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Old 09-11-2008, 07:24 AM     Post subject: gutshots #1 (permalink)  
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I have been looking through my hand histories and have noticed that I I'm getting into A LOT of 3 bet pots flopping gutshots, after calling a 3 bet with 2 face cards. (For instance AJ & flop comes out qT2). I am wanting to know the best way to play these hands. With effective stacks of 100 bb's I have been mostly calling c bets on rainbow flops, and folding mostly on 2 toned flops. If opponent checks turn, I usually float. Assume that opponents are 3 betting 15-20% of hands/unknown. Is this ok? Should I ever be raising flop with these hands against certain opponents? How should I adjust as the effective stack becomes larger? What is best if opponent checks flop? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
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Old 09-11-2008, 12:37 PM #2 (permalink)  
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With your AJ example, it depends on villain's doulbe barrelling frequency. If he double barrells a lot, pushing flop is better than calling, if he gives up on turn, just calling is more profitable. when stacks get larger, floating is better than raising.
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Old 09-11-2008, 02:59 PM #3 (permalink)  
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 what the odds god said...

although i'd like to point out that sometimes raising and calling are incorrect (This is almost never the case with a nut-shot though)
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Old 09-11-2008, 06:25 PM #4 (permalink)  
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 100bb deep gutshots are very tough to play if you raise cbets with them, but they are pretty much a very good float balancer.
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