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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Originally Posted by Chopper
at table one,
you say your villain on your right "likes to steal blinds." well, what are you waiting for with your read? 3bet somewhere. A8, granted, isn't the greatest hand because it's dominated, has great SD value, and the BB garners a little less respect with defending by 3betting. however, the Q9s hand? 3! that shit! you fold the SB and pick up the dead money, you tell the stealer to stop F'ing with you, and if you hit a nice hand, he wont suspect you holding something so weak....but you wont likely make it to showdown anyway. stick up for yourself when the chance arises.
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Here's the thing about 3-betting in blind battles. First, it's a wonderful thing to do if you are ahead of the raiser's range. Then you have more than 50 percent equity.
Second, it's a wonderful thing to do if you have fold equity.
Third, it's an OK thing to do if you need to do it to get another player to fold out and get heads up.
Fourth, it's not such a wonderful thing to do if you have none of the above. Indeed, by 3-betting, you bloat the pot some more and make calling correct. If he's going to chase his K2 down to the river in a 2-bet pot, just imagine what he is going to do when the pot is bigger.
That's not to say I never 3-bet in these situations. I sometimes do, sometimes don't. But those are the variables I am thinking about.
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i also likely b/f that river in the JJ8r flop hand.
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I put that hand in because I see this checked down way too often. Players rarely check-raise the river, because they are afraid of a check behind. Indeed, when I do see players check-raise the river, it is often a bluff. Yeah, I bet, he called, I showed, he mucked.
For me, that situation is a bet/call.
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and, villain made a mistake in the 557K7 board by not raising the river. i know he put you on KK, but thats all he should be worried about. any 7 splits and any 5 he has beat and he already has a bet out of you on the river if you are bluffing. poor play by him, imo, which is great for you.
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Absolutely. He was fearing the monsters under the bed.
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table at normadie,
why are we not raising AK on a QTX board? 10 outs twice against a loose raiser? you have lots of outs and the option to take the free card on the turn. raise for value, imo.
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Well, I think you need more than 50 percent equity (fold equity + pot equity) to raise for value here. So the only reason to raise is to get a free card. I gambled she was going to slow down, and I turned out to be right. But there's nothing wrong with the free card raise in this situation.
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