hu $3.5 T AA v unknown

In my mind, I'd play this hand like:

Preflop: make a higher size bet [but it is accordingly your historical to no change], but you gave him good odds to call. Villain range excluding the 3bet range be JJ-22, A5s+, K6s+, Q8s+, J9s+, T9s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo.

Flop: Excluding blocks his range shirink 50% in combos and you have a lot of equity. Cbet but I would close to the pot. Why? for value and blocking possible draws and make it expensive for set mining. If he checks/ raises I fold.

Turn: If he just checks call I'll bet pot again to extract the maximum amount of value.

I think the sizing isn’t to bad here except the river bet. If you bet again around half pot the change he will try to bluff against you is limited. Now you give him the opportunity to do this on a weak looking bet in my opinion and makes folding for me tough.

Cheers,
SDK1987

Originally posted by Arnalsan
In my mind, I'd play this hand like:

Preflop: make a higher size bet [but it is accordingly your historical to no change], but you gave him good odds to call. Villain range excluding the 3bet range be JJ-22, A5s+, K6s+, Q8s+, J9s+, T9s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo.

Flop: Excluding blocks his range shirink 50% in combos and you have a lot of equity. Cbet but I would close to the pot. Why? for value and blocking possible draws and make it expensive for set mining. If he checks/ raises I fold.

Turn: If he just checks call I'll bet pot again to extract the maximum amount of value.

PREFLOP: of course I want to give him good odds to call me with weaker hand. Why not??? Min raise or 2.5x is standard. If I open 3x I'm basically face up with my hand in HU.

Flop: 1st of all this board is not as wet as u think. Don't see anything wrong with my bet size. I actually rather bet 1/2 pot here than close to the pot. 2nd why do u want to block his draws??? And I never fold to a xr on this board. U make ur self highly exploitable.

Turn: Bet pot on a brick??? U gonna bi
Build a huge pot on a dryish board. What would you do if he shoves over and you have only OP? Or he just calls and you have to invest a lot more on the river. AA is not nuts.

Originally posted by SDK1987
I think the sizing isn’t to bad here except the river bet. If you bet again around half pot the change he will try to bluff against you is limited. Now you give him the opportunity to do this on a weak looking bet in my opinion and makes folding for me tough.

Cheers,
SDK1987

I was thinking about the 1/2 pot but tbh I thought this will do exact same job. It may look weak in some cases but also looks like a VB and loads of players value bets like this including me. Depends on the board. Just don't see any weaker hand xr me on that river regardless my sizing. But I definitely had it in my mind. Cheers