Flop check-raise all-in spot
25NL, hero UTG (120bb effective) raises 2bb with JhJd, unknown villain SB 3-bet to 9bb, hero calls.
Flop is 6s8s4c. Villain check, hero bet 2/3, villain huge check-raise all-in. Call to loose against aces.
I have a bluff-catcher which unblocks the flush draws. There are some overpairs in his range, but also flush draws and AK with backdoor flush.
I dunno, probably still too few bluffs for the pot odds I am getting?
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Maybe there are good reasons to deviate sometimes, but in general when the OOP 3bettor checks to us on those low boards we bet small rather than big. The idea is to put pressure on their broadways that just missed, while they might draw completely dead sometimes since we are the only player who can have all 3 sets. Also we have position, we don't want to lower the stack-to-pot ratio, it's harder for the out of position player to play when there is still a lot of money behind.
If I'm not mistaken you need to call 100BB in a 140 BB pot, I don't think you have the equity to call. They have QQ+ crushing you and their semi-draws have good equity vs JJ (JJ no spade is even worse I guess, you can't even hit a miraculous backdoor flush)
in solver land we probably call off. in reality i think folding is okayish, villain is probably supposed to have some overcards with one spade in GTO but will not actually have them in practice
Similar to above - Solver wise they are meant to find some CR bluffs, but in reality its very difficult to do so in this tight configuration vs your large bet. You can overfold these UTG vs SB/BB spots in general as ranges will be a good bit tighter than theory.
Thanks a lot, also for the explanation on the flop sizing! I had checked with GTOwizard and seen it prefers small but did not understand why.
