HI, its my opening range on UTG, what are you gonna check, bet OR check/raise on the low flop? how wil your range be composed and why? what would change if it was monoboard?
what is bad or good on this range? do you open pairs 22-55? thank you so much for reply


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SB: $1.14 (57 bb)
BB: $2.14 (107 bb)
Hero (UTG): $2.37 (118.5 bb)
MP: $2 (100 bb)
CO: $1.82 (91 bb)
BTN: $2.69 (134.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with X-X
Hero raises to $0.08, 2 folds, BTN calls $0.08, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.19) 6 5 3 (2 players)[/color]
Hero ???

yeah, you're wanting someone to write basically a chapter of a book here matey. I don't see that happening.

GL tho.

I have some sort of division range on each board. According to what basic criteria do you do? How do you divide the range into ch, b, x / r? What is important in making decisions? I do not know how to start. I need some reflection point. Thank you for your response

Check the vast majority of your range on this dynamic flop, as this kind of texture is advantageous to the player in position.
Since 66 is the only very strong hand you have, and villain will float (or raise) extremely often, you can't bet at a high frequency.
I would do a lot of check-calling (mostly overpairs and NFDs and BDNFDs) and a fair bit of check-raising (66, some overpairs, 87s, 98s with BDFD, weaker FDs and BDFDs), also a depressingly high amount of check-folding (air like AJo, KQo, QJs with no backdoors).

To improve your board coverage on flops like this, add A5s, A4s, A3s to your opening range. It's really important to have nut flush draws in your range, and the ace is also a blocker pre-flop (to calls and 3-bets), so you can successfully steal more often with A5s than with 98s for example.

What would change if our position was SB vs. BB? Are there wider ranges or do you follow the same logic? well thank you

^From Theoretical Perspective...

OP, make appropriate adjustment based on each villain tho, and if you really wanted to see which strat would be higher EV then getting a software or doing it off-table could be a viable option

Right so your best hand is 66 here so that is like 3 combinations out of 182. That means your very best hand next to that is AA and that's just one pair. On the other hand if button flats with 66+ he also has 66 as the best hand and is capped to JJ after that. I don't think this flop is advantageous to the caller at all actually because you are still uncapped and he is capped.

Given you're uncapped and he is you should be able to bet here at a pretty high rate and double/tripple barrel a lot. When it comes to cbetting I would choose to either tripple barrel or check/fold here a ton. I feel like this is a texture that people aren't defending enough on if they have a calling range pre that is like 66+/89s+ or something like that. Realistically what are they going to do about it when you bluff a ton here. Probably they are going to have more one pair hands on average but good luck to them to actually call down with.

^^^ some good stuff there ^^^

thank you so much for reply, BTW ArtyMcFly said that he wil be checks a lot of top flush draw, this strategy I have heard for the first time, do you use the strategy in the positions on more types of board or especially the low boards?

In BvB, starting ranges are much wider to begin with, so you'll have a lot more hands that connect with this board, and villain will have a lot more air, so you can bet more often (both for value and as a bluff). You should generally c-bet at a fairly low frequency when OOP though.
Especially on the boards where you have few monsters, and the turn card will often radically alter the texture, you should be checking instead of betting.

e.g. on boards like 986tt, 975tt, 652tt, the turn card will usually change the relative value of many hands.

Imagine a 986 flop with two diamonds. If you have AcAh, that's a pretty good hand. You're beating hands like QQ, TT, 77, 55, JTs, T9s, 87s, 76s, KQdd but what if the turn is a T, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, Q or a diamond? A lot of bad cards can come that turn AA from "pretty good" to "fairly useless", since - if villain isn't already ahead - he can make sets, straights, flushes, trips, two pairs. Those same turn cards that destroy the value of AA could turn your jack high or KQdd in to the effective nuts. That's what I mean about dynamic flops: Everything can change on the turn.
In terms of strategy, it turns out that the PFR should often tread carefully on such boards when he's OOP. This means a lot of checking. You don't want to start building a big pot OOP when the board is likely to get super-ugly on the turn/river.
One of the reasons to avoid betting a marginal hand on the flop, is that it means villain will fold all his air, and only continue with hands that have great equity. Your marginal hand is going to be in a world of hurt on many runouts as villain's range will contain so many strong hands (because he folded all the air on the flop).

P.S. I've just realised I didn't directly answer the quoted question. Regarding the best flush draws (AKs/AQs), one of the reasons to check with them is so that it's possible for you to have flushes on the turn after check-calling the flop. Another reason is that AK/AQ dominate the weaker Ax/Kx/Qx that villain has in his range, which means you could be good if you spike a pair. If you bet AKs on the flop and villain folds KQ, that's not a good result for you. You'd prefer him to check back and then hit the king, so you can get some value.