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Texas gun laws generally focus on regulating the carrying of guns as opposed to restricting gun ownership. The constitution guarantees every Texan the right to 'keep and bear arms in the lawful.
These old guns already had a fair share of success on the tables. For example, Ivey and Farha have net worths that exceed $100 million! While many of these legends started their playing careers at casino poker rooms and tournament circuits, the latest crop of poker pros are a different breed altogether – most of them learned their trade.
'Under the gun' (or 'UTG') refers to the position to the immediate left of the big blind in flop games like Texas hold'em and Omaha poker. The under-the-gun player is the first to act before the.
Strategy Guide/Walkthrough/FAQWhat is CelebrityGamerZ?ReviewCompletion bonusesSuccessfully complete Story mode, then go back to the first area in the game (Blackfoot Territory). Locate the higher boulder that leads up to a ledge and a gap. While on a horse at the left side of that boulder, jump and use your spurs until you land on top of the boulder. Then, get onto the ledge and go across the next two areas. Stand between the two rocks in the water and hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + X until the confirmation sound is played. Press Start to enter the options screen and a new option named 'Gun' will appear. Once selected, you can replay any main mission or side mission (from checkpoints if desired), view the intermission sequences, and toggle the help messages. Note: You will have your current weapons, items, and skills when a mission is replayed.
Successfully complete Story mode to unlock Magruder's seven barrel Nock gun. Successfully complete Story mode and all side missions (100% completion) to unlock Reed's armored horse and Magruder's Cannon Nock gun. This horse cannot be killed and if ever lost, it will return to the mine. This horse also does not lose any health from sprinting.
.69 Ferguson RifleDefeat Hollister to unlock the .69 Ferguson Rifle.
Apache ShirtSuccessfully complete the Hunting missions to unlock the Apache Shirt. Blackjack rules printable.
Cavalry SwordDefeat Reed to unlock the Cavalry Sword.
Dual PeacemakersDefeat Hoodoo Brown to unlock the Dual Peacemakers.
Silver SpursSuccessfully complete the Pony Express missions to unlock the Silver Spurs.
Infinite healthGo to the Indian Hunter's hut, which you can find on your map. Then, go to the building to the left of the hut, with the stairs going up the side. Go up the first set of stairs, and continue going straight. You should see a spout-type object coming out of the side of the building. Jump onto that spout, and walk toward the wall of the building. If done correctly, you should go through the wall, and into the inside of the house. There is only a small ledge for you to drop onto inside, so move slowly. When inside, look to your left and you should see three whiskey bottles on the ground. You can pick these up as many times as desired and they will never go away.
Easy healthGo to Dodge City, then go to the lower part of the bridge. Follow the path on the other side to reach a beach cave. Look inside for a life power-up which will reappear over time after you leave the area. Note: The cave also contains ammunition and money.
Go to Hecht Ranch, then go to the shack next to the windmill. There you will find three whiskey bottles which will reappear over time after you leave the area.
Easy ammunitionTake a barrel of TNT from the Badlands mine. Locate the abandoned house in the Badlands where the buffalo graze. Go to the back of the house on the outside. Face the chimney (looking west) and place the TNT barrel on the left side of the chimney. Blow up the TNT barrel to open a hole in the ground with ammunition for all weapons. The ammunition will reappear over time after you leave the area.
Easy moneyYou can earn more money on the bounty hunter side missions by capturing bounties alive. When you find a wanted poster that offers more money if you capture them alive and are having trouble doing so, use the following trick. Kill all gang members or bodyguards (if any). If the bounty is on a horse, kill the horse. Get close and melee attack. This will stun the fugitive and present an opportunity to grab them. Then, subdue the fugitive. This will award you more money for each bounty. If you accidentally release him, you can try to melee him and grab him again. However, if you do this too many times or if he has been shot, you may kill him and get less money.
Easy poker game winsWhen playing Texas Hold 'em inside the Alhambra, you can easily win with or without a good hand. Raise the bid to the maximum. This should make at least one to three players fold. You can then cheat to make your hand better, and if the cheat card is a worse card, just go back to your original hand. Afterwards, keep checking your hands until one of you wins. It should be you most of the time. Do not worry if you lose, as the tournaments are free.
End of poker cheatingWhen playing Texas Hold 'em after the tournaments in the Alhambra, you will no longer have the option of cheating.
Faster riding

Hold Dash while repeatedly jumping your horse to travel about double the speed.
Desecrate Hoodoo's corpseAfter defeating Hoodoo, there will be a intermission sequence showing him dead standing up in a coffin. After the sequence, he will still be in west empire standing in the grave. You can shoot him with your double-barrel shotgun in some areas. You can shoot off his head, arm, and both of his legs, leaving his corpse floating in an up-right coffin.
Defeating HollisterSneak up on Hollister and shoot him once. Then, run off and get behind a rock on top of risen ground in the middle of the arena. When he is circling the rock you are behind, start circling as well. He will eventually stop and yell at you to come out. He should pace back and forth slowly while you hide behind the rock. When he stops and is not facing you, shoot him in the head. Perform this until the point that he becomes too smart to fall for it again. By then his health should be low enough so that you can run out and keep shooting while strafing. After you have gotten his health down all the way there will be a intermission sequence. Look at your compass at the bottom of the screen. He is the red dot. Find him and he will run at you. Run, but keep firing at him with your pistols and he will die.
Defeating MagruderIn the first part of the battle, get your bow ready. Every time Magruder is either next to or on top of the holes in the ground with the blue/green gas coming out of the floor, shoot an arrow into it. When it blows up, it will take some health from Magruder. You must do this a few times. To better judge where Magruder is, look on your radar when you are standing by one of the holes on the floor with the blue/green gas. When you see a red arrow by you and it is near the hole in the floor, shoot the arrow. When it explodes, run. If you take some hits from Magruder, run for a flask to replenish your health. You will most likely run out of arrows, but can find more in the back by the big entranceway opposite of the platform and big pillars that you will need to destroy in the second part of the battle. Keep shooting the arrows at the gas in the floor until Magruder's health bar turns red. After that the second part of the battle will begin. To save a lot of your health during the first part, crouch and stay near the outer ring of rocks. If he stands directly in front of you, shoot about one or two arrows at his feet. This will cause him to lose health. If you got hit by his fire, run and find a flask. The second part of the battle is to collapse the cavern on Magruder. Save the game when you get to this part. Do not worry about replenishing your ammunition. Your sniper rifle, regular rifle, and six shooters will suffice. In order to keep one flask and your health to where you do not need to replenish, stay ducked behind the big rocks where you start. Magruder will throw TNT. Use Quick Draw mode and shoot the TNT. Then, pull out one of your rifles. Use the sights on them. The only way to get Magruder to throw TNT is to hit him in the head. However, it is recommended that you stay and shoot at him from the right hand side of the rocks. That gives you more cover than the left hand side. The trick requires some skill at Quick Draw. This is the only way to get past it this part of the battle. Try to hit all the TNT when he throws it. Try hitting the TNT that looks pudgy -- they provide a bigger boom. The small TNT sticks are good, as when they are hit they will spread out. You can blow the two pillars by Magruder's platform up with them. When he says you are blowing this mine apart, you are half way there. When Cole says there is no one left to help you, the battle is close to over. When he throws the three sticks of TNT and you miss and they land by you, run to the opposite side, and then go back to continue. You have two big rocks to blow up to collapse the cavern. The best way to do this is to hit the TNT when it is thrown when they are close to the rocks above Maruder. By doing this you will complete the battle faster. When the second big rock falls, the battle will be over and you will have completed the game.
It is not possible to kill Magruder by shooting him, as he is wearing armored plating. Instead, use the bow with exploding arrows. Get Magruder to chase you. As you are backing away from him, shoot an arrow at a geyser as he walks over it. The flammable gas coming from the geyser will explode and damage Magruder until he is almost dead. Then, when he is on the higher level, shoot him in the face with the rifle until he yells, then get into Quickdraw mode. Get ready to shoot the big package of dynamite when he throws it. After shooting a few sticks of dynamite, the roof will collapse on him.
Defeating ReedNever let Reed out of your sight. If he is by himself and you cannot see him, he will gain health.

The truth is that most of our money will not be made from playing in early position. Nevertheless these positions are important and do contribute to our overall profits. We want to avoid making mistakes from this position which eat into our overall winrate.
What is Under The Gun?Under the gun is a poker term which essentially means 'first to act'. So it will be a different position at the table depending on whether it's a short-handed or full-ring game. 
Since there are so many players left to act after us, especially in the case of a full-ring game, it makes sense to play very tight poker. Let's have a look at some basic raise-first-in ranges for both a 6max cash game and a 9max cash game.
6-Max UTGWe can see that this is a pretty tightrange, and UTG on a FR table will be even more so. The most common mistake players make when opening from UTG is to open hands like ATo and KJo. While these offsuit broadway type hands play very well in a late position battle they are often going to run into trouble when opening from an early position.
The reason for this is down to domination. In a late position battle our opponents can show up with all kinds of worse Kx and Ax hands. When we open from UTG and someone calls we will often find ourselves playing against better Ax hands such as AJ,AQ or AK. Hopefully you can see why this is potentially problematic. If the flop comes Axx. It will be very difficult for us to get away from our hand assuming we flop top-pair with something like ATo.
FR – UTG
Assuming we play FR we need to tighten our ranges up even further as we can see above.Players make similar mistakes in FR and will try to open hands such as KQo and AJo. These hands will get us into a lot of trouble since they are often dominated.
Notice also that we prefer opening a hand like 9Ts to QJs. 9Ts is way less dominated than QJs (our opponents are playing less hands with a Nine or a Ten in them), and 9Ts can make a larger number of straights and hence has better playability than the QJs.Understanding Postflop RangesIt's important to understand that when our open-raise gets called, the situation is going to be somewhat different compared to when our late position open gets called. We might have exactly the same hand on the same board texture, but the best way to play the hand can be different. Why is this the case?
It essentially comes down to our opponent's preflop range. When we open-raise from UTG our opponents perceive us to be stronger compared to when we open-raise in late position. As a result it's common for our opponents to cold-call tighter when facing an early-position open. The effect of this can be quite dramatic.Check out the ranges below. The first range is what someone might typically cold-call BB versus a BTN open, while the second is what someone may typically cold-call BB versus a UTG open.

Hopefully we can see that difference is huge. That's a 9% cold-calling range compared to a 31% cold-calling range. We should be able to see that it will be a little tougher to extract thin value from our opponent after they call against our early-position open. A decent chunk of their defending range is actually going to be pocket-pairs looking to set-mine, whereas versus a late position open they have a much larger amount of speculative holdings.
Defending vs 3betsA common problem when opening UTG is facing a 3bet. It's important to keep in mind that since our opponents already perceive us as strong, it's unlikely they are 3betting us with an especially wide range. As a result our continuing range is nearly always going to be very strong.
A mistake here will usually be calling with dominated broadways such as AJo and speculative hands such as Axs or suited-connectors. While suited-connectors might seem a reasonable choice at first glance since they can flop big, the truth is that they don't flop well often enough for us to make back all the money we lose when we miss.There are exceptions however. Assuming the stacks get considerably deeper than 100bb then we may be able to make enough money when we hit to make speculative hands a viable defend.
Let's imagine we open from UTG on a 6-handed table with 100bb effective stacks. What should our calling range versus a 3bet look like?As we can see this is an extremely tight range (3.54%). You might be wondering why some of the hands are marked in a darker shade of blue. The reason for the AA/KK hands is quite simple. We will likely be 4betting these hands a decent chunk of the time when facing a 3bet. However, it's also acceptable to slowplay them some percentage of the time preflop.
The pocket pairs are marked in dark blue for a different reason. Find out why below.
Can we Setmine vs a 3bet?
If we had a dollar for every time someone asked us this question well.. we would have a lot of dollars! There seems to be advocates on both sides of the fence, some saying it's completely incorrect, others insisting that it is standard.

The actual answer to this question is as follows. It depends. Like many situations in poker it is not possible to give a categorical answer. So what does it depend on? In short, our implied odds. Implied odds is essentially a fancy way of saying 'how much will we make when we hit?'.
Seeing as we miss our set around 87.5% of the time, we need to be somewhat assured that will have a sufficiently big payout if we do hit. So essentially where the 88-TT are marked in dark blue it means 'Call if we have good implieds, but fold if we don't'.

So how do we know if we have good implieds? We won't get into a big discussion on implied odds right now, but you can check out Bitesize Poker Concept - Implied Odds a brief video on the concept. There are two main things we are looking for though.
1 – Opponent has a strong range (often the case when 3betting vs UTG).
2 – Opponent has deeper stacks than 100bb.
If either of these things are true then we can usually look to set-mine at least 88+. Remember that the stacks need to be at least 100bb or we will not have the right implied odds.
Keep in mind that if the stacks are close to 100bb we will not typically make a lot of money with our set-mines. Close to nothing in fact. However it won't necessarily be a losing play and there are some other additional advantages, such as we won't be folding to every 3bet and our opponents will not be so inclined to 3bet bluff us.
FR UTG vs 3betSo let's take a quick look at how we adjust our strategy when opening from UTG on a 9-handed table and facing a 3bet.
At first glance there may not appear to be a big difference. The differences are mainly subtle.
Gun Vs Gun Texas Holdem Tournaments

Texas gun laws generally focus on regulating the carrying of guns as opposed to restricting gun ownership. The constitution guarantees every Texan the right to 'keep and bear arms in the lawful.
These old guns already had a fair share of success on the tables. For example, Ivey and Farha have net worths that exceed $100 million! While many of these legends started their playing careers at casino poker rooms and tournament circuits, the latest crop of poker pros are a different breed altogether – most of them learned their trade.
'Under the gun' (or 'UTG') refers to the position to the immediate left of the big blind in flop games like Texas hold'em and Omaha poker. The under-the-gun player is the first to act before the.
Strategy Guide/Walkthrough/FAQWhat is CelebrityGamerZ?ReviewCompletion bonusesSuccessfully complete Story mode, then go back to the first area in the game (Blackfoot Territory). Locate the higher boulder that leads up to a ledge and a gap. While on a horse at the left side of that boulder, jump and use your spurs until you land on top of the boulder. Then, get onto the ledge and go across the next two areas. Stand between the two rocks in the water and hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + X until the confirmation sound is played. Press Start to enter the options screen and a new option named 'Gun' will appear. Once selected, you can replay any main mission or side mission (from checkpoints if desired), view the intermission sequences, and toggle the help messages. Note: You will have your current weapons, items, and skills when a mission is replayed.
Successfully complete Story mode to unlock Magruder's seven barrel Nock gun. Successfully complete Story mode and all side missions (100% completion) to unlock Reed's armored horse and Magruder's Cannon Nock gun. This horse cannot be killed and if ever lost, it will return to the mine. This horse also does not lose any health from sprinting.
.69 Ferguson RifleDefeat Hollister to unlock the .69 Ferguson Rifle.
Apache ShirtSuccessfully complete the Hunting missions to unlock the Apache Shirt. Blackjack rules printable.
Cavalry SwordDefeat Reed to unlock the Cavalry Sword.
Dual PeacemakersDefeat Hoodoo Brown to unlock the Dual Peacemakers.
Silver SpursSuccessfully complete the Pony Express missions to unlock the Silver Spurs.
Infinite healthGo to the Indian Hunter's hut, which you can find on your map. Then, go to the building to the left of the hut, with the stairs going up the side. Go up the first set of stairs, and continue going straight. You should see a spout-type object coming out of the side of the building. Jump onto that spout, and walk toward the wall of the building. If done correctly, you should go through the wall, and into the inside of the house. There is only a small ledge for you to drop onto inside, so move slowly. When inside, look to your left and you should see three whiskey bottles on the ground. You can pick these up as many times as desired and they will never go away.
Easy healthGo to Dodge City, then go to the lower part of the bridge. Follow the path on the other side to reach a beach cave. Look inside for a life power-up which will reappear over time after you leave the area. Note: The cave also contains ammunition and money.
Go to Hecht Ranch, then go to the shack next to the windmill. There you will find three whiskey bottles which will reappear over time after you leave the area.
Easy ammunitionTake a barrel of TNT from the Badlands mine. Locate the abandoned house in the Badlands where the buffalo graze. Go to the back of the house on the outside. Face the chimney (looking west) and place the TNT barrel on the left side of the chimney. Blow up the TNT barrel to open a hole in the ground with ammunition for all weapons. The ammunition will reappear over time after you leave the area.
Easy moneyYou can earn more money on the bounty hunter side missions by capturing bounties alive. When you find a wanted poster that offers more money if you capture them alive and are having trouble doing so, use the following trick. Kill all gang members or bodyguards (if any). If the bounty is on a horse, kill the horse. Get close and melee attack. This will stun the fugitive and present an opportunity to grab them. Then, subdue the fugitive. This will award you more money for each bounty. If you accidentally release him, you can try to melee him and grab him again. However, if you do this too many times or if he has been shot, you may kill him and get less money.
Easy poker game winsWhen playing Texas Hold 'em inside the Alhambra, you can easily win with or without a good hand. Raise the bid to the maximum. This should make at least one to three players fold. You can then cheat to make your hand better, and if the cheat card is a worse card, just go back to your original hand. Afterwards, keep checking your hands until one of you wins. It should be you most of the time. Do not worry if you lose, as the tournaments are free.
End of poker cheatingWhen playing Texas Hold 'em after the tournaments in the Alhambra, you will no longer have the option of cheating.
Faster ridingHold Dash while repeatedly jumping your horse to travel about double the speed.
Desecrate Hoodoo's corpseAfter defeating Hoodoo, there will be a intermission sequence showing him dead standing up in a coffin. After the sequence, he will still be in west empire standing in the grave. You can shoot him with your double-barrel shotgun in some areas. You can shoot off his head, arm, and both of his legs, leaving his corpse floating in an up-right coffin.
Defeating HollisterSneak up on Hollister and shoot him once. Then, run off and get behind a rock on top of risen ground in the middle of the arena. When he is circling the rock you are behind, start circling as well. He will eventually stop and yell at you to come out. He should pace back and forth slowly while you hide behind the rock. When he stops and is not facing you, shoot him in the head. Perform this until the point that he becomes too smart to fall for it again. By then his health should be low enough so that you can run out and keep shooting while strafing. After you have gotten his health down all the way there will be a intermission sequence. Look at your compass at the bottom of the screen. He is the red dot. Find him and he will run at you. Run, but keep firing at him with your pistols and he will die.
Defeating MagruderIn the first part of the battle, get your bow ready. Every time Magruder is either next to or on top of the holes in the ground with the blue/green gas coming out of the floor, shoot an arrow into it. When it blows up, it will take some health from Magruder. You must do this a few times. To better judge where Magruder is, look on your radar when you are standing by one of the holes on the floor with the blue/green gas. When you see a red arrow by you and it is near the hole in the floor, shoot the arrow. When it explodes, run. If you take some hits from Magruder, run for a flask to replenish your health. You will most likely run out of arrows, but can find more in the back by the big entranceway opposite of the platform and big pillars that you will need to destroy in the second part of the battle. Keep shooting the arrows at the gas in the floor until Magruder's health bar turns red. After that the second part of the battle will begin. To save a lot of your health during the first part, crouch and stay near the outer ring of rocks. If he stands directly in front of you, shoot about one or two arrows at his feet. This will cause him to lose health. If you got hit by his fire, run and find a flask. The second part of the battle is to collapse the cavern on Magruder. Save the game when you get to this part. Do not worry about replenishing your ammunition. Your sniper rifle, regular rifle, and six shooters will suffice. In order to keep one flask and your health to where you do not need to replenish, stay ducked behind the big rocks where you start. Magruder will throw TNT. Use Quick Draw mode and shoot the TNT. Then, pull out one of your rifles. Use the sights on them. The only way to get Magruder to throw TNT is to hit him in the head. However, it is recommended that you stay and shoot at him from the right hand side of the rocks. That gives you more cover than the left hand side. The trick requires some skill at Quick Draw. This is the only way to get past it this part of the battle. Try to hit all the TNT when he throws it. Try hitting the TNT that looks pudgy -- they provide a bigger boom. The small TNT sticks are good, as when they are hit they will spread out. You can blow the two pillars by Magruder's platform up with them. When he says you are blowing this mine apart, you are half way there. When Cole says there is no one left to help you, the battle is close to over. When he throws the three sticks of TNT and you miss and they land by you, run to the opposite side, and then go back to continue. You have two big rocks to blow up to collapse the cavern. The best way to do this is to hit the TNT when it is thrown when they are close to the rocks above Maruder. By doing this you will complete the battle faster. When the second big rock falls, the battle will be over and you will have completed the game.
It is not possible to kill Magruder by shooting him, as he is wearing armored plating. Instead, use the bow with exploding arrows. Get Magruder to chase you. As you are backing away from him, shoot an arrow at a geyser as he walks over it. The flammable gas coming from the geyser will explode and damage Magruder until he is almost dead. Then, when he is on the higher level, shoot him in the face with the rifle until he yells, then get into Quickdraw mode. Get ready to shoot the big package of dynamite when he throws it. After shooting a few sticks of dynamite, the roof will collapse on him.
Defeating ReedNever let Reed out of your sight. If he is by himself and you cannot see him, he will gain health.

The truth is that most of our money will not be made from playing in early position. Nevertheless these positions are important and do contribute to our overall profits. We want to avoid making mistakes from this position which eat into our overall winrate.
What is Under The Gun?Under the gun is a poker term which essentially means 'first to act'. So it will be a different position at the table depending on whether it's a short-handed or full-ring game. 
Since there are so many players left to act after us, especially in the case of a full-ring game, it makes sense to play very tight poker. Let's have a look at some basic raise-first-in ranges for both a 6max cash game and a 9max cash game.
6-Max UTGWe can see that this is a pretty tightrange, and UTG on a FR table will be even more so. The most common mistake players make when opening from UTG is to open hands like ATo and KJo. While these offsuit broadway type hands play very well in a late position battle they are often going to run into trouble when opening from an early position.
The reason for this is down to domination. In a late position battle our opponents can show up with all kinds of worse Kx and Ax hands. When we open from UTG and someone calls we will often find ourselves playing against better Ax hands such as AJ,AQ or AK. Hopefully you can see why this is potentially problematic. If the flop comes Axx. It will be very difficult for us to get away from our hand assuming we flop top-pair with something like ATo.
FR – UTG
Assuming we play FR we need to tighten our ranges up even further as we can see above.Players make similar mistakes in FR and will try to open hands such as KQo and AJo. These hands will get us into a lot of trouble since they are often dominated.
Notice also that we prefer opening a hand like 9Ts to QJs. 9Ts is way less dominated than QJs (our opponents are playing less hands with a Nine or a Ten in them), and 9Ts can make a larger number of straights and hence has better playability than the QJs.Understanding Postflop RangesIt's important to understand that when our open-raise gets called, the situation is going to be somewhat different compared to when our late position open gets called. We might have exactly the same hand on the same board texture, but the best way to play the hand can be different. Why is this the case?
It essentially comes down to our opponent's preflop range. When we open-raise from UTG our opponents perceive us to be stronger compared to when we open-raise in late position. As a result it's common for our opponents to cold-call tighter when facing an early-position open. The effect of this can be quite dramatic.Check out the ranges below. The first range is what someone might typically cold-call BB versus a BTN open, while the second is what someone may typically cold-call BB versus a UTG open.

Hopefully we can see that difference is huge. That's a 9% cold-calling range compared to a 31% cold-calling range. We should be able to see that it will be a little tougher to extract thin value from our opponent after they call against our early-position open. A decent chunk of their defending range is actually going to be pocket-pairs looking to set-mine, whereas versus a late position open they have a much larger amount of speculative holdings.
Defending vs 3betsA common problem when opening UTG is facing a 3bet. It's important to keep in mind that since our opponents already perceive us as strong, it's unlikely they are 3betting us with an especially wide range. As a result our continuing range is nearly always going to be very strong.
A mistake here will usually be calling with dominated broadways such as AJo and speculative hands such as Axs or suited-connectors. While suited-connectors might seem a reasonable choice at first glance since they can flop big, the truth is that they don't flop well often enough for us to make back all the money we lose when we miss.There are exceptions however. Assuming the stacks get considerably deeper than 100bb then we may be able to make enough money when we hit to make speculative hands a viable defend.
Let's imagine we open from UTG on a 6-handed table with 100bb effective stacks. What should our calling range versus a 3bet look like?As we can see this is an extremely tight range (3.54%). You might be wondering why some of the hands are marked in a darker shade of blue. The reason for the AA/KK hands is quite simple. We will likely be 4betting these hands a decent chunk of the time when facing a 3bet. However, it's also acceptable to slowplay them some percentage of the time preflop.
The pocket pairs are marked in dark blue for a different reason. Find out why below.
Can we Setmine vs a 3bet?
If we had a dollar for every time someone asked us this question well.. we would have a lot of dollars! There seems to be advocates on both sides of the fence, some saying it's completely incorrect, others insisting that it is standard.
The actual answer to this question is as follows. It depends. Like many situations in poker it is not possible to give a categorical answer. So what does it depend on? In short, our implied odds. Implied odds is essentially a fancy way of saying 'how much will we make when we hit?'.
Seeing as we miss our set around 87.5% of the time, we need to be somewhat assured that will have a sufficiently big payout if we do hit. So essentially where the 88-TT are marked in dark blue it means 'Call if we have good implieds, but fold if we don't'.
So how do we know if we have good implieds? We won't get into a big discussion on implied odds right now, but you can check out Bitesize Poker Concept - Implied Odds a brief video on the concept. There are two main things we are looking for though.
1 – Opponent has a strong range (often the case when 3betting vs UTG).
2 – Opponent has deeper stacks than 100bb.
If either of these things are true then we can usually look to set-mine at least 88+. Remember that the stacks need to be at least 100bb or we will not have the right implied odds.
Keep in mind that if the stacks are close to 100bb we will not typically make a lot of money with our set-mines. Close to nothing in fact. However it won't necessarily be a losing play and there are some other additional advantages, such as we won't be folding to every 3bet and our opponents will not be so inclined to 3bet bluff us.
FR UTG vs 3betSo let's take a quick look at how we adjust our strategy when opening from UTG on a 9-handed table and facing a 3bet.
At first glance there may not appear to be a big difference. The differences are mainly subtle.
Gun Vs Gun Texas Holdem TournamentsOnline Texas HoldemFirstly we can see AQs is gone, it's not really strong enough to call with in most FR games. JJ and AK have turned to dark blue. This means that JJ is no longer a call for value but has been demoted to set-mine. We need the right implied odds or we fold. With AKo we can now seriously consider folding to a 3bet, it really depends how tight our opponents are. We will often find that at lower limit FR guys, many players are purely 3betting KK/AA, sometimes even just AA, vs a UTG open, meaning AKo can be potentially be garbage.
Note that KK has now changed to light blue meaning that it is nearly always a call. So if we open from UTG with KK and a player in the SB decides to 3bet us we should just call rather than 4betting.
If we 4bet we will very often only get action from AA. You will hear it said a lot that KK is always a stack off preflop no-matter the situation and that it's a cooler if we run into AA. In this particular case, it isn't.
We can actually see then that our only 4-bet for value hand is AA when opening UTG in FR. This is potentially unbalanced, but doesn't matter in the slightest in lower limit games. Keep in mind that if this ever becomes a problem we can just choose to have zero 4-betting range and flat AA when we face a 3bet!
Putting it TogetherRemember that unlike the blinds, our winrate from UTG should be positive. Just because we have to play tight in this position doesn't mean we can't make money. 
If you follow the advice in this article and avoid getting out of line with marginal or speculative hands then there is no reason why your UTG play can't give a nice boost to your overall winrate.
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