He's getting a pretty good price to shove so three betting all the offusit combos of AT/AJ/KQ is prob a little too much. If i wanted to sprinkle in some random stuff it would prob be suited wheel aces. He should probably 4bet shove JJ+, AK, maybe TT if I am three betting extra wide. Of course flatting with KK-AA from time to time is also fine for him.

I think it's a fine bluff. A hand like 65s is a mandatory bluff otr imo. If he bluffs all qjo and jto combos on the river he is probably over bluffing OTT and OTR so it's a bluff he can make some of the time, but not all of the time.

As stack to pot is larger the more expensive shoving comes, the less valuable folding out equity becomes. It isn't as cut and dry as saying "if you have 2x pot behind you can shove on the flop" because board texture and preflop ranges are important factors.

As rules of thumb, we should be more inclined to shove on wet boards, however wet/dry are a function of your opponent's range. For instance most would say that KQJ FD is a wetter board than 852 rainbow, however if you c/rai with 98 852 rainbow you fold a lot more hands with 20-30% equity vs. your hand than if you c/rai with K5 on KQJ fd. You should be more inclined to shove hands where your opponent will make mistakes by folding hands with lots of equity, ideally folding hands that will mostly put money in on future streets if they improve to a better hand.

FIVEbet i notice im beginning to have similar questions as you. The 2k bet seemed a bit large, with my first instinct thinking he should bet smaller (closer to 1/3) if he wants to bet a hand like 77 on this texture.

Whats your general strategy in these spots sam? Splitting range, or betting range with one sizing?

I am not splitting between two sizes here. The board has lots of fds/straight draws betting 60% pot is reasonable even if most tourney players would bet smaller. If I wanted to bet smaller, i'd probably mix based on having a key blocker. For example bet smaller when I have the Ad in my hand since I block a lot of his continuing range.

77 is a tricky hand to play in a 3b pot on this board. Betting flop smaller or checking the flop will create their own problems, but I think betting roughly this size with my cbetting range is probably for the best.

thx for response. what other hands though would you bet flop and check turn with? ur cbetting ur entire range for 2k or are you gunna have all 77-QQ that wants to check turn?

I am not certainly going to pick up 1 or 2 calls and my opponent's ranges are not undefined. They are uncapped but their preflop/flop actions tell me a lot about their hands. I bet 2/3 pot, which isn't particularly big, if I bet smaller I let other players realize their equity too easily especially if it goes multiway.

I am not sure how i'd react to a bet of 15k, since that would be a 1.1x PSB with a player with 2x pot behind still in the pot. If dpeters made a standard 1/2 to 2/3rds PSB i'd probably reluctantly call since he'd three bet QQ+ a lot pre, probably fold 22 or 3b/F AJo. So that gives him three combos of 77, 1 combo of JJ, 2 combos of AJs and he may bet the flop with those combos as well. I am getting a good price and his value range is pretty narrow and I have a good bluff catcher that blocks value, but doesn't block any bluffs.

maybe you can shed some light here but i personally don't think improving to the nut kicker would make it that large of a difference. you liked a check/fold vs a 10k bet on the river when holding JK but want to get it in with AJ? to me that seems quite ambitious and I'm curious why you think this? is the upgrade to now beating JK when villains have it, from tying it when we too had JK, really enough to justify the huge strategy difference? please elaborate bang, just want to pick your brain after that statement.

solid video, that particular hand did play quite weird, would have really liked to see a showdown. it's hard to put peters on a monster. wouldn't he have raised the turn with sets, given action? it was a fairly wet, two spade board with gutters available, flatting a set here three way and someone left to act behind would almost never happen eh? not to mention you bet the turn pretty hard + one flat, so the pot was large, I think a set has to raise, or am I wrong in thinking that? obviously flatting would add a lot of deception and could lead to nice profits on some rivers but could also be costly.

KJ loses to AJ and AJ can be as many as 8 combos, which is a lot when our opponents value range might only have 24 non AJ combos.