1/2 at Bellagio. Tough young Internet pro who played a lot of huhu online opens in the middle somewhere. Wide range. I call in the BB with AcJd.

Flop is KcKs9c. I check call.

Turn is Jc. I cr and he calls.

River is the Qs. I bet, he raises, and I snap out 3 bets after about a 10 second pause.

This hand requires a pretty in depth analysis of both your ranges right?

I don't see him folding a T (you could have KT for the chop if you're 3! for value), and I don't know why he would pick this river to raise/fold a K, so I can't think of a lot of positives this play has going for it.

Im trying to understand why kckr is a credible way to play hands stronger than a pair of jacks, which is what you're repping when you 3bet the river. Im not getting it.

I think DaveR's line is a perfectly good way to play 99 or KQ or some other boat combo. My problem with his line isn't that he isn't credibly repping a boat, but that villain's value raising range on the river will mostly include hands that aren't folding to a 3! HUHU online players aren't too often in the business of folding straights getting 12:1.

EDIT: Whoops, just realized that if villain had a straight he would lose to a flush as well as a boat (didn't notice three clubs on the board). That makes it closer obv.

I'm not a 1/2 player but seems you did the good old classic turning a made hand into a bluff? I feel like we are behind when he raises here but I don't see the point in your raise because I think he's showdown bound and not folding either a Q and certainly not a K. I could be wrong ...

Agree w everyone else, if he has AJ beat he isn't folding, I would have check folded river I think

+1.

No way he folds better to an unknown Asian.

Racist ban

Too bad there aren't any "tough young" internet pros on here to let us know if they would ever fold anything >AJo here.

In all seriousness, I'm just wondering if this play is an attempt at exploitation or playing GTO? IMHO, not a fan if it's the former and if it's the latter, wouldn't you need to make this play very rarely?

I think it's more an issue of whether their raising range includes hands that they are ever (rather than even rarely) folding to a three on that particular board texture. I.e. are they really raising a naked T? So while you're rightish in the sense that villain's range may not include a lot of hands that are folding to a 3b, I suspect that villain's range may actually be even narrower than you think it is.

I thing ur targeting one hand here that you think he could raise/fold (AQ), but I think he plays that hand that way a very small percentage of the time. No way he's raise/folding a straight.

on the turn your hand looks a lot like it could be a straight or a flush so when he raises the river i'm putting him on a pretty narrow range that isn't going to fold

That is not at all what I'm trying to do.