When you are against a loose, splashy opponent, make sure you extract full value from your strong marginal made hands. That’s the topic of this week’s strategy column here on PokerNews.
The highlighted hand actually took place at a $1-$3 no-limit hold’em cash game that one of my students showed me. At a seven-handed table with effective stacks of $300, action folded around to a loose/splashy player in the hijack who opened for $10.
We looked down at the on the button and needed to decide what to do. I think both a call or three-bet is fine, you just have to ask yourself what you expect your opponent to do.