($200NL FTP) TPTK SH OOP vs Unpredictable player

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lolgiraffe United States. Jul 23 2007 10:27. Posts 305

I'm cross posting this on the forums as well as my blog since its a hand that really had me going a few different ways. I don't know how thin my play is and its sort of bugging me.

We've been playing 3 handed for a while and just went four handed.

Info on Villian:
He is currently running at 31/24/2.7/WtSD 24%
He folds to CBets 30% of the time, he raises them 25% of the time.
When seeing the turn, he bets it 48% of the time and has a turn aggression of 2.8.

My current image here is 23/15/7.0/WtSD 18% over 50 hands at the table. Villian has been at the table the whole time with me.

Submitted by : lolgiraffe

Seat 1: Irrelevant $200 , is sitting out
Seat 2: Villian $436
Seat 3: Irrelevant $85.20
Seat 4: Donater $162.65
Seat 5: Irrelevant $614.30 , is sitting out
Seat 6: Hero $261.95
Hero posts the small blind of $1
Villian posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero
Irrelevant folds
Donater calls $2
Hero raises to $11
Villian calls $9
Donater calls $9
*** FLOP ***
Hero bets $26
Villian raises to $74
Donater folds
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero calls $48
*** TURN ***
Hero checks
Villian has been disconnected
Villian has 15 seconds left to act
Villian has reconnected
Villian has 15 seconds left to act
Villian has requested TIME
Villian bets $127
Hero ..

What range of hands can I put him on? Aggressive pla<x>yers like this are rarely slow playing over pairs, so I take that out of his range. I think his calling range is fairly obvious from AJ down to J8. I think it fair to put 44 and 55 in his range as well. I won't give him credit for 78 or 23. His numbers tell me he is often double barreling and I know it isn't taking much for him to play position on me and raise the flop.

This one has me stumped. I've spoken with a few people so far about this hand. One line was to dump it to the turn bet. Bob through out there the idea of just jamming the flop since we know his range is so wide. The only problem with that (I felt) was that he is so aggressive and so likely to bet out the turn again if he had something like say J8 J9 he'd bet again when I checked and be willing to go with it once I jammed. Bob made a good point though that pla<x>yers like this are often likely to go with it from the flop anyways so you could make an arguement that there is little point to give them a free card.

I think that the fact we were 3 handed until one hand prior to this comes in consideration, as well as that we're only 4 handed now.

Save any responses in the lines of "I don't raie AJ from the blinds". I'm not asking for critique on my preflop play, I'm looking for insight post flop.

Will post results later.

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LOL

XeliN United Kingdom. Jul 23 2007 11:43. Posts 2365

jam the turn, vs an unpredictable player and shorthanded i think thats what i do. however really depends on how you play shorthanded im prone to floating flops-> bluffing turn 3betting light and reraising light and seeing as he has been sitting at the table a long time with you if it would not make sense for you to be bluffing here then i suppose you can fold

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exalted United States. Jul 23 2007 11:57. Posts 2918

I ALWAYS run into QQ here.

exalted from teamliquid :o

MilZo France. Jul 23 2007 13:56. Posts 1333

I like it. Now go all-in.

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lolgiraffe United States. Jul 23 2007 15:36. Posts 305

I jammed. He called and showed J5.

LOL

MilZo France. Jul 24 2007 11:15. Posts 1333

Motowned :-(

Meh, don't lose any sleep over it, you played it fine.

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