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Message: [QUOTE="c0rnBr34d, post: 5947956, member: 394557"] I don't think your pre flop 3B was large at all. You made a 3x raise which should be the minimum sizing you use in position with no dead money in the pot. When you're out of position and have a caller in between this 3x raise is just too small. You're giving the initial raiser a great price which in tern gives the caller a great price. If you have a "pot" button I would start there for 3B sizing and you can adjust up from there based on the situation (position, V ranges, stats / reads, etc). A pot sized bet here would be about 13 BB (3 x raise plus the 4BB of dead money from your BB and the SB call). And being OOP is a good reason to round it up to 14-15BB. If V has a very low fold to 3B stat I may go even larger. The flop is not ideal but another common leak in the micros is over folding to cbets in 3B pots. I actually prefer the lead here since we can get credit for big Aces and our 3B size should have priced in a wider range. I seriously doubt we will move anyone off an Ace with a single 1/2 pot cbet though. Since there aren't any flush draws and we don't expect many straight draws I would rather bet flop then give up unless we improve because it's entirely possible they are calling with suited broadways or smaller pocket pairs. Most of the time one of them will have an Ace but the times we take it down makes up for the times they call a cbet and we give up in my opinion. In 3B pots you don't even have to cbet as large as 1/2 pot. You can shave a few BBs off and even go down to 1/3 pot on dry textures like this with no flush draw depending on how Vs react. Realistically if we did have AQ+ we would want to bet small as well to keep them in. So balancing that with our KK helps us win more when we have it and lose less when we are weaker. Then on the turn we can continue with our sets strong aces and draws while pot controlling with checks with our big pairs with showdown value. [/QUOTE]

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