$Freeroll NLHE MTT: Bluffing & bluff sizing?

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party poker CC freeroll. Any input?? I used a delayed cbet. Something that I learned today. Sizings are what I'm not sure of

partypoker - 40/80 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: 93.06 BB (VPIP: 9.45, PFR: 8.86, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, hands: 278)
UTG: 20.52 BB (VPIP: 27.78, PFR: 13.89, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 72)
UTG+1: 30.91 BB (VPIP: 6.25, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 34)
MP: 51.6 BB (VPIP: 26.92, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 106)
MP+1: 26.36 BB (VPIP: 21.78, PFR: 13.86, 3Bet Preflop: 4.55, Hands: 101)
MP+2: 72.37 BB (VPIP: 30.16, PFR: 14.52, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 63)
CO: 37.5 BB
Hero (BTN): 71.8 BB
SB: 36.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Kh Jd
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 4.5 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 2.5 BB

Flop : (10.5 BB, 2 players) 7h 4c 6h
CO checks, Hero checks

Turn : (10.5 BB, 2 players) 9d
CO checks, Hero bets 5 BB, CO calls 5 BB

River : (20.5 BB, 2 players) 7d
CO checks,

here's what I did. Highlight to view
Hero bets 10.5 BB, CO calls 10.5 BB

Hero shows Kh Jd (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 43%, Flop 24%, Turn 14%)

CO shows As 5d (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 57%, Flop 76%, Turn 86%)

CO wins 41.5 BB
 
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I dont like the preflop sizing. You should make it around 6x. River bet really doesn't make sense. I feel like all hands beating you are calling. But just my opinion.
 
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+1 to above, 3Bing to 2.25x the raise size playing 37bb eff is a mistake in today's game. I'm making it 5.5bb minimum here and closer to 6bb.

Flop is a bet. With KJ we can fold out some better hands and just give up on turns we don't connect with. Hands like AK/AQ will play much better as checks here.

Check turn. You have no equity and pretty much no good river barreling cards and this board favors your opponent's range.

River is a check, you rep zero value hands here other than maybe AA and V has a made hand here when x/c turn. If you're bluffing this far up in your range, then you are massively overbluffing here because the # of value combos you have here will be next to none compared to the large # of bluff combos you have.

River sizing regardless of your hand, if you choose to bet, should be 30-40% pot or a jam (around 1.4x pot).
 
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Bluffing in freerolls, unless you have a good read on a player, is just giving chips away.

Except for the times when you bluff three streets with K high and find out they were calling with Q high and no draws.
 
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Am I the only one wondering, why CO stats aren't Included??? I have no Input as It would help to have stats and/or reads Included. Yet just by looking at the hand, here Is my thoughts.

A) 3bet pre (Bigger to either 5.5-6x).

B) When CO calls OOP and on that flop, once they check, why are we checking this flop? I mean, checking this board, what cards are we hoping to continue on turn with? A/K/Q/J (Fair enough), but continuing on the 9 (When It completes the straights), makes no sense correct? Now once V calls, and river pairs the board, after you checked flop/lead turn (Which helps them out more than you) and they called, why In world are you again gonna barrel on that river? Unless you have a certain read on this villain that makes It more likely that they would fold to a 65%-100% river bet and/or A.I play on a bluff on that river card, I can't advocate leading this river, that's just me though (And I do some crazy ass stuff):D
 
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Yeah, not the right spot for delayed c-bet. One of the assumptions we make, while making the play, is that the stacks are shallow and the field has opened up their range as a result. Also, its hard to have a positive expectation from that play in a soft field.

As far as the bet-sizing is concerned, depends on the field actually, but in general somewhere around 1/2 pot on the turn and a push (jam) on the river. And yeah, as many have pointed out, at the very least, 3-bet 2.5x the original raise (even in mid- or late-stages).

But Kudos for trying though! :icon_thum
 
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Yeah the 3bet was way smaller. I felt it right as I clicked it. I guess I just scrolled the mouse too light, lol
Thanks for the inputs
abdi, CO stats are a puzzle to me as well. The PT4 has been acting very weird at party poker.
 
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