99 facing 3-bet

[dave44]

SB is 38/27/2.7 after a fair amount of hands and has been 3-betting more frequently than most.

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

Flop: (10 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets</font>, CO folds, <font color="orange">Hero?</font>

What's the plan here?

[xLukex]

I call and raise a safe, non [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] turn card.

He may just have the A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] or, more likely, is overprotecting his small blind.

[GetThere1Time]

Bleh I dont know. You say he's been 3-betting a lot of hands but even then this is an ugly flop for you. I don't think a fold is crazy here. You may be beat and even when you're not you're in trouble against a hand such as Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. However, if I decided to see the river with this hand I'm calling the flop and raising the turn to take a free showdown.

[dave44]

Yea I was thinking afterwards raising a safe turn was the way to go. Thanks

[JrJordan]

I concur. By safe turn card though I would raise any non-heart. He can't 3-bet you even if he hits an overcard, and then you can take a free showdown.

[Jeff W]

If he reraises the top 11.2% of hands pre flop:

{ 77+, A9s+, KTs+, QTs+, ATo+, KQo }

Then on the flop we have 35% equity.

Equity for some turn cards:

2h 28%
Ah 15%
9h 63%
Ad 12%
2d 40%
Qd 27%
Kd 45%

On the turn, we're going to get 7:1 odds on a call and 4:1 effective odds on a calldown. I think it's reasonable to call any turn card where our equity is 25% or greater--25% instead of 20% because he probably won't always bluff the river.

Our equity is pretty slim in some of these cases, but I would raise the more robust cards like Kd or 9d, even 9h.