Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

I think I may have gone overboard here. I like my line post-flop, but pre-flop was a bit odd. There's backstory:

The pre-flop limper is like a 35% VPIP donkey. The button here is a player against whom I'm playing two tables. At the other table, we had tangled in one hand heads-up where he had check-raised the flop and had very quickly mucked to one turn raise. He seems like a pretty decent tag, and may well be one of you all. He's 14/9/3.15 over about 250 hands but he was losing over those hands which may explain the lowish pfr. So his stats look right in line and he can fold a decent hand.

My basic thought is that my nemesis here is trying to isolate the donkey, and might be doing so with a very wide variety of hands. I feel I have too much of a hand to fold, and prefer to either force the donkey to put in more bets where I probably have an equity edge on him, or to get the hand heads-up with iniative in a padded pot where I may well be ahead. Too ambitious? (My thought is this reraise is automatic with AJ... what about AT and A9?)

Party Poker 5/10 Hold'em (9 handed) converter

Preflop: Deranged is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Deranged 3-bets</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP2 folds, Button calls.

Flop: (8 SB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Deranged bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, Deranged calls.

Turn: (6 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Deranged bets</font>, Button calls.

River: (8 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Deranged bets</font>, Button calls.

Final Pot: 10 BB

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

i dunno i like it. i'd definetly see him turning over AK or AQ probably with a diamond in hand a good portion of the time. he could have a smaller pair too. i guess you're certaintly in the right a large portion of the time here the only question is what is the better line to take.

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

Postflop looks good, but 3-betting from the SB with A9s seems kinda bleh to me. You're putting in 8 to win 22 which is like 2.75:1 with a good, but not great hand. But you're out of position. I guess its +EV is you know Bttn is raising light here and will fold quietly is he misses. If Bttn is the kind to defend tenaciously then I'd say 3-betting is bad.

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

I like it.

Provided the button has a relativly generous raise-distribution i think 3beting is correct. (And I guess a lot of good TAGs would consider this a raise or fold situation.)

Did some pokerstoveing:
Hand 1: 37.3424 % 35.19% 02.19% { 66+, A2s+, K7s+, Q9s+, J9s+, A8o+, K9o+, QTo+ }
Hand 2: 36.2042 % 33.19% 03.05% { A9s }
Hand 3: 26.4535 % 24.66% 01.82% { 99-44, A9s-A2s, KTs-K2s, Q8s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 64s+, 54s, A9o-A2o, K9o+, QTo+, JTo }

Or if the limper folds
equity (%) win (%) tie (%)
Hand 1: 49.1926 % 45.94% 03.40% { 66+, A2s+, K7s+, Q9s+, J9s+, A8o+, K9o+, QTo+ }
Hand 2: 50.8074 % 47.56% 03.40% { A9s }

/Bjorn

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

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I like it.

Provided the button has a relativly generous raise-distribution i think 3beting is correct. (And I guess a lot of good TAGs would consider this a raise or fold situation.)

Did some pokerstoveing:
Hand 1: 37.3424 % 35.19% 02.19% { 66+, A2s+, K7s+, Q9s+, J9s+, A8o+, K9o+, QTo+ }
Hand 2: 36.2042 % 33.19% 03.05% { A9s }
Hand 3: 26.4535 % 24.66% 01.82% { 99-44, A9s-A2s, KTs-K2s, Q8s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 64s+, 54s, A9o-A2o, K9o+, QTo+, JTo }


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you are giving the button WAY too big of a range of hands, he has a PFR that is 12% less than this range.

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

Please stop using PokerStove to make preflop decisions; please realize that there is a lot more to Hold'em than just preflop equity.

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

I like your preflop play.

I would maybe consider 3-betting the flop here - its very likely we are still ahead in this spot. If it gets capped then I probably just call down unless a fourth diamond hits.

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

I like it all.

Will

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

i like everything, but my question is on the river: what do we think villain would be folding/calling with here to make this an +EV bet?

Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans
 

I like your preflop fine.

What was your logic for choosing a stop-n-go on the flop vs a 3-bet?