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1. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294114 - Villain is very agressive and playing 50/30. I figure it to be a good reraising spot. However he 4bets me, which until proven otherwise is always aces. I have a pair in my hand, which always reduces the number of flops I could hit, but otherwise my hand is as best as it gets and he is commited. It turns out I am 40/60 against aces preflop and on the flop he is commited and I have position.
2. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294120 - I 3bet position again and get called. I flop top two+gutshot+backdoor FD, but there are many turn cards I don’t want to see. I lead small to represent scared aces and to give him the impression that he has fold equity. I don’t really have balanced range for this move as I am not going to do it with AA or KK. Only the nuts, sets or good semidrawing hands. If the board is suited I might do it with aces also since I will repping a nut flush draw. Once he raises me if he has 76, I am around 33%, which is not ideal, but I bet small to induce bluffs, so now I have to go with it.
3. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294130 - I am always leading this flop. I think it makes my hand transparent, but the effective stacks leave less than PSB left so it doesn’t matter. When he just calls, I put him on a drawing hand or top pair + coordinated kickers, like QJT7. The king is a pretty bad card since most of the peeling hands with Q also have a K in them, but with less than PSB I have no choice.
4. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294138 - A terrible push by me. Against two pairs I have around 30% and against set ~16%. None of these is good enough to put 140$ to win 350$.
5. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294156 - Preflop, I can reraise since my hand plays better in hu pots. His 1/2 pot raise is rarelly AA and with a pot-size re-raise I can make the hand easier to play post flop and give him less implied odds. As played, I am mostly set minning. I hit the set and go for check-raise, he obliges and that’s that.
6. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294171 - Here he is generally either with a set or we are splitting and he might be freerolling me, or sometimes he has air. I expect him to bluff with air and the freerolls and to check the sets. Maybe bet on the turn is better and I am trying to be too tricky.
7. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294177 - The initial raiser was tight and he rarelly has 64 in the hand and leading into a shortstack gives credibility to my hand since I am getting called in this spot often. However I figure to have enough equity against a possible shortstack calling hand. ~22% against sets and str8s and ~40% against two pair. Given the fold equity seems like a good move. If I am to be raised by the PFR I will have to fold.
8. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294193 - Similar to the previous hand. I use the short stack protection also with the fact that the PFR does not have a hand often enough and that there are no flush draws down.
9. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294196 - I hate my flop c/r here, but the turn is basically a dream card on which I go on to represent my top two.
10. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294199 - On the flop, if he leads I might give up, since he was loose enough to 3bet T9 and probably he is going to lead them here. Once he shows me he missed the flop I go for double barrel as I set up the things with small bet on turn to look as if I feel unbeatable with T9. He calls, he might have flush draw, top pair, or simply AA that does not believe my small stab. Then the river comes and A, now he knows his hand looks like AA alot, So if I lead full pot into an A river, it seems as if I decided he cannot fold his AA now and lets get payed off. It is a risky play sicne some people just cannot fold a set, but I had some respect for him.
11. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294210 - Preflop I should probably raise. On the flop, unknown leads for full pot into 3 other people. Now he might be leading a good draw he is ready to stack, a T9 not very probable, a TT is very probable and maybe 22, but not many people play 22 even from SB. So if I raise his calling range is either a flip against me or crushing me. I choose to see the turn and reevaluate. The turn is one of the few bricks and he leads small. Now he should never do this with TT on a board like this in 4 way pot OOP, so I am sure I am bets now and go ahead to protect my hand.
12. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294222 - My raising range from SB mostly misses a lot this flop. Hence I check here with all my range against an agressive player in the BB. He doesn’t disappoint me and leads. Now I can raise here, but If I am 3bet I will have to fold or if he happens to call I will have tough spot on most turns, so as most of my OOP pots I go for the passive line. He of course leads te turn into me again. His range here is many bluffs, pair+draw, sometimes sets and str8s. I am in the situation where I either have the best hand or the best draw and against almost every hand I have at least 30% equity.
13. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294230 - I raise preflop from the SB, so I cbet to represent AAJ. On the turn, I expect him to have mostly better sets, J9 or AJ and I since he doesn’t have even a PSB left, I am not sure how much I like my turn bet. Most of these hands he is not folding, maybe except for J9.

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