AK in 3 bet pot. Check bag flop?

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AK in 3 bet pot. Check bag flop?

***** Hand History for Game 5311998754218 ***** (On Game)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 10, 11:15:22 ET 2013
Table Philadelphia (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Seat 2: NiceMary ( $120.20 USD )
Seat 3: sairusvirus1 ( $101.50 USD )
Seat 7: RangesFFS ( $218.90 USD )
Seat 9: Djoko1980 ( $262.82 USD )
Seat 10: IHATEAIK ( $558.62 USD )
Djoko1980 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
IHATEAIK posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Djoko1980 [ As Kd ]
NiceMary raises [$3.00 USD]
sairusvirus1 folds
RangesFFS folds
Djoko1980 raises [$11.50 USD]
IHATEAIK folds
NiceMary calls [$9.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, Ac, 6s ]
Djoko1980 checks
NiceMary checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ]
Djoko1980 bets [$14.00 USD]

Villian is 21/16-2.6 over 451 hands. WTSD is 16 %. Raise 1st from UTG is 18 %. He is folding 40 % to 3 bets.

I'm checking flop behind, because I would think he is defending with a lot of hands that will fold this flop. A lot of broadway type hands. And with checking we might get him to bluff later turn and river with hands, he was folding to a flop cbet.

Should we be doing this with worse ax and just bet AK, because it's too strong? How is my thinking in this hand?

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BigFiszh 12 years ago
Why is nobody using a hand converter? It´s pretty annoying to try and work through raw hand histories. :(

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Ongame Network $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - http://www.handconverter.com/hands/2154093
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UTG: $120.20
CO: $101.50
BTN: $218.90
Hero (SB): $262.82
BB: $558.62

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with As Kd
UTG raises to $3, 2 folds, Hero raises to $12, 1 fold, UTG calls $9

Flop: ($25.00) 9d Ac 6s (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: ($25.00) 4h (2 players)
Hero bets $14.00


Regarding your thought process I don´t like it. You setup yourself to get at least two streets of value - by faking weakness and potentially get Villain to bluff. What you miss is the fact that this is a board you probably 100% cbet with air. So you shouldn´t suddenly check witih strong (but not nutted hands) - because Villain won´t start to bluff you. Why should he? You´re never x/f this type of flop as the pf3b, you´re either cbetting or x/c, so it doesn´t make sense for him to bet.

And you mentioned that you might get him to bluff. How that? You bet the turn. So he could just raise the turn, but that´s nonsense. If you wanted to be consequential you had to check the turn again - but you obviously realize yourself what a strange line that would be. ;-)

All that said, all you "accomplish" is losing value. Just bet-bet-bet and get value from worse Ax. If you want to balance your checking-range, take hands like AA / AT etc.

Hope that helps.
fush.arsi 12 years ago
utg is opening 18% and with this board in a 3bet pot i would go for 3 barrel. with a player that might float from botton maybe a x/c for balancing and gettin bluff range in him is better.
James Hudson 12 years ago
I would rather check back the flop with a hand that has the deck crushed (AA) or a hand that doesn't really want to get check raised/ go 3 streets for value (A3ss) than AK here. AK is a strong value hand on this board but also isn't anywhere near invulnerable on turn and river runouts.

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