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Raising A hight OOP 3bet preflop

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mjez1
Joined: 29.06.2015

PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.02/$0.05 - 6 players
Hand delivered by Upswing Poker

UTG: $5.81 (116 bb)
MP (Hero): $5.14 (103 bb)
CO: $12.65 (253 bb)
BU: $5.78 (116 bb)
SB: $5.82 (116 bb)
BB: $5.89 (118 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07) Hero is MP with K A
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.15, CO 3-bets to $0.45, 3 players fold, Hero calls $0.30

Flop: ($0.97) 5 6 Q (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.42, Hero raises to $0.84, CO folds

Total pot: $1.81 (Rake: $0.08)
MP (Hero) wins $1.73

Well, it worked, but was it a good move?
I sometimes try this but very rarely, I'm aware I can get myself into a bad situation.
But why did I do that?
It was purely based on the villain's bet size. He bet roughly half pot on a dry board. It told me he doesn't know what to do with his hand so he bet half pot as a default bet. I don't want to risk much so I just min-raised. If he had something he could continue or he would called or raised. Then I would give up.
My raise was small enough for me to risk it and big enough to make him fold his meh hand at the same time.


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monteCarlol
Joined: 24.08.2019

I would choose different hands for this. BD FD, or GS. A BD straight draw + overcards IMO not strong enough.
Do you have a x/r range on this board at all? How would you play your value hands like AQ, QQ, 66, 55 e.g?
If you raise your strongest value hands there, you can/should raise some bluffs, too. But I am not sure if we should have raising range on this pretty dry board.


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Casey55
Joined: 19.07.2010

I don’t like it, AK is a hand that can call and maybe win sometimes if he gives up or if you turn or river a pair. Villain has strong hands in his range like QQ,AQ, KK,AA. If I were to do this I would choose a worse hand to do it with. A hand like 87 with BDFD+gut-shot or something if thats in our range but in general I think its better not to check-raise much when villain has the stronger nut hands in his range. In a 3-bet pot a half pot bet is a good size bet.


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

A min raise bluff isn't working most of the time I think. If I would raise a $1,20 would be better I think. Most of the time I would just call and her-evaluate the turn with 2 over cards against a unknown.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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LMcrow
Joined: 15.08.2006

You have very good blockers like you block AA KK KQ AQ, and it only needs to work around 37 % of the time and you can still improve if he calls.

I think it can be a fine play mixed in with some frequenzy, it depends if villain can fold lets say pocket TT here. I think its a good play sometimes to mix that in your x/r range, i also like the sizing. You dont need to go bigger on this board. But of course its a play where you can end up in some trouble. Imo well played
that doesent mean like you are always x/r with AK here.


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mjez1
Joined: 29.06.2015

Originally posted by monteCarlol
Do you have a x/r range on this board at all?

I don't have x/r range there.

How would you play your value hands like AQ, QQ, 66, 55 e.g?

I would only x/call.

I chose to x/r only on the momentary read on the villain.


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