$10 NL HE 6-max: Raise with a small FH against a nit's unusual aggression?

[blueskies]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$.05/$.10

Table Format

6-max (6 seats)

Currency

$

UTG opens to 25c. I have 7h7d on CO I call. BTN to my left, a nitty player, also calls. My stack size is is $11.83. The other two players both cover me.

8h7sAc flop. Pretty sweet for me.

Preflop aggressor checks. I bet $49c into the 90c pot (not rake adjusted). BTN calls UTG folds.

Turn is 8s which gives me a FH. I bet $1 into the $1.88 pot. (If my memory serves me right, it's $1.70 adjusted for rake). He raises to $2.49. I put him on an 8 and I think he thinks I have an A. I call with the intention of check raising the river.

River is 10h. I check. He bets pot. $6.47 into $6.88 (but it's $6.47 rake adjusted). This is bigger than I expected and it's giving me second thoughts. I think he puts me on an A but why is he betting so big?

I could have raised here, but I just called. I think in the moment I let the guy's nittyness psych me out. I hadn't seen him be so aggro on any hand before so I started to think maybe he has a boat, that was where I was irrational and psych myself out.

He likely didn't have AA so I was scared of only A8 and 87 (there was only one 7). Possibly T8. I don't think he would have called with worse than a two gapper pre flop so there actually aren't that many 8s in his range. By only calling, I left about $3.50 on the table. It wasn't like I was risking much more by shoving.

Anyway, in the moment I couldn't go through all of this in my head, and I let his unusual action stop me from raising.

Spoiler

8d9d

 

[pentazepam]

there actually aren't that many 8s in his range

That makes it harder to get called by worse if he is a nit.

So if you were deeper just call is probably correct.

But as you wrote: with that small amount left you can probably put it in and get a "crying call" from worse hands.

 

[eetenor]

UTG opens to 25c. I have 7h7d on CO I call. BTN to my left, a nitty player, also calls. My stack size is is $11.83. The other two players both cover me.

8h7sAc flop. Pretty sweet for me.

Preflop aggressor checks. I bet $49c into the 90c pot (not rake adjusted). BTN calls UTG folds.

Turn is 8s which gives me a FH. I bet $1 into the $1.88 pot. (If my memory serves me right, it's $1.70 adjusted for rake). He raises to $2.49. I put him on an 8 and I think he thinks I have an A. I call with the intention of check raising the river.

River is 10h. I check. He bets pot. $6.47 into $6.88 (but it's $6.47 rake adjusted). This is bigger than I expected and it's giving me second thoughts. I think he puts me on an A but why is he betting so big?

I could have raised here, but I just called. I think in the moment I let the guy's nittyness psych me out. I hadn't seen him be so aggro on any hand before so I started to think maybe he has a boat, that was where I was irrational and psych myself out.

He likely didn't have AA so I was scared of only A8 and 87 (there was only one 7). Possibly T8. I don't think he would have called with worse than a two gapper pre flop so there actually aren't that many 8s in his range. By only calling, I left about $3.50 on the table. It wasn't like I was risking much more by shoving.

Anyway, in the moment I couldn't go through all of this in my head, and I let his unusual action stop me from raising.

Spoiler

8d9d

Did not look at spoiler

Studying this hand requires us to build ranges and by applying actions to those ranges refine them. The more we do that; it becomes automatic in game--
This type of exercise takes time but I will do a short example to get you started--

Preflop Does V have AA -No Can they have AK-yes. Does the V expect you to have AK? No why would you flat---

Flop You bet would they trap AK? maybe thinking you had a worse AX
Turn would they raise AK vs your worse AX sure
River would they pot bet AK if they were targeting a Worse Ax that was not going to fold

As you can see you can take parts of your original range forecast and go thru each hand

AK 88 TT A8 AT T9ss AXss etc etc

After that you will get a better feel for non GTO player tendencies

Then you look at the hand they had and see if it fits into the range heuristic you built for this player type--if not then you refine your range by trying to uncover the V thought process.



Looking at spoiler now
89dd
Perfect so this V type may have a very wide range thereby not being all that nitty preflop-- having many more 8x hands than they should have in a spot like this would definitely have us shoving all-in even vs this sizing

This is a very good player personality data learning spot as well--You felt they were nitty before this hand but as played what does this tell you about this V now? What do their actions tell you about how they think regarding you or others? How can your further refine this player's profile Tag?

 

[Highfish]

Even nitty folks balance their range sometimes.

 

[eetenor]

Even nitty folks balance their range sometimes.

this is not balanced it is actually very unbalanced and the pot bet on the river with the 8x hand is not balanced either on that board-- Pot bets are nuts and nothing to be balanced and 8x is not the nuts on that board neither is it nothing

 

[Station_Master]

There are maybe 3 or 4 combos you lose to, just put the money in!

 

[dannystanks]

I might have put him on an Ace and just jam his Turn Raise here. If he does have a good Ace he probably calls, if not you take what’s in the middle and move on to the next hand.