Postflop IP vs 3bets
Posted by EmanuelC16
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Postflop IP vs 3bets
Nowadays people 3bet a lot more so calling 3bets IP rather wide, especially in BU vs Blinds is profitable and quite standard. I do have some thoughts/concerns when playing against people that like to barrel.
Consider the situation of 100bb stacks, we minraise BU and get 3bet to 8bb and call IP against an opponent that 3bets about 10-12% in this spot. We assume he is barreling a higher than average frequency after he cbets and he cbets an average amount but we don't know how he constructs his range specifically, we would go by what we know of the standard at let's say NL100. How would you play back? Being IP it's very easy to keep floating with equity but where would you draw the line? Would you have a floating and raising range? My biggest confusion is how could we have both a good raising range (and to what sizing) and a good floating range. Of course texture affects our decision but we can categorize into:
a) low dry
b) medium dry
c) high dry
d) low double suited
e) medium double suited
f) high double suited
That covers a lot of possible flop textures. My first thought was call IP with very good equity and half of strong made hands that can get to showdown and raise weak equity hands and the other half of strong made hands that will have a tougher time getting to showdown though (more vulnerable). Yes, we will still have medium strength hands but depending on potential to improve and value we can get by raising we can include those in one of calling and raising ranges.
It's been a topic I've been thinking a lot and yes it depends on the opponent but we cannot be sure of his range until we see a few showdowns in this spot against him. We do know he is probably overaggressive though so unless we play back in a smart way we are burning money.
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