$1/2 game, effective stack is $300
Hero in UTG with pocket 3s.
Hero raises to $6. SB and BB call, everyone else folds. Pot is now $18.
Flop: [8♥️, 5♣️, A♠️]
SB and BB check. Hero bets $8, SB and BB calls. Pot is now $42.
Turn: 8♥️, 5♣️, A♠️ [3♣️]
SB and BB check. Hero bets $26. SB raises to $56, and the BB folds. Hero calls. Pot is now $154.
River: 8♥️, 5♣️, A♠️, 3♣️ [K♠️]
SB now leads out with a pot-sized bet of $154. What should the hero do?

I find it very tough to read the suits in this hand. Assuming a backdoor flush didn't come in, I would go all in as played. But I would have played every previous street differently than you did.

This doesn't seem like a difficult spot to me.
Big Pot, Big Hand.
Try not to play in a big pot unless you have a big hand (or a draw to a big hand).
Well, a set qualifies as a big hand.


I am not sure I even understand your question. You are not considering folding, are you?
There are no quads, no FH, no flush, no straight except an unlikely 2,4.
The only thing you need to be concerned about is set over set and that isn't something you should spend any time worrying about.
If it happens, it happens.


If your big hand loses to a better big hand, and you DON'T lose a lot of money, then something is wrong with your game.
Because it is a sign that you are not willing to get in there and mix it up, even when strong.
And you are leaving a LOT of value on the table.

Say a little prayer and call (some players at these levels overplay top pair to a ridiculous degree), but more importantly note that pocket 3s is a snap-FOLD when you’re under the gun at a full table.

Snap call. You lose, rebuy!!

Deep stacked cash play especially at the lower levels where you'll be less exploited by opening lite I tend to open all prs and even more suited connectors. We flop well, we get paid!! We flop not so well but yet have the range and nut advantage.. Good too!! We might be able to steal another pot or two. We get resistance we gotta be disciplined enough to fold and move on. Slightly aggressive opening range but when the rush of premiums pile in you get more max value from your hands

Get it in. Not sure I like c-betting this flop either with this particular hand. Also not going to be opening 3's UTG depending on how 3-bet happy the table is. If its a passive table I could probably get behind it.

Reads?

Pre is fine.

Flop is OK-ish, but folks love to call pre with all sorts of crappy aces, so if anyone calls the c-bet, I'm done unimproved.

Turn miracle card, sweet! Bet got raised, sweet! Three-bet here all day. Almost no LLSNL V has a raise/fold range post. He'll put you on AK and call with his A8o almost always. Occasionally you run into an overset that was trapping OTF, but not often.

AP to river, GII. You love life less than you used to with him PSB when his 2p range might have just got counterfeited, but can't even consider folding your under-repped set.

The reason you fold your tiny PPs in a full ring cash game from early position is due to the Reverse Implied Odds of getting overset.

What's the different calling in position with small prs to set mine? You can still get oversetted

Haha ok there are two reasons to fold 33 from EP:
1- Reverse Implied Odds on an overset; and
2- the likelihood that another player will 3-bet you.

Basically, we’re only playing 22-55 from the LoJack or later (either as an open-raise or to call a raise) for those reasons.

If you're opening pairs and SCs from UTG, you're going to get targeted by 3-bets. How do you get a rush of premiums? 😂 I haven't won with a premium in like 15 hours.