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Postby Ojingo » Thu May 11, 2006 10:56 am

$200 PLO on UB. Villain had $500 when I sat down and doubled up when he had top set on a 579 board with two spades; some guy raised preflop with KKxx, two spades (from the BB), made a potsized CB on the flop and villain shoved in (gotta love it, playing a 500bb pot with second flush draw). Since then he is raising quite a lot of hands in position, and makes a CB on the flop whenever checked to. He is not extremely lag in the sense that he is not shoving on thin draws though; he just likes to bully a bit in position and steal some small pots.

I called one of his raises with AAxx when I was in the blind, but missed the flop completely and gave up. If anything, my image is TAG.
This is one orbit later.

I'm MP with $240 and limp with [As][Kh][Qh][5s]. Villain pots on the button, I'm the only caller.

Flop (2 players, pot=$35): [Kc][5c][2s]. I check, villain pots, I checkraise pot.

Like/dislike? I figured that without a set he would have a hard time calling this without a set (very unlikely) or the nutflush draw.

BTW what do you do if he puts you in here? It's pretty disastrous to checkraise that amount and then fold to a reraise, right? Afterwards I thought that maybe my stacksize is not optimal for this move.
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Postby stickdude » Thu May 11, 2006 11:10 am

As long as he doesn't have a set of Kings, I like it. :D And if he's the "button = raise" types pre-flop, your two-pair is most likely the best hand on the flop. I don't do it with anything less than top 2 pair, of course, but you have that this time.

And if he puts you in, you call of course. i still think you have the best hand, and he'll have to out-draw you to win. When you check-raise like that, you're pretty much signalling that you're ready to go to war. I don't think you'll have to go to war this time, though. If he's even halfway decent, he'll recognize that he was trapped and get out without any further damage to his stack. Or, because he has such a big stack, he'll be in more of a mood to gambool it up a little.
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Postby Aisthesis » Thu May 11, 2006 1:39 pm

I like the check-raise. On the basis of your read, I think it's going to be very rare that he fires back at you.

From what you've said, I'm guessing that this player would probably call rather than raise back with AA and the flush draw, which is imo the most likely hand with which he can continue.

I'd hence consider folding if he did fire back, as the only hands I can put him on then are set hands.
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