600NL: Getting clever with 97s deep.

[Kristian]

Villain is a solid regular at 20/15/4. We are both aware that you don't need a monster to 3-bet preflop. Any comments appreciated.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

MP ($612.70)
CO ($678)
Button ($1308)
SB ($1035.48)
Hero ($1144.40)
UTG ($752.85)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to $21</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $75</font>, Button calls $54.

Flop: ($153) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $120</font>, Button calls $120.

Turn: ($393) J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets $250</font>, Hero calls $250.

River: ($893) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, Button calls $863 (All-In), Hero folds.

Final Pot: $1756

[Shady Poker]

Seems fine, too many hands beat you here

[ipokeder]

i call this

[Sickgambler1]

Looks pretty standard to me, On the river you are beat by to many hands so you got to let it go.

[jj12]

If he is a solid regular he should have a flopped str8 / QQ here the majority of the time given the action.

[ipokeder]

it's so easy for villian to bluff here on this board since we rarely have a showdownable hand and he can easily push us off a set

his turn bet leaves just enough for a PSB on the river; this is one tell that he is setting up a river bluff, rather than trying to squeeze value

i call here because from his perspective, we can almost never call and this is a great spot to bluff deepstaxed

[jj12]

ipokeder what is his bluffing range. i.e. what calls flop and decides to bluff later. He should be pushing his strong overpairs on the flop. If he has a set I don't think he is bluffin. If he floated with something funky he freq has a Q. I like how this was played.

[ipokeder]

underpairs, Axs, whatever

"he should be pushing his strong overpairs on the flop" no? 1200 deep you do not want to push KK/QQ/JJ on this flop. maybe AA, but that's still a pretty retarded way to play it imo.

he can float this flop with no outs whatsoever and still make it a +EV play, just because of the flop texture. i don't worry so much about what hand he i think he has, as how often i think he actually has a queen as compared to how often he bluffs here

not to mention we could be splitting~

[jj12]

I didn't see this was deep. This significantly widens his range. I still think he has a Q here though unless he has the practice of turning made hands into bluffs. If he is that type of player you have a tough decision otherwise an esay fold.

[ArturiusX]

Why are people saying he has a Q?