$100.000 profit at 20nl

Yeah, I’ve been short stacking for a while now.

I’m happy with how much I make, and I prefer the stress-free grind over taking big risks.

Why 3! the flop with 66?

I havent played poker in a while, your bet and his xr seems standard, but why did you 3! and not call or fold?

Are we calling hands like QTd? Is A high going to be a mix call/3!? 5x/7x and 66 prefer to 3! here?

Thanks ZKesic.

Villain's x/r with A4 is anything but standard and shows that zkesic's wide 3b otf was likely exploitative under the assumption villain is x/r too wide.

Don't really need much for 3-bets IP in general for a strategy to be honest, but if you are going to have 3bs otf then hands like 68s/98s offsuit to the 7x (so blocking 7x suits), strong 7x (a7/75s/55), and possibly something like 66 seems quite reasonable.

Discussing flop 3b strategies is sort of moot and kind of a waste of time in my opinion, though... especially IP... any flop 3bs should likely just be done for exploitative reasons rather than a construction of a base-line strategy.

Thanks.

Seeing the small blind 4! ZKesic was strange, its not a spot you expect people to be over-defending but then again thats why he called i guess?

I'd imagine the villain is just some type of over aggressive reg fish capable of spew and is marked in his notes. Also, SB vs BB play is full of spew... especially regs. The pair 7 flop for BB vs SB SRP is a pretty high EV board for BB as BB defends significantly more 7x than SB opens... SB x/r with A4 is likely just wide and I have no idea what to think of the 4b other than pure spew really. Villain might be a "reg" at the limits, but any reg doing this would just be considered a fish by me, so I am also a little surprised ZKesic refers to him as a reg. We will have to wait to hear his response and thoughts on the hand.

The guy was quite aggressive so I felt that I was way ahead of his check-raising range there. He mostly has 5x or random overcards.

The problem was that 66 is very vulnerable against his bluffs (K9/Q8/JT...) - All overcards just completely screw us over. So getting those hands to fold is quite valuable.
If I had something like 87 or AJ, I'd just call the raise.

QTd would be whatever. All 3 options seem fine depending on the reads.
I probably wouldn't even bet it vs this guy tbh, to avoid this exact spot.

The guy was 26/22/12, with high AF, which I still consider a reg no matter how profitable or not he is.

Blind vs blind I expected for that check-raise to be overbluffed. The whole thing ended up being a bit of a leveling game.
He knew that I knew that he was overbluffing. So he expected for my 3bet to be bluffy and he therefore decided to 4bet.
Something like that.
He probably planned to barrel turn small and then shove river, but didn't have the balls to complete the line once the draws missed.

When it comes to his hand selection, it wasn't the worst I think. Ax blocks the A7, which is my main offsuit 7x. 4x unblocks my bluffs.
It was a pretty ambitious play by him either way 😀

I understand the idea, but don't like the execution (by him). I have done similar things before, but generally dislike massive deviations like this. Anyways, nice hand and thank you for your response.

In real time how are you figuring out which action is the best/has the most EV?

Are you going to 3! or to play the call line and let the opp. blast off OTT and OTR. Are you doing the EV calc's in your head or are you just estimating?

I think 3!ing is going to be better then calling here but what if you have a read/notes that this opp. wants to use small sizings OTT and OTR (like xr -> 50% -> 50%)? Then calling becomes better with 66? Or are you just folding because you don't need to take 0 EV spots at this level...