3betting light

[blah730235]

MP1 & CO are TAGs
sb & bb are tight
Hero table image is nit

.01/.02 NL full ring holdem all stacks ~ 100bbs

Hero is on the button and holds
2 folds, MP1 raises $0.10, 2 folds, CO calls $0.10, hero raises $0.30, 2 folds, MP1 calls, CO calls

***FLOP***
MP1 checks, CO checks, Hero bet $0.60, MP1 folds, CO folds

[Damo_1]

Don't really like it. Most TAG's don't open up their range until the hijack or CO positions so I'd prefer just to call with a speculative hand and the button. Also, MP1 has opened for 5bb, which is a considerable size. Is it standard for this game and limit? However if you do try to squeeze light here you have to reraise by at least the pot - which would be to $0.53+. If you want to rep a big hand play it like one and utilise the fold equity of a big 3bet. You wouldn't put in a small reraise withh AA and give you opponents a cheap chance to outflop you?

As played I think I check as i doubt either player is going to fold AQ or KQ after a weak PF reraise, and your hand can't stand a C/R. If you bet the best you can hope for is to get pocket pairs 99-JJ to fold (and obv hands you are beating) so taking a free card seems best to me.

[blah730235]

All good points but i'm a little confused as to 'betting the size of the pot preflop' the blinds make $0.03 and the $0.10 bet & $0.10 call make the pot $0.23

Also opening for 5bb happens alot at these stakes I wouldn't read to much into that.

[Soultwister]

A pot sized raise is calculated by adding up the amount in the pot + the amount bet raised in the round + the amount you have to call, counted twice. That would mean that a pot sized reraise here would be .23 + .10 + .10 + .10 for a total of $.53.

An easier way to calculate it but which does not give correct results when the pot has already been reraised before you is 3x raise size + money already in the pot, which comes down to .30 + .23 here, for the same result.

The problem here with 100BB stacks and the large initial raise, combined with the limit and the absolute value of the money here, makes this a pretty bad spot to 3bet. First of all, people may be bad enough to call with hands like AQ/AJ/TT in this spot, second, the pot will be so large on the flop that even if you flop something of a draw or pair you got 0% fold equity, which those hands need to make them profitable (or good implied odds which are only possible when there's lots of money behind).

In short, 3betting here is not a good option, the large open size combined with the standard 100BB effective stack sizes makes the best possible play quite easy: fold preflop.

[emmapeel]

If I'm trying a 3 bet or squeeze play with a weakish hand I need to have a reason for doing this. Suited connectors and small pairs won't hit often so I would need to think that I can get my opponents to fold more often.

In the hand I would need to think that I can get both opponents to fold a good amount of time to try the squeeze play here. I think I would re-raise a bit bigger too.

After representing so much strength pre-flop it's worth using that to make a bet on the flop. We may even be ahead here but have outs if we are not. Again, I'm betting a bit bigger here though.

EP

[blah730235]

Looks like i've had a huge leak in my raise amount. I never really went through and researched what the proper amount to raise was. Much thanks. Haha should be interesting to see if my bb/100 will increase in the hands to come.