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akasoul
Joined: 17.06.2007

Hi,

BTN was really agressive preflop, 60/47/23 on 140 hands.

I think I have enough equity to call the flop given the pot its big, but I don't have much of a plan.

Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 Limit Hold'em Cash, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Preflop: Hero is CO with 7 7
MP folds, Hero raises, BTN 3-bets, 2 folds, Hero calls

Flop: (7.4 SB) A J 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets, Hero folds


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firsttsunami
Joined: 23.01.2006

Against a guy with 47 PFR on 140 Hands it's a nobrainer calldown. No matter the cards. Unless K and Q hits, then you'll be dead even against his weak range but assumed there is another overcard coming out. Your equity is not great of course but still good enough against his ui hands and lower pocketpairs he'll be certainly following through with on Turn and River. Even against a laggy guy i'd check/call this Flop and see what the turn brings. Probably check/call again as a lot of guys betting the turn with their whole range and particularly with pocketpairs against your gutshot type of hands like KT KQ QT etc. So it's ok to be still ahead against KQ 22 33 44 55 66. Assumed that your opponent 3bets quite wide preflop.


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I don't know what people think of this play, but what I sometimes do when I end up HU preflop OOP against a very LAG player with a hand like 77 that I know I'm almost always going to show down (unless the board comes down really bad), is I'll cap preflop. I'll only do this if I've noticed my opponent try hopeless bluffs in the past. I figure that, with a medium pocket pair, I'm usually ahead preflop. Since I'm going to calldown against this opponent anyway, I might as well get as much money into the pot as possible while I'm confident I'm ahead of his range.

If I think there's some chance that the preflop cap will stop my opponent from bluffing postflop, I won't try this move, though.

Doing this could also work to my advantage if another player at the table observes this but isn't wise enough to know I'm adjusting to my oppponent. He might take a note on me that 77 is in my preflop capping range, (which it isn't). If I pick up pocket aces against such a player in the future, he won't give me as much respect for it as he should.

So, I don't know, that might be something to try against super-LAGs in the future?

Or maybe trying this makes no sense at all, and I've just wasted everybody's time. :f_cool:


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