NL10 BB defend w/ K3o

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Sai7

Joined: 19.02.2008

Posts: 133

02.03.2014, 10:48 0

Zoom, villain unknown

I decide to call pre vs a min-raise. On the flop we have a pretty co-ordinated board and his SB opening range is very wide, so I thought it may be a good spot to bluff raise. Is this a good idea? How is the raise size?

Once he calls the flop, is this a good turn barrel after he checks / sizing?

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

Play hand

$0.05/$0.1 No-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)

Known players:
[tg]BU$3.93:///////;SB$26.65:///////;BB (Hero)$11.56:///////;MP2$11.78:///////;MP3$40.91:///////;CO$9.40:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3:c, K:h.
4 folds, SB raises to $0.20, Hero calls $0.10.

Flop: ($0.4) 8:d, 9:h, Q:c (2 players)
SB bets $0.20, Hero raises to $0.70, SB calls $0.50.

Turn: ($1.8) A:s (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.30, SB raises to $2.60, Hero folds, SB gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $3.1.

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w34z3l

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Joined: 03.08.2009

Posts: 13,366

02.03.2014, 11:25 0

Hey Sai7,

Preflop call is fine here vs min-raise.

While raising may be +EV in isolation it doesn't really make that much sense with this holding because we do not have a good chance to improve to a strong holding by the river.

Flop is not good for us, fine to just fold vs SB cbet. We don't have to defend all flops just because we called preflop.

Turn is a decent barrel card and again firing may be +EV but it's not a good overall strategy to play like this. We will still get called by pair+draw stuff and will have to 3barrel to make it profitable. Better to just fold flop in the first place and bluff raise with stuff that is more likely to make strong 5-card hands by the river.

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