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Why 3b A8s in SB v BTN?
I think is -EV: You still have BB to act which seems to like 3betting,giving positions he could consider a light 4bet. You know nothing about BTN , what he opens,he folds,what he calls, what he 4bets. By 3betting A8s You can make him fold all suited combos that could play your nut flush and that also hapends to BB. When you hit your A, slim % you get action from worse and so Most times you're losing a lot of money post.
Now on this board, you have no ideea what his pre flatting range is, but on JJ9, Most players dont fold pairs, 9x, AQ/AT, never Jx, QT/8T, if they call them, they could also float flop and raise your turn/bet turn, due to the paired J,because SB has a light 3b pre and a light flop cbet post, and they are not wrong at all in your case. So as You can see you're flop FE is very low and your turn A might not be good. Because all of this by a standard You are supposed to fire 2nd barrel If You cbet flop. You 2nd barrel will get bluffed a lot, You will get raised by Jx or better and there plenty of those hands will get called again for the same lightness reason ( bad players because they cant fold, nevwr bluff them,value bet them, good players because they have reasons to call, again, not wrong in your case). Until this point, Hope You can see why your play is bad
River bet, well that's the worse. It's gold as a balance, but balancing vs 2nl players ,good or bad, it's pointless, just losing money. When You bet this river, like i said , You will beat some hands, but you'll get crushed by his calling range. Do You play your AA/KK the same? How about Jx/ QQ? My opinion is that by checking river and letting him try to bluff, we have a higher EV then betting even w/ the nuts
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