Which hands should we rather bluff raise and fold to 3 bet?

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Which hands should we rather bluff raise and fold to 3 bet?

A) We want to sometimes bluff x-raise and fold to 3 bet
which hand do we rather bluff raise
Top pair + backdoors/overcards
or
Weak Top pair
B) We want to sometimes semi bluff x-raise and fold to 3 bet
which hand do we rather semi bluff raise
Top pair + Nut openender + backdoors/overcards
or
Weakest Top pair + Nut openender
C) We want to sometimes semi bluff x-raise and fold to 3 bet
nut flush draw with backdoors/overcards
or weakest nutflushdraws

Important is of course the reason behind our decision.

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miami002 7 years, 11 months ago

The hands you are not comfortable making a call with but you still have some backdoor equity are always good candidates for semibluff raise.

Lausbub 7 years, 11 months ago

Can you post your reasoning for choosing those hands? Like Im a bit confused to call a toppair + oesd a bluffing hand

Andreas Nyberg 7 years, 11 months ago

1) Villain cbets too often
2) balancing turn range when raising
For example on Q76s when I want to XR 20% of my bare nutflushdraws and fold to 3 bet because villains 3 betting range is too heavy and we are deeper. Should I do it with the stronger NFD's or with the weakest? Or lets say some bare second nutflushdraws and fold to reraise.
BTW: TOP pair + OE I called semi bluff, I should have mentioned that all flops are suited.

Lausbub 7 years, 11 months ago

Personally I dont cr toppair oesd on suited boards, but a nice side effect could be to fold out weak flushdraws which have good eq. That said it s expensive. As far as naked As goes, I would rarely cr bc u want fds in his range

Andreas Nyberg 7 years, 11 months ago

Let me make it easier:
If we are going to semi bluff raise light with hands with which we could call, out of the ranges that we chose to raise some of the time, do we semi bluff raise the stronger part and call with the weaker part or do we raise the weaker part and call with the stronger part.
Another example:
Someone cbets 80% plus and we have the second nut flushdraw + a non nut gutshot on Q76s. When we chose to light semibluff raise this hand some of the time, should we do it with the stronger part (backdoors/overcards) or with the weaker part?
Qh7s6h
A) AsKh5s3h
B) KhJc5c3h

Lausbub 7 years, 11 months ago

I would do it with the weaker part , though your hand could be still too strong. Depending on his turn tendencies seems like a fine play

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