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JJ Pre-Flop vs Manic - What Do You Do?

edited May 2010 in The Poker Clinic
Couple of hands to give you an idea as to the villain's play. I had notes on the villain as being a manic, particularly agressive pre-flop, but they were taken quite a long time ago. He turned up to the table as chip leader and within a round he played 2 of these hands:
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
Stiggy_606 Small blind  10.00 10.00 2040.00
VillainBig blind  20.00 30.00 6200.00
  Your hole cards
  • 5
  • 3
     
jon197315 Call  20.00 50.00 1820.00
YoungUn Call  20.00 70.00 1880.00
alfie501 Call  20.00 90.00 2210.00
GIGG44 Call  20.00 110.00 1960.00
Stiggy_606 Call  10.00 120.00 2030.00
VillainRaise  440.00 560.00 5760.00
jon197315 Fold     
YoungUn Fold     
alfie501 Fold     
GIGG44 Fold     
Stiggy_606 Call  440.00 1000.00 1590.00
Flop
   
  • K
  • 6
  • 6
     
Stiggy_606 Check     
VillainBet  1800.00 2800.00 3960.00
Stiggy_606 All-in  1590.00 4390.00 0.00
VillainUnmatched bet  210.00 4180.00 4170.00
Stiggy_606 Show
  • 9
  • A
   
VillainShow
  • 8
  • 3
   
Turn
   
  • K
     
River
   
  • A
     
Stiggy_606 Win Two Pairs, Aces and Kings 4180.00  4180.00
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
alfie501 Small blind  15.00 15.00 2205.00
GIGG44 Big blind  30.00 45.00 1940.00
  Your hole cards
  • 10
  • 7
     
Stiggy_606 Fold     
VillainRaise  150.00 195.00 4050.00
jon197315 All-in  1775.00 1970.00 0.00
YoungUn Fold     
alfie501 Call  1760.00 3730.00 445.00
GIGG44 Fold     
VillainCall  1625.00 5355.00 2425.00
Flop
   
  • 4
  • K
  • 9
     
alfie501 Check     
VillainAll-in  2425.00 7780.00 0.00
alfie501 All-in  445.00 8225.00 0.00
VillainUnmatched bet  1980.00 6245.00 1980.00
alfie501 Show
  • A
  • 10
   
VillainShow
  • Q
  • K
   
jon197315 Show
  • A
  • 6
   
Turn
   
  • 9
     
River
   
  • K
     
VillainWin Full House, Kings and 9s 6245.00  8225.00
Those are the only hands he really played in the round or 2 leading up to the hand in question. I won't post my actions/result yet, let some answers come in first:
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
VillainSmall blind  15.00 15.00 8090.00
YoungUn Big blind  30.00 45.00 2060.00
  Your hole cards
  • J
  • J
     
nimmy Fold     
GIGG44 Call  30.00 75.00 1370.00
Stiggy_606 Call  30.00 105.00 4655.00
VillainRaise  135.00 240.00 7955.00
YoungUn ?????     

Comments

  • edited May 2010
    i raise all in here mate he may call you with KQ AK AQ but if he does its down to the poker gods im not putting him on AA KK OR QQ here because he is far too aggressive its either all in or fold certainly no calling lol
  • edited May 2010
    I just make a normal raise as I would with jacks pre flop. Hope he goes mental and shoves the lot in, then press call asap.


  • edited May 2010
    You have 68 BB's and also position, I would raise to 290 then see what happens. If he goes all in you have to call off almost 60 BB's hoping his at it, I would fold then, but if he just calls the raise you have position and go from there.
  • edited May 2010
    Make it like 4-500 and stack off happily against him :-)
  • edited May 2010
    For those that make a standard re-raise, what do you do if he calls pre and then donk bet shoves into you on a rainbow board with one over to our Jacks? Do you puke-fold or call considering he can clearly show up with nothing every now and then?
  • edited May 2010
    What beaneh said.

    I call a donk bet shove on most boards.
  • edited May 2010
      Have a look at the flop and assess from there. It is not worth your tournament on the jacks but if the flop comes down nice for you and he bets shove it in. If its not a good flop fold and you hopefully haven t wasted to many chips. This guy will not last the distance so wait until you have him covered and check call him all the way. You are not going to ever raise this guy off. Its early in the proceedings and you only pick up alot of chips near the end of things, but you ve got to make it there. 
  • edited May 2010
    In Response to Re: JJ Pre-Flop vs Manic - What Do You Do?:
    What beaneh said. I call a donk bet shove on all boards.
    Posted by ajs4385


    I've fixed AJ's post.
  • edited May 2010
    Thanks for the comments all.

    I just shipped it on him, he insta-called with KQ and I lost the race.

    I shipped it on him for 2 reasons really. Firstly, I was always calling if he 5-bet shoved me PF, but I didn't know how I would proceed if he just called and I saw an over to the JJ (regardless of how he acted). I did know, though, that he was going to be calling me all-in super wide there. I saw him call a similarly sized all-in with KQ, so he'd also do it with KJ, KT, QJ, QT and almost any Ax hand, so I was confident that I could get in much better than a coin flip.  
  • edited May 2010
    Played it perfectly then. UL
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