Daily Hand Quiz

The button can obviously be pretty wide. What about the SB? They started the hand with 140k, or about 40 BBs, so there’s not a lot to be learned from his raise sizing.

If this wasn’t the bubble, I’d be less of a fan of a three bet, but this spot really seems to cry out for it. You have a button big stack looking to pick up easy chips and a medium stack playing back against that dynamic. That’s two pretty wide ranges, equaling a lot of fold vig for you.

You can put the SB at risk, getting them to fold a lot of hands you’d be racing with – especially given your image and recent history – and you have a hand to fall back on if you do get action.

Past that, you can increase your stack by around 30% when you take down the pot uncontested.

What actually happened: You made it about 60k and both players folded.

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The SB has practically committed himself to this hand. If I push and the button folds, he has good pot odds with any reasonable hand. So I fold and look them crash each other. What actually happened looks strange…60k is almost the minimum raise and both folds?? Come on…

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A hand to fall back on if we get action? We are contemplating a 4 bet with a mid pair – any further action and we are crushed. Maybe a 4 bet will work over 50% of the time but we would have to raise to at least another 40k for any FE. Therefore what we would be doing is turning a mid pair into a bluff, putting in over 36% of our stack and then having to shut down if any action.

Too risky a play for me, easy fold.

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I was worried about the SB having a strong hand and feeling committed. If he hasnt been three betting much, thats a sign, and he has a little less than a quarter of his stack already in there. He will call us with the majority of his 3 betting range Id think. Plus you have to worry about the UTG waking up with a real hand….

I fold and hope they collide.

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yeah i think the staff is being too results oriented. how can you 4 bet here the if your read on the SB is he hasn’t been 3 betting often.

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dont read the staff’s post, they will mess up your poker game and turn you into a loser

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I voted against the majority and said raise. Recognize that this is a bubble sitch, but 77 is very strong 3-handed. I’d make it 75K to go and hope for fold-fold. You have a chance to add 20%+ to your stack. The SB would be getting odds, but if they are on the border would they risk calling-off more given the brief history described? If they shove, fold and still have 100K+ and M=17.

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The SB was also a n00b and probably worried about the money jump.

He can very easily fold 88-TT.

4-betting seems very standard 3-handed on the FT bubble.

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SB had the shortest stack, he was not going to make more money by folding. He was only going to fold Ace rag and small pair. He was not going to fold 88+ and he shouldn’t. SB was going to shove more often than fold. When he does shove, you are forced to called. When you lose the race (hopefully not crushed), you will blame the stupid staffs here for feeding you with losing plays. The staffs always analyze the hand according to what actually happened so they look smart.

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SB scares me…
He can easily hav TT+ and get us in a bluff, taking about 40% of our stack (60k)

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Re-raise. If you get re-raised from SB again, you know you are beat…

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Your image does seem to call for a raise. I also really like to defend my blind so theoretically I would pop it up here.
Also, I think it depends on how smart the SB is. If the SB is a good player I would raise because he/she is most likely re-stealing. It would hurt to get pushed and have to fold, but late in the game you have to take a risk sometime.
If I’m honest though, I would probably toss this away and try to hang around. You still have M=36 so you have a lot of room to work with.

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