Re: just shoot me now
Predeal: Why are you playing 3-handed with no clear read on where the money is coming from? Don't you have better things to do with your time?
Preflop: Raising Q6s seems pretty routine. Two thoughts on the 3-handed/6-handed discussion.
1. Q6s should be slightly better hand in a 3-handed game than a 6-handed game with three folds. Having the deck stub rich in aces is not good for your health.
2. The borderline hands that might defend or not defend are generally a lot worse than Q6s. Having a poor player defend those bad hands OOP may be just as profitable as folding him out preflop. The whole argument that people defend more 3-handed doesn't interest me very much even if it is true.
Turn: Important to realize that despite all the FTP lagtard rhetoric there is no actual read on this player. I would quietly call the turn.
1. This could very easily be a ten, a second pair, or a better six.
2. SB may well be prepared to checkraise with a ten or set and my raise becomes a very expensive error.
3. The pot is fairly small. If SB wants to overcall that's OK with me. The pot odds to draw aren't there and I'm not at all sure my hand is good anyway.
4. It's easy to say that you can fold to a 3-bet but the truth is you have no idea what you are doing. You will certainly be laying down the best hand some of the time.
River: You need to call this at 9.5-1. This underlines my point that you shouldn't be making the free showdown raise with no read or control over your opponent.
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