Sonny plays 4 tables of $25 NL 6-Max on Poker Stars and goes into an in depth presentation on dealing with flop raises in 3-bet pots. He also discusses why game selection is so important at micro stakes in particular.
Very good video again!
Lets say you have AJo and you 3b pre from bb, btn called, flop comes K65rb and he raises, would you be looking to backraise without history (or reads about him raising top pair in such spots) because you dont think you can chc a shove on turn too much without history, if yes, what sizing? All in or clickback / call? (assuming he makes it around 2.7x your flop bet for example so not huge to make a clickback commiting for you always)
Very good video again!
Lets say you have AJo and you 3b pre from bb, btn called, flop comes K65rb and he raises, would you be looking to backraise without history (or reads about him raising top pair in such spots) because you dont think you can chc a shove on turn too much without history, if yes, what sizing? All in or clickback / call? (assuming he makes it around 2.7x your flop bet for example so not huge to make a clickback commiting for you always)
Thanks for the comment. I would say that I would mostly bet fold AJ in this spot. The problem with bet calling on king high rainbow boards is that your opponent's range is usually extremely polarized between bluffs and monsters. On Q and J high boards, when your opponent raises you he will often just be taking a shot with top pair, but on K high boards that is very rarely the case because most people don't have alot of Kx hands in their 3 bet calling range and also people are very fearful of value cutting themselves vs. an AK in this spot. Therefore, even hands like AK and AA are usually in big trouble if they 3 bet in this spot and get called, but at least they would have some equity by virtue of being the best hand once in a blue moon or having some outs to spike. The AJ, however, would have close to 0 equity in this spot, so I would tend to fold it. Incidentally, I tend to prefer a hand like 76 with backdoor flush and straight draws in this spot to Kx hands, because they tend to have better equity when called.
