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In this hand, Villain is very wild and aggressive preflop, but usually makes big mistakes postflop.

6 handed, $3000 effective stacks, $10/20 blinds.

I have JJ on the big blind.Two players fold, villain raises to 80, all fold, and I decide to only flat call against this particular opponent because:

  • I don't want to isolate against higher pocket pairs
  • I dont want to play a reraised pot out of position
  • I don't mind under-representing my hand against a weak player that I can outplay after the flop.

 

So, I decide not to take the standard line which would be to re-raise, and I just flat call on the big blind.

Flop comes nicely

 

I check, he bets $100, which is a continuation bet he would do on any flop.I call.

Turn brings a

I check again, controlling the size of the pot, with my overpaire which I consider to be the likely best hand.

He bets $260, I call again.

River:

Now I think the best line is to make a bet of 360 dollars (roughly 1/2 pot), which has 2 benefits:

It value-bets weaker hands against loose bad postflop players, and it also forces the flush to raise, so I can make a good fold.(even some of the nittier players will only call with a baby flush, as the board paired, and they might be against a higher flush, with this kind of line).

Opponent called with

I took the 1600 dollars pot.

 

21-09-2007 Arnaud Mattern
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