MP is unknown, 100bb effective stack.
Pre Flop: (1.5bb) Hero is BTN with his entire cold calling range in BT vs MP.
1 fold, MP raises to 3bb, 1 fold, Hero calls 3bb, 2 folds
Flop: (7.5bb) K
J
T
(2 players)
MP bets 5.5bb, Hero raises to ?
What is your raising size here?
- One could be a small raise size. If villain calls, we can 3barrel successfully. This would mean we can raise 100% of the range we don't fold which should be at least 57,7%.
* The problem with this is that if villain 3bets (which is the most probable to see) and we made our strategy for a 3barrel then we are bluff raising to often. So then we have to raise fewer combinations and add a calling range.
* If villain calls vs our new improved strategy of raising and calling we will have an almost 100% turn barrel (which would be unexploitable because we are perfectly balanced). The problem here is that on the flop we give him kind of ok odds to call with a flushdraw, so we would have to rethink our value hands on a A/9/spade turn, so our frequencies will change.
- Another one could be a bigger raising size. If villain calls, we go all in on the turn. Now if villain 3bets, or calls, we can have a somehow similar strategy for both responses. And we don't give that good of odds to a flushdraw on the flop.