Overpairs OOP on dry paired boards
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Often, I find myself defending the blinds with marginal JJ-KK hands where I am lost postflop on boards that are paired and under 9, example. 664f 664r 883r 772f 336f
Vs randoms who you have less then 500 hands on, and not quite enough experience to know their tendencies what's the best play in a vacuum?
x/c one street, only to fold on a turn, seems weak/bad. Going into induction mode, planning to x/c 3 brls seems very bad.
Is x/r flop the best, even though we're pretty much turning our hand into a semi bluff, we will force a lot of folds from air vs all but the trickiest(sickest) opponents?
When called after a x/r, what should be our protocol on turns, in a vacuum if we x/r on a board such as 883r with a hand like QQT9ss we're basically never ahead. The main problem I see is, when boards are like 44x 33x 22x, we can't rep the trips that well because we shouldn't have too many 4's 3's and 2's in our defending blinds range, especially if the open is from co+ and we are first to call from sb/bb.
I haven't gave much thought into donking...
Links to threads or hand histories bout these spots would be helpful.
Join Date: Aug 2009
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I think c/c is a decent line, u might have a bit of a confirmation bias on how many times u actually get barreled off 'em. u can obv c/c turn too, if villain has balls to 3 barrel, good for him
JJ is kinda borderline because there a decent chance it won't be an overpair by the river. You could turn that into a bluff.
if u wanna protect ur range vs aggros, c/c trips+ too. Prob not a huge problem at small stakes though
Join Date: Jul 2007
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ah yea, that makes sense. I didn't think of c/c trips+, but that totally protects my QQ+ then. I'm goin to try that a bit more this weak, instead of making the automatic x/r with trips.