Overpair in 3 bet pot on paired board, situation I find myself in often

Overpair in 3 bet pot on paired board, situation I find myself in often

Villain a good player, a bit spewy, but seems to pick good spots. Probably underbluffing a lot, but opens wide preflop

All players have ~100BB, we are 5 handed

Preflop: Hero has K K 6 4
Villain in MP raises to 3.4BB, Hero 3 bets to 11.6BB, 2 folds, BB calls, Villain calls

Flop: 9 2
BB checks, Villain checks, Hero checks,

Turn: 3
BB checks, Villain bets 17.5BB, Hero calls, BB folds

River: 8
Villain bets pot ~70BB, hero folds

Standard? I feel like it's pretty obvious I don't have a 9. But I feel like I am getting pushed around in these spots a lot. I am basically always folding the river to large bets.

30 May 2024 at 03:11 PM
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I don't 3b this hand co even vs wide MP, which is not the HJ, right? Plays just fine as a call.

"Overpair on paired board" is too general. Nobody has many 2x trips so when they check to us I consider cbet some overpairs. KK is generally meh but this combo with lots of backdoors seems like a decent candidate. Other trips rank will play differently.

As played I'd just fold turn. Looking for robust equity to just call. KK has some but not enough.

As played agree with river fold.


Tbh when we are three ways to the turn, I think we can fold the turn because the big blind could also be trapping, so I agree with Munga. I think we actually have the trip advantage because we have aa2/akk2 hands that they don't. For that reason, I like betting flop along with the reasons Munga listed.

On the turn, we have enough aa/nut flush draws hands that we will sometimes have trips and sometimes have a boat ourselves. Without the flush draw I just fold here.

Clear as day river fold as played, I should also mention that having a 6s and a 4c are bad blockers to hero it off with here.


Sorry what's the flop again? Only showing 2 of the cards (the 9 and the 2) for me.


The second card was a nine.


So 992?


Yes .. 992 .. the title says paired Board .. but it is the first time I've seen that format!

I'd be more apt to bet Flop than Turn unless there's a high incidence of x/r bluffing. By keeping the betting lead we may get to see a free River. I think we also end up getting bluffed more by betting this Turn.

1/2 pot .. gutter (maybe) and over-boat draws. Even if we do improve are we ever going to see enough River profit to make up for the times we end up losing or folding to a savvy River bet? Probably not. Zero chance we have 25% equity .. pretty slim we get paid off on an improving River

We don't block diamonds nor mid-wraps. GL


The problem with checking these flops is both players or at least 1 can realize their equity, and you can get bluffed off the best hand. I think I prefer betting this flop then checking unless villains are extremely good and will bluff raise or float the flop.


Thx genius, I can read lol. Could easily be 922 also but thx for the "whitty sarcasm".


he did say GL though


Holding a J, T, 8 or 7 would make a cbet better since we block some 9x combos.

Feel like our backdoor flushdraws allow us to bet. We also won't get check raise bluffed very often and just fold to aggression knowing we are making the right play.

River is an easy fold

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