Queens in 3bet pot on flop, NL Cash

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Game type: 25/50 Full Ring Cash, Live
Your image: Active, possibly a little frustrated
Opponent’s image: Very aggressive preflop
Your hand: Q♦Q♥

The setup: You’ve had an uneven session so far and it’s been a bit since you won a hand. This hand there’s a poster in the hijack preflop. The table folds to him and he checks. You raise $200. The button folds and the SB three bets to $825. The BB and hijack fold, and you flat.

You have a good amount of history with the raiser. He is a very active three bettor and seems to have your number in recent sessions. He is very aggressive against your preflop raises, especially if there’s a squeeze opportunity. He’s also a pretty steady continuation bettor.

You flop about as dry as can be:

J♣2♥6♦

The SB leads for $985 into $1750. What’s your play?

Would your answer change if you held aces?

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6 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

samo

Voted to call OTF, planning to raise OTT. The board is dry enough to let them catch-up, and fire another barrel. A raise OTF would likely get the V to fold since there are no draws present. If more slippery, I’d raise OTF.

I would play AA the same.

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Pirate21

I think this is the type of scenario that calls for balancing ranges. The question really should be what percent of the time do you flat and what percent to you raise, because you have to show you’re willing to do both in order to keep the table guessing.

For my part, I think I’d probably raise about 1/3 of the time and flat about 2/3 (same reasoning as Samo). Same with AA – though maybe lean towards calling slightly more often.

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Choppa

I’m happy to raise (to 3k) and take it down right here, pot is already big enough for a decent profit. Our hand is good 90% of the time considering V would 3 bet PF with variety kind of hands (plus he 3 bets a cut off raise). Now he either have to fold or shove (don’t see calling here with 2/3 of his stack, even if he does shove I’ll call). I don’t wanna just flat flop and give V a free card for him to draw, and he’s likely to shove once he improves, which leaves us a tougher decision. We have the largest stack at this table, and it’s a huge advantage when we use it correctly.

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Robert

I lean more towards raising than calling here. V just bet with 25% of his stack OOP and shows pot commitment. He’s likely to have something here (paired his jack or 77-TT). So if we give V decent odds hes likely to stick around. His shove won’t be too scary (JJ, KK and AA are the 3 rare hands that could beat us, 3 betting with 66 or 22 PF is very unlikely). If I hold AA I’ll call more often in this situation to induce a shove on the turn/ river.

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I would also raise rather than call. Villain imo is expecting us to call if we hit and fold if we miss, since the board is so dry. If we raise here we get shoves by jacks, pocket pairs, the unlikely few hands that are ahead, and sometimes air.
The hands we fold by raising aren’t likely to barrel the turn anyway, considering the size of his stack. A or K on the turn is disastrous and honestly I don’t see a lot more cards that make him feel he’s caught up.

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Wow I’d love to be frustrated, having an uneven session, not won a pot for a while and sill have almost double the next biggest stack.

I’m raising my frustrated image all in here this time as any other raise looks suspicious to his stack. When someone is getting the best of me I like to make a couple of weird moves to put them off guard especially in high stakes (anything over 50 cent blinds )