NL50sh - KQo 3B pot.

Okay few comments from my side here.

1) Is call preflop best in the first place?
2) Do you agree his range should be quiet tight because of fish in BB?
3) We can't rly say he 3bets 8% on that sample.
4) That turn sucks. Not good to barrel
5) The floptexture alone hits my range good so he shouldn't CB too light.
6) His turnsize is pretty big, it's like he wants to protect.
7) We still have AQ and TT to call turn

cya

Originally posted by Farmarchist
Okay few comments from my side here.

1) Is call preflop best in the first place?
Given the odds and strong hand I think yes.

2) Do you agree his range should be quiet tight because of fish in BB?
No, I think 3betting SB a lot is the default play nowadays on NL50 so any call would be an exception from his standard. I doubt he will 3bet less, maybe more polarised in which case KQo is even better.

3) We can't rly say he 3bets 8% on that sample.
True, we can't say it's 8% but we are probably 90% sure it's not 4% only either. He looks like an average regular and the average regular will definitely have around 8% 3bet range there imo.

4) That turn sucks. Not good to barrel
It's a blank but the flop already gives most his 3betting range huge equity to bet twice.

5) The floptexture alone hits my range good so he shouldn't CB too light.
Yes, but he is still left with the flushdraws and combo draws as bluffs. I think a hand like AK with one heart will often barrel twice too. If the board hits your range so much, do you think you can make him fold AA? If so, shove because he will only call a hand like AQhh, QQ probably which means 2 combos.

6) His turnsize is pretty big, it's like he wants to protect.
He is a regular, first thing he is taught is to try and have the same sizing with value and bluffs. Some deviate and you will see that but before you see him deviate just don't read much into sizing.

7) We still have AQ and TT to call turn
AQ is not a lot better than KQ here though imo.. Does he 3bet all his AQ preflop? If he does, AQ splits against a few more hands instead of losing which does indeed add a couple of %s to your equity but you don't really crush him more. I agree that you can have TT but that's the only nutted hand you have here plus I'd say TT can be a 4bet/call quite often in these spots so I would not have that either some of the time which means KQ goes up in my own range.

cya