5/10: 3bet Pot with AKo
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5/10: 3bet Pot with AKo
Hey guys,
It's a Sunday afternoon live game on the east coast. Table isn't the greatest as there are a couple 10/25 regs in the game but also 3 weak players and couple unknowns so not terrible. I've been at the table about an hour and my image is clean, won a couple pots without showdown and up 300$, $2k effective stacks. I am a 25 year old white male with baseball cap, probably look like a "grinder."
Villain is a middle aged white male with baseball cap. Played a couple times briefly with him and he plays very Taggy, tight up front, looser in the back always coming in for a raise. No real history/dynamics between us however.
Hand:
Fish limps in for 10$, villain raises HJ to $55, really big fish calls on button with $400 stack, folds to me with AcKs in sb i make it $210, limper folds villain calls and fish folds. In a similar spot earlier I raised and the fish shoved his stack in pre flop so was trying to get the same result here.
Flop: 742r I cbet $205 villain calls fairly quickly.
Turn: 5c I bet $450 villain tanks and calls.
River: 8d Hero??
I could be convinced that flop is a c/f, but it is a pretty harmless flop and thought some decent barrel spots would come up to get him off mid pairs. Turn gives me some more equity against 88-QQ so I decided to bet again. Thoughts on line/river? Thinking I should have sized bigger on both streets if I decided to bet.
Thank you.
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why are we betting the turn....we are always getting called here, he'll never fold an overpair, or any pair+GS....the plan on the turn should be to ch/f but if we bet the turn we must bet the river on any card above an 8, its that kind of spot where he calls the turn and folds the river unimproved most of the time....sometimes he flats monsters on the flop/turn so that aspect of his range is kind of player dependent....but still I think he's usually going to try to build a big pot w/ his nut hands on the turn
agree 100% im way lower stake but i do believe that it s working same way there what do i mean by that is "fish never folds" he would call 3 streets with A high in 3 bet pot so it s really doesn`t matter what he had what you did play is coin flip. AKo is not rly good hand to 3 bet with if table is calling a lot 3 bet .
Btw sry for my bad ass English and good luck with never folding fishes :-)
I play 2/5 sometimes at foxwoods . hopefully this has some relevancy... maybe he had AJ and im a huge fish but this is what I think...
This hand is a classic example of overplaying AK ...
while I think the preflop bet sizing is just a tad on the larger side its not terrible to isolate w that bet sizing and im ok with it ... however I also think the fish would likely fold their small stack to say a 150$ 3 bet preflop and you keep the pot a little smaller when you are out of poisition and flop a marginal hand. yes even a seemingly dry board like 742 r is not great for AK s ... did you have any back door flush outs ? i assumed not......
Against a player who you feel like you have little reads or no edge on you should be controlling the pot size to avoid these situations...
Im ok with betting flop but I think checking is a better option here... By checking you let hands that are way ahead of you have an chance to check back and see a free turn... you can rep a made staright and even a draw depending on turn cards... you def cant rep a3 a5 a4 a2 type hands here by betting ....... also again controlling potsize with a very marginal hand... AK has little value on this board against a often tight 5x opening raiser who then called a 3 bet preflop... he usullay has overpairs even the occasional set and smaller pps that still can call against your narrow ax or PP range
I really dont see him calling your turn bet without a pair plus hand . suited A2,4,5,7,8 that wanted to hit a flush draw against you possible but I think PP 22-88 could all likley be played this way... I think over pairs are in his range as well.. Basically you are dominated... as plyed on the river you are setting yourself up for a massive pot sized bluff that would give him roughly 2:1 or a check fold .. not good spots
As played* I would check fold the river ... You say this player is generally tighter but is looser on the back end which is where he is positonally in the hand.... you are asking him to call you again with any bet sizing a shove looks suspicious and a smaller bet will likely be called based on his line and perceived range. hes very interested and you just have Ahi your kind of setting yourself up to be bluffed with your line and position in this hand IMO.
I dont think increasing sizing would be good on the flop way overplaying AK.
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Then again maybe the hand was pretty standard... I just think after the flop you cant keep firing without improving
interested to hear result thanks for sharing
Turn bet is spewy. Against this type of player the worst hand he has is pair + gutter. He is going to look you up and its very likely he has a set considering the action. Flop barrel is ok to deny equity vrs QJ and such but when your called any further bet is spew vrs this type of player on this board with AK.
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