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x/c turn if villain floats, x/f turn if villain doesnt

Surprised to see 54s in Villain's range if he defends 56% to 3-bets... 54s is one of the worse hands he's opening.

trivikrr that feeling of cluelessness is what everyone feels, it's what propels us to learn and grow. Think of it just as an indicator, like a HUD stat, pointing that we need to put more attention to that part of our game.

When you don't know what to do, try something and then pay attention to what works or what doesn't work and finally after many occurrences where you can start to analyze your results... make adjustments.

So for example, if we take "which i should call down twice but not thrice" try calling down weak Ax hands vs nits on A-high boards for 3 streets. Pay attention are you generally good when you do this? Make adjustments based on your observations, no you are not normally good here so in the future stop calling nits 3 streets with Ax.

Now you have improved your game. Repeat this 10,000x times in various situations and you will become proficient at poker.

forCarlotta good question, if we assume a continuing range of: JJ-33,AQo,AJo,KQo,AQs-A2s,KTs+,QJs-54s,QTs,J9s,97s,86s we can see the equities of each hand in Villain's range vs 99 (also note 99 has 63% equity vs the entire continuing range):

HawksWin thanks for replying with the chart, is this a GTO chart or something you came up with? That looks to be about a 29% range, which seems fine for CO, for some reason I've just never included Q6s but maybe I'm behind the times :)

You played it fine IMO, Villain's sizing is sort of weird/bad can't go wrong with calling down he might have a T or Q some of the time.

I'm probably squeezing pre JonathanPla , here's my rationale - if CO is opening 35%ish, 99 has 61% equity vs CO's opening range, also in my strategy I like to diminish stack-to-pot ratio whenever possible OOP. Something like A7s or 55 makes a better call IMO.

As played I'm calling flop unless HUD stats tell me Villain rarely c-bets 3-ways without a strong hand.

I think this is fine.

JonathanPla what is your history with Villain? I think there is only 2 reasons to jam flop: 1) you have a read that Villain is spewy and that he is reraising air vs you here 2) Villain is fairly aggro and will re-raise over pairs (TT+) here because he thinks you x/r too much. Personally I prefer to x/c my A high flush draws and x/r my fd's that have less showdown value (like 8c7c). Also I'd probably only x/r flop in the first place if I felt like Villain was more nitty/risk adverse in nature and would fold overpairs to a flop x/r or turn barrel.

HawksWin curious, what charts are you using that say Q6s is a CO open? Isn't Q6s like a 40% percentile hand?