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Mikeyboy9361:
Betfair 25c/50c cash game. Been playing these for the last week with some success, having added about 150% to my Bankroll.
Last night I had more than doubled my buy in and was just about to call it a night when this hand happened. I had been playing for a couple of hours and turned $25 into $66, and the villain in this hand had previously put me all in on the flop with top pair and a flush draw, my ovwr pair held. And he has had a tendency to over bet the pot.
So 6 handed I am in the cut off, villlain to my immediate right has limped,unusual for him, and I look down at AJ suited, and also limp, as I like to play these a bit trappy, SB completes and BB checks.
Flop is J 9 3 rainbow, the blinds check and villain raises to $5.75, I think about re popping but just call, the blinds get out,turn is another 3, villain bets $15.
What do you do?

LongshanksED:
AJ suited. I"m either going to limp to hope to flop a flush draw at worst. Unless I hit a JJ flop or flush draw I"m folding (or flop a straight)

if I"m going to play in the hand though, I"m generally gonna raise pre flop with position to isolate. If I get repopped it"s an easy fold.
With it being a limped pot I don"t like the bet on the flop from villian. It"s either screaming super weak and hopefully everyone folds or it"s a bet that"s super strong trying to look weak but also a big bet to chase anypossible straight draw hands to protect his set, two pair or overpair.  Bet by villian also makes pot control difficult as I would like to raise here with TPTK to evaluate villians next move but by then the pot is way bloated

As I said before, if limped I want to see a flush draw or I"m gone

maybe I"m super nitty here (and in cash I"m not usually this tight) but it doesn"t smell right. Villian has top 2 on flop or bottom set (which is a good concealed quads on the turn). But I"m folding

TheSnapper:
Villains stack size is super important and as an aside, its not good to play with 50 bb stack, especially given your style is to be patient and get paid when you hit.

Raise Pf $2.25 (psb).

Limper will reraise hands that dominate you and you can comfortably fold losing the minimum. He will flat call with hands you dominate plus some you flip with like small pp"s (a big part of his limp calling range).

With his limp calling range he"ll usually play fit or fold on the flop, against this linear strategy you should cbet the flop 100% and you can bet really small too since he folds when he misses and only calls when he"s hit.

As played, fold the turn, you may be ahead sometimes but, you"ll have 30% of your stack in the pot and likely 40% of a full 100 bb stack if thats what villain started with. You then can"t fold to a river bet. So its an ai decision essentially. Its best to avoid these marginal spots barring a strong read that he"ll stack off taking the iniative with >tptk.

In the hand example you give of top pair and fd versus your overpair, he has made a standard play and hasn"t overplayed his hand at all. In that scenario villain has fold equity and is flipping when called by an overpair and has 30% equity versus a set.

Mikeyboy9361:
Villain was sat on about $80. He had been feltede once and re bought and re built.
I was worried about his limp, as he had played hands very fast and strong up to now.
So with just TPTK I feel I am either done with the hand or am commiting to it. I chose the latter, and hoped a re raise to $30 would see him fold, TBH I expected him to shove, which he did. So he has me covered, my thoughts are polarised either he has limped with KJ, 10 J or he was disguising a big over pair. I didn"t put him on a set, as I think with a middle to small pair in LP he defo would have raised pre. Any way with my re raise I am pretty much pot committed, and even though I didn"t want to throw away my winnings on what had been a marginal decision I called. He turned over AJ for the split.
As regards starting with 50 bb, rather than 100, I always tend to do this, I know its a bit fishy, and thats what I hope my opposition think. Seems to be working okay recently though. ;)

Marty719:
1 - buy in full.  Even if you are happy that it gives u a "fishy image," you still lose a mass amount of value in the long-term.

2 - Isolate limpers in position with hands like these.  You do not really want to invite players in behind, and you are always happy to play swollen pots in position

3 - Shoving turn is good if you have seem villain over-commit with weak top-pair/draw hands.

4 - I quite like r/c on the flop against this villain with given reads.

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