PLO100 - 3b pot, middle set on the wettest flop

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PLO100 - 3b pot, middle set on the wettest flop

BN: $93.06
SB: $170.39
BB: $108.62
UTG: $115.41
HJ: $144.55 (Hero)
CO: $122.77
Villain is unknown, only 10 hands on him so no stats/reads.
Preflop ($1.50) (6 Players)
Hero was dealt 8 K 8 K
UTG folds, Hero raises to $3.50, CO raises to $12, BN folds, SB folds, BB folds, Hero calls $8.50
Flop ($25.50) 8 9 7 (2 Players)
What's our play here? Check/pot seems roughly breakeven as we have just about enough equity to stack off and I doubt we get much fold equity because villain isn't too likely to cbet light on this flop. Check/calling feels bad, we'll get owned on later streets. Also checking allows villain to check back a ton of hands that have nice equity/playability against our hand. Thus I'm leaning towards donking pot (and calling it off obv) to force villain off of those decent equity hands (non-nut flushdraws, OESDs etc.) and to not allow villain to bluff us off our hand later on. Agree?


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midori 10 years, 5 months ago

SPR is ~4.3 on flop, right?  

I think I'd donk the flop for the reasons you mentioned.  We are rarely crushed unless he has 99, and he might check back OP + FD (for example, AA:Add) but jam over our donk bet.  Not to mention that once he checks back, we can't donk on too many turns.. J/T/6/5 put a 4-straight on the board, diamonds are bad, A is probably bad, etc.

If he jams over our bet, we stack off; if he flats, we stack off on most non-diamond turn cards.  His flatting range has lots of dd combos, so let's say, on 4d turn we can probably get away.  

midori 10 years, 5 months ago

Yeah, QJ/96 I'm not sure but I'd for sure have some other hands in my donking range as well.  

If his 3b range is reasonably tight, he should still have a range advantage on this flop, say 55-45 in his favour.  So I wouldn't go too crazy about donk betting a lot, but we do have some value hands that want to get the stacks in now, and I'd want to balance that with some (semi-)bluffs.  JJ/TT blockers and Add sound good to me, although there might be more.  He should be folding dry AA/KK against our bet reasonably often, which is a great outcome for us.

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