PokerNinja91

This is 5NL. River brought flush and straight draws - I'm not folding, although it is dependant on what you think of the villain - Against a regular 5NL player I'm not folding this.
Although, your line was pretty bad. You could donk out on the flop to make villain spaz out with his overpairs, draws etc - I'll usually do this against weaker players when I am super strong or drawing to the nuts. The check/raise was away too small if you're going to take that line - Plus it looks really strong so you're unlikely to get paid off on later streets by worse.
That being said, I don't hate a fold. It's probably marginal either way - But I don't like your line.

Hey chefsache,

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Thanks

In addition to above comments - Barrelling turn enables you to build the pot to a point where you can easily get stacks in on the river if you river the nuts - Which is the aim right! Checking turn gives away too much information and doesn't balance out your range. You should be barrelling your flush draws here, your over pairs, semi-bluff gutshots and some complete bluffs to knock him off his non set PPs. Even with the top of his range with AQ, if you did barrel 3 times, it isn't such an easy call for villain to make on the river since your range is very polarised. But I think to narrow the villains range to AQ is foolish and he is definitely going to have lots of medium PPs and medium strength showdown hands - And if he is a reg like you claim then he could definitely fold a hand like Q10s, if you barreled the missed river that is. Although - I just saw the board paired on the river, I'd give up on that card.
Everybody knows you shouldn't bluff on a paired board where all the draws missed ;)

Pretty standard for me. I think QQ is always either a flip with AK or dominated by KK,AA when shoved on pre-flop at this level - Particularly if your deep-stacked, he's ALWAYS strong here. Fold seems pretty standard. His bet sizing is weird and that leads me to think it is AA or KK and he is a bad player who just doesn't know how to play it. Make a note of it and move on :D

Also, it's worth running the math into PokerStove, even if you put JJ into his range it's still a clear fold. In fact, only if you start to put AQ, JJ, 10-10 into his range does it start to become profitable, given the odds you are getting. And given his line, that's probably too optimistic. Nice hand, would've played it the same - Except I'm opening 3x with all my strong hands minus the button. Reason is that at the micro's - Nobody takes notice of opening sizes usually. But that's just my opinion, shouldn't make a real difference to this hand.

Hey man,

First of all: Any notes or stats on the BB?

Given that the Villain just calls pre-flop and doesn't try a squeeze play, we can narrow his range down to suited connectors, weak aces, low-medium pocket pairs 22-10s, none suited broadways like JKo,JQo,10Ko etc etc. He would be much more likely to squeeze with a stronger range OOP - so we can pretty much eliminate JJ and QQ from his range (Still possible, but unlikely). I think pretty much the only hands you need to be worried of here are 77, JQ and KQ (Q hands slightly less likely as you have a blocker). J7s could also be possible, again this would also be dependant on how loose you think Villain is. AQ also marginally possible I guess.
There are also a couple of draws on the flop which he may lead out with for fold equity, given that the SB checked and only called a min raise pre flop - Hands like K10, 89, 910 and at a push - 810. Again, this all depends on your thoughts on the villain. If I was villain, I'd be leading out with K10 and 910 as a semi-bluff, hoping to get paid when I hit my hand and maybe even win the pot without showdown as a semi-bluff.

Given that you have a good bluff catcher hand and that this is 25NL (Where people start to get over-aggro especially in the blinds as an attempt to adjust to the more aggressive opponents), I'd be leaning towards making the call - But again, it's very opponent specific and there may be times where making the fold will be the correct decision. For instance, if the Villain is usually very passive post-flop or always slow plays premium pocket pairs pre-flop (Not likely here).