sat down at 1/2 plo deep table today with a guy who had 400 on one table and 900+ on another. Being someone I had never seen, i generally assume the guy is either someone who is good and is either playing down or someone who is very aggro and has money to burn.

this guy was the very aggro type. in the first six hands he raised the button all three, 3bet me twice, and chk/raised my cbet the one time he didnt 3bet. his AF by street over 146 hands was 3.46/5.00/8.00. He would vbet incredibly light, give me very little respect (see: http://www.pokerhand.org/?3159067 - where i have a hand well in the lower part of my range and i'm still 50% to win on the turn.)

this guy 2 and 3 barrelled mercilessly and rarely cared what i could have. we went back and forth for a bit- he takes an early buy-in lead but then i win a couple big ones (stacks were ~1150:400 in my favor at one point). he then came back a bit to get stack sizes to even.

im generally not too comfortable playing 400bb deep, only because im not very used to doing so, but I felt like I had a pretty big advantage against this guy.

now to the big hand: my 3bet preflop is standard. I have a hand that plays well deep, etc. I obviously hit a very good flop. If I was 200bb deep against this guy, I would 4bet the flop and have no problems getting it in. However, being 400bb deep i dont want to get it in on the flop with only A8xx. Now, once he raises the flop and I call, I have at least an 8 about 90% of the time- but this opponent doesnt really care about that, because he will multi barrell with his entire range.

On the turn is when I make my decision for the hand. By calling the turn I am deciding to play my hand as a bluff-catcher. If he has nothing, I know he will continue to bluff. If he has a boat, I know he will continue to bet.

On the river he obviously catches his gin card. I have very high confidence that he would have pushed the river no matter what card came. It took me probably about two seconds to call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3159109

I have no regrets about the way I played the hand.