[Nate tha' Great]

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Nate,

I just tell you how I'd played your cards, I have no idea if that is cool, but as reference I play 30/60live often, not that it makes me more accurate though:

Preflop: Why 3betting? No one else is in the pot and you don't have position. Just call and take a look at the flop. If it comes like that you can put way more pressure on him, by check-raising the flop etc.

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The reason why I like to 3-bet before the flop is so that I don't make an incorrect fold. For example, suppose that he opened with AJ and the flop comes KQx, or he opened with KQ and the flop comes AJx, or he opened with 88 and you get either of those boards. It's very difficult for me to call a bet on a board like that, even though I'm ahead. Coversely, I may sometimes cause him to make an incorrect fold if the board comes right. I also get some information about the strength of his hand based on whether he caps or not.

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However, you threebet the preflop and now there's a turned ace with three diamonds. Your turn, and I say, fire another barrel and hope he has something like KQs (not diamonds). I am sure if he has no diamond he's likely to drop a couple of hands, like JJ,QQ,KQ. Even if he has AK and the K is no diamond he may drop the hand. I don't think he has a flush already, otherwise he mostly would have raised you on the flop for a freecard.

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Yeah, I think betting out and folding to a raise is exactly the right play. The pot is too big to check-fold and too small to worry about having to call down a semi-bluff raise with a singleton diamond.

Now, I didn't play it that way in the actual hand, but that's because I'm an idiot.