Pocket Pair OOP in a 3bet Pot

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Pocket Pair OOP in a 3bet Pot

Blinds: $0.02/$0.05 (6 Players) BN: $8.87
SB: $2.63
BB: $6.94 (Hero)
UTG: $7.14
MP: $3.82
CO: $4.93
Villian is 29/24 over 18 hands. No 3bet stat or fold to 3bet stat but obviously small sample

However their stack is $2.95 so I assume they are a weaker player.

3bet for value
Preflop ($0.07) Hero is BB with Q Q
2 folds, CO raises to $0.16, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.48, CO calls $0.32
Pure value against a percieved weaker player
Flop ($0.98) J 3 T
Hero bets $0.50, CO calls $0.50
Bet for value. Getting called by a large majority of villains broadways.
Turn ($1.98) J 3 T T
Hero checks, CO bets $1.00, Hero calls $1.00
Seeing as this is, in theory, a weaker player I am now starting to think I should have bet the turn. Still getting called by AJ, KJ, JQs plus any draws (KQ, AQ, 89) I believe at the time that I trying to control the size of the pot whilst also giving villain options to either semi bluff with his draws or overplay any J they have.
River ($3.98) J 3 T T 6
Hero checks, CO bets $1.91, Hero calls $1.91
Too high up in my range vs a weaker player to ever consider folding.
Final Pot CO wins and shows three of a kind, Tens.
CO wins $7.48
Rake is $0.32

Hey guys, first time I've posted a hand in ages so sorry if it isn't as detailed as I would like. Hopefully I'll be doing a few more of these over the coming months and can improve. Cheers for any feedback

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James Hudson 7 years ago

I think that I would consider just check-jamming the turn given stacks. Sometimes he has 10x but you're going to get stacked by that anyways. When he has Jx he basically never folds to the jam, I think that against a weaker player you're likely to get bet-called by some draws with this little left to play for and finally you protect your hand from action killing rivers where you either lose or can't get paid. I'm curious as to what other people think about this spot though.

Samu Patronen 7 years ago

After running a few sims, it seems like QQ is check/shoving some small percent of the time, but the EV of check/calling outperforms check/shoving by close to 1bb with combos that have a diamond in them. This is with the turn betting range that contains AJ around 50% of the time and KJs/QJs around 30% of the time. Stuff like AQ betting sometimes but mostly checking. If we nodelock villain to bet some more Jx and AQ half the time, then PIO starts to check/shove QQ most of the time and KK always.

So it depends a lot on how merged villain is betting on the turn. It might be reasonable to assume that a weaker player who bets half pot on the turn might be more merged than he perhaps should be and he also might choose a bigger sizing with Tx, as weaker players (or players in general) tend to be quite transparent with their sizes.

PIO also chooses to bet QQ most of the time on the turn rather than check, although that might change if we give villain some ATo. Againts a tighter preflop range that doesn't contain AJo or KQo, PIO checks entire range.

sauloCosta10 7 years ago

Extra valueble info for you guys here: every player profile bets more merged than they should on stab vs check lines, specially recreational profiles.

sauloCosta10 7 years ago

In fact, from what I've learned studying with H2N and mass database analysis, every player profile almost never comes close to polarizing their ranges correctly when its needed compared to GTO. There is always a lack of air and an addition of middling hands that should be checked, in most lines and spots, but specially for flop and turn spots.

KatonBond 7 years ago

Just based off your intuition alone, if CO has a reasonable flatting range preflop whats is your turn betting range as BB?

Also i thiink you can size up ur 3betpreflop OOP

Foien 7 years ago

Cant say that i am an expert, and i would love to see other people arguing with me, but i still want to post my opinion:

  1. Its better to increase sizing preflop in this situation, even with this opponent`s open sizing. Especially in low limits.
  2. OTF its obviously a bet, but i think its better to bet larger here, cause a lot of people will float this flop with any broadway cards. If oponent raises the flop, i think its really strong hand and its a fold. The only draw raising - is straight draw and you hardblock it. So its bet\fold.
  3. Turn\river are played correctly, imo. You cant really fold to this sizing and i you dont really have value raise on both turn and river. Basically your bluffcatching here, and there are a lot of people in micro limits, who will bluff with small sizings.

I know its not my topic, but i still would apreciate, if someone tells me, if i am either wrong or right, cause i am on the learning path right now. GL

Samu Patronen 7 years ago

Solid thoughts overall, but I would disagree a little bit with the third point. Whether we should raise all in or not on the turn is not only about whether we have value or a bluff, but it's also about the amount of protection we're getting.

Getting bluffs to fold is not exactly a bad thing, because we make villain fold equity.

So we have to consider the combination of value AND protection before making the decision. A pure value/bluff frame doesn't exactly work on preflop, flop and turn, because equities are dynamic, whereas on the river it's either 0% or 100%.

Foien 7 years ago

Thats good point, sir, thx! But i dont see why we should raise OTT vs bluff. Shouldnt we call and let him bluff us? Cause OTT our opponents range is its mostly air\value. So we can comfortably call and make decision OTR. There will be a lot of cards on river, when opponent will bluff us. So we will win a lot more then if we raise OTT vs bluffs. Is my logic wrong somewhere?

Samu Patronen 7 years ago

If villain specifically has a bluff here, we would prefer calling assuming that villain bluffs the river enough of the time for us to justify letting him realize his equity. If he never bluffs when he misses, let's say, then we'd prefer shoving, obviously.

So yeah, in general we want to keep the bluffs in, but in this situation we also get extra value from Jx by shoving (villain has the opportunity to checkback with Jx on the river). So it's a close spot in theory and depends on various exploitative factors.

And as a sidenote, I'm not exactly sure if we're getting bluffed or not on the river. The way I see it is that our perceived range is really strong after check/calling the turn (Jx and overpairs, basically), so againts a thinking opponent I wouldn't count on him bluffing the optimal amount, cuz it's really not that attractive spot to bluff given how easy it is to call enough on the river with a range of Jx and overpairs. That said, I don't know what this specific NL5 opponent would or would not do.

PokerVagabond 7 years ago

Thanks everyone who has chimed in. Going to go through the hand once again and just read through everyones thoughts twice over. Really appreciated

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