Straight Flush
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Originally Posted by mcatdog
I don't understand why you'd want to 3-bet suited aces and kings when you're more than likely not winning a big pot unless you make trips or a flush. Like you said it's a good idea to play the opposite of what our opponents put us on. They probably put us on JJ+/AK because that's what they would 3-bet themselves since they're nits, so if they call with a PP they'll probably just check-fold when we make top pair. Have you experienced a lot of people calling down with PP's on A or K high flops because I haven't.
Like you said they'll peel one off on a J-9 high flop a lot of the time so wouldn't it make more sense to choose a suited J or T as the trash we're gonna 3-bet with, as opposed to a suited A or K?
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Our Aim when we threebet light isn't to win a massive pot, if that was true we'd want to threebet sc's. It's to have the greatest equity against our opponents calling range so they don't beat us as much when we do it.
Here's a hypothetical.
200nl - Guy raises 4x ($8) from CO 100bb deep. I reraise to $26 with K3s. He calls. Flop comes K75. he checks I bet he calls. turn is a 5. he checks, i check. River is a 9. he checks again i bet he calls with QQ, we win. It's not so much low pp's, but people really dont want to let go of TT-KK. Mostly the value is on the flop, but if we check the turn than bet the river they think "Oh god this is so bluffy i call and my hand is so face up..... omg wtf K3s, what an idiot. LOL just forgot that hand because my other 11 tables are beeping non stop."
This hand happens way more than you think, and if we beat the KK-JJ, we've just ruined his edge, and now he's playing 80% of his calling range in "I don't want to felt" mode.
The problem is people most of the time aren't pushing light enough on the flop to warrant even calling with tp on a J93 board. That's why we don't do it.
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