AK hand 1

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I like the way you played it and I’m the prudent guy. You can’t represent a straight as villain’s range hits that. I can see the old guy with a big raise up front and small pairs that may have hit a set. I don’t think you want to bluff this guy.

By checking, you can see what villain does and you can improve. Honestly, I rarely consider checking the turn, but I like it here. These kind of villains may never get aggressive and alert you of their monsters, but they will snap you off.

I think you should be happy to realize your equity and then make a decision on the river.

Given the much larger raise size, from UTG from this guy, at these non-short stacks, and with no other dead money in the pot, I'm not as excited about 3betting. Having one of the loose poor players come into the pot with us ain't horrible, although admittedly things can get dicey if we end up like 5way (standard?) and trapped between opener and others.

SPR is about 3. I guess we just have to ask ourselves whether this guy is going to fold a big pear (which is most likely what he has). Is he really folding QQ at this SPR (i.e. "*shrug*, the pot's too big")? He's definitely not folding JJ. Is TT/99 really in his large raise/call range enough preflop? This can also still be easily AA/KK. Although, yeah, we can fold out a chopping AK.

Honestly, I kinda think I'm done with it UI once he calls this fairly big 3bet preflop. But I could see arguments for everything else.

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Pre looks good - actually not a bad idea to check back the flop even though it's probably not a good range play. If you bet he folds worse/calls with better, if you check you see a free turn and maybe you get a bluff out of him on the turn. As played on the turn if you break down his possible hands - AJ,KJs?,QQ,JJ,TT,99?,88? - I wouldn't think we can get Jx+ to fold so the only point of betting is to target the rest of the hands. I think we have to check - too many hands that will call us. His range could also be tighter here based on your 60 reraise - if he had say AJs/QQ/JJ/TT then it's even clearer of a check/give up.

If you have good evidence that he opens AKo, AQs, JJ with 12 and anything better with 18, then calling should be ok. From my experience those who open larger than their usual size are not going to fold to 3b. If he jam you should feel lucky as likely you just dodged a bullet.
Flop - check or bet small are both fine I think? It does not hit anyone's range but you have more better pps.
Turn - just check. Unlikely you can get QQ/TT to fold here. Also you are not that eager to get him to fold as you still have 6 outs to improve to beat smaller pp. By river you can bet one more time depending on how passive UTG is and if he could fold QQ/TT/99 on a J high board. No show down in 1.5 hrs I would say you could probably bet half pot to try to get him fold. If he bets river it is either fold or raise depending on his sizing.

Grunch:

PRE - When V opens for a larger than usual size, I'd think he has a strong hand. I wouldn't 3B him using a big raise size unless I had AA/KK, and in that scenario, I'd go massive.

We could make this 3X, just $48-$50. If we're just trying to get it heads up, we could min-click it, and put pressure on the players behind to fold.

I'm somewhat on the fence about raising at all, in this configuration, with the reads we have on the BTN and SB. With V opening for a large size, UTG, I think I'd be tempted to just flat with AK, to under-rep our hand.

I don't love possibly having the BTN behind us post-flop, but if this goes multi-way, I think V will be c-betting at a lower frequency, and with a more value-heavy range, making him more face-up. There are a fair number of post-flop scenarios that would favor us as a pre-flop caller, next to act behind the PFR.

For example, if we spike TPTK on the flop, and V c-bets, we have an easy call, and it'll be hard for BTN and SB to float wide. If the BTN and SB fold flop, we'll be HU and IP, just like we'd be if we 3B pre, except now we have some dead money in the pot. Alternatively, if action checks to us, we can start a bet, comfortable that BTN and SB didn't have top of range getting to the flop.

Forgot to comment on post flop play...

FLOP - c-betting for 1/3 pot is pretty standard in a 3BP.

The problem here is that he opened 6x and we 3B kinda big pre. We're working with a lower SPR now. So I think we should probably check back or c-bet for a smaller size.

The alternative is to size up, with a plan to play a two street game by jamming most turns.

When he snap calls on a fairly dry board, I'd think that would skew his range towards value. I wouldn't love this spot.

TURN - I'd mostly just check back, and evaluate river.

Planning to fold to any bet over 1/2 pot. Probably jamming 1.5x pot if clubs come in and he checks. Probably checking back on an A or K, but might bet small, like 20% pot, and fold to a x/r.

I'd be giving him a range of 99+/AK pre. He's probably folding 99 at a decent frequency on the flop. Maybe TT, too. He might fold AK on the flop when he just whiffs.

When we c-bet and he quickly calls, on board without many obvious draws in a 3BP, I think that weights him towards value. When the BDFD appears, I'm expecting him to x/r a lot if we bet.

Logically, a big portion of his range is going to hate it if we check back, and the river is another club, especially a low club, and we jam. I'd wish we'd started deeper, so we could jam for 2x pot or more.

If the river bricks, he'll probably lead out. He'll probably go big with value, and 1/2 pot-ish with whatever. If we were deeper, and he bet 1/2 pot on a brick, I'd be tempted to raise huge, to get a range fold. But if we check turn, we only have $300 behind getting to the river. If he bets $100 into $200, I don't really want to try to make him fold for another $200.

Alternatively, since we 3B pre and he didn't x/r the flop, we could jam for 1.5x pot on the turn. He should fold 99/TT/AK, and may fold QQ. He probably doesn't have AA/KK when he just flats our 3B pre.

I think we run into JJ here more often than AJ or worse JX combos, unless he's some sort of aggrOMC who'll raise huge with Broadway combos from UTG.

Flat call pre seems better. I don't like 3-betting a large UTG raise and driving out loose-passive fish behind.

I like the 3bet to buy the button and knock out the J8 K5 76 43 suiteds of the world, but imo it’s check back time until the river.

This is a tough spot all round.

Pre flop, the 3-bet is fine, although we are kind of chasing the action away with the two fish yet to act. Flatting here isn't terrible, especially if a fish is likely to 3bet. We can then see what our villain does.
If we don't get any further action pre after Flatting then we can play a hand against Villans pretty strong range in position against him and shouldn't find our selves in to much bother.

So after we 3bet, which I think is fine also, we get called.
So let's start range building here:
AA/KK raise again most likely.
QQ also likely raises again, let's put that at 50/50.
Calls from:.
Ak,
AQ,
AJ,
JJ,
TT,
99,
88,
77,
You know villain better than us though, does he have kj, jt, kq etc in his 3bet call range?

So with that board and that sort of range how do we fair... Not great. We are most likely behind at this point.

But looking at that range we can probably get a lot of it to fold, but it's probably going to take 2 streets of decent sized bets.

So in my mind, we make our decision in the flop to either not fire, or we fire both flop and turn.
Betting just the flop I think is a mistake.