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Message: [QUOTE="gustav197poker, post: 6183586, member: 393841"] The V aperture is a bit small. Let's keep in mind that doing the conversion represents only 2 straddles. That accounts for a wider range that matches your description, that of a possibly competent V. When faced with that UTG range, you have a bit of a thin hand when there is one player left on the calling BTN. In this case it is best to collect the information of the player in position (BU). Since we are blocking half of the AQs combos, in this case we could 3-bet when we think that BTN does not pose a threat to us. Calling is a bit marginal, because we are somehow isolating ourselves with hands that play with better implied odds in postflop. When UTG calls preflop, many premium hands are removed from their range, leaving those that could interfere with BTN's wide range. For example: the medium and low suited connectors. As expected, the player in BTN folds most of the time in these places and we are in a duel against UTG. The flop comes down coordinated. The check line seems a bit passive to me. We must consider that the times we do not have an ace, we want to bet on protection. Think of the hands as QQ; KK. They want to increase fold equity now and not give too much headroom to postflop play. On the turn V makes a 2/3 pot bet. With this he is balancing the times that he represent strong values. But we are at the top of our range. And a competent V will know. Because there is a high probability that we have an ace, that we have played it slow on the flop/turn hoping to induce polarized bets. Here the characteristic of the villain is very important. If you think he is a good player he will make a bigger bet to try to represent bluffs that have some equity (flush draws) and that you can call wider on the river when they fail. But you have the Ac, which drastically reduces your villain's bluff range and we conclude that UTG might still have some bluffs, but they won't have a worse hand than yours among their values. Finally on the river the overbet ends up revealing the information that we assume, the V has of you. Obviously he bets against an ace, but the best way to bet against an ace is to have the absolute nuts. Therefore I would take a deep breath and fold in this place. Greetings. [/QUOTE]

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