$2 NL HE 6-max: 2 NL heads up VS bully

I was the player named Sniffo.


I read this player as a bully/maniac . 42% VPIP , 33% PFR and 62% ATS

When he jammed the flop I assumed he had air and called him

I had 70% of chances of winning at the flop but then he hit his straight on the turn

What could I have done differently ? Was this badly played on my part or bad luck ?








Poker Hand #HD2935809033: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2026/07/02 14:25:06
Table 'NLHWhite1' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: 3505982e ($1.09 in chips)
Seat 2: c3d8bba ($2.25 in chips)
Seat 3: aa8557e9 ($2 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($1.78 in chips)
Seat 5: 220df8d7 ($2.16 in chips)
Seat 6: 710e6b7f ($2 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.01
220df8d7: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 3505982e
Dealt to c3d8bba
Dealt to aa8557e9
Dealt to Hero [Kh Js]
Dealt to 220df8d7
Dealt to 710e6b7f
710e6b7f: folds
3505982e: folds
c3d8bba: folds
aa8557e9: raises $0.06 to $0.08
Hero: raises $0.16 to $0.24
220df8d7: folds
aa8557e9: raises $0.5 to $0.74
Hero: calls $0.5
*** FLOP *** [7c Ad 8d]
Hero: checks
aa8557e9: bets $1.26 and is all-in
Hero: calls $1.04 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.22) returned to aa8557e9
aa8557e9: shows [Th Jh] (Ace high)
Hero: shows [Kh Js] (Ace high)
*** TURN *** [7c Ad 8d] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [7c Ad 8d 9h] [3h]
*** SHOWDOWN ***
aa8557e9 collected $3.39 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.58 | Rake $0.17 | Jackpot $0.02 | Bingo $0 | Fortune $0 | Tax $0
Board [7c Ad 8d 9h 3h]
Seat 1: 3505982e folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: c3d8bba folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: aa8557e9 (button) showed [Th Jh] and won ($3.39) with a straight, Jack to Seven
Seat 4: Hero (small blind) showed [Kh Js] and lost with Ace high
Seat 5: 220df8d7 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: 710e6b7f folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Preflop
You have a loose and aggressive player on your direct right, which mean, you have position on him in 5 out of 6 hands. So why are you choosing to take him on from the one seat of the table, where you are out of position? He is opening to 4BB, so its not like, you are getting a meaningfull discount having posted the small blind, and KJo is not exactly a monster. So I would just fold here and look to get involved, when I am in position and/or have a better hand.

Instead you 3-bet, and I dont like that play at all. Maniacs dont like to fold, and especially not, when they are in position and getting great odds to see a flop. So he will at least call you, and maybe he will even 4-bet you, as in fact he did. He 4-bet to 37BB, which is breaking the preflop treashold, so like in the other hand, where you got 4-bet, your options here are to fold or 5-bet jam with no fold equity. And with a hand as bad as KJo, obviously you should fold.

Flop
You missed completely, and if he has any AX hand, you are basically drawing dead. So as played this is another easy check and fold situation. You say, you "assumed he had air", and the big question is why? There is less than a pot sized bet left, so why would he not jam basically any hand, that he 4-bet, and certainly top pair? You were incredibly lucky to be ahead here, and even then he still had equity and ended up drawing out on your K high.

Conclusion
I think, you are playing the hand backwards and trying to justify your decisions with the fact, he happened to have one of the few hands in his range, that you were ahead of the whole time. But that does not mean, you played this hand well and got unlucky, because he has a range of hands not just this single hand, that he happened to show you this time.

And you are basically doing everything wrong here. You are choosing to play a big pot out of position with a bad hand, and you are trying to fight fire with fire instead of being patient and waiting for a good situation. I think, this hand is tilted play, and when we do something like this and get stacked by the maniac, then usually our tilt just get even worse. So there are some mental game issues, you need to work on here.

Just to make this a bit more objective, I plugged the hand into Equilab and gave him a 4-betting range wide enough to include JTs. I dont think, we have any reason to believe, he is 4-betting wider than this, and actually its a little surpricing, its even this wide. The range, I gave him, is 77+, AT+, A2s+, KJ+, JTs+. This is 14,5% of hands, and you have 37,7% equity against that range, which is not enough to profitably get it in. On the flop this drops to 16,6%, so you are just completely dead here, and it should not be rocket science to fold K high on a A high board.

Just fold pre