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Hey everyone,

Villain here was 22/15 but only over about 20 hands. Did I play this correctly?

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em $0.05 Ante - 5 players - View hand 561561
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BTN: $53.65
Hero (SB): $45.67
BB: $48.80
UTG: $25.73
CO: $50.00

Pre Flop: ($0.60) Hero is SB with Q K
1 fold, CO raises to $1.10, BTN calls $1.10, Hero calls $1, 1 fold

Flop: ($3.80) Q J K (3 players)
Hero bets $3.50, CO folds, BTN raises to $7, Hero raises to $21.60, BTN raises to $52.50 all in, Hero calls $22.92 all in

Final Pot: $92.84

Cheers
TriggerNZ

Hi!

Even you have such a little amount on hands on this villain, I put him on a range like: AT,AK,JJ,QQ,KK,TK,QJ,AA.

After you got re-raised after 21.60$, you should fold there, my beginner opinion of course.
At this level I don't think villain has in his arsenal 2 re-raises with air here.
I think you had lost the pot here.

Cheers!

If you are considering folding after you raise to 21.60, then you should not be 3betting at all. We can't really say that he calls with all his worse hands and shoves all his better hands. If he is going to call your 3b with a worse hand, he's probably also capable of shoving with it. So 3bet folding is basically turning our hand into a bluff.

If my opponent is stacking off here with a number of worse hands, then I would just 3bet get it in. If not, I would call his raise and play poker on the turn. Yes, he will sometimes have QT, and we give him a free card, but he's only going to improve 15% of the time. That is a small loss compared to putting in a huge 3bet against a range of hands that effectively crushes us.

Cool, thanks for that.

Supposing I call his raise on the flop, and the turn comes a blank, what is your plan there?