https://play.globalpoker.com/poker-c...4b0514053f0531


Generally this player folds to aggression - and hasn't raised me with out the nuts but doesn't play trash pre. Strange spot

Talk me through your thought process on each street here. What's your intention with the 3bet raise preflop? What's your intention with the flop bet (betting less than half pot)?

Those two questions give you a lot of answers about how to handle the check raise on the flop from the SB.

3bet because we have a strong hand and don't really mind facing a 4bet with it - SB should of 3bet himself if he had a strong hand

small flop bet because we don't need to bet huge to give the impression we are going to be felting this hand - stack sizes are not huge.

I think generally a 1/2 pot flop bet would of been better.

Why not check the flop and take a free card or see what the button does? Lots of turn cards help your hand and now you've put yourself in position to be check raised when all you really have is one pair with backdoor draws. If you're folding this flop to any raise, I don't see a reason to bet.

Just a general comment, but be careful with betting patterns. Your sizing here might give away your hand (unless you tell me you're betting the same amount with a bigger made hand).

Disagree with most of this.

"Lots of turn cards help your hand" - Like what? A spade gives us a weak FD and a 5 gives us a SD. We can hit some 2 pairs which could be good.

Equally there are a lot of turn cards that could improve our opponents hand - a hand like KcQdJc9 is folding to a flop bet but picks up a decent amount of equity on a high club turn. Same with lower wrap draws.

Protecting our equity in omaha is valuable which means we can bet sometimes even though very few worse hand will call.

As far as sizing goes; his sizing is perfectly standard. Why bet bigger, even with a strong made hand on this rainbow and locked down board? eg. If we have AA, we are fine with inviting Axxx hands like the one hero actually has to continue in the hope they hit two pair or turn a draw and stack off.

Lastly I'm almost never worried about being raised on this board as the PF-3bettor. We have AA in our range and so the avg player isn't going to try and bluff us off this flop here.

edit: @OP you played the hand fine.

Wp, good sizing, nice squeeze, good fold post.
I would only consider calling if you believe villain is trying to exploit you betting a merged range here.