3/6 Paired Board Facing Small Flop Raise
Posted by TJ Serdar
Posted by TJ Serdar posted in Mid Stakes
3/6 Paired Board Facing Small Flop Raise
Villain is running 74/22 over 237 hands. He's PFRing around 40% from CO, calling 3bets 94% of the time, and playing tough postflop. I've had a ton of difficult spots against him OOP deep.
SB is a tilted fish vpiping 95% and 3betting 36% at this point. Given he flatted, he's got a bottom 30% hand at this point.
So in general after 3betting preflop and getting a paired board I usually bet between 1/3-1/2 pot with my range based on board texture, the paired cards and the frequency with which they hit my opponent's range, and stack sizes. The merits of the small bet are a) the times I have AA/KK, a small bet allows me to get value from worse, induce floats, and protect my hand(similar to c-betting my range smaller on A84r after 3betting pre in nlhe), b) allows me to bluff more cheaply when we both have air, c) allows me to realize my equity cheaply/max folds with my marginal draws, d) keeps my range uncapped.
The problem is, when we're 200bb+ deep and my range is fairly 8x deficient, I feel like c-betting frequently just gives my opponents the ability to put the majority of my range in extremely difficult spots. It's an amazing spot for him to raise my cbet small and barrel. I feel like having a re-bluffing range in this spot is also incredibly tough for me to do, especially balancing and protecting that range, along with my flop bet/calling range. If anyone disagree's with this or has ideas how to make this work, I'm all ears.
I assume everything up to my flop bet is standard in this hand so I'm mostly looking to get a discussion going on other ways to approach this situation, specifically when stacks get deeper and I'm up against tougher opponents.
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