $650 with the 5-3 offsuit. I have been betting and raising more than my fair share of hands as well up to this point. The villian in this hand is someone who is new to the game, but has been playing long enough so that he thinks he knows what he is doing. For example, earlier he check-raised a guy on the flop with top pair, no kicker, and still called the guy's reraise all-in, thinking his top pair was good. Of course, the other person had AA, but the villian found a river card that was nice to him, and made two pair. Anyways, everyone limps and since I have the button, I limp as well.
The FLOP comes K-5-3, all clubs. The cutoff +2 bets $15 (weak bet) and the villian directly behind him calls. It folds to me on the button, and I make it $65 to go with my bottom two. Everyone folds back to the villian, who thinks for about 45 seconds and calls (it looked like he thought about reraising too). The turn comes a wonderful offsuit 8, and he checks. I make it $150 to go (max bet) and he immediately reraises his last $85. I immediately am pissed becuase I feel like he slow-played a flush, but he flashes me the A of clubs, along with a look that he is drawing. The river comes an ugly K (K-5-3-8-K) and he shows A-4 offsuit, for A-high. I win with Kings and Fives!
Afterwards, I was thinking - if he would have reraised me on the flop when it got back around to him, would I have been able to call? I talked about this with the others at my table and they seemed to agree in that situation (he reraises the flop) that I have an easy decision to call/reraise him. In my opinion, it doesn't seem that straight forward. To me, it looks like he flopped the nutz...What do you guys think - easy call or fold? Honestly, I was 70/30 in favor of folding if he would have reraised....
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2 comments:
If he would have reraised you on the flop the safe play would be folding...he could have already flopped a low flush and is trying to protect it by the reraise....I really can't say what i would have done...if he's relatively new to the game he might just be overplaying his top pair (like he did against the guy with aces)...its wierd the way he played that though because he committed his whole stack on the turn...when he should have done it on the flop...but i like your raise on the flop because it puts the pressure on him to make a decison. Very interesting hand....
Max, from my experience with players like those IF he had reraised there he was trying to take down the pot because at the time he feels like he has the best hand (usually top pair any kicker) Your raise on the button looks like a steal to them because they are playing their cards. I think this is an automatic call if he reraised just because players like this sometimes play really soft when they have the nuts because they want to maximize value on the hand without forcing anyone out. Basically I am not giving this guy any credit for his ability as a poker player. He knows the moves but he cannot apply them. I think here against that opponent its an easy call and you pay him off the 1 out of 20 times he might have you beat there. Sounds like you had a pretty good session.
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