10 thoughts on “Poker Strategy: 3 Betting Suited Connector Makes a Straight”

1. Cool one.

2. nice needle at the end after the call…..

3. I remember back when it would never occur to someone to bluff AdQ there. Now everyone who watches YouTube for poker training might do this. Game’s getting harder.

4. Thx 4 the share

5. Great blocker bet and a fish call for this much money, not exploitative not gto.

6. Superb 👍🏼

7. Great video. I really enjoy your content. It's crazy to think how much I have to learn even after all of these years… I had never heard of MDF, though your explanation makes sense. (I think) But doesn't that concept only make sense in theory?…For example, what if your opponent bets 50% pot ONLY when he has the nuts (because he wants a call) AND your opponent ONLY bets 100% when he's bluffing (because he wants a fold.) Then you'd fold 100% and call 100% when MDF says 67% and 50%. (Maybe it's a bad example.)

   But looking at this hand with the action of Tony (raises, calls 3-bet, check-calls flop, check-calls turn, over-bet jams river.)

   Why? Why turn a bluff catcher into a bluff? His hand looks so much like Ax, up to this point maybe even a flopped set, but his river bet is representing a flush only. He's not doing this with two pairs, sets, or straights, right? His bet is polarized – It's either a flush, or pair/air. So again, what is he trying to get you to fold that has him beat.
   Aren't you:

   ALWAYS CHECKING BEHIND
   – All of your hands that have showdown value + beat him. (AK, 99, 97s, AT, etc)
   – All of your hands that have showdown value + loses. (AJ, KK, etc)

   SOMETIMES BLUFFING/ CHECKING MUCKING
   – Hands like JTs or T8s or 86s (if the river didn't make your hand.)

   SOMETIMES BETTING / CHECKING SCOOPING
   – with low flushes + straights

   ALWAYS BETTING
   – with the nut flush

   WHEN FACING A 50% BET
   – You fold your sometimes bluff hands (JTs, T8s)
   – Sometimes call/fold the hands Tony was already beating (AJ, KK, etc)
   – Call hands that have Tony beat straights, AT, 99, 77, AA, flushes
   – Always call/ sometimes raise flushes

   WHEN FACING 100% BET
   – You fold all bluffs
   – Fold your range of hands where you were losing to Tony anyway.
   – Sometimes fold/call hands that you win AK, straights, two pairs, sets, etc
   – Call with flushes

   …with that said…and with his range being polarized….
   Can he ever have a flush here when betting 100%? Wouldn't a check be ideal for his entire range?
   Because the action should go check/check on most scenarios.
   But if he checks and you bet, you're range now becomes polarized to bluffs, straights, flushes.
   And he has the Ace of diamonds, which makes it an easier check-call cuz it makes it removes your always betting range of the nut flush.

   (I feel like this is making less sense as I keep going. but I've come this far.)

   In the end what I'm trying to say … Tony's best option is to plan to check-call. Because a big chunk of your range is checking behind. Some of which he beats that wouldn't call a 50% bet. Some of which he loses to that would call a 50% bet. If he checks and you bet, ti's never going to be sets, 2 pairs, etc. If he checks and you bet, you have bluff, flush, or straight.

   To a 50% bet, all hands that AQ beats fold. All hands that have beat AQ call.
   To a 100% bet, all the hands that AQ beat fold. And the majority of your range also folds.

   Meaning if he had a flush he wouldn't bet 100% because there is a small part of your range that can call.
   If he had a flush he'd bet 50% or check to extract more money from you.

   I dunno – I'm lost now. Nevermind.

8. Sick hand analysis Bart, I think villain should be 4-betting due to the fact that you could certainly be 3-betting him light and the dead money from the sb cold call. AQo oop 3 ways plays okay-ish.

9. LOL at the oxymoronic title: as if strategy has to do with the luck required to make a straight

10. “I’d prefer 78s to 68s” very insightful

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