NL25 - 3bet pots OOP. I am completely lost.
 

I have a lot of trouble playing 3bet pots out of position. Can you guys give me some advice?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

Button ($46.95)
SB ($6.48)
Hero ($44.91)
UTG ($16.67)
MP ($24.50)
CO ($25)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $0.25.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO (poster) raises to $0.75</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $3.5</font>, CO calls $2.75.

Flop: ($7.60) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero ?????</font>

Re: NL25 - 3bet pots OOP. I am completely lost.
 

Pretty easy, fire about 5/8 pot on the flop. You get all Ax combos to fold, some mid-pairs might fold and if called you have equity to draw out versus their entire range. If the turn card is J through A I will normally fire a second barrel as a bluff or for value and obviously call a push if the K or A hits.

Sometimes you can check the flop but you have to balance this with AA and KK so villains can't exploit you

The only time I won't fire a second round is if villain is a calling station, and sometimes I won't even fire on a flop like QJ9 that probably hit them

Re: NL25 - 3bet pots OOP. I am completely lost.
 

Bet like you have an overpair. Hope he folds. I usually don't fire a second barrel, but I have been thinking about trying it lately.

Re: NL25 - 3bet pots OOP. I am completely lost.
 

Here's a link to my advice. It's certainly not consensus here and I'm told people don't 3-bet light so take it for what its worth.

Adjusting to 3 betting light

Re: NL25 - 3bet pots OOP. I am completely lost.
 

I think you have to fire around $6 here.

Unless you two have a history, villain should be weary of an overpair and will dump any Ax-type hands.