What is the influence of the top card suit on rainbow flops?
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 123
I know this is probably a vague question, but I'm looking at a spot - SRP - BB check raises a 944r about 26% of the time.
After the checkraise, IP 3Bets 2% of the time, but 56ss is a 3Bet 33% of the time when its the suit thats not on the flop, 14% of the time if its the same suit as the 4s, and basically 0 if its the same suit as the 9.
Why?
I know this is a super infrequent spot, but I have also seen many more standard spots where the strategy of having the suit of the top cards deviates pretty heavily vs having suited combos of the other two on the board.
I imagine can vary based on the node, but what are a few reasons this could be occurring?
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 7,254
You don't want to check/riase or riase with BDFD that loses to pair+bdfd when you hit your BD. It's infrequent but you lose a lot when that happens.
Join Date: Sep 2018
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Generally speaking, BDFDs in the same suit as the top card are slightly better, for the reason Haizemberg stated.
If you hit river your flush, and it's the same suit as the top card, that means your opponent's top pair can't also be a flush. In other words, your BDFD has more equity against the top of your opponent's range, and lower reverse implied odds.
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In your very specific example, I think IP 3-bets bluffs with the non-BDFD because they want to unblock the BDFD hands that OOP check-raise-folds
