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3-handed atm. BTN folds and I open 9h 567ccc from my SB. BB calls.

Flop Tc 2c 4h.

My autopilot is telling me to c-bet 1/3rd here. But thinking on this hand I can't actually form too many good reasons as to why and I'd appreciate some feedback and discussion on what we want to be doing in these spots.

My main points of consideration at the time were this:
- I would c-bet here with most of my overpairs, flush draws, TPTK-ish and better type stuff. So this is in-line with my cbet range.
- 5 and 6 blockers reduce his 6 high straight continues.
- 9 reduces his Tx combos a bit

Some points I wish I could have considered in total, looking back on the hand:

• Having 3 diamonds reduces his flush draw range as well as his overall calling range. (cbet success more likely?)
• Bet/folding isn't a huge deal? Are we really throwing away that much viable equity with a bad FD/GS OOP? Only thing we feel comfortable on is the gutshot since I don't plan on playing for 100bbs with this low of a flush draw.
• No nut flush blockers and no actual made hand to protect, as well as it being single raised pot.
• Check/call puts me in a weird spot where I'm not even sure what I'm trying to make
• I don't have a lot of checkraise here as these players don't stab all that often.

Appreciate any feedback.

This is something I hear a lot and am wondering how it's specifically defined.

Is blocking continues:
I have JJTT and the board is JJTT. Because I have double quads, the opponent will have virtually no hands interested in moving forward on this board.

Or is it

I have TTTT and villain needs a T to make his gutshot, which he's never getting. And because of this I block him from hitting the card that makes his hand.

Thanks

I've been doing a lot of review on hands/vid notes etc. and it brought me to this one situation where I'm finding myself to be kind of lost, or at least feeling very imbalanced. I'd like to put my thought process under a microscope here and get some feedback. BTW, I'm really just interested in turn discussion here, more than anything else, though of course it is the flop play that leads to the turn play.

For ease of discussion let's just say it's 100 PLO. And villain's readless. 100bb eff.

Folded to me, I open for $3.50 in CO with AK57ss suited to the ace and 7. BTN calls. Rest fold. HU to flop.

$8.50 pot
Flop Q85r with one spade giving me bot pair and BDNFD. I bet $5.00, IP calls.

$18.50 pot
Turn Ts - board - Qc 8d 5s Ts

So this is basically a spot I tend to be check/calling here as a default and very rarely am I barreling turn.

• I'm making an assumption that the T improves villain's range quite a bit and I'm pretty much betting while behind if I barrel turn
• Betting and getting raised off my hand here is pretty crummy.
• This make my check/calls pretty imbalanced as for the most part this is how I'd play all my NFD's here. Though I suppose I'd play sets like this, sometimes.
• My check/call feels fairly face-up, IMO, and it makes me unsure if I'm just not playing this spot very well to begin with.

So to me I'm wondering if there's a mixture of an exploitable line/bad line, flawed thinking, and flawed poker. I wonder if part of the problem is that I am giving villain too much credit for improving his range with the turned T?

Would appreciate any feedback, thanks.

Having tried to re-integrate myself into the poker world after years away, one big difference I've observed is an increased awareness of blockers. Pre-BF I can't really remember any discussions of blockers that went very far beyond using the nut flush blocker to make a bluff, or say AA to bluff on a QKJ board.

But having consumed a lot of newer material, there seems to be way more advanced thought on blockers, things that I for sure haven't heard of, at least up till now.

Anyway, had a couple notes on some PG vids I watched a while ago and would like to hear thoughts on the blocker usage.

Hand 1: PG has JTT2hh on an 88J5dd board. He mentions how having the J blocks villain's JJ and J8. Now I definitely get how JTT2 literally is its own blocker to the J, especially with having TT remove some TJxx type hands as well. But I'm not quite getting how we can also say that having the J blocker also extends to blocking J8. (beyond that they're semi-connected?)

Hand 2: PG has AAKT on a 68T6r board. Similar to the other hand, PG mentions how having the T here blocks TT and T6. So, again the first I get but having the T extend to blocking T6 I'm unsure of.

So, any thoughts on what I'm missing here? Is there a good post on theory or math I can also check out, that helps show not just the correlation of having this T blocking the TT and the T6, but also its efficacy?

I want to be able to not just understand the concept, but also to confidently utilize this information in making decisions as well.

Thanks, guys

This is from an observed hand from an elite pro vid.

6-max, 100bb effective. Both players are TAG-ish and not doing anything crazy.

Hand is folded to the blinds. SB opens for 3x big blinds, BB calls.

pot 6bb's
Flop: TA7r
SB bets 4.5bb's, BB calls.

pot 15bb's
Turn: TA7Tr
SB checks, BB bets 9bb's, SB calls.

For sake of discussion let's just say BB has QKJ9r and is taking a stab at the turn.

And let's assume SB isn't check/calling here to do something like bluff raise river or anything out of the ordinary. He has something whether it's a made hand/some kind of showdown value, or draw.

What type of hands do you expect a TAG SB to be check/calling here with, in this spot? Which hands do you think a competent opponent never really has by check/calling a paired turn?

I'm posting this because in the vid the pro says his hand is pretty face-up once he check/calls. So if a check/call range here is face-up, what's most commonly showing up in this range? Intuitively I think I see a lot of AK, AQ, AJ here, and some 89. I think most straightforward players will bet FH/trips here, and A7 has a lot of incentive to barrel a straight draw off the turned T here. But beyond that, my best guess is pretty fuzzy here.

Thoughts? Thanks!

Hi, guys. First post here. Hope it's ok to post hands without a HH, as the site I play on doesn't convert.

100 PLO 6-max. I am 100bb's deep UTG.

Kh 6h 7d Ks.
I open to $3.50
Folds all around to BB. He calls.

Pot $7.50
Flop: Jh 9h 2c. kings and k-high FD.
BB checks, I bet $6.5. BB check/raises for pot.

I've mostly been away from poker since black friday and some spots are a little fuzzy to me upon returning. I'd always thought this was a standard get it in, but others disagreed when I discussed elsewhere. Maybe I was doing it wrong the whole time? Or I was confusing this with a 3bp spot? Not sure.

Using PPT I gave villain ranges of JJ/99/J9, some wrap combos, and NFD stuff and it was about 42% or so at worst, though do I wonder if those ranges are too generous/inaccurate. And I assumed betting flop was standard as I'm trying to also get value from lower flush draws and things like OESD's.

Thoughts on how this spot should be played?

Thanks!