AQo Live 2/5

[black_knight6]

Playing live 2/5 at the club 6 handed and about 2.5hrs into the session. It started 5 handed and got to 6 about 30-45min into the game.

Lineup:
Seat 1: Shobute
Seat 2: Tight guy who we've never seen before...VERY VERY VERY passive.
Seat 3: Mildly tight young middle eastern (I think Indian...pretty sure) guy.
Seat 4: Pretty loose and bluffy cousin of seat 3 (older though...mid-thirties methinks)
Seat 5: Me
Seat 6: Uber loose and really bad part-owner of the club.

Table dynamic: Seat 6 has been losing a lot more than usual (more quickly, that is)...making a lot of bets and having seat 4 call him down with crap like J-high and that being good. He CRAI'd me when I cb'd a Q high flop...I called with AQ and he had undercards gut-shot (I held up). He'd been playing pretty agro for his normal game...not bad if only seat 4 wasn't such a CS.

Shobute is his normal super agro sLAG self being the table bully and taking down a couple monster pots, putting on lots of pressure to everyone, straddling then raising 4 limpers to 50-60 and showing 93o. He's up and playing really well. I've been staying out of his way, like I do now, but he's been making some small preflop plays on me.

I'm generally up, been bouyant between +80 and +220. Playing my normal TAG game OOP, and a looser game in position (calling raises and raising myself).

Here's the hand: I get AQ in the SB and Shob opens to 20-25. A caller (probably seat 4), I call, and Seat 6 calls (obv.).

Flop QTX rainbow. Pot 80-100.

I check, generally planning CR here, but since it's Shob I don't want to escalate the pot (he's staking me, remember), I'm willing to get to a showdown cheaply without putting in the CR. Seat 6 checks, Shob CB's 50, Seat 4 folds, I call, Seat 6 thinks for a few seconds (READ: DRAWING...maybe even to something like a gutshot or 2 outer with a low pair).

Turn offsuit blank. Pot ~240. I check (another spot I might usually CR, but I don't for the aforementioned reasons). Seat 6 checks...shob bets 115...not immediately, but pretty quick: he didn't announce raise, but counted out the chips after a 3 second pause and announced as he put them in. I call within 5 seconds. Seat 6 folds after about 5 seconds.

River, Ax. Pot ~470

I think for a few seconds and announce: same bet, and slide 115 out there. He thinks for about 10 seconds and calls. He mucks and mutters that it was a sick suckout.

Thoughts?

[High Wired]

He must have had KK then I suppose?

In order for me to properly relay my thought on this one, I'm not exactly sure what the deal is with you and Shobute here. He's staking you, but you guys are playing against each other right? So he is basically just another dude at the table, you guys aren't working together for thr greater good or whatever right?

I mean, this hand seems fairly straight forward. It's probably how I would have played it against my dad or brother or sister, who all play poker, and I have played with them all at the casino at different times. We aren't out to kill each other, and often times end up checking it down, but we're a competitive family and will go for the throat at times too. We don't work together, but are there to take other peoples money, ya know?

Here's a question... if this hand was against seat 3... would you have played it the same way?

I think the only nit-picky thing I would change is the river bet to maybe $200, as played. Or, like you said, a ch/rz somewhere in the hand on flop or turn.

[shamdonk]

[High Wired]

good point... didn't think about that option.

[iceman5]

Im fine with it.