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Originally Posted by Kristalle
The question is whether there are hands I want to bet only 1/3 with and is he calling hands to a 1/3 bet he isn't calling when I am betting at least 1/2?
I mean when we start betting 1/3 here we can widen our betting range right? Do I really want to bet let's say a pair of seven or some ace highs?
I am going to reply generally more from the perspective of the preflop aggressor. The thing with this hand is that the BB is repping something marginal because he 3 bet and checked which is probably why someone said bet 1/3 pot. The significance of this will become clear in a second.
Well you can bet 1/3 pot with 77 and A high if you want to because you can widen your value range theoretically in that our opponent needs to defend wider so even 77 should be ahead of his range. You will have to bluff less too on the flop because you can't have as many flop bluffs because our opponent has to continue so often but you still need all your turn/river bluffs (assuming you will use normal turn/river sizings). Again this would be compensated by the wider value range we talked about.
This practically will become difficult if our opponent insists on raising us and we don't want to continue often enough with the wider value range we did 1/3 pot with. You would have to look carefully at what you're value betting and decide how often you need to continue vs a raise. That being said, as the preflop aggressor checks here, unless he is capable of checking strong hands, he can't ever raise you after checking so you could bet everything. The other issue though is once the BB narrows his range into bluff catchers, we probably want to extract a bit more value than 1/3 pot even with a hand like 77 which might get one street for say half pot.