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Your flop bet looks weak given how many people saw the flop. It works if you want people to put you on AK when you hold aces / kings, but not the other way around unless you're playing with people who have extensive experience of how you play high pocket pairs post flop.
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a 2/3 bet here was very strong for this table. the thinking player is not on the level of "he bet 2/3 the pot with this many limpers" he thought more along the lines of "he's bluffing." villain took it as "too strong" for some reason.
in villains position who calls the push? i put myself in his spot during the hand and i would probably fold the threes right away, but if i thought he was bluffing and capable of folding i'd raise the amount he did but fold to the push.
EDIT: Thanks for commenting so far, I appreciate it. I'm not discreditin any advice, I just want so in depth discussion because I find this situation very interesting. I still don't know what I think of my play, but I know I don't like villain's. Calling down when you beat ONLY a bluff can't be +EV Here's an example:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (9 handed)
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Button ($20.5)
SB ($34.25)
Hero ($23)
UTG ($17.7)
UTG+1 ($5.5)
MP1 ($26.27)
MP2 ($52.64)
MP3 ($43.15)
CO ($31.75)
Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.1.
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2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to $0.75</font>, <font color="#666666">
2 folds</font>, CO calls $0.75, <font color="#666666">
2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $1.75</font>, MP1 calls $1.25, CO folds.
Flop: ($4.85) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $4</font>, MP1 calls $4.
Turn: ($12.85) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $7</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to $14</font>, Hero folds.
Final Pot: $33.85
The only thing I beat there is a bluff. Villain is rated a fish after 50 hands. He shows AK