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Okay another short game in the club.

Okay the Villain hasn't been seated long. I've stacked him twice.

He bought in for 500 and raised with J/9 off utg for 25. Three callers I completed in BB w/ Q10 suited and stacked him on a QJ9 board when is ran AA.

I can tell he's tilty sooo I make a tough call against him on a 9 10 9 8 w/ Q10 - hes re bought for 1000

blew a bunch off and is all in for 260. I cal and he has 8/7 Q river I win

Now its 5 handed. I'm in sb w/ 1200. He has 3500ish. How? He rebought for 2k and stacked a 1500 stack with J2 off other gy had QQ.

J2 oop raises 25 / QQ reraises 200. J2 calls. Board J 56.

check / bet 300 / J2 calls.
Turn is a 4

QQ bets 500 / J2 calls
river 3

QQ shoves a second after the 3 hits / and hes stacked.

Back to me I have AA in sb. utg raises 25 / button folds I make it 100 / J2 man calls and utg calls

10 s 6 3 rainbow / I bet 150 / call / call

Turn Q s / I bet 250 ( bad I think ) / J2 man makes it 600

I have 900 left .... I tank .... time is called by J2 man / I shove

Bad ? He is an unknown to me.

Thanks

Id call and check call any river. You're betting 250 into 750, there is a decent chance he thinks you have AK, JJ, 99, 88, and is only betting 600 to win 1000. If you shove you fold all these bluffs out, and only get called when you are behind.

The other side of it, is that you are only 1200 deep, so he can raise small for value over your small bet because the pot is already big.

How deep are you to start the hand? I'd be making exploitably larger bet and raise sizes throughout. Given that it is four handed and you have some who has already raised (probably not folding to any size 3 bet plus a very very loose BB), I'd make it $120 or $125 preflop. Maybe even more if I had a read that they would call more. My goal is to get my stack in as soon as possible versus these clowns and try to double up with my overpair.

As played, I'd bet $250-$275 on the flop -- they are still going to call with any piece. Also, if you're not super deep, you should be trying to position yourself to shove the turn. That gets your whole stack in while the donkey is willing to keep putting money in hoping to outdraw you.

Overall, I think you played too cautiously against such bad stations and should have been more focused on trying to get their entire stacks.