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C-Bet Strategy

SB C-Bet Strategy on T♥ 9♥ 8♥ — 3-Bet Pot

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9
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SB vs BTN · 3-Bet Pot
On T♥ 9♥ 8♥, GTO checks back far more than it bets — c-betting only about 12%. This texture hits the caller's range hard, so betting into it burns money; SB (as the 3-bettor) checks to control the pot.
12%
C-bet
88%
Check
5.6bb
Main size
Bet 5.6bb Larger bet Check Partial fill = mixed frequency

Crafty Penguin GTO solver (Solver+) · 6-max cash · 100bb · SB vs BTN · 3-Bet Pot · updated Jul 28, 2026

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C-betting T♥ 9♥ 8♥ as SB

This is a SB vs BTN · 3-Bet Pot — the pot is heads-up with SB (as the 3-bettor) as the preflop aggressor, and the flop is T♥ 9♥ 8♥ (Monotone). The c-bet frequency here is 12%, which the texture explains almost entirely.

Connected and middling boards flip the maths. The caller's range — full of suited connectors and pairs — connects with this texture as well as or better than the raiser's, so the range advantage shrinks or disappears. When you don't own the board, betting into it just folds out what you beat and gets raised by what beats you, so the solver checks a large share of the range.

Read the grid by cell colour: teal is the small c-bet (5.6bb), amber a larger bet, and the dark fill is a check-back. A split cell is a mixed frequency. The hands worth drilling are the checks inside an otherwise-betting region and the bets inside a checking region — those mixed decisions are where most postflop EV is won or lost.

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