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3bet QQ, SB, AK2hh flop, thought please
the player i'm against is a tournament reg and his ranges in the SB is most likely A9s+, KQs and middle pairs and sometimes AQ.
being a flop with both an A and K, i'm thinking because of how good my range will be on this flop, unless he's got a nut flush draw it's more than likely going to see him fold, therefore if he were to call i could easily give up on the turn?
3betting a hand in the SM and seeing a flop Axx is a spot i do generally struggle to know whats best in general because the small premium pairs will now want to see a fold and i'm thinking well if i just cbet an Ax then it might make people easily fold weaker aces.
being a flop with both an A and K, i'm thinking because of how good my range will be on this flop, unless he's got a nut flush draw it's more than likely going to see him fold, therefore if he were to call i could easily give up on the turn?
3betting a hand in the SM and seeing a flop Axx is a spot i do generally struggle to know whats best in general because the small premium pairs will now want to see a fold and i'm thinking well if i just cbet an Ax then it might make people easily fold weaker aces.
| craigcu12 | Small blind | 50.00 | 50.00 | 6327.50 | |
| Barrie26 | Big blind | 100.00 | 150.00 | 5632.50 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| MattBates | Raise | 200.00 | 350.00 | 3805.00 | |
| pagey1099 | Fold | ||||
| TimmyRaRa | Fold | ||||
| wilson47 | Fold | ||||
| craigcu12 | Raise | 750.00 | 1100.00 | 5577.50 | |
| Barrie26 | Fold | ||||
| MattBates | Call | 600.00 | 1700.00 | 3205.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
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| craigcu12 | ? | ||||
Comments
This is always going to be a tough spot to balance because your 3-bet range sb vs utg is gonna be quite narrow. I don't think the average player checks enough Ax as the pf aggressor in these spots so a good thinking player might just barrel knowing your range is weighted towards Kx/QQ/JJ.
As Craig said above your protected from this by the stack sizes here so my standard would be to c/c flop, c/f turn.
If you check call, we are folding pretty much most turns.
A good % of the time we'll be continuation betting our Ace x hands though.
Don't really like calling the flop having to fold the turn. Would be better if we had Qh.
Or the river as the case may be. If it goes check, bet call on the flop. Good chance that the turn will potentially get checked through and are likely to be facing a river bet. The turn and the river are very similar (when ever a 2nd bet would come).
Given that i'd expect to face atleast 1 further bet after the flop and it's very hard for our hand to improve, if checking the flop I might be more inclined to fold.
**Depending on reads of course!
Some might say that Ch/R the flop will only really get called by better, as far as i can see QQ is going to be bust by AA or KK preflop, middle pairs will usually be careful with calls on broadway flops and on boards packed with middle cards middle pairs will have got sets.
really, it feels just as vunerible preflop as it does post flop except if the flop has an A then it's more easier to escape. also providing i jam Axs on suited boards i should get the calls from those middle pairs.