100nl hand against 2p2 reg.

Villain is a solid reg who is capable of making moves. We both do a fair bit of 3 betting eachother esspecially in steal situations.
He runs 16/14/7

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB ($95)
UTG ($102.50)
UTG+1 ($99.30)
MP1 ($6.90)
MP2 ($94.20)
MP3 ($100)
CO ($197)
Hero ($93.70)
SB ($116.65)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Ahttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, 9http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif.
5 folds, CO raises to $4, Hero raises to $11, 2 folds, CO calls $7.

Flop: ($23.50) Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $18, CO raises to $186, Hero folds.

Final Pot: $59.50

He is very capable of having a big hand here like AK but could have a lower pair or air.

Was this cbet bad? Anyone calling this shove? I laid it down but it felt gross.

as played i think he is trying to rep the fd and get looked up.

Nevermind.... looking back it was a call, marginal but a call. I suck at pot odds sometimes.

call

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Originally Posted by thizzSantaCruz

as played i think he is trying to rep the fd and get looked up.

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I thought the exact same thing when I first saw it.

At the table my thought process would be as follows. I'm calling about $65 in a pot of about $105 which means I need to win a little more than 35% of the time to break even. My flush draw will hit about 36% of the time. Villain's likely range gives him 4 outs to a lock hand (both PPs and Kx have 4 outs to a boat or quads), giving him an extra 3-4% or so in equity, so this is close to breakeven on both a call and a fold. Then I call since I gain information in knowing what his hand is here and if I draw out him then he may play worse in the future.

Looking at it now, you're calling about $64.70 in a pot of about $106.20 which requires 37.9% equity to break even. Throwing this out there so other people who read this thread won't have to do the calculations themselves, but against a king we have about 25% equity, and against JJ we have about 40.4% equity.

If villain only has AA, QQ or JJ, we've got 39.0% equity. If we add AKo, it drops to 36.7%. If we add QcTc it drops to 38.80%. If we add KQo it drops to 35.6%. If we add TT it raises to 36.6%. It seems very close to me, but after looking at some ranges I think it's breakeven enough to warrant a call for the reasons noted above.

Reads could obviously throw this one either way though.

didnt realize CO had hero covered here either. call.

Due to your stack size, history, and villian's likely style vs a half stack you're against stuff like QQ JJ more than expected. Villian could have JJ and simply just plan on calling pf and c/r a lot of flops.

I'm not 3betting pf, though. 3betting with marginal hands is what you wanna do with a lot behind so you don't become committed with marginal hands while maximizing FE, and if you're 3betting a lot then you have actually less FE since it's easier for villian to stack off with a worse hand but not necessarily worse than yours.

But I really have no clue how to half stack. See what Fnord says.