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How to play a vulnerable but best hand on the flop out of postiion?

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How to play a vulnerable but best hand on the flop out of postiion?

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OnGame - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: 95 BB
UTG: 48.25 BB
CO: 406.26 BB
BTN: 96 BB
Hero (SB): 111.55 BB

Hero posts SB 1 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2 BB) Hero has Jh 7s 8h As

fold, fold, fold, Hero checks, BB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 5d Jd 7c
Hero bets 3 BB, BB raises to 12 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Turn: (30 BB, 2 players) 5s
Hero checks, BB bets 23 BB, fold


My opponent is a very good, very winning reg. No history between us.

My preflop play is based on him raising first in in bb 73%, and 3betting vs sb 27%. It is going to be very difficult for me to play him out of position, but my hand is too good to fold. I opted to disguise my hand strenght.

Anyone in favour of raise/4 betting this hand against him 27% 3 betting?

Anyway, my more important question is, on flops out of position where we hit probably the best hand, but many turns will be bad for us, what is the best gameplan? I think it is fair to assume that most opponents in this situation c-bet with high frequency, agreed?

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OnceItRun 12 years, 1 month ago
Raise pre, your hand is the nuts, if you know he 3bets wide (is 27% over a decent sample), then just go ahead and 4bet him, you are way ahead of his range and will put yourself in very favorable spots. Even if you really hate variance and don't want to 4bet, than raising pre is still mandatory and then call the 3bet.

In your spot, on the flop, your hand is good, but very vulnerable and the pot:stack ratio is still very big, so you can either check/call or lead/3bet flop (if you decide the latter, lead bigger like 4,5 or 5). The way you played it you will get owned on many turns in a spot where you bloated the pot without specific reason.
Maikel1983 12 years, 1 month ago
It's good strategy to be tight from the SB, since we are not making a lot of money from this position. But double suited AJ87 is must open and should be in our range. I don't mind flatting the 3bet OOP, there are lot of hands in villains range, which HERO dominates (draws etc).

As played, leading/3betting the flop is pretty cool play. Check-call flop, eventually turn/river, it all comes to down of having good post-flop reads.
- Capable of valuebetting light
- Merging this with bluffs, for example T98x in this hand.
- U have 2 blockers for JJxx,77xx, there is always an option to turn your hand into a bluff.
- I don't consider as well all of my options, which I regret sometimes ;).
It's though to play OOP vs a good opponent, although the wrong adjusment is to start playing scared.

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