Blinds 800-1,600 100
I make it 3.2k on cutoff. button calls. everyone else folds.
flop J-10-3 rainbow. I make it half pot. Villain calls.
turn 9. I make it half pot again. he reraises 2x. What should I do now?
Many competent players are advised to analyze the game of villains in the spirit: "What would I do in his place."
If this villain showed an ad-hoc game throughout the game, then you can consider him equal to you and evaluate his actions from the point of view of your strategy.
What would I do in place of a villain?
if I have a
KQ, I will call your half-pot bet. Because I have the nuts, I'm not afraid of the imaginary full-house. But if you bet 1/3 of the pot, I would have raised 2.5-3x.
If I had
78, I would call all three streets. But on the river I wouldn’t play the stack if the effective stacks were huge.
What hands would I raise on the turn?
33,
TT,
99 to protect yourself from hands like AK AQ KJ QJ QT
J8 8T can still miss something.
I want to note that I never raise 2x
On his side, the game on the turn looks like a semi-bluff. I am in such cases, if I don’t have the exact readings that the villain only plays with the nuts, I will call if the effective stacks are big and shove if I’m already tied to the bank.
I am not a professional, so you shouldn’t perceive me as a competent player