You're Not Going to Like This One

[Catt]

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"King high with a gutshot? Hell yeah!"

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You may have been a bit delusional, too, since you have K-high and a backdoor draw. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

I think the three-bet is fine -- I don't want BB tagging along unless he is seriously bad-passive, predictable, and indiscriminately calling raises in the BB.

Against guys like these you want to get to SD cheaply unless you actually hit -- this is the one sort of guy where I could possibly three-bet pre-flop and ck-cl the flop since he's almost always raising me, his raise means nothing in terms of narrowing his range, he's never folding, and I don't want to 3-bet K-high here. Theses guys pay off your good hands, and they showdown J6o or whatever enough so that if you're playing a SD-able hand (and K high is against him) just get to SD and don't push them unless you hit or you see he's adjusting to your strategy.

If you've been folding to hinm a lot in blind steals (say he is CO and you are BB) consider limiting your defenses to two classes of hands that are a bit different from your normal steal range (1) SD worthy; or (2) no SD value but many, many ways to hit. Compared to your normal range, the first category gets larger and the second gets smaller. The idea is you either are seeing a SD (almost no matter what falls) or you are ditching on the flop depending on texture.