NL4: AJ 3bet OOP against fish

preflop 3bet $0.20 enough
flop bet $0.40

Hi,

I would also 3-bet pf and I woudl not make it smaller to 0.24, so 3-betting for value to 0.36$ is also fine. I think c-bet is mostly more profitable than c/f or c/c. Board is a littlebit coordinated, but I think he would mostly play straight forward and fold to your c-bet if he doesn´t have anything. If you make it 0,4$, then you can shove on J, Q, K, A turns that really isn´t that few hands

best regards,

Would you really push a Q or a K turn card? Our opponent has a VPIP of 39.

Hello Avatars91,

Preflop: I like the 3bet here and also I like the sizing against his min-raise+having a limper.
Postflop: And with our reads I wouldn't play it any differently. As long we can be pretty sure that he is Checking behind with his non-made hands and at the same time we wont make fold any better hands we can Check it. I would continue on the flop when I would hit. Nice hand!

About Q/K card to barrel, I am not a huge fan of it, cause it still hits some of his broadway range as well. Especially for example a Q comes, it completes a range as for QJ or whatsoever. So I would plan mainly to go for value.

Best Regards.

If we weren't so sure that our opponent checks behind on the flop with his non-made hands too often, would a cBet be a better option? Looking at the stats I assume that worse Ax is likely to find a call on the flop just as well as gutshots + we get at least some fold equity against garbage hands (hands he might bet once we check), and I reallly think his range is very weak (a VPIP of 87 from such a sample size just simply has to be an indicator)

As long his range is so wide I would most likely CB rather myself than turn my hand into bluff-catcher. We might even get value from draws and weaker Ax hands and never know what he is calling with.

Thanks!