This is a hand from my sweat session with PPP last night. Interested in some thoughts on this.


Game is 200nl, villain is 24/21/9 over 185 hands with an ATSB of 28%

Pre flop I think is very debatable. BB is 36/20/2. We don't close out the betting which kinda sucks I guess looking back at it now but I had no read that BB was the type to squeeze without a legit hand.

In general people always talk about 3bet or fold from the blinds but I don't think this is necessarily true. I'm a big advocator of playing pots in position but in this spot here I know my hand plays excellently against his range and I'm experimenting with occasionally calling with these types of hands.

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the 3bet/fold rule and in what circumstances people think it can be broken (if any).

On the flop we can take any line we want here I think. Check/call, check/raise and bet/3bet shove are all arguable plays, what line do you prefer and why?

On the turn what is your plan? Bet enough to committ yourself to calling a shove? Check/fold? Check/call? Bet smaller and fold to a shove?

BossMedia Game #1000637548: Table Table TH 262 - $1.00/$2.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:03:45 - 2008/03/17
Seat 1: grtcllr ($51.55)
Seat 2: Hero ($203.15)
Seat 3: Mikado! ($339.90)
Seat 4: nytkeittää ($206.30)
Seat 5: _TY4$_ ($725.96)
Mikado! posts the big blind of $2.00
Hero posts the small blind of $1.00
grtcllr is the button
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
nytkeittää folds
_TY4$_ raises $8.00
grtcllr folds
Hero calls $8.00
Mikado! folds
*** FLOP *** [ ] - pot $16
Hero checks
_TY4$_ bets $12.00
Hero raises $40.00
_TY4$_ calls $40.00
*** TURN *** [ ] [] - pot $95, effective stacks remaining $155
Hero ???