BB defense vs passive stealer

[OziBattler]

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Why bother collecting stats if you aren't going to use them in close situations like this one? This particular villain wasn't raising light preflop, wasn't screwing around when he 3-bet the flop, and he's not betting the turn just for the heck of it. If you're lucky you've got five outs but it could be worse than that. Fold.

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qft

[Aaron W.]

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maybe in this situation, but as you move up in limits or play SH, I dont think playing A9o passively preflop in these spots is good.

it doesnt hit enough flops. as a result, it makes you play passively on rag boards and consequently give free cards, and makes you helpless on K, Q, and J -inudated boards.

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3-betting preflop and calling preflop to auto-raise the flop cost the same amount of money. However, 3-betting preflop will never make him fold, whereas he might fold to a flop raise.

Reads matter and should be taken into consideration in any heads up situation, but there are times and places to not 3-bet A9o preflop in blind defense.

[knockonwood]

I think the flop 3bet definetly represents an overpair.