Vilain Limp in the Buton,i made a ROL in the bb an vilain donk 1/3 pot, i had 2 pair so i raise all in,it was a good muve? or should i call and leave him keap donking?
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Hi there freddydr87! Thank you for sharing your hands with the CardsChat community. This is a very nice hand, congratulations!
Preflop action:
It is awesome when we see some limper in position and we have a decent range for raising or even 3betting light BB x BTN, because, in the long run, we are going to make a lot of blinds preflop which is paramount for tournament survival. And, of course, there are the antes, which turns our raises of BB x SB, BB x BTN and sometimes BB x CO even more profitable. Thus, your hand is a very good example, thank you for sharing it.
I like your sizing preflop too, because when you raise small, players will have
odds+position for calling, and we know how often limpers use to call preflop raisors (60-70% times/range).
Flop
IMO both checking and betting are correct lines. Although I believe that checking might induce some bluffs from the BTN. But the line is similar, we are just checking flop to either check-raise or check-call.
Now, given the preflop action, we are going to have in our range all the AA, TT and 33, and Villain Button will have none of these (it called our 3bet IP, otherwise it would be 4betting or even jamming, at least AA and TT). If we bet AA, TT and 33 here 100% of times we are not giving V the chance of
bluffing us. (As I said, both lines seems correct to me, check-raise and check-call).
Yes, when we 3bet we also have all the AT and A3 that could be doing it in a situation of BB 3bet vs BTN. On the other side, V can have , KJ, KT, QJ, QT, AK, AQ, AJ, A9, Ax, 54, any pair, etc.
When we bet too much in the flop we are making a decent part of V's range fold with all of its bluffs included. The same goes for when we check-raise JAM the flop, knowing that we have all the strong value combos and villain has only draws and weaker hands. Remember, we have all the AA, TT, 33, A3 and AT, so our range is simply crushing this flop.
I would advocate for a mini-raise for its donk, making the V believe that we have just an weak ace, or a Tx, etc. The call is not the worse thing in the world, but it gives a lot of excelent odds to V to realize its
equity for free in the turn, or at a very cheap price and see the river again, for a fair price, or have odds to float us out of position with some semi-bluffs and put us in a very awkward spot.
I like the check-raise, I would only do smaller size.
Well played!
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
