Mandatory bluff, or pure spew? KQs in 3-bet pot
Blinds $1-$2, but game is $2-$100 spread-limit. I have $320, V covers.
HAND: UTG limps, a fold, I raise KsQs in EP to $12, an MP calls, and the Button 3-bets to $45. Folds to me. I make a call—I would fold if they were offsuit or if we were shallower. MP folds, heads-up.
FLOP: 9c5s2c (pot: $100, heads-up). I check, he checks.
TURN: 9c5s2c 7h (pot: $100, heads-up)
I lead for $75 because there’s no way a LLSNL player’s check-back range in a 3-bet pot will be anywhere near balanced enough for him to ever have an overpair here—yes? Or am I just donking it up as usual?
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Meehhh I forget the logic in 4-bet vs fold with KQs vs KQo deep vs shallow. Isnt it the opposite of what you said though? More shallow + offsuit = closer to a 4-bet jam while deeper your RIO becomes more of a factor?
I play a mixed approach here with KQs depending on the Vs involved. I 4bet more competent players (for value/balance), and fold more to fish. Having a caller behind is awkward as is the limit style. I think giving the limit its closer to a call but in NLHE its more of a fold or raise with maybe low frequency call ~15%.
OTF I think you have two options, bet like you have it to get A-high to fold, which is a significant part of Vs range. Or check/give-up. It depends a lot on the V for me. Someone that can read a board I'm okay with a x/raise boom boom line, but again, the limit handicaps you. Against 85% of my audience I x/fold unimproved here.
In theory, yes. But what if he calls you? Do you continue again? It’s a good price for him to call on the river.
I think you can check the turn and bet the river.
River: 9♣5s2♣ 7h 3♣ (pot: $100, heads-up)
Hero bets $80
River: 9♣5s2♣ 7h J or T (pot: $100, heads-up)
Hero bets $80
River: 9♣5s2♣ 7h 9 (pot: $100, heads-up)
Hero checks
In theory, yes. But what if he calls you? Do you continue again? It’s a good price for him to call on the river.
That’s one of the nice things about our goofy spread-limit game—since V’s odds on later streets will be so much better, you don’t have to follow through on stupid bluffs, they can just be a 1-street adventure, haha. (I had already decided that if he called the Turn I was giving up.)
Blinds $1-$2, but game is $2-$100 spread-limit. I have $320, V covers.
HAND: UTG limps, a fold, I raise KsQs in EP to $12, an MP calls, and the Button 3-bets to $45. Folds to me. I make a call—I would fold if they were offsuit or if we were shallower. MP folds, heads-up.
FLOP: 9c5s2c (pot: $100, heads-up). I check, he checks.
TURN: 9c5s2c 7h (pot: $100, heads-up)
I lead for $75 because there’s no way a LLSNL player’s check-back range in a 3-bet pot will be anywhere near balanced enough for him to
RESULT: Villain tank-folded.
Meh. You stabbed and took it down. Maybe even ahead a shred of the time. I don't really know what to do because of the limit. At NL I could see a x x overbet line.
You’re blocking his folds and against you I would be checking back a lot of big hands. That said the fish probably has AK so stab away.
