how's this squeeze? 50NL

[Montezuma21]

Lately i've been 3-betting light quite a bit as it seems to be quite profitable at 50NL, if the conditions seem right. I'll 3B a fair bit from the BTN, raising SCs reasonably often, AK, and very occasionally more speculative hands such as Axs (see below), depending mainly on who the original raiser is, how many people have called the original raise (the more the better obviously. with one, but especially with two or three callers, i'm more liable to 3B).

I play a fairly aggro game in LP (i'm 30/17 with a attempt to steal % of40). I'm pretty mindful of my table image but unless the table really starts playing back at me (which only rarely happens as playersw don't seem too observant.) i'll usually continue 3B light.

Onto the hand: UTG is 36/20/5.3, a pretty poor and predictable player. Always slows his very big hands, always bets his marginal hands hard. UTG+1 is 19/1.4/1.6 TAG. If called, i'll almost always bet 2/3 of the pot, sometimes a little more, like 3/4 of the pot is less than 20BBs (is this a leak?). ANY comments appreciated.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
6 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $125.40
UTG+1: $66.60
CO: $150.80
hero: $52.80
SB: $37.95
BB: $64.15

Pre-flop: (6 players) hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif
UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">UTG+1 raises to $1.5</font>, CO calls, <font color="#cc0000">hero raises to $6.6

[jonyy6788]

If I'm reraising here it's to probably $5.50 or $6. If you're gonna 3-bet light and get called you gotta have the cajones to fire the flop and shutdown from there unimproved. If I'm called and flop comes Axx, I'm not c-betting. You're auto-called by Ax and fold hands we beat. If I flop 2pr I'm betting the flop though to extract from AJ+

[barryc83]

UTG+1 is 19/1.4/1.6? Assuming pfr isn't a typo, never 3bet this guy light ever.

[jonyy6788]

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UTG+1 is 19/1.4/1.6? Assuming pfr isn't a typo, never 3bet this guy light ever.

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seconded, but I get the feeling that those are CO's numbers

[keikiwai]

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UTG+1 is 19/1.4/1.6? Assuming pfr isn't a typo, never 3bet this guy light ever.

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yeah

assuming that you typed in the positions wrong and that UTG+1 is 20 pfr and CO is 19/1.4, the squeeze is a lot better

$6.6 is a good squeeze.... just mash the pot button (i think pot would be $6.75 here... sometimes I'd round it to $7 to make it look more intimidating)

[keikiwai]

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If I'm reraising here it's to probably $5.50 or $6.

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meh, anything less than pot is pretty weak

[barryc83]

Personally I think the concept of 3betting light is highly overrated at nl50. To me it borders on FPS for these stakes. I am in favor of 3betting from the blinds against habitual open raisers from the button and CO however.

[subzero]

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Onto the hand: UTG is 36/20/5.3, a pretty poor and predictable player.

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[Imrahil]

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UTG+1 is 19/1.4/1.6? Assuming pfr isn't a typo, never 3bet this guy light ever.

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[keikiwai]

I'm assuming:

UTG+1 = 36/20/5.2
CO = 19/1.4/1.6

[pineapple888]

Jeez, dude, just call, you're happy to see a multi-way flop, in position, with a hand that can make the nuts.

Plus the hand has some value otherwise in position, you might win a little something, but you want to keep the pot small in that case.

Save your light 3-bets for hands that aren't quite worth a call, like SCs, which are useless if they whiff. And don't do it every time even with those.

My 2 cents, anyway.

[blackize]

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Personally I think the concept of 3betting light is highly overrated at nl50. To me it borders on FPS for these stakes. I am in favor of 3betting from the blinds against habitual open raisers from the button and CO however.

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QFT not enough players capable of folding

[Montezuma21]

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I'm assuming:

UTG+1 = 36/20/5.2
CO = 19/1.4/1.6

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sorry, this is correct.