Semibluff or take our equity? 200nl

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Semibluff or take our equity? 200nl

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Villains a tag reg who plays 200+. Over 270 hands he steals 33% from this position and my 3 bet is a std in my range. No reads on what he s calling with pre but so far he s not a fan of folding to 3 bets often. I feel as though this hand is likely in that not quite strong enough to bet/call but really sick to bet fold range. I m more comfortable barreling KQo or idk 97s or something esp as his folding range here is likely pretty limited. If he c/r I expect to be seeing Adxd at worse likely sets, aces up a lot. Still though I would argue c/jamming anything in villains shoes is pretty suspect range wise and he could know this.

What s your play?

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Chael Sonnen 11 years, 11 months ago
Pre: Make it 18-21. You can flat, depending on your opponent
Flop: betting is best. You can check behind once in a while, but you want him to fold most of his broadway hands etc., which he will usually do on an Ahigh board.

Turn: Check for sure. There aren't many hands he calls the flop with that he folds on the turn.
BigFiszh 11 years, 11 months ago
Pre is fine, we have position, no need to make it 3x or bigger.

Flop is fine, I´d check the turn as well. It´s good for us to have some flushes in our turn-checking-range (if the flush card hits) and there´s not much value in bluffing.
Chael Sonnen 11 years, 11 months ago
Whups, I thought he was OOP somehow.
I'd still make it 18, but I fully agree that over 3x is too much, unless you have specific reads on villian.
tozzy 11 years, 11 months ago
Flop is meh, it's a hand we can profitably semibluff with on multiple streets, when checking behind we take away this possibility. Btw, I really don't think we should be afraid of being C/R here given the texture. Additionally, we're just not comfortable to call a bet if we check this Flop.
Juan Copani 11 years, 11 months ago
Flop is definitely way better bet than check.
Like they said its good for us to have flushes in our check turn range. I prefer check.

Im thinking if we can jam some river more than diamonds. Kings ? What´s doing the typical nl200 reg with AJo if i jam a Ks river ?
mplecki23 11 years, 11 months ago
just bet turn, you're very rarely getting ch/r, can fold out better, and put a lot of pressure on with your river bets. You'll pretty much never win/cant bluff catch if you check back the turn unless you improve, which isn't too often.
Parker Muir 11 years, 11 months ago
Yep mostly firing turn here. Like mplecki said you can fold out some better pairs (PPs and 8x) and shouldn't expect to get check-raised much at all.

More interesting decision comes on different rivers. I think I see some bluff jams in our future...
GameTheory 11 years, 11 months ago
If a turn bet has so much fold equity, why would you bluff with this hand and not with T9, KQdd, 75 or 22? This hand seems so much better to check back and valueraise rivers that we hit. Often our turn checkback range is quite weak, it is nice to have some backdoor flushes and trips.
Also we can bluffaise T/5/4 rivers.
Parker Muir 11 years, 11 months ago
A turn bet doesn't have so much fold equity that we would want to bet any two, but it certainly has some. Combine that fold equity with the raw equity of our hand and barreling looks quite appealing. FWIW I'm barreling with T9, KQdd and 75 as well here.

I'm on board with checking back this hand some % of the time though.
lwe 11 years, 10 months ago

i think the jack is a good card to bet on whether or not if it gave you a flush draw imo. It'll be pretty tough to see villain continuing with his 8x hands here and probably 9s/10s as well.

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