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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6149524, member: 397965"] Preflop I think, its fine to to a combination of calling and 3-betting here. Your sizing looks fine as well. When he open this small, I would put him on a pretty wide range, and I would also expect, that a lot of that range continue to a 3-bet. This is sort of the whole point in opening so small. Its almost the same as limping into the pot, and it allow him to see more flops and not being pushed off his equity preflop while still maintaining some fold equity against the players in the blinds. So maybe he dont have hands like QTo, but QTs, KTs, JTs, all those sort of hands are certainly in his range going to the flop as well as most if not all pocket pairs. Flop I lean towards going for a small C-bet like 30-40% pot with my entire range on this board. Keep the initiative and sometimes take it down right there. I can get on board with checking also though, because I dont think, you hand is good for 3 streets of value, and it gives you a strong hand to use as a bluff catcher on later streets. Turn Obvoiusly the plan was to call a bet from him, but when he overbets, its completely reasonable to stop and reevaluate. Its essentially the same as getting check-raised, because it recreates the threat of a very large pot, which was exactly, what you were trying to prevent by checking back the flop. Right off the bat I am sure, everyone can agree, he is not taking this sizing for value with a hand worse than AQ. So your hand is now a bluffcatcher. If you want to play GTO poker, its probably a hand, that should call now and then fold on most rivers. However there is absolutely nothing wrong with playing a more exploitative style and trying to figure out, if you think, this is an underbluffed or overbluffed line. Its been around 2 years, since I played any significant amount of hands at Zoom, but just seeing this overbet scream value to me. I think, it was Bart Hanson from Crushlivepoker, who recently told, he had been playing some 100NL Zoom during a trip outside the USA (cant play Stars from USA), and he kind of giggled about it, when he said, that the regs basically always had it, when the pot got big. This was in a 100NL game, and you are playing 5NL. In theory the guy is supposed to have maybe as many as 50% bluffs, when he take this sizing, because his bluffs have equity. But in reality he probably have 10% bluffs or no bluffs at all. He either hit it on the turn with 88 or QTs, or he was planning to check-raise the flop, and since that did not work out, now he is trying an alternative line to stack you by overbetting both turn and river. If this analysis is correct, then there is absoutely no reason, why you need to pay him off. [/QUOTE]

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