Quote Originally Posted by DoanDiggy
Quote Originally Posted by iopq
Hand 1 is kind of a hard spot. What is his range on the flop? Has he donked before? Does he play his draws aggressively or passively? What does he 3b small like that?
Unfortunately, my read on him wasn't that good. I knew that he was a decent player for the numbers he had, but I had no idea what the donk or anything else meant.

I figured he either had the Q, a flush draw, or a flush. An A-high flush draw had enough equity on me that I was ok just calling his 3-bet on the flop and then betting a non-club turn. I was pretty surprised when he bet the turn, I thought he had to have the flush or a flopped set, or maybe even JJ sometimes. I was really close to folding, but then I remembered that I had an overpair heads-up, and I just couldn't let a flush draw (or a Q that thought I was on a flush draw) push me off my hand. The river was obviously an easy call. I could have possibly considered a raise, though. The bet looks so much like a bet that's going for thin value, like Qx (especially AQ or QJ trying to value-town KQ or worse). Does AQ or QJ call a river raise? I think he'd have to put me on a full house if I raise the river, not that I should be giving him that much credit...
What do you mean your read on him isn't that good
he either donked before or he didn't
or were you 10 tabling and not paying attention?

he has a hand on the flop that he wants to get it in with on the flop

he's going to have a flush 4% of the time on this board
now your job is to figure out how many hands he would play this exact way
we can already throw away most of his range because he would fold to a raise with air and most certainly not 3b tiny
in fact we can discount hands like aces no clubs or a set somewhat because he'd be scared of playing them too passively

you should not have been surprised that he bet the turn since he's trying to get stacks in
I don't know if I can give him credit for a flush, but that's how it looks like