PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 5 players
Hand delivered by Upswing Poker
UTG: $1.20 (60 bb)
CO (Hero): $2.11 (106 bb)
BU: $2.09 (105 bb)
SB: $2.00 (100 bb)
BB: $1.81 (91 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero is CO with A♠ A♣
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.04, BTN 3-bets to $0.18, 2 players fold, Hero calls $0.14
Flop: ($0.39) 9♠ 8♦ T♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.57, Hero calls $0.57
Turn: ($1.53) J♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.34 (all-in), Hero calls $1.34
I believe I went to steal over the BTN for a cheap price and was 3-bet, I believe I should have went for a standard 3bb raise pre-flop, as played I decided to call and keep villains worse hands in the pot.
The flop in theory should be better for the caller's range, the caller should have more nut hands in his range and the BTN's 3-betting range can typically be a bit more polarized rather than just linear in this spot.
I decide to check because the board is bad for us and we are OOP. Villain does something weird here and over-bets pot.
I am not sure how to interperet this, do we think of this as a polarized range or do we think of this as he is trying to tell us he has a good hand?
With the As in my hand I decide to call, I think villain's range he could be sets, Over-pairs and combo-draws. Because I am beating the over-pairs I decide to call. On the turn I think we fold here in theory ? since we are now losing to the over-pairs we were beating;
JJ is now a set, QQ has made a straight, AQ is straight, KQs is straight, QJs is straight. it seems we are beating basically KK here and that is only 6 combos of hands. I guess we also block the good NFD combos. The way the hand played out on the flop I felt my hand was under-repped, I had a difficult time folding it because I knew it would be tough for villain to put AA in my range and I hate folding the bullets but I think this is a massive money burning spot in hindsight.
