NL 4 best line of play against reg?

Villain stats

hands: 1.3k
Running 20/16

Notes:
- Plays pretty solid. I've gotten owned by him at showdown by some big hands.
- Winning reg at the stake level played
- Noticed him calling me in position or 3betting on the button against me frequently, although I have never actually seen a showdown hand where he was showing a bluff.

I'm not sure how to maximize potential here. Pretty sure folding is out of the question. Do I call here instead or raise? Just checking on situations such as this one. I elected to raise.

Submitted by : K40Cheddar

***** Hand History for Game 64050228393 ***** Merge
$4.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, December 03, 02:23:33 ET 2012
Table Santiago XXXII 64050228 Real Money
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: blksuperhero $4.10 USD
Seat 2: LordDitt $8.18 USD
Seat 3: orangepopsicles $3.94 USD
Seat 4: yoohoooo $4.00 USD
Seat 5: itsSunny $20.54 USD
Seat 6: k40cheddar $4.06 USD
yoohoooo posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
itsSunny posts big blind [$0.04 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to k40cheddar [ ]
k40cheddar raises [$0.12 USD]
blksuperhero folds
LordDitt calls [$0.12 USD]
orangepopsicles folds
yoohoooo folds
itsSunny folds

Flop (Pot : $0.30)

   
k40cheddar bets [$0.20 USD]
LordDitt raises [$0.55 USD]
k40cheddar

Hmmm, I think raise and call are both fine. Personally I would raise like $1.5 here to shove most turn if he calls.

I feel like calling is a lot better than raising here

What's your plan after calling this flop?

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when you say he's never shown down a bluff do you just mean you can't recall him bluffing, or he literally hasn't shown down a single bluff in 1.3k hands (besides cbet-kinda stuff)? is his raise .55 more or .55 total?

idk reraising can't be terrible but tbh there's a ton of value in reducing variance at these stakes :o

On December 04 2012 00:31 bigredhoss wrote: when you say he's never shown down a bluff do you just mean you can't recall him bluffing, or he literally hasn't shown down a single bluff in 1.3k hands (besides cbet-kinda stuff)?

What I mean is that I don't recall any times where I have seen him show down with a bluff. I play with him very regularly and he appears to be ABCish although I get the feeling he exploits some of my aggression a lot in position. The times I've felt he had jack shit he actually turned up with something though.

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FE? ALL VALUE BABY. HE HAS A3cc. ARRR IN

raise shove and call are all fine ;-0 their EV depends on villain and his tendancies

^what Tom said.

I usually don't see too much value in opening this pre though, unless blinds are fishy

call flop, c/c turn and c/f river unimproved is the standard way to play it.

^^ agree with marshal, as a default esp in non aggressive games (which I expect lower stakes to be, I expect everyone to be loose passive) I prefer a call and call turn unimproved

Look at his raise c-bet, roughly 9,5% or so is two pairs or better, so anything over that with a sample size to back it off is light, as bluffs, semi bluffs. If it's like 20% I'd like a call, then c/shove on turn, if it's low, I'd like a call, try to hit, and if we hit, don't check it to him, donk out river if we hit there.

If you hit turn, and he has a really high turn aggression, I might like a check actually (and smash it back in his face), and same with river. If he's really passive, we gotta donk out if we hit it there I think