What is the poker etiquette?
This happened a couple weeks ago at 1/3 live game at MGM national harbor. The villain,UTG, raises big to $30. It folds around to the hero in mp with a pocket 8s. I make the call and it folds around to the original raiser. Thinking everybody folded, the villain turns over pocket AAs. At this point, I am not sure what the ruling should be, but the dealer asked us to just continue to play our hands. To the flop with rainbow board. The villain checks and the hero checks too. The turn brings another 8 to give the hero a set 8s. the villain checks again and what do you do here? I am not sure what is villain's intention here. Does he want to check through the river? Should I bet here or does that make me shady?
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We don't want an spewy player being unhappy and shutting down, we want him happy and pushing chips in the middle.
But if Villain isn't a spewy player, then I'll bet. This can also lead to bluff opportunities: "Why does Hero bets/raises when he knows I've AA?!?"
However I don’t think this is the case. A 10x open with AA screams to me “I’d rather win a small pot than lose a big one! Can’t price in the ace cracking hands!”
So I would still bet small but lose the banter :)
Good point, we'd definitely like to be deep. That said, against the right opponent I don't mind flatting these huge raises when the usual rules of thumb say not to, since some of these big raisers just can't let go of an overpair.
Effective stack size was about $350 and the villain covers me. After hitting my set on the turn, the villain checks to me and I bet $30. The villain tanks a bit and re-raised me to $100. I make the call. The river is another blank and the villain checks to me again. I shove and the villain tanks and finally makes the call. The villain was a good sport about it and said he would have been stacked anyway. I was happy about the double up, but felt sorry for him.
If we assume 100BBs and villain always stacks off, it's very borderline. But why do you assume we are mining and we have to make a set?
This one made me laugh
Just my familiarity with the MGM NH which is where I play about 99% of my live poker. The room plays big but 10x would be way out of line for most games and I think its often a player with a monster pair who doesn't want them cracked. Although I did just see a $40 open with 64o in my last session so what do I know?! lol
I'm making an assumption (potentially flawed) that our 88 here is almost never ahead. Would be hard for me personally to call a bet here without making the set. But I would also fold pre given the sizing at that stack depth.