You’re playing an invitational televised tournament. The blinds are 5,000/10,000.
You’re in the Big Blind with 900,000 chips. Everyone folds until a player in middle position, with 1,000,000 chips, who limps in.
The rest of the table folds. You check.
The flop reveals
Q♠5♠4♣
You’re first to speak.
You bet 15,000.
Vilain raises to 30,000.
You call.
The turn is
4♦
Your opponent donk bets 55,000.
You’re confident with your trips. You raise to 155,000.
It takes vilain less than 10 seconds to announce a 3-bet to 255,000!
What do you do and what’s your reasoning?
Villain's line look's very strong and i'm certain that villain has it here acting so fast. Not many people will 3-bet bluff here without much thinking time. With stack sizes what they are I don't think we can just call and fold river to many of the cards that will not help our hand or change the situation dramatically, it's shove or fold in my opinion. If villain had a strong flush draw it would likely have been raised on the flop and also the board has now paired making that even more unlikely. I can't see villain making this move with a bare Q. VIllian could have flopped a set with 55, it seems this could be in his range, alot of will limp in with small pocket pairs in the hope of seeing it on the cheap. A4, K4? Unlikely given the board runout and also that we hold a 4 ourselves but when considering the action also it may be possible. Given villain's strong line I really don't see much that we beat that villain would do this with. Surely would have raised with AA-KK so will rule them out. Slowplayed QQ? Typing as I think so this may seem a bit of a ramble. I take a big sigh and fold.
Wait for a better spot. We still have chips. :)
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