$1-$3. Button player - regular fairly TAG style

Button raises $15, i call in the BB with AKo ($100 behind), Everyone else folds.

Flop : K38r Pot = $34

I check Villain checks.

Turn : 10 Pot =$74

I bet $20 villain calls,

River : Q Pot = $134

I check Villain bets $30, i call, Villain shows QQ

Was this a bad beat or did i play this hand badly. i would think that with his range of hands i was most likely ahead. This player also has a tendency to check or bet small when he is afraid of over cards on the board.

Cheers

You played the hand badly on at least two streets.

Your turn bet sizing was awful.

Actually, NM. Your pot sizes are all screwed up. Fix them and maybe I can make a better decision.

Why are you so short?

3-bet get it in pre vs Btn so short.

Hand over

Raise pre, otherwise ok
Betting river would have also been fine but would be unusual to xf

With a short stack your goal should be to have your stack in on flop or turn. In this situation you should raise pre and shove flop more then anything. If you didn't want to scare him off because villain is opening button very wide then flatting occasionally isn't terrible but you should lead flop and shove turn in that situation.

At <40BB, you should 3bet pre and gii on all flops. Play high overcard hands very fast

3bet pre to $40 or $45. Call any shove. Shove flop if anyone calls pre.

My question to the group here would be is would it be different if the OP said his intention was to check-jam flop?

With the little bit of information we were given about the V, this would be a bad plan.

3bet pre jam flop. you want to create small SPR with premium hands when you are playing this short. especially against an open from the bottom.

Checking flop is better than leading, leading can cost of us cbets, villain not cbetting qq here is unusual

Still don't like it, and it's unnecessary if the hand was played right. We're under 40bb deep here, this is never a flat PF. I'd even prefer just jamming PF as opposed to flatting, but 3! $45 and shipping all flops is the way to go IMO.

As played, OTF I think this is a spot where a donk lead is okay, and it sets up an easy turn ship. Being so short, a lot of Vs aren't going to c-bet with anything less than a K because any bet pretty much commits them to calling off our shove. That's why I actually like donk betting here and not giving our V the chance to check behind.

How many limpers preflop? The less limpers / the more chance this guy is opening lighter than normal, the more I 3bet, especially with this shortstack. I might actually shove preflop (as raising to $45 will only leave us with a 1/2 PSB shove on the flop which might not have much FE against pairs).

As played, I'm fine with the flop check. We want worse hands to take a shot at it / not hero fold their underpairs to a flop donk. The SPR is 3, we can still get stacks in on the turn/river.

I probably bet more on the turn to make the river shove easier.

Fairly terrible runout against a tighter raiser as we actually don't beat a heckuva lot at this point. The only hands that we are ahead that might manage to call a small bet is like JJ. Honestly, against some players you could check/fold this river even though we we looked to be committed on the flop.

ETA: OP, for furture reference, next time (a) don't post results and (b) pot size on each street is size of pot before bets are made (not after).

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