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Preflop villain was opening about 70%. Villain had been pretty aggro on the flop. He liked to ch/rr a lot and just in the last 20 hands or so I had done similar. I turned trip aces a few hands ago and ch/rr turn and he called down with KK. Also in a 3b pot pre he only flatted flop and turn in pos with nut fd and ch behind when he missed it on river. Generally I think the match had swung in my favour over the last few hands.....think i had won about 7 in a row and I felt he was getting a bit frustrated just due to the timings of his actions. I am pretty new to HU. This is my first full length match that I played so im pretty much a HU noob.


Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 2 players - View hand 1773584
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BTN/SB: $54.23
Hero (BB): $78.87

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with A T
BTN/SB raises to $1.25, Hero calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.50) A 7 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $1.79, Hero raises to $5, BTN/SB raises to $11.81

Final Pot: $12.50

The context is everything in HU. Given your comments I think a fold is out of the question - I would call and let him barrell off all his chips. If you are beat so be it.

When I check/raise toppair goodkicker here it's usually with the intention of getting it in, only reason I would call is if you think he's capable of continuing his bluffs on the turn. Because in general if he's bluffing he will slow down once your call his min 3bet.

Very villain dependant - going off what you're saying, I get it in here. If he's got you outkicked, it's a slight cooler (taking into his account his frustration and previous actions)

You are probably getting called by Ax and flush draws. There are better spots to pick him off, though.

I would either minreraise or call but shoving is out of the question for me. If you think his range is more towards FDs than pure bluffs, I would minreraise.

For the pure bluff skewed range calling is the way to go eventhough he might not bluff the turn that often. He's drawing so thin with the bluffs so it's not really that bad if he decides to check back the turn with them. You could induce a bluff on river anyways after the check back.