[LOW] QTs OOP in 3-bet pot line check
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 2,082
Game is $2-$100 spread-limit. Most you can raise is $100 over the previous bet.
Villain is, amazingly, a very good player, probably the best at the table. He’s never open-limped in—he always comes in for a raise—and has been 3-betting often. He also made a 2+2 style play where, in a limped pot (he over-limped on button), on an AQTJQ board, with $8 in the pot, the BB bet $6 and Villain raised to $106 (the max) with QJ (and of course the fish called with the King, “I hope we’re chopping!”)
He has rolled his $300 buyin up to about $900. Hero covers.
Anyway the hand:
One EP limp, Hero in LJ with QsTs raises to $10. Two folds, Villain on Button 3-bets to $30, everyone else’s folds, I call.
Flop: Qh5d5c ($62)
I check. Villain bets $30. I call.
Turn: Qh5d5c As (pot: $122)
I check. Villain bets $50.
Is this just a fold?
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 12,080
fold. I wish I hadda ace or king so I can block something and 4bet it but it's probably better just to fold it OOP.
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,284
I favor a fold also but at spread limit this is closer then it would be at no limit. You can't face a bet of more then $100 on the river. At that point you will be getting a bit better then 4-1 and a call would be obvious. At no limit villain could decide to bet $200 and it becomes a very difficult situation. The reason that fold is still better is that a lot of the hands you are not losing are chops, the only hands your outright winning are ones where villain been bluffing the entire way. This makes the EV poor.
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,500
Pre is loose. Fold to the three bet OOP. I fold this in the LJ instead of opening there is any aggressive players behind me yet to act. If everyone will only ever call unless they have AA-QQ then the open is fine. But Q10 is dominated by so many hands. Let it go pre. And then you won’t have these tough decisions later. As played I call flop. Turn is 50/50. Sure seems like AQ or KK taking you for a ride. I would go with reads in game. And kick myself for opening, and calling a 3B oop with **** vs an aggressive player.
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 2,082
Result: I just folded on the Turn but felt pretty bad about it. It was a very good session overall but that player absolutely crushed me.
