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Originally Posted by Perrone66
Lots of good points
Results - V tanks for about 1 minute and makes the call with Q3o and wins with a 3.
I don't know if I would have been more upset if he called with that or Axhh...
You shouldn't be more or less upset. Ace-high and bottom pair are basically the same hand there. You either have something that beats those hands, or you have total air.
You played this hand very passively. If you're going to bet the river in spots like this, you generally need to have it, and not be bluffing, because opponents are going to look you up very light.
If you walk back through the hand, and consider how your actions look from your opponents' perspective - you didn't 3B pre, so you probably don't have an over-pair to the board, unless it's 88 (assuming you're 3B'ing 99+ pre), you didn't bet flop when action checked to you, so you probably don't have 88, and probably didn't flop trip 6's or pair the 7, yet you called a pot-sized turn bet, meaning you're probably on some sort of draw, likely a backdoor diamond draw, probably not a good combo draw with a 5 in it, which you might have raised. So the offsuit 3 doesn't seem likely to have helped you at all. Your range is full of a lot of busted draws that are just going to stab at it when action checks to you. The only value you're repping here is A5, and maybe 66.
With that hand-reading, I would call you down with any pair, and occasionally ace-high, if I'm unblocking Ad and Ah.
Alternatively, some show of aggression at some point might have won you the pot. Perhaps not immediately, but often with continued aggression.
For instance, if you'd 3B pre and c-bet the flop, repping a big over-pair, that might have taken it down right there. If not, barreling the turn might have taken it down. Even if you didn't 3B pre, betting flop and turn probably would have taken it down more often than not. Raising turn surely would have taken it down.
It's easy to say that in retrospect, when we know he had Q3o, and probably would have folded before the river. But some aggression on earlier streets would have helped define his range a bit more, and strengthened your range. Even if he got to the river with ace-high or Q3, he probably wouldn't have called off a river bet.