Big Blind defense
First or second orbit. None of these players look familiar/do data.
QTs is sometimes in my 3 bet range, but I felt we could flat here pretty comfortably.
Yatahay Network - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
UTG: 68.4 BB
MP: 106.2 BB
CO: 97 BB
BTN: 35 BB
SB: 149.4 BB
Hero (BB): 101.4 BB
SB posts SB 0.4 BB,
Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has T
♦ Q
♠
fold,
fold,
fold,
BTN raises to 2.8 BB,
fold,
Hero calls 1.8 BB
Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) A
♣ 6
♥ Q
♥
Hero checks, BTN checks
Turn: (6 BB, 2 players) 4
♠
Hero bets 3 BB, BTN calls 3 BB
River: (12 BB, 2 players) 9
♠
Hero bets 5.2 BB,
BTN raises to 14 BB,
fold
BTN wins 21.4 BB
Hello teh_colonel_saigon good morning, how you doing? Thank you very much for sharing your
hands with the CardsChat community! It is a great hand!
What is our BB calling range vs BTN?
Let's assume BTN is opening 22.47% of hands:
22+, A2s+, K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo
We know that this particular player in the BTN is most likely to be a recreative (35 BB effective stack).
We know that with our QTo we have 39.11%
equity for calling versus 2.8x raise. We must pay 1.8 blinds for a pot of 6 blinds: we need to be right only 33% of times when we call here and we are right a little bit more, (39.11%), okay.
Nonetheless, without being too much candid, I would advocate this is not a profitable call, this is a clear fold spot: to have
odds for calling here we should not only consider the brute
pot odds, but we must consider how much Villain has behind to play postflop for the times we hit our hand.
We see that BTN started the hand with only 35 blinds which makes our calling here totally not profitable. We are calling preflop to fight for a stack of barely 33 blinds later? If the player in the BTN had at least 50 BB effective stack, I will think a lot before calling down from the Big Blind.
QT is the kind of hand that I will either 3bet or fold because it is a weak hand and has a very poor playability postflop. But, how can we 3bet a player with only 30 blinds left in its stack? If we 3bet here we must be ready for a jam, ready for calling a jam, and we don't want to call a jam with QTo.
At the micros we simply cannot cold call very wide from the blinds, even in a spot of BTN x BB. The 3bet light preflop is much more profitable:
A) By 3betting light preflop we can take down a very good pot without paying any rake
B) By 3betting light preflop we avoid to be overplayed postflop, because once we 3bet we have the initiative, and the better hands are on our range.
I elect to defend the big blind by cold calling versus smaller raises, such as 2.5x and 2x, coming from Late Position. I also like to call with the same hands that I could be making a 3bet preflop. The villain should have at minimum 50 BB stack for me to think about cold calling or cold 3betting.
Give that you called preflop, you lost the initiative and should have most dominated hands. I would simply check-fold this. When I hit a Qx in the flop it has no value because it is dominated by QJo for example. There was an ace in the flop and we know recreative players never fold their Ax combos BTN x BB.
I understand your line of thought here, when BTN checks it seems a good spot for bluffing, but we have a value hand! IF we bet our value hand we are turning it into a
bluff. If we get re-raised we can never continue and then, our value hand lost its value. Check, check and check and sometimes your QT will be ahead of villain's opening range.
When you bet in a scenario of missed C-bet flop you are just giving rope for your opponent to hang you.
I hope this helps you! If you have any questions, ideias, comments, please, do not hesitate to say/ask!
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
