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Originally Posted by rpm
raise way more preflop. as a standard amount at the microstakes, i'd make your 3bets 3x the original raise plus 1x for each caller when in position. and 4x the original raise +1x for each caller when out of position. that's not necessarily optimal. but it's a decent guideline for the micros.
you're going to get no useful advice at all really unless you provide some stats/ reads for your opponent in this hand. also attempt to put him on a range on every street.
Villains minraise UTG can mean almost anything: suited connectors, small/medium pocket pairs, Ax and so on and so force. The only thing I doubt he had was AJ+, JK+ etc etc. I only 3bet him 2.5x because, well now that I look back it was pretty stupid: if he had suited connectors, he could've folded to my c-bet if didn't hit anything, and he wouldn't have re-raised me like I was hoping he would do if he had pocket pairs. I was pretty sure he wasn't going to 4-bet me, I think I just wanted him to get involved (not a good reason, I know)
On the flop I was pretty psyched. But giving villain a range here is quite tough: the fact that he just called me is a little disturbing because he could either be slowplaying a smaller set (good thing), or (most likely) was hoping to hit his gutshot straight draw and/or his flush draw. Or he could just have TPTK or 2pair, but I sort of doubt it, the turn bet call was too drawy for a call. When a 3rd club found itself on the turn, which also could complete numerou straight draws in villains range, I was unsure of what to do here. As I was OOP, I bet around 75% of the pot in hopes that he would fold. He didn't, and a 2 showed on the river, which is really the worst card possible. In rush poker, everyone fucking plays their aces like pocket pairs, and I was certain that I was pretty much beat here. With the 2 calls on both the flop and turn bets, and with such a disastrous river card, it was very unlikely that I beat any of his range which he would have called the turn bet with.
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