Barreling in 3bp vs early pos

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Barreling in 3bp vs early pos

100 bb effective
HJ reg 3bb -> Hero (KcQc) 13bb -> HJ calls
Flop (25bb)
Ad Jd 7s
Hero bets 8bb, HJ calls
Turn (41.4 bb)
Ad Jd 7s 5s
Hero bets 22bb, HJ calls
River 9h (88bb pot, 55 eff stack)
Hero???

Turn barrel ok?

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whiteshark 3 years, 9 months ago

You didn't post what the river actually is. Given that the river is blank, I would like the shove since you unblock a lot of HJ's folds (diamond and spade flush draws) plus you block his calling range AK/AQ.

I assume the turn is a bit thinner, but I like betting this as well. In general, I categorize my bluffs into three groups of hands when I land on the turn:

  1. (High) Equity draws (flush draws, straight draws)
  2. Hands that compose my bluffing range on dynamic rivers on which my equity draws improved to value hands and which simultanesouly (i) block Villain's high equity draws on the turn and (ii) block Villain's nutted hands on the river on such runouts (in the hand example you posted, this would be a hand including the Kd for instance. If a third diamond hits, you cannot bluff your flush draws anymore since these turned into a flush now. Holding the Kd then is great since you will have a bluff blocking the nuts. On the turn, betting the KdXx has the additional nice property that you block Villain's nut flush draws which float).
  3. Hands that block Villain's continuing range.

In general terms: On boards where you a have a lot of Category 1 and 2, only few hands in Category 3 need to be bet. On boards where you are missing Category 1 and 2, your bluffing range might be entirely composed around Category 3.

In the hand example you posted, I guess KcQc is one of your very best Category 3 hands so this goes into my betting range.

POCER 3 years, 9 months ago

Given how narrow ranges are we're gonna be blocking plenty of both calls and folds from villain with whatever we have that includes A,K,Q,J, assuming he's folding QQ, QJ, KJ and calling AK, AQ, AJ, 77, JJ or smth like that.

My first thought was to bluff every hand we have to bluff otr since our value range is pretty massive and bluffing range is quite narrow. My second thought was to pump the breaks and bluff nothing since HJ has loads hands to call me with and so I did.

I guess, my question is: do we need to bluff here ever? If HJ has a bit of AQo or doesn't fold QQ-KK we're burning money. Is this reasonable approach or I should try why underbluffing still have some bluffs and use my KQs and T9s, 98s?

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