Is an overcard on the turn a good spot to double barrel in microstakes?

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roddy1977

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When researching good spots to double barrel, I've read several times that an overcard to the board on the turn is usually one of those spots. For example, on a flop of 942 rainbow, conventional wisdom seems to suggest that a Q or J on the turn would represent a scare card to my opponent if he my called my cbet on the flop with a 9 or 55-88.

But in microstakes, specifically 6max 10NL, is it not the case that many players would call a flop cbet holding overcards? Particularly if they recognise that it is a dry board which is just as likely to have missed me as it has them? Obviously the situation is very villain-dependent, but as a general rule of thumb against an unknown opponent, is it advisable to view a turn overcard favourably in this situation at 10NL? :)
 
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"Stakes don't matter, player does" (against whom you intend to double barrel).

Also depends on what your image is, stack sizes also do matter.
It's really speculative i think if the opponent is unknown since you do not have any information to decide if to double barrel or not.

I would say do what your instinct says in such situations. Because you are gambling on what kind of a player villain will turn out to be if you double barrel.

I personally like to be aggressive if i don't have any information. :)
 
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+1 rafael, and no need to double barrel without a nice equity if you get called.
 
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At 10nl you will get a reasonable amount of people floating your cbet on 942 rainbow so if you are prepared to c bet you should be happy to double barrel a high % of the time.
 
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Micro stakes are a very value-oriented game with not much bluffing going on. The reason for that is there are so many loose passive calling station fish.

In certain spots, on a dry board, if you are the original opener and villain shows weakness, a delayed bluff on a A or K works because villain will put the A or K in your PRF raising range. Other times, it may not work at all.

Like you and other people said, it is situational and villain dependent. So many variables are in play that sometimes overcards are a good spot to bluff; other times they are not.
 
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depends if you can validly represent it based on how you've played your hand so far.
 
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