Hi all,

1/2 home game.

Playing very loose overall. Seems like you can raise to $20 pre and still get like 2-3 callers.

Main V: solid player we have been battling quite a bit. I just won a big pot off of him.

H: Young and aggressive. I have like $400 to start the hand and have the main v barely covered.

OTTH: V opens UTG+1 to 7 (first time I've seen him open so small). 4 other people call.

We are in the BB with AQ and 3 bet to $37. Only V calls.
Thoughts?
$102 (Flop) 822

We bet $50 and he calls.

$202 (turn)9 we check he bets $65 and we call.

$332 (river) 6 We think about it and just give up and check.... and he bets like $150. We fold

Thoughts on the hand? Hard to give up on the turn when we pick up equity and are getting a good price.

Feel like he has 99-JJ a lot here. Maybe some random 8x combos.

Seems fine. usually I would ask you not to give last action, but I think it's pretty clear in this hand.

Preflop is fine.

Your line is OK but I would just give up on this flop a lot. Villains are generally non-believers on low paired flops and hero is OOP without much equity. Villain likely has a lot of JJ-88 in his range and they are going to be hard to bet off.

I’m betting this flop with a BDFD and you must barrel this turn

you need to continue barreling this turn card.

this is a great card for you...you pick up equity

you also continue the story that you have an overpair

$125 on turn

I'm jamming this river as well even if I don't hit my diamond

I probably x the flop and give up to any significant bet. Hard to get folds here I think.

If I do bet the flop, I definitely barrel that turn card. It's bad to try to induce folds with your cbet and then fail to barrel when we pick up equity. Think about this, how happy is AK/33-77 when you 3bet, bet flop and then bet the turn? Villain pretty much has to fold all of that and depending on your image you may also fold out TT/JJ/A8ss (if they are in his range).

Then on the other side of it, if he does call the turn and we river our flush, there is a very good chance he pays us off - he's not on a draw and players who aren't drawing usually call river if they call turn. It's also difficult to put us on a flush OTR.

If I check the turn, I check/raise here.

Squeeze is a bit small; I prefer ~$55 vs an opener + 4 callers oop. As played good flop sizing. Turn is a mandatory 2nd barrel when we pick up equity. It's not fun being in villain's shoes with a hand like TT facing all that aggression ...should get plenty of folds.

What are we representing when we x/r though? I think AA/KK tends to just barrel and look to get paid off by TT->QQ instead of risking folding them out.

opponents will put you on aa/kk unless they have it themselves

Yeah turn is a crime, I would just barrel, but you can also x/r if you want to get fancy. But you have to do something aggressive on this board.

I'm barreling turn and shoving most rivers.

I don't think I'd be 3 barreling here very often with this hand. Flop and turn seem like a decent spot to bet but river is a x/f for sure AP.
I think better hands for a 3 barrel bluff would be something like JTs or QJs, ss or cc specifically. Diamonds are good as we pick up equity on turn but make a river bluff somewhat less profitable as we block V from having missed diamonds himself. We also assume V rarely has AA/KK because he didn't 4b and our A blocks AK which is a hand we'd be trying to bluff him off of. QJ and JT block a lot more pairs that he is likely to have here

This seems exactly right. You ABSOLUTELY MUST barrel this turn. Most of his flop calling range is pocket pairs (especially with that unusual preflop sizing). Think how you’d feel facing a big turn bet with 55-TT here. And you picked up equity on the turn. If you’re not barreling this card, then you’re giving up too much.

I could go either way on the river. But Scooo13zzz is right that a shove has to be considered if you barrel the turn. I think it depends on your villain. Will he play for stacks here when you are repping AA, KK, QQ?


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