It's possible OP is 3betting TT-QQ too often.

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I think those reads are ok, you just have to realize what they mean with regards to what their range looks like on certain board runouts. You should also supplement them with reads about postflop tendencies that will tell you whether you can extract value from your hand, how much, and in what runouts.

In general, the main things that you want to know are:

1) will your villain call 3bet with a hand that can connect a second-best pair?

2) If he does, will he own himself against your overpair?

2) Does your villain play two-overcard hands passively or aggressively in 3bet pots?

If the answer to either of these is "I don't know", then you should err on the side of flatting with QQ to keep hands that you will dominate postflop in V's range. However, if V calls with TT, JJ, AJ/AT, or worse, and he will put a ton of money in when he hits top pair vs your overpair (or a dominated overpair), and you know how V plays AK/AQ when he whiffs, then go ahead and repop him. Don't worry so much about running into KK+, it's a minority of his range even if he's completely uncapped (if he ever jams pre with them it's even less likely he has them).

Well I didn't run into any 3! flats last night so no update on that front but I did mix up my game a little bit, playing one pair hands more conservatively, betting nutty draws harder and trying to see cheap flops with speculative IO hands rather than raising RIO hands like KJo in LP after a number of limpers. Pretty good results though I want to spend more time refining it.

Cheap flops in LP + value raising IO hands = win monies at 1/2?

By the way, if I am trying to get my confidence back and book some wins, logically I should probably avoid the tables with multiple 250+ BB stacks right? Lately I like being table captain of a bunch of 100 BB stacks. Big fish in small pond kind of thing. I feel it lets me play my game better and people don't play back very tricky vs. me, mostly straightforward unimaginative fit-or-fold types of players. Max win amount is probably less but seems to be lower variance.

You should play whatever you feel comfortable playing. Personally I like playing deep against villains I can read, because it lets me speculate and play aggro, but if your game is beating up shorties, by all means keep doing that.

My only caveat is that you should always get up if you're ever sitting in with more than one person against whom effective stacks are 1/4 of your bankroll or more.

How do you feel about your post flop play? Can you fold good (but not great) hands if the flop is unfavorable? If so, then you may save some money by keeping the pot a little smaller pre-flop and then using your skills to reduce your losses when you're beat.

If you aren't as comfortable post-flop then you should be trying to get as much money in pre-flop as you can. Not only does that mean you're generally getting your money in good, but it also makes your post flop decisions easier.

Relative stack size should also play a role in your decisions. If you or your opponent is short, then just get it in there with your good hands. If you and your opponent are deep stacked, you want to avoid trapping yourself into a big pot before you see the flop.

Roughly 8 months later I can say I was partially running into some negative variance but also plugged this leak by doing a better job of choosing which opponents I 3! vs. "set mined" with QQ-TT type hands when it was very likely they were holding an overpair.

I enjoy going back and reading old threads I've started and seeing the evolution of how I thought about situations previously and the progress I've made since then. I love this game.

grunch. think about their calling range when you 3bet. if you cant comfortably 3bet QQ JJ and stack of post then just flat. aginst unknowns i recommend flatting QQ JJ AK pre