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RicayBoy:
This was (in effect) my exit hand at the Goliath and a virtually identical situation came up in an online qualifier last night. I won the hand last night, but the opponent wasn"t impressed with the play.

I can"t remember the exact chip counts but in both cases I had a similar chip stack to my opponent, we were both around 30/35 blinds deep and the blinds were worth winning.

Early position (pretty solid) villain sticks in a 3.5 x raise. It is a larger raise than the table norm which is around min plus/2.5 x

I am on the button with  10c 10d and decide to call the raise as I don"t want to be shoved on if I re-raise.

The flop comes  7h 8s 9c and the villain leads out with another big bet of around 75 pc of the pot. Now I think that barring a set, that"s about as good as it gets for 10 10 and shove. The villain has to call 23 x (ish) into a 46 x (ish) pot and on both occasions they insta-called and showed  Qd Qh

The first time I missed, the second time I hit a six and won the pot.

Question 1: Am I playing this situation optimally - If not what should I be doing? Can I afford to just call the flop bet? Should I ever be folding on that flop?

Question 2: Should it always be an insta-call from my opponent? My image is not overly loose and I can have quite a few hands that are already beating him? I suppose 2/1 means that he does?

Any views gratefully received.

AMRN:
No problem with your play at all.    If you were to 3-bet pre, you should do so with a plan, and given that he has made a huge raise UTG, and with your read that he is a "solid" player, it should be safe to assume that he won"t be folding to your 3-bet, and if he"s any good he won"t be flatting either.... so if you 3-bet here, expect to be 4-bet..... and if you fold to a 4-bet, then you have turned a semi premium hand into a bluff.

I much prefer to call here and play the hand in position post flop, plus you are getting reasonable implied odds to set mine given you are both 30+ deep.  Assuming he c-bets 100% of flops though after a big UTG raise, you will probably have some tough decisions to make before the hand is over!

Short of the flop being TTx, it is pretty much ideal and gives you the perfect semi bluff opportunity, and your stack is perfectly sized for the shove.

As to whether his call was correct or not, ask yourself if you would ever fold in his spot with QQ.....  

mporter123:
Do we know if we were nearer 30 or 35 BB"s? Also when the blinds are going up?

I am not sure that it is profitable to be calling in this spot pre flop given stack sizes. Its going to leave us with tricky decisions post flop when an Ace/King/Queen/Jack peel off and we have no idea where we are. Unless we have a plan of what to do when this happens then I dont think we are quite deep enough to just set mine.

We cant 3 bet here either as we are rarely beating anything that 4bets apart from AK.

I am a nit so could prob find a fold pre here given reads on opponenet and bet sizing. Stack sizes are just bleurgh though, would prob flick the call in pre in annoyance. Flop plays itself.

TheSnapper:
I"m also in the fold pre camp, we do not have the implied odds to set mine and we put ourselves in a spot where we"ll most likely win small or lose big.

deanp27:
Meh seems fine/standard to me

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