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Originally Posted by TheDeKay  This is not my standart line of course  I'm just spewing around a little bit and see what happens.
About preflop: Since it's only 4 handed, his range should be wider than A9o and I have position on him - so I'm fine with calling here from time to time. I had no reads, how he reacts to 3bets and I prefer to find that out with hands like... K6s or so 
Well, basically I don't want to rep what I have. I looked him up at tableratings.com and figured he is a winning reg, so he should at least try to read my hand. By raising I rep a flushdraw or a very strong hand (at least 2pair), but never the hand I have, cause a weak A is supposed to call here. |
preflop: I can see how calling is OK as it is 4 handed and we have position.
flop: yeah by raising you polarize your range, but his calling range has a lot more Ax type hands that crush than hands that you beat so eventhough you might get an occasional light call, its just -EV. If you slowplayed AK or AQ preflop thats a different story.
turn: you check behind, so he puts you on either an ace with good kicker going for potcontrol & tricky, weird 2 pair/trips that is getting tricky, or a draw trying to get free river.
river: he bets out, villain probably thinks your range is very polarized here, so if he happens to have a hand like 88 he is going to check/call or check/fold.
If he had a draw, he probably won't be putting you on one and probably expects you to call 99% of the time so he wont bluff.
I think his bet is for value almost always with 22/33/AK/AQ/AJ
so I would fold.