Villain is a pretty bad player and he limps most hands. I had trouble noting him as tight or loose cause he seemed to make plays that were contrary to my reads every time I thought I had him pinned down. He seemed to be leaning more on the tight side though.
Hand #1
I had raised his limps 2 times before. First in the 10/20 level, where he called and folded to a cbet and the second time in the 25/50 level where he folded. Is raising here a mistake? Or do you check this flop?
PokerStars $5.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (1275 in chips)
Seat 2: Villain (1725 in chips)
Villain: posts small blind 25
Hero: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [5c 5d]
Villain: calls 25
Hero: raises 150 to 200
Villain: calls 150
*** FLOP *** [6c 4s 8d]
Hero: bets 250
Hand #2
I dunnoooo about this hand. He had donkbet/folded to me earlier and one time he donkbet 2/3 psb bottom pair on the river. I just feel that these donkbets (espically minbets) every streets by this type of villian rarely mean anything strong. Looking back on it I don't know but when I played this it seemed right.
PokerStars $5.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (1645 in chips)
Seat 2: Villain (1355 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 50
Villain: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [6d 9d]
Hero: raises 100 to 200
Villain: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [7s 7c 7h]
Villain: bets 100
Hero: raises 200 to 300
Villain: calls 200
*** TURN *** [7s 7c 7h] [4c]
Villain: bets 100
Hero: raises 1045 to 1145 and is all-in
Hand 1
I tend to just check behind limps with pocket pairs of 77 and bellow. If you get called, you're pretty much playing a guessing game. If he's tight, his calling range will include more broadways, which on a lowcard flop is good for you...and a cbet is likely to take it down. But you said you didn't have a definitive read, so I don't like reraising low pocket pairs before the flop. You have a gutshot, so the cbet isn't that bad though...
Hand 2
In my experience those min-donkbets are weak at the $5, so I don't mind the reraise. However, the only thing you can credibly represent is a pocket pair. After he calls your first 3bet, I don't really like your 2nd 3bet shove. The problem is that your hand doesn't really have any showdown value against his 3bet calling range. Maybe I'm nitty, but I don't always raise that hand preflop at those blind levels...I prefer limping it if I'm playing against a villain that allows me to limp, or I might even fold it preflop.
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Thanks for that Radeh.
Hand #1
Agreed, in retrospect should have checked behind there with 5's. Esp. since I raised his limps before so he's maybe calling me somewhat wider.
Hand #2
I also agree with limping/folding 69s at this level. This was one of the few times I actually raised it, based on villain and gameflow.
Looking back on it I could actually see this villain calling the flopraise with 2 strong overcards, just based on the flop texture. So maybe a better line is to call and raise the turn, idk. I really can't give my thought process more credit than just feeling that he was taking a retarded tilty line and so I shoved while screaming at the screen. So your prob right there, that can hardly be a good line. But do we 1. fold flop, 2. raise flop, 3. call flop and bet/raise turn?
Easy fold unless you have any strong reads that his donk minbets are total air. If you have such a read, shove, because most cards that come on the turn/river will put you under a lot of pressure...so you wanna make him fold. Calling is horrible imo because you have 6 outs (unless he has quads or a higher PP), so you will hit those around 24% of the time...he bets 100 into 400, that's 25%. It's close, but at high blind levels like that, it's not worth it at all imo.
Against a loose preflop 3bet calling range (20%), you're a 21% underdog!
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