Operation Rebound

[!Luck]

I am confused why you don't raise here preflop. Yeah OPP sucks, but if your against loose players who are unlikely to get tricky. I don't see you being so worried about a reg, who is also not gong to get tricky. The fact remains is that your range is ahead of those peoples calling range. Not to mention some of the time you will just pick up the dead money and for a 5x raise that a good return (this statements maybe questioned, but considering that even the average return on aces is something like 2-3bb/100). Maybe this is one of those situations where you are over thinking it. I think it was you who told me once that, a lot of difficult spots post flop comes from bad decision pre flop.

The way I look at it, if this was raised pot you are unlikely to get crazy if an over drops, will still get value of the 87s type hands that flop draws and give on turn with more action, if a ton of broadway flop and the pot is still muti way, you check fold, and still pick it up some of the time against lower pocket pairs.

I am not being harsh since im obviously a noob, but im just going to put my thoughts out their and let you demolish them.

P.S. Good luck on your operation.

[Micro2Macro]

I'm posting this hand simply because I don't like my cbet.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($50)
BB ($28.30)
UTG ($98.05)
Hero (MP) ($50.90)
CO ($29.45)
Button ($57.25)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A, 9
1 fold, Hero bets $1.50, 1 fold, Button calls $1.50, SB calls $1.25, 1 fold

Flop: ($5) 8, Q, 3 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $3.50

First, I have almost no equity at all when called. There just aren't any good turn cards to barrel given that any seemingly 'scary' card is actually just improving villains range. The button is a 16/12 regular who is pretty tricky and one of the more aggressive players at this level. So given that, if he has as little as a gutter or a hand with lots of backdoors he's going to be raising my cbet or floating it, and by cbetting I'm essentially just transferring money into his account. Also, it's 3 way to the flop, and the SB is going to often have a hand he doesn't want to let go either. Without any pot equity on a board that smacks my opponents ranges AND being OOP to one of them I think it's best just to give this one up and look for a better spot.