PLO50 K976ds in 3bp oop

I don't like the 3bet deep oop with that hand for 3way pot (BTN should never fold).

Why pot river? I think as played I would check-call, to give him an opportunity to bluff missed draws. You shouldn't have many boats in your range so theorywise he can raise quite a lot of hands there.

But when you pot, you try to get value from trips? Imo his range is heavily weighted to weaker hands that he might bluff if given a spot to do. Check-call.

Checked from Solver, 100bb deep that is mixed 50/50 with fold and 3bet. 200bb deep it's just a fold.

At 100bb, it shows that the EV of 3bet is very close to 0 as the strategy is mixed 50/50. I am sure that if we remove FE, it would become a pure fold even 100bb deep.

Yeah deep stacked oop we should be quite tight in 3betting. A976ds would likely be fine still.

I don't necessarily mind bet turn, bet river line but we should use small sizings. So I would use 1/3 pot. Aim would be to get calls from some overpairs, trips and A2.

With pot river we can get call from A2 but not so sure about much else. Even A2 should not be happy of facing pot bet. Maybe trips but if villain is tricky kind he might also turn that to bluff.

As played river is interesting. Would villain raise all boats or just 55+? Would he check flop with sets? Depending of answers to those he might mainly rep 99 and we block that. But yeah this hand gets pretty weird with our river pot.

200bb deep it's just a fold.

Yea the 3bet is a little loose indeed, but Villain raise-calls too much pre so I thought I might still have value. I did not really took the deep stack into account for my pre hand selection but I think it is not that bad if we look at the type of hands Solver would expande his ranges towards against a more loose opening.

I don't necessarily mind bet turn, bet river line but we should use small sizings. So I would use 1/3 po

I don´t have a 1/3 pot sizing ott here as a default so I used 1/2 pot but I agree that 1/3pot would have been a good idea aswell. But I don´t think it is a very big difference in terms of EV or playability?

But when you pot, you try to get value from trips?

With pot river we can get call from A2 but not so sure about much else.

Trips, straights and eventually overpairs. I have a sample of over 7k hands and he is capable of calling those handstrengths pretty sure. He surely would not fold any trips against 2 barrels in a 3bp. I have also been kinda afraid getting bluff-raised out of the pot since villain might consider my little sizing as weakness but not sure about that. He is switching gears with bluff-raises not overdoing it but occasionally also when he senses weakness which is pretty hard to encounter on later streets. We previously had a dynamic evolved, where I bet the river small or checked to induce with some very strong hands but it did not work out anymore as he adapted slowly to it by bet-calling less and finally checking behind more often.

Results:

One point in small sizing is that it's more likely indeed to induce bluff raises and we would then go for that call more happily (and for cheaper price). Compared to pot and facing raise.

In general when we lack nuts in our range we prefer using smaller sizings. Though again this spot does come down to also what villain is doing with sets on flop. If his range has very few boats as well then nut straight become nutty as well. But this is spot where I could try to value bet A2 or even AA fair amount of time which also prefer small sizing. That combined with how rare boats are in our range I would stick to single sizing.

Yes I like the idea of betting the river small too. I mean I usually have boats myself mixed into but if you see nutstraight has enough value on paired boards (against him it surely does) I should bet small more often. But we still have a potting range (bluffs, weaker straights, trips and a few boats?)

If I know I´d 1/3pot block-bet river more often, I probably should size it up a little ott to 1/2 or 3/4 pot no?

Well flop is still straight heavy. Villain can definitely have A2 in check back range if he is decent postflop. So for that reason I would prefer to use bit smaller sizing. Also this board on turn is kind of dry in a way that straight draws are somewhat less likely. So as I want to bet some overpairs I would lean toward small sizing. Not sure if 1/3 or half is necessarily better.

We can have two different sizings for river but when most of villain range is weak I kind of don't mind to go for just small sizing. We can bluff with that as well. Thing with block bets is that theory wise we should of course be value betting most of time as we give good price. But even taking that into account lot of people underbluff with small sizings from my experience.

So in this river spot we can get imo huge amount of less than trips hands to fold versus average opponent with 1/3 pot bet.