gutshots

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.

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.

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)

100bb deep gutshots are very tough to play if you raise cbets with them, but they are pretty much a very good float balancer.