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antialias, how would you approach this? How would you triple up here?
You mean in a case where I flop top trips?
Now, for the following some stuff has to come together (opponents must have a little something in their hand and they must be the types who are willing to take stabs on perceived weakness)
Let's say distribution after blinds and antes is roughly as above with
Hero 25BB (EP) let's say we hold AQs
V1 30BB (MP)
V2 130BB (BB) has something like 99, TT, QJ, JT, JK, ...something to see a flop with but not 3bet pre which might induce a shove from the other two stacks
Pot after blinds and antes:3BB
Preflop action: we raise 3BB and get two callers. Pot:12BB
We flop top trips on an AAJ board
V2 Checks to the raiser, we check, V1 takes a stab for 7BB, V2 calls, we call
Pot: 33BB
Stacks.
Hero 15BB (pot committed)
V1 20BB (borderline pot committed)
V2 120BB
turn
check, check, check (we massively underrep our hand)
river
check, tiny bet by us (trying to induce) or (if we know that V1 just can't help himself after everyone has shown so much weakness) we check yet again.
V1 bets, V2 sees the likely bluff by V1 and calls, we shove and everyone gets an awesome price to call.
Now, I totally agree that a lot has to work right for this to pan out. But I feel in a tournament with maybe 30 or 20 minutes per level trips don't come around often enough that we can c-bet this on the flop against 2 opponents and risk a fold/fold for a total gain of merely 9bb.
Betting into two opponents who have aces and jacks in their range while we
also pot commit ourselves shows an awful lot of strength to the point where at least V2 would definitely think about risking almost his entire stack with just a jack - especially if it has a weak kicker.