PokerStars - €0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 75 BB
Hero (SB): 133.5 BB
BB: 76 BB
UTG: 140 BB
MP: 102.5 BB
CO: 207.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q

fold, fold, CO raises to 2 BB, fold, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, fold, CO calls 5.5 BB

Flop: (16 BB, 2 players) 2 3 9
Hero bets 5 BB, CO calls 5 BB

Turn: (26 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 19 BB, CO calls 19 BB

River: (64 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero bets 102 BB and is all-in, CO calls 102 BB



So I am slowly working my way through GTO, and granted am very much in the beginning. Generally I play passively so my struggle is coming up with bluffs. Anyway I decided to bluff over-shove here since I had a high equity hand that realized nothing and I was going to lose if I did not get a fold. I figured meh I hardly bluff why not now but I am trying to work out if this is a good hand or not, in my mind I was trying to fold out TT and JJ.

Now that I have had time to review the hand here is what I think.

I fire 102b into 64b so I have to get a fold over 60% of the time to work. This means that I should have in this spot slightly more than 1 bluff for every 2 value hands. Looking at this board I never have a solid value hand to go 3 streets really. For one I never have a 4, and I never have 78s, and even if I did , I would for sure have thrown a check somewhere in there but regardless, those hands are not in my SB 3-bet range. So my best hand here is 99. Would I play it this way? Absolutely, but I cannot find another value hand that plays this way. AA and KK I think I check turn a lot looking to pot control. So already we run into a major problem.

I only have 47 hands on V and his stats are 22/14/0. So obviously him showing up with the hand he did makes the turn bet pretty darn good since it should get a fold out of so much of his range, but what rivers should I jam? I am thinking A since I block AQ and AK and that puts even more pressure on JJ and TT.

Anyway could really use some help from someone that has studied the theory side of things and can help me figure out what hands I should double barrel here and what rivers I should shove as a credible bluff.

I don't hate firing 3 barrels with busted flush draws, because even though they are usually poor blockers, we don't often 3-barrel enough, so these hands can help with frequencies.

I would absolutely be going for 3 barrels with AA/KK here. So you should have some more value than you think. My only issue is really the sizing. In my experience micro stakes villains calling ranges tend to get fairly static once you get up near a full pot bet. It's super exploitative but I generally go big with all my value and bluffs I keep around 80% of pot.

I think it will work more with an A on the river like you said, but it's still going to work often enough that I think we should do it, just no need for the river jam.

I think in this spot solvers like to check flop alot. Also, when you do bet flop/ turn you should size up to reduce the SPR and therefore the positional advantage villain has.

As played, give up river. Don't know the tendencies of this pool but I imagine they don't like folding overpairs and you block most of their busted flush draws. Plus, once in a while villain checks back JTss.

Also, solvers like a small size on A high rivers in this kind of spot.

To be honest though, I wouldn't worry about theory or not having enough bluffs in certain spots like these, you don't need/want to play GTO to beat NL2

river feels like a block with your JJ+ and sets
if you want to block all your whiffs and think you get rid of his Ahighs, that's prob fine
size up pre and flop