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Monotone Board
I think ur logic with regards to flatting pre is generally good. U started the hand with 12bb, so 3betting to any amount other than a shove looks way too strong and means your extremely likely to just have a nutted range. Peeling pre or shoving pre should be ur options.
As played just look to check/raise allin on the flop. By leading for full pot you allow your opponent to play perfectly. What i mean by perfectly is to get it in with a fairly strong range (and even though your hand is strong enough to get in vs a strong range he is likely to have good equity against us with most hands he stacks off containing one heart), and more importantly he folds his hands with no equity that he will NEARLY ALWAYS stab when checked too on a monotone board.
So preflop is fine, but just check/raise allin on the flop, your stack is really good for it.
Dont feel too bad about the result, these hands at this stack depth will nearly always go allin anyway.
As played just look to check/raise allin on the flop. By leading for full pot you allow your opponent to play perfectly. What i mean by perfectly is to get it in with a fairly strong range (and even though your hand is strong enough to get in vs a strong range he is likely to have good equity against us with most hands he stacks off containing one heart), and more importantly he folds his hands with no equity that he will NEARLY ALWAYS stab when checked too on a monotone board.
So preflop is fine, but just check/raise allin on the flop, your stack is really good for it.
Dont feel too bad about the result, these hands at this stack depth will nearly always go allin anyway.
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Opponent is a very experienced tournmanet player who would know I'm on the nitty'er side and so I'm happy enough with my flat pre because I'm pretty sure he'll fold a lot to a 3bet pre from me and I'm also pretty sure he'll barrell the flop with a flat pre and check on the flop from me. Really didnt like the one suit flop lol
Don't think I'm getting away from the flop regardless but instead of donking here should I go slightly more defensive/small ball approach to control the pot or am I right to protect as aggressively as this?
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Post more often please Mark, there is not a player on this site that would fail to benefit from the MTT advice you can offer.
even @ 12bb against recs i'd click it back and not worry about it at any stack depth. against most regs too. people want to take flops in position. and whilst they will give it the full hellmuth of 'i knew you had aces or kings' the only reason they are able to say that is because you have stacked their draw / top pair etc, innit.
dont worry about mixing things up. its a terrible reason for taking a certain action. you may as well say 'i am flatting because i am wearing pink socks today'. you shouldnt wear pink socks, and you shouldnt use them as a reason for taking an action if you do. you should only take a line if you believe it is the most profitable line to take.
3bt NAI . /> flat /> shove /> fold
shoving is terrible. dont worry about seeing flops. you always have an overpair and you will capture a huge % of any pot.
Think its played fine, though the pot donk might be slightly OTT and allows them to play pretty straight up post flop.
With stack depth, and given were against an aggressove regular player, i feel flatting with the intention to c/r allin is prob the most profitable way to the play the hand.
I like 3betting if u have a 3bet/fold range here, if ur 3bet would only ever be value then i dislike it and i think its really bad / really exploitable.
I think given stack depth post, on this board i would just c/r allin yes, but obviously if the board wasnt this "scary" for our hand then we can c/call some boards for sure.
I think the flop lead is probably the street i like least though, especially if were always lead / getting it in. its important to be balanced against people you play often