PartyPoker WPT $3.2K, The tournament has a pretty long structure. 25 minute levels and we start super deep stacked. 300BB starting stack. We are in level 3 and we are 8 handed. No maniacs at the table and people are playing relatively tight.

Hero has a slightly less than average stack. We are pretty early in the tournament. Villain 2 seems a bit fishy.

Hero has 150BB
Villain 2 has 90BB in HJ
Villain 1 has 250BB in LJ/MP

Preflop: Hero has AK in the CO
Villain 1 raises to 2.2BB, Villain 2 calls, Hero re-raises to 10BB, Villain 1 folds, Villain 2 calls

Flop: 853
Villain 2 checks, Hero bets 9BB, Villain calls

Turn: 7
Villain 2 checks, Hero bets 23BB, Villain 2 calls

River: J
Villain 2 checks, Hero shoves (48BB)

Love it/hate it? Comments please.

Turn is a pure check, need a club/straight blocker to continue betting here i think.

It is looks like villain has 99/TT. It is also possible he made set on the turn or river. He could be playing a draw passively.

I would check the river and maybe check the turn. You have a little showdown value against a fish and it is hard to get him to fold the kind of hands that he would call 4 times with that beat you.

I'd probably check back the flop, call a turn bet, decide river. I think this is too risky - does he fold hands like 99 on the river, sometimes you run into 2pr+, and sometimes you have the best hand anyways against clubs.

What range are you assigning villian preflop?

Cbet fine
Turn check
River check, especially after primary flush draw misses

I like your line as a pure bluff but I would assume seeing you play that nothing on the board has improved your hand and you are holding a pair or less on the river shove.

Why did you decide to go big on turn instead of slowing down?

A loose and passive player will probably peel the flop with any piece of it or with any pair. (even maybe something as weak as 22/44 maybe even 65). If I check the turn, I am giving up. This is a pretty big sized pot and we want to put pressure on them and give them another chance to fold.

Any pocket pair smaller than JJ, big connecting cards and suite connectors (KQs/JTs/T9s), suited Aces and big Aces (AT and better).

It's a wide range. I think maybe I should have gone bigger preflop 12 or 14BB.

Makes sense to me...as does your river barrel. Hope he folded or had AQcc.

He did fold. I just wanted to see if people thought this might be a good 3 barrel spot.

I think that kind of pressure would make it hard to call it off with 99, 1010 and even JQ, JK. A non-fish may even fold AJ.

That's an interesting thought about the flush draw missing. Who has more suited combos here, hero who squeezes or V2 who calls twice pre and twice post? On triple barrels where there is a flush draw on the flop, whose range benefits most from the flush being completed on the river (in 3bet pots--and in single raised pots)??

Gto RFI n 3! ranges are stacked on the suited side.

Pretty much this. I much prefer the bluff vs a good player.

The CO squeeze range for this spot is PP dense with most suited combos flatting behind barring relatively few. The HJ vs LJ flat/flat vs CO squeeze range is actually pretty dense with suited combos and fd's are likely to float to the river, so I think the poster you replied to made a good point. I also think that fd's would be a poor choice to barrel for IP - as a general rule of thumb we don't want to be blocking combos that we're targeting to get folds/value from