When you play like the way you did, you're just trying to get people who get too married to their 99-QQ to call off, and even some of those people might get scared away by that monotone flop texture. At micro-low stakes MTTs, if you 4b all-in preflop (or at least to a respectable size like 2.5x the 3bet when you're 100bb+ deep in the first few blind levels), people will call/rejam with all sorts of crap. I play $5-10s and have a good amount of hands in my database where people regularly stack off with absolutely dominated hands like AJ, AQ, TT, etc when I 4bet AA/KK. I think you're overestimating into how many people actually interpret your 4bet and how often you would run into AA. If you run KK into AA in a preflop shove war when you're well out of the money with no ICM considerations, then that's just variance and you load up another MTT.
So yeah in short, I hate the 3b call and I hate having to play an overpair multiway on a board where I do not have the nut advantage whatsoever.
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The flop (despite no ace) is terrible for me, but when the SB checks I think he has probably missed
if I was playing as SB, I would do precisely what he did and check back nearly my entire range. It's not necessarily indicative that he missed the flop at all. I would never bet that big in your shoes as played on a monotone board into two people and you shouldn't want to stack off with an overpair here with next to no redraws except the two kings in the deck, one of which may not even be a clean out. You're only ever getting looked up by worse as I've said.
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Can I ever check-fold here to (say) a HJ bet and two folds?
You absolutely can and should check-fold this spot. You'd have the SB acting behind you when you check it to the HJ, and calling a HJ donk bet just leaves you in an absolutely awkward spot if SB decides to raise it. It sucks to have to c/f this, but you have to remind yourself that all you really have is a pair (a good overpair, but still just a pair) on a draw heavy board. if you folded, you'd still have 84BB and you only lost 16BB at one of the first few blind levels. that's plenty deep to fight with on another hand, why get it in such a bad spot?
Last edited by mug3n; 07-30-2022 at 05:48 PM.