action in 3b pot on low dry board
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action in 3b pot on low dry board
CO: $25.00
BN: $33.55 (Hero)
SB: $14.67
BB: $51.81
UTG: $18.83
BN wins and shows three of a kind, Nines.
BN wins $7.42
Rake is $0.53
Vilain unknown so far, but multitabling so seemed reggish with a bit fishy stats : 48/16 and opening between 20 ans 30% in every poz.
I thus decide to isolate him with a marginal but playable hand HU ip. I chose small 3bet sizings so I can isolate him more often and play more post flop with playability.
The flop is fine for my hand but not for my range, and since he's a bit fishy I give him a small range advantage here. I also saw him doing kinda weird things earlier, so I checked to protect my range, which I would do quite a lot here anyways.
On the turn, I can't rep too much, but I also need protection. I think checking twice with KK would be ok, but here, a lot of rivers could make me lose the hand. So protection bet ? What's your general approach in these spots ?
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Imo the only two viable options to isolate a presumable weaker player (with 100bb stacks) are to dominate a wide stack off range, or to take advantage of a fit-or-fold mentality. Clearly your hand doesn't fit the first requirement. Given your read on villain so far it seems fair to try and isolate him and then to take down the pot post-flop with a c-bet very often (until he starts fighting back). The board is so light and dry, plus you have some sort of blockers to continuing hands. For these reasons I think you would've been much better off to just pot it pre-flop, and then follow through with a c-bet on this excellent board.
(Imo the only times to consider 3-betting smaller than pot is against a villain who is opening way too wide, but who fights back one way are the other post-flop. That way - instead of just 3-betting hands that are capable of dominating his post-flop stack-off range (at SPR 3-5) - you get to exploit his looseness even further by 3-betting some of the weaker multi-component hands too, because you preserved post-flop maneuverability.)
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