Select Page
Poker Forum
Over 1,291,000 Posts!
Poker ForumTournament Poker

3-bet AK & Get 3 Callers. Sizing too small?

Results 1 to 14 of 14
  1. #1

    Default 3-bet AK & Get 3 Callers. Sizing too small?

    $100 GTD Turbo - $0.9 + $0.1 - 30/60 Blinds - 9 Players

    BB villain is brand new to table, first hand and never played with before. BTN and UTG+1 villain have been active. UTG+1 has shown down a mediocre hands while BTN was able to steal a big pot or two. BTN hasn't shown down anything.

    BTN - 3,976
    SB (Hero) - 2,620
    BB - 3,000
    UTG - 2,825
    UTG+1 - 1,821
    MP1 - 2,910
    MP2 - 3,000
    HJ - 6,835
    CO - 8,810

    Dealt to Hero - A, K

    Pot is 90

    one fold, UTG+1 raises to 120, four folds, BTN calls, Hero raises to 500, BB calls 440, UTG+1 calls 380, BTN calls 380

    Pot is 2,000

    *** FLOP *** Q, 5, 3

    Hero checks, BB. checks, UTG+1 bets 1,000, three folds

    I think the c/f is obvious, since I have a pot-sized bet left and I'm doing that into three people w/ ace high. With the pre-flop action, I don't have much clue as to who has what, and there's a lot that beats me. I also don't think I have much fold equity here either.

    I'm more curious about my three-bet sizing pre versus my post flop play. Should I have three-bet bigger, perhaps even three-bet shoved?
  2. #2
    Your 3bet sizing is wrong, make it moaaaaaarrrrrrr.

    I'd go like 800 and shove most flops when people called.
  3. #3
    this is awkward because if you get 1 call you have a 1.2k ish pot and 2k back. You won't want to shove most flops when you hit or miss. you could always flat. but mostly i'd just make it enough you can shove the flops you want without over betting.
  4. #4
    I think sizing is fine. With 45 BBs we're not really looking to put half our stack in when we're gonna miss OOP.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  5. #5
    It's a tough spot but your early in the blinds so a flat call I think is ok ! Especially at such a low buy in ! At these stakes it's hard for most of these players to respect a raise unless its all in lol you did nothing wrong just expect wider callers in a ten cent buyin and don't expect too many bluffs to work unless they miss the flop altogether, which 4 handed is almost unlikely. All you can do is fold shove or fold , I think it's best to fold get some chips back and go on to win but that's just my personal opinion and I'm not a professional poker player by the way.sorry it's a dollar buyin my bad !
  6. #6
    chardrian's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2005
    Posts
    5,435
    go'n'go. raise to 800 pre. Shove any flop.
    http://chardrian.blogspot.com
    come check out my training videos at pokerpwnage.com
  7. #7
    nice spot to discuss, i don´t like how to play this spot because if the callers call you and lead in a bad flop you have to fold and you put a lot of blinds in the pot...I raise 650 may be and ins that flop c/f
  8. #8
    This is an easy shove pre imo. This is early on in a donkfest turbo, we're getting tons of calls from all sorts of crap.
    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    ongies gonna ong
  9. #9
    I'm shoving pre here
  10. #10
    yep shove pre flop. calling expect callers maybe 3 or4 players, shoveing eliminates the half baked hands, AK suited not a bad hand to get them in with
  11. #11
    We're shoving because "half baked" hands will call because people are awful not to get rid of them, people are awful at these stakes
  12. #12
    It's a $1 tourney so hard to put people on hands. I agree I like shoving best because you will frequently get called by worse.
  13. #13
    shoving pre is the right play here, your getting called by worse almost all of the time at these stakes.
  14. #14
    micro turbo - showing all day with AQ - you may get caller(s) and not end up with 50%+ ev in the hand, but FE more than covers this

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •