$3.30 - A6 Defend blind vs Big Stack

Fold is the wrong play, either one, re-shove and call are fine. I would be re-shoving sometimes vs. a very aggressive bullier, just to prevent him from stealing ATC in the future against me. But if he's not folding a lot to re-shoves I really don't mind calling with the given stack depth... oh I'm just seeing he's doing it 2,5x the BB. Re-shoving seems even better then

I would 3bet in a spot like this against him in a blind against blind situation and only defend with suited connectors in a spot like this. 50k 3bet in total is large enough I think in position. If he 4bets I would make a fold here. A6o is too weak to stack off with.

Cheers,
SDK1987

Originally posted by SDK1987
I would 3bet in a spot like this against him in a blind against blind situation and only defend with suited connectors in a spot like this. 50k 3bet in total is large enough I think in position. If he 4bets I would make a fold here. A6o is too weak to stack off with.

Cheers,
SDK1987

That's interesting because when I think about 3betting here vs. a big stack I immediately think about what are we doing if he calls our 3bet? (which will probably happen a good amount of the time) and if it's not better to just shove? Of course A6o is not strong if get called, but are we really having the needed foldequity to make this play profitable by 3betting to 50k?

Originally posted by MisterSnS

Originally posted by SDK1987
I would 3bet in a spot like this against him in a blind against blind situation and only defend with suited connectors in a spot like this. 50k 3bet in total is large enough I think in position. If he 4bets I would make a fold here. A6o is too weak to stack off with.

Cheers,
SDK1987

That's interesting because when I think about 3betting here vs. a big stack I immediately think about what are we doing if he calls our 3bet? (which will probably happen a good amount of the time) and if it's not better to just shove? Of course A6o is not strong if get called, but are we really having the needed foldequity to make this play profitable by 3betting to 50k?

If he called the 3bet we have the initiative and position as well. So than we can Cbet most of the time if he checked to us. Off course is shoving also +ev, but then you get only action of better I think.

Originally posted by MisterSnS
Fold is the wrong play, either one, re-shove and call are fine.

Agree. I am never gonna fold an Ace blind vs blind against a fairly aggressive players.

Originally posted by SDK1987
I would 3bet in a spot like this against him in a blind against blind situation and only defend with suited connectors in a spot like this. 50k 3bet in total is large enough I think in position. If he 4bets I would make a fold here. A6o is too weak to stack off with.

Cheers,
SDK1987

I went all in pre, but definitely think 3betting to 50k is an interesting play. My concern with this play is (as MisterSNS mentioned) that we lose a lot of our fold equity and at the same time risking putting in a unnecessarily CBet.

Originally posted by SDK1987
Off course is shoving also +ev, but then you get only action of better I think.

The reason why we 3bet pre shouldn't be to get action from some hand which is 40% against us. I prefer these hands to fold and I wouldn't valuebet - only semibluff betting to get rid of him

Yea. I also don't mind shoving here. You have also blocker to his calling range and as you mentioned we can get in a lot of problem with weaker Ax for example. I doubt that he is calling with A7o when you shove but he might call your 50k 3bet. Against that opponent is 3bet shove reasonable play.

GL at tables!