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bounty hunter, stone bubble, AQ about 16bb deep. LP station suddenly click 3b's
Some background. This is the stone bubble. We're about average stack. Literally slap bang in the midfield.
We've been relativley active, not overly, but probably not aggressive enough. Table is extremely passive thus i decided not to aggro up at this stage as i would on some.
Villian is probably one of the biggest stations I've played in a bh tbh. He joined the table around 20 orbits ago, since then hes been in over 2 thirds of the pot, i haven't seen him raise once.
In hindsight i think that makes an open jam the better option in the first place here, but would like some feedback as played, how do we proceed from here.
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| angelofthe | Small blind | 300.00 | 300.00 | 11027.50 | |
| x | Big blind | 600.00 | 900.00 | 11877.50 | |
| Your hole cards |
| ||||
| krstov | Fold | ||||
| adair333 | Fold | ||||
| The_Don90 | Raise | 1200.00 | 2100.00 | 8537.50 | |
| angelofthe | Fold | ||||
| x | Raise | 1200.00 | 3300.00 | 10677.50 | |
| The_Don90 |
Comments
The way you've described the player it looks like an easy fold. Really passive player who never raises click3bets you... you're probably lucky if you're flipping.
when a passive villain calls don 90 is then left questioning what that villain will have so really would need to hit good post flop as bluffs are much more dangerous.
the only time that weak passive play can provide us to go over aggressive is if the villain is a weak tight.
its that read to get away from this hand that will give you the edge over this player
I just wrote a mega long post. Put a bit of time interrogating others thought processes aswell as yours and sky decided to log me out and i lost it!
Suppose it can all be summed up by one word:
Fold.
FAO Ivanovic:
Limp = bad.
Sigh.
Ofc we raise 55 - raise of fold anyway. Do I really need to explain why limping in with a range of hands just cause we want to see a flop is really bad?
However, if we min-raise pre-flop and there's a station in the blinds, yes we're putting an extra big blind in when we know we're going to be called, against someone who won't fold any better hands than ours to a c-bet post-flop. When he puts more money in pre-flop with a worse hand than ours pre-flop, though, we are making profit in the long run.
When we limp, he doesn't put that extra blind in when we're ahead. That means we make less profit in the long run.
So the solution to playing a 16BB stack in position wouldn't appear to be limping to give him the chance to avoid making a decision that gains us value. The solution would appear to be to raise pre-flop and check flops we've missed or don't have good equity on, since we can only fold out weaker hands than ours. A lot of the time we still have the best hand but can't bluff or value bet.
If we limp, we might still be able to stack the villain if we both hit but the rest of the time we're missing extra pre-flop value. We're not both going to hit the board that often, but that will happen no less often when we're raising than when we're limping.
So if we think he's that big a station and doesn't fold when he's hit, as well as only betting when he hits big, we have an easy raise pre-flop and check when we miss or on bad boards. If we're not fussed about limping and giving up 1BB when we miss, then why not raise and give up 2BB the times we miss but also win an extra big blind on the occasions we hit and the villain misses, or when we both miss?