JJ on a 9-6-2 board facing an overbet jam
5/5
~$500 effective
CO - unknown
Hero J♥ J♣ raises to $20, HJ calls, CO 3bets to $50, Hero calls, HJ folds.
Flop($130) 9♠ 6♠ 2♣
x, CO jams for $450, Hero - ?
How do you respond to this play? This looks so weird - min 3-bet preflop and then a huge shove on the flop. In the moment, it felt like there was something off here.
6 Replies
What's your position, are you UTG?
As played and with no info or reads I would just fold, it's something an unknown would likely do with AA/KK (with or without a spade) to protect his hand.
Something is off, but it's not worth $450 to find out what it is. Just muck and move on and pay very close attention to any hands he ends up showing down.
The somewhat small 3-bet and the flop shove suggests the opponent is a fish, so I wouldn't get into the weeds trying to decipher his 3-bet size.
It certainly looks like either AsQs/AsKs/KsQs or an overpair trying to win the pot now.
However, even if we give him the generous range of TT+, AsQs/AsKs/KsQs, you're still a 2:1 dog.
Just fold.
This is a good point, bad players don't know how to properly size bets, and they will also overbet flops with FD's if they have a big hand (aces, kings, sets) that they've had many sleepless nights and nightmare memories of getting outdrawn vs a flush and had to drive home broke.
If memory serves, this game is capped at $500 BI?
PRE - If we were deeper, I'd really want to 4B over that smallish 3B. I guess we still could, to $100 or a little more, as long as we keep it under $150. Maybe go as high as $125.
FLOP - Dafuq? Why is he jamming over 3x pot? Because 2 spades? I'd muck, face down, and tell him, "well played" (sarcasm, because sometimes it's okay to be an a$$hole).
What Doc said. We're OOP, 100bb deep, it's a silly 3! size, 4! to 150-160 already.
AP, it's so often a, "AHHHHH! What do I do!? I don't have a spade draw...I jam!" situation. Which would be fine, except you're kinda low on the big PP hierarchy. Snapping with Kings. Maybe calling Queens? Sigh-folding Jacks.
