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Message: [QUOTE="Shumkoolie, post: 6245040, member: 64267"] Your open was fine, you do have position on villain here. Your lead on the flop is marginal, it will take the pot down some of the time, but the problem you face against a loose player is that they're going to defend pretty much their entire range, except for absolute junk hands (like 92o for instance). So you don't really have range advantage on this specific flop. Their check-raise here says I got a piece of that flop. Given what you've said about your opponent, they're going to have a lot of 5x in their range, and maybe even flush draws. An A5 defend from the BB is VERY reasonable, and maybe even Q5/K5, so those are hands that have to be accounted for. I'm not worried here about 77 or even 55 as they'd just call those hands if they know you are going to play aggressively. The turn card is interesting because it does bring flushes into the picture, and you are certainly going to have those a good portion of the time, so villain here is, if they are a station, going to check-call you down, so firing here is not an awful play, but because they did that, REALLY the only card that's going to help you here is another club on the river. However, you also may need to be concerned that they may have a flush draw as well given how wide they presumably play based on what you said. But that's putting yourself into a much higher variance spot. I'm probably checking the turn here myself. I get why you're betting out on the river because you're really ONLY losing to 5x, which is a narrow part of villain's range. Your aggression probably buys you a lot of pots in the games you play, but it's definitely a higher variance path to take and you will get burned at times too, like here. In a vacuum, I don't think you played it too badly though because it will work some of the time. It just happened that it didn't this time. [/QUOTE]

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