1/3/5 3bet pot oop
1/3/5 10 handed, first time playing at this place just sat down for 10minutes. Bought in for 400, bonus 200, played and won the first hand for 75, effective stacks 675.
Villain is middle aged white guy. When another player won with a KT hand he said ''he learned it from you, your KT''
I replied with, wow you still remember
He said he remembers everything, I believe him.
Hero is asian guy in his 30s.
The rock is out everyhand, but played from every single position so the position is weird preflop
Preflop
Rock is at LJ, Villain in HJ(first to act) opens to 25, Mp calls, Hero picks up AQo in MP+1 3bets to 125, V calls, Mp folds.
Pot 279
Flop AJ6cc Hero cbets 85, V calls.
Pot 449
Turn J, Hero ???
Jam? Check? If check we check/jam? check/call? check/fold?
9 Replies
We checked, Villain bets 300
This is the type of hand where knowing the suits of both your cards and the board cards are pretty important.
Spr is 1 just ship it.
Little confused on the action of this hand, but I think that your sizing is a bit off here. The 3 bet pre is a tad large for a squeeze and I think even catching top pair and second kicker could spell trouble. On flop I think checking would have been a much better line V would give you far more information on the size of his bet based on the flop then you c-betting and being up against AK. I do understand wanting to block the club draw, but I think with this kind of board which is super wet you should slow down a bit. If you are going to c-bet here I think going very small would give you far more information say around 45$ and if he wants to re-raise you here you for sure have to pump the breaks if you are going to continue.
On the turn another J is truly a bad card for you and a great card for V's range, so I do not understand applying even more pressure. As played any larger bet I would say over 100$ you should fold because you could be up against a monster.
Spoiler
Hero jams
V calls and shows J8ss
FWIW, I think your c-bet was way too small.
Assuming V is your typical 1/3 fish, I like checking our entire range OOP in a three bet pot. Sure, not solver approved but my experience is fish will overstab, telegraph their hand strength with sizing and not protect their checking range.
OOTH, a 1/3 pot bet could accomplish a lot. They can call with draws and hands we have crushed like Jx or a lower Ax, and will raise off their 2p and sets. So it's not bad, but I simplify my strategy to just checking range.
A jack on the turn is one of the worst cards in the deck. A lot of their calling range to a small bet is Jx. But our hand is going to be way ahead of draws and Ax. I'd check and evaluate. Against a small size, I would continue warily. Against a large size, I'd strongly contemplate folding. I would NEVER jam this turn.
Is this massively unbalanced? Yes. Is it easily exploitable? Also yes. But who cares? When a fish tells you they have it, just believe them. The relatively few times they don't won't outweigh all the times they do.
As played, I fold the turn. Yes, it's 'not much more' and you're 'pot committed with TPGK'. But who cares? They have it. Worst hand they show up with here is AKo. They check back all flush draws and all worse Ax, esp on a paired board(maybe Ax you beat bets small hence the call and evaluate river).
PRE - Our 3B seems a tad large, but he called (apparently wide, after seeing the reveal), so it's probably okay in this game or vs this V.
FLOP - 1/3 PSB is fine. May also be fine to go a little larger.
TURN - V could have a lot of AJ/KJ/QJ/JT type hands. Might just check back to bluff-catch river. An over-bet jam probably doesn't get called by worse often enough to make it +EV. When we get called, we'll be up against Jx a lot.
RIVER - If we check back turn, we're probably calling up to a 1/2 PSB, maybe a little more. Folding if he bets bigger than that, especially if the river is another club.
H is OOP. (It's a little weird as described with the rock.) Kind of boned here given reveal, no matter what H bets on flop, but as bad as V is, H might get it back this session.Probably sizing down the squeeze, and up a tad on flop, but again, rearranging deck chairs. AP, ship or fold time. Should probably fold w/o reads, but that's totally R-O.Calling off 40% of our pf sta
Ah, yes, the positions weren't clear.
In that case...
PRE - 5x raise seems a tad big, but I don't hate it at all, especially vs a loose V.
FLOP - ace-high boards don't get stabbed nearly as much, so we should bet. Not sure why I thought a 1/3 PSB was okay earlier, when I'd actually prefer an over-bet.
TURN - just checking the J turn, for reasons given. If we bet, it should be small, to recap V. Fold if he raises.
