thejimsheet

MP raise to 10.   Button calls.   I am sb, see AA.   I smooth call.   Flop J56.  I check.   MP bets 15.   He’s getting short.   Huge stack on button calls.   I c/r to 45 hoping to isolate small stack.    He calls.   Button calls.    Turn Ad (putting two diamonds out there).   I check.   MP checks.   Button bets 55.   I c/r all-in for like 220.   MP calls his last 23 or so.   Button almost insta-folds.   I show, MP drawing dead with TT.   I win a nice pot.

But, for the first time in awhile, I basically jizzed all over myself.   I waited for awhile after his bet, but after the Ace came, I was so tunnel focused on getting the money in that I didn’t stop to think about the best way to do that.  Here’s the thing.   Button has to have a hand to call a c/r on the flop.   He’s a good, thinking player.   His range probably includes all pairs 5+ (obv. including sets), AJ, maybe weaker Jacks (if we are including 77-TT, we pretty much have to consider all Jacks he would call a raise with pre), 56, and 78.    That’s about it.    He later claimed that he folded AJ, which I believed, and said I should have smooth-called the turn.  This is possible, and obviously the better action given a check.   He is so unlikely to bet there on a draw, because he has to show up with a hand, that I should not be fearing any card.   But, I think my real mistake was not betting out the turn (45 again or somesuch).   Given his exact hand, this would have been the best course, but I think it’s probably the best course for almost his whole range.    MP still calls all-in (he obviously played the hand badly, so I won’t disect his play).   Then, button is pretty much forced to raise and commit himself the vast majority of his range that he would put any more money in the pot with anyway.

Play and learn.

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