Would most people agree he had a monster here I should have listened to myself, think it was my first 3 bet too... great timing.
***** Hand History for Game 18207628658 ***** (Full Tilt)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 05, 03:34:08 ET 2010
Table 20 1 Heads Up Sit Go (137766838) Table 1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: daustin1141 ( $2000.00 USD )
Seat 2: Olionion ( $1000.00 USD )
daustin1141 posts small blind [$15.00 USD].
Olionion posts big blind [$30.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Olionion [ 9d 9c ]
daustin1141 raises [$45.00 USD]
Olionion raises [$150.00 USD]
daustin1141 raises [$480.00 USD]
Olionion raises [$820.00 USD]
daustin1141 calls [$460.00 USD]
Olionion shows [9d, 9c ]
daustin1141 shows [Qc, Qs ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, 3c, Jh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
daustin1141 wins $2000.00 USD from main pot
cheers
Oli
Once you make the 3bet you're way too committed to fold at 33bb stacks.
If he's super nitty you should be 3betting him a lot and probably trying to use a smaller 3bet size, but 99 is usually too strong.
Basically, if he's folding to your 3bets, mix in a lot of non value hands for the fold equity along with strong hands you'll call a shove with and flat call other strong hands you wouldn't want to call a shove with. That should be a very good counter strategy to that type of player.
I don't think there is any realistic scenario in which you should be folding 99 preflop while 33BB deep in a HUSNG.
Well, against a complete nit who never 4bets with anything except Kings or Aces - but then you'd have to ask yourself whether 3betting 99 is really the right thing against such a guy.
IMO, once you have that read that you need to fold 99 to his 4bet, then you already know that you should better 3bet with 72o against him than with 99. I would never ever 3bet 99 with the intention of folding it to a shove. If my opponent really was that nitty that I'd have to fold, then I'd just flat and see a flop with it.
The only situation where I could fold 99 pre is if I'm on the button, some complete nit makes a huge 3bet and I'm 100% sure she's never doing that with AK - but then, I'd simply play 100% of my buttons, steal almost any pot and grind her down pretty quickly. So this isn't really any realistic example.
thanks again for all the responses folks, all useful stuff.