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Originally Posted by Ripacad
I have been playing poker for several years and just realized that my game is not about poker, but instead exploitation. All I hear about these days is GTO and would love to learn more.
Exploitation is the name of the game when you are playing Vs who make a lot of mistakes. GTO is a defensive strategy for when you are more worried about trying to keep Vs from exploiting you than you are about exploiting them. To learn more, try
this thread.
As for the hand, I like the 3-bet pre. Playing QQ OOP this deep without initiative would make extracting very difficult. It would likely be a 3b/fold, as live 4-bet ranges are so ridic tight.
Once V flats, I'm putting her on a range of AK (all combos) JJ-QQ (all combos, 88-TT/KK (half the combos, the low ones for set mining, and KK because it sometimes 4-bets) 22-77/AA (a quarter of the combos, for the same reasons)
Flop lead is standard, imo. Get that value. The small raise is very concerning, but I'm not folding an overpair yet. We lose to about 10 combos of her PF range, but this could also be almost any of the pairs/AK in her range putting us "putting us on AK." I also call here, but against many Vs I may be done putting money in the pot unimproved.
If she'd made it 300, I would almost certainly have folded, as it looks like she's trying to get stacks in OTT, and there is very little turning PPs into a bluff in her rage to go that big. If she flats, I'm likely taking turn off for pot control and may bet river depending on run-out and action.
Once a miracle Q comes OTT, the hand plays itself.