3/5 live at local casino
Villain looks like a college student in early 20’s. Relatively straightforward player with infrequent bluffs.
Action folds to LJ (villain) opens to $15 ($750 effective). CO calls. Hero on button calls with JcTc. SB & BB fold.
Pot (~$50)
Flop: 3h 7h Th
V bets $20. CO folds. Hero calls. (Pot $90)
Turn: Ts
V checks. Hero bets $55. V check raises to $140. Hero calls. (Pot $370)
River: 3d
V bets $300. Hero reraises all in for ~$275 more.
V shows 3c3s for quads.

Any particular street that I played wrong?
Preflop I could have 3 bet but I wanted to play a pot in position especially with villain being super tight.
I’m thinking whether or not river should have just been a call rather than a shove, since he would only be calling with boat or better, perhaps nut flush as well? But even then I think all flushes would have to fold to a reraise on the river.

I'm not sure about calling pre, calling flop, and then betting turn. Is that a thing?

For what it's worth, you could maybe have stuffed his x/r back in his face for another 350 on the turn. There's zero chance you're behind. If he's drawing to a flush, he's a massive dog. It's for sure an unbalanced line, but I think that you'd be printing money with all your equity.

Then, about re-jamming a boat and losing to quads, I don't think that there's any point in analyzing the strategy there. You had the 2nd nuts (unless I'm missing something, he had the one hand that you lose to). If you start putting people on quads though, you're hunting for ghosts in broad daylight.

Tally up the hit you took and move on with life (maybe check the badbeat jackpot too!).

Turn is more interesting than the river imo.
But the whole hand is generally just a cooler.

You lose to literary only 1 combo, and he's calling your river raise with more than 1 combo of worse hands, plus a lot of chops.

He’s very polarized with that river sizing, I don’t see the point in raising

Hi, welcome to the forum. You'll find in most cases that you'll get better responses if you don't post the results. Most people will bias their answers to match the results.

I agree with IRTM that the turn is more interesting than the river. Just in general, hands that use both of your hole cards are relatively stronger than hands that only use one.

I like a 3B pre with the additional dead $.

As played, I think calling the X/R sizing is ok. However, I'd ask what worse hands is the V X/R?
Based on that range, I'd decide on river action.

$15 open and an intervening caller in a $5 big blind game is a lot of weakness in front of you. I like a 3 bet to $70. Definitely raising river. Hand is mostly just a cooler.


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I believe the technical term for this is “cooler.”

What’s the point of raising the river. What worse hands are calling?


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Not sure what besides a chop is calling you river. Don't forget you also lose to 10-7. I've seen a lot of double pair coolers that can be avoided by just calling an already sizable bet.

An annoyed 77.

And about 3% of the time annoyed 3x. Or 73s, but both of those are fairly rarw.

T9s, T8s are candidates. AhAx, AhKx, AhQx, AhJx are also possibilities but I don't think this player would be capable of choosing this line. Non hearted 98 combos could also be taking this line as well.