25z - 3 way 3bet pot
Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
SB: $43.01 (172 bb)
BB: $26.25 (105 bb)
UTG: $83.81 (335.2 bb)
MP: $33.63 (134.5 bb)
CO: $45.86 (183.4 bb)
Hero (BTN): $25 (100 bb)
Preflop: Hero is BTN with 8♠ 8♥
2 folds, CO raises to $0.85, Hero calls $0.85, SB raises to $3.90, BB folds, CO calls $3.05, Hero calls $3.05
Flop: ($11.95) T♣ J♦ J♥ (3 players)
SB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $2.50, SB calls $2.50, CO calls $2.50
Turn: ($19.45) T♥ (3 players)
SB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $18.60 and is all-in,......
PRE: SB can have wider range as it's a squeeze. CO can be calling a wider range as they are deep with SB
FLOP: opted for a small stab to to prevent villians realising or bluffing us off later streets.
TURN: i think this might be a punt after they both call. however vs my flop sizing they can still have a OESD/ Gutters/ backdoor fd potential which are now dead vs boat.
If i'm SB i sigh fold QQ+ cause who tf bluffs this line?
1 Reply
As played preflop looks fine, though we are mixed between 3-betting/calling with a slight favorite to 3-betting. The flop bet seems like a punt tbh. I pretty dogmatically never bluff multiway in small stakes games, although I did think about this from the perspective of "if that wasn't the case". So essentially I think if we have any bluffs at all here they exist purely to provide balance to our range and make opps more likely to pay off our value, plus we have a little bit of fold equity because yes, we could take the pot down. Given GTO ranges our opponents each have a fair bit of Jx, a little bit of Tx, TT+, and 2 overs with draws. I don't think it's reasonable to expect our flop bet to generate many folds at all, especially for this size. Beyond that, I think 88 is a bad bluff candidate because it has very poor removal, further hurting our fold equity, plus poor equity. I'd much prefer all of our suited broadways as they have both equity and removal. And I do like the 1/3 pot sizing in general because our chances of folding out the opps is so low. In general I like to think of this situation as being somewhat analogous to certain preflop scenarios where our range is like AA/KK/AK. Even our bluff hand is super high equity and has great removal when we have it. And if we're up against an opp who knows what our range is, and they hold JJ/QQ and are getting close to a breakeven price, then we get the call specifically because of the AK in our range. But, we need to be value heavy here.
As played, after the 2 flop calls I never GII on the turn. Just check it down and give up.
