Yeah $350/fold is absolutely godawful, you 100% have the correct price to call it off when you make it $350
I'm not too sure about that - the idea is that we look like we have a superstrong hand that isn't folding, so he's not going to ship his wraps on us when they can't be a favourite, and he can do better by calling and folding board pairs.
So it felt like it was a raise engineered to try put me in a coffin with the weaker hands im bet calling vs dothang and not for pure value as it just really doesn't make sense to raise JJJ or TTT here to this size for value. So in theory he could be doing this really wide for value against DoThang trying to freeze me out of the pot with a stronger hand - so i felt i game I had a LOT of fold equity, but still don't know if just going all in or calling and getting it in on nearly all turn cards (except A's Q's K's) is better if i want to proceed
This was my first thought. Why would a set raise this amount? Either it wants to raise a sizing that reopens the betting (ofc we can't completely discount the possibility he screwed up) or he wants to get as much money in as possible when he has the goods. This sizing is just weird and at best he thinks we think etc etc and he's hoping we level ourselves, but that's a stretch imo.
I think KQJT and AKQJ types of hands 3bet preflop most of the time. I'd expect his range to have a lot of hands like QJ98, that might be good against the fish shortstack but could get dominating hands like AAQ or KKJ to fold. I don't expect his pair + wrap hands to fold and I really don't mind ending the hand right now in this spot so I go ahead and pot.
Author