This is a case of live by the sword and die by it.
I, for some reason, have a really dirty image too. In this spot I would just try and get to showdown. He"s not folding any bluff catchers simply because of your rep. U just have to have it sometimes and this is a spot where if you do have it you"re getting paid.
Have also heard the hand history re the 42 hand and tbh I don"t think it"s a great play post antes lets alone pre. 3 bet squeezing an utg opener out of the sb when they know who u are isn"t the best idea. Not really great against randoms either
lol George - tbh, I shouldn"t even have opened in the hand in question. But like you say, hands like this get us paid when we do have QQ or 10 10 or all the other hands that I can have in this spot that were beating A8 by the river.
The deuce four hand was ridiculously spewy but it was early and I had driven 240 miles through snow and spray to get there and had folded every hand till that point and Glenn had opened more than his share (turns out he had a hand every time, but who knew?).
At worst though, I end the hand on c14k cos there"s no more to go in after the c-bet gets called unless the miracle cards arrive. Wouldn"t dream of doing that in a DTD/UKIPT at that stage but sometimes we have to uncage the inner-devil.
