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3-bet pot NL8 pocket 9's line check 10 handed. Ta.
Ok, 10 handed 8NL cash table.
Villain 'x' has not been out of line at all and is playing nice and solid. He also sat with full buy in and always opens with a 3xbb raise and +1 bb for any limpers which is a sign of decentness at this level until i see any different. No previous reads before today.
Obviously i open with 99, he is sat in BB with a biggish stack and he raises. His raise size is small enough to price me in to set mine so i call and cross my fingers to aiming to hit flop full in face. At this moment in time i am thinking he has a big hand as he hasnt done many fishy things so far so i put his range at 10,10 -- /> A,A and maybe AK, AQ???? This too tight a range to assign here?
I miss flop and he checks, should i ever be betting here?
I chose to take the free card, missed again and check again hoping for a miracle.
Miss river and now he leads, should i always be calling here or just knock it on the head. Line check please. I think i was too passive. Will post results later on what he had but have a guess if you like.
Hand History #488079449 (17:41 05/03/2012)
Villain 'x' has not been out of line at all and is playing nice and solid. He also sat with full buy in and always opens with a 3xbb raise and +1 bb for any limpers which is a sign of decentness at this level until i see any different. No previous reads before today.
Obviously i open with 99, he is sat in BB with a biggish stack and he raises. His raise size is small enough to price me in to set mine so i call and cross my fingers to aiming to hit flop full in face. At this moment in time i am thinking he has a big hand as he hasnt done many fishy things so far so i put his range at 10,10 -- /> A,A and maybe AK, AQ???? This too tight a range to assign here?
I miss flop and he checks, should i ever be betting here?
I chose to take the free card, missed again and check again hoping for a miracle.
Miss river and now he leads, should i always be calling here or just knock it on the head. Line check please. I think i was too passive. Will post results later on what he had but have a guess if you like.
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Basically the flop/turn is your best chance to win the hand. It would take 2 barrells though so 65p flop or turn then £1.40 turn or river.
I prefer betting flop and turn at this level because that is your best chance of repping an Ace, although against better/thinking players it's good to check back flops from time to time and bet turn/river.
As played just fold and move on
Like we are beat by his whole range so only way to win the pot is to turn our hand into a bluff.
If he says oppo seems solid for that level, calling river is just burning money.
The thing is you've already told us he's not a laggy player but is pretty solid, so I don't understand the problem. Poker is all about forming ideas about our opponents and trusting those reads; that's the skill of the game. Your read tells you that you can't beat his range. Your post seems to be asking us for permission to go against your read, which is the same as asking us to tell you to ignore the skills you've built up from playing the game for however many years it's been. I won't be offering you that permission.
Of course, you could always raise the river as a bluff. Raising is more fun anyway.