Imagine you’re in Malta playing the 2015 PokerListings Battle of Malta. Lucky you!
You are close to the bubble.
The blinds are 1,000/2,000/200.
Preflop
Everyone folds to the player in middle position. He’s an aggressive Swedish pro, with 136,250 chips, and he raises to 5,000. Two hands earlier, the villain lost 20% of his stack on a bluff on the river.
You’re on the button with K♥K♦ and a stack of 130,500.
What do you do? #HandMalta & #BOMpreflop.
How did a microstakes cash game donkey like me end up in this tourney? I have no idea. But right now I need to focus on this one spot. I really need to concentrate because i'm up against a professional here and I know he holds most of the edges and he does too!!! Although I like the idea of slowplaying here and letting the Swedish pro barrel, i'm still very worried that he will outplay me and by just flatting his raise i'm allowing him the opportunity to make some kind of nut buster against me such as a funky two pairs and set etc,
I think with having tagged villain as an aggressive pro we can give him quite a wide range for his MP open, similarly if we think about what our range will look like to villain when we 3bet from the button, I think our range can also look wide and contain some bluffs, will villain believe our 3bet from the button ? Unlikely! Will he come over the top with another raise? Likely! We also know these professional NEVER EVER EVER fold to 3bets! Haha. At least not from watching the EPT! Villain has enough in his stack that he could also 4bet us with worse pairs which would be a great result for us because we can 5bet get it in. If Villain folds then so be it, we rake in a big pot. If villain flats us, we can play the hand with that lovely thing called POSITION!
I'm also banking on the fact that they may be tilted after losing 20% of his stack not too long ago! How dare I 3bet him from the button. Swedish pro says "I has 4BET"!!!
So my move: I elect to raise to 13k.
Thank you Ranking Hero. Ace High Poker Group baby!
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