10 thoughts on “Cash Game Poker Strategy: Should I Call His Preflop 3-bet!?”

1. I actually like your call pre-flop there in position. You're definitely getting paid, like you said, if it hits hard. These are the types of hands that I like to get paid on, way more so than premium pre-flop holdings. These plays also have the added benefit of putting "ABC Poker Players" on tilt, lol. And like you also mentioned, if it misses, its an easy fold. The challenge, however, would be if you instead hit a heavy draw. When you flop a heavy draw on these types of hands, things can get tricky, because your opponent is likely firing out bombs to protect their hand. If you flop a flush draw, a straight draw, or both, you're likely to continue in the hand. If the turn and river end up being blanks, then its a difficult hand to win. Bluffs will get little credibility and they still might not fold even if they believed you somewhat. You're going to be putting in a lot of chips to see those turn and river cards. So the question is what do you do in that type of circumstance? That's the type of hand you need to have a dynamic/flexible plan for.

2. next time do the same with 72o

3. Like most other respondents I dont like the initial call of 8 BB preflop. Which by the way was already a 3-bet. 96 suited is simply to trashy a hand to justify getting involved preflop. However after making this mistake and facing the incredibly small 4-bet to 22BB, your logic is kind of correct. If everyone else fold, you are getting roughly 4:1 on a call, so equity wise you are priced in even against an overpair. And much more so against AK. However you need to be REALLY sure, that the two guys behind you will almost always fold and certainly never 5-bet in this situation. Since you should not have called the initial 8 BB preflop, you should not have found yourself in this situation in the first place. And therefore its more important to focus on the first decision than the later ones.

4. By the way I also think, KK played incredibly poorly preflop. When the action got to him, there was already 187$ in the pot, and he only asked people to put into another 70$ to see the flop. If you are going to raise, you should always do it to a size, where people will make a mistake by calling you with a worse hand. And while 110$ would be a good size against a single player, who put in 40$, it is certainly not enough against 4.

   He gave everybody 4:1 to suck out on him with basically any two cards. Which is exactly, what happened. If he go to 200$ instead, he likely pick up the pot. And if someone call, it’s a 1 SPR pot. So its an extremely easy and profitable jam on any flop, which dodge the dreaded ace. And if he want to avoid that difficult spot, there is nothing really wrong with simply jamming preflop and be done with it, when there is so much money in the pot already. Maybe everyone fold, but that’s fine. He still pick up 187$, which is a huge increase to his stack of 670$.

5. This guy watched too much High Stakes Poker.

6. You shouldn't call his Preflop 3-bet. If you want to be profitable at this limit, just NARROW your range. Avoid mistakes.

7. The worst part of the hand was the 3 bet raise of 70 into 190 pot with the original raiser and 3 callers behind from Villain.

8. i always lose to player that play this kind of hand , if i am villain i will 3 bet to pot size or near to pot size if this hero still call in and hit it i give it to him, but too bad for me a lot of time my villain hit it.

9. move the donk label two seats to the left

10. fold!!! you just got lucky. .horrible.

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