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57bb eff PF AIP A936A no flush We bet 50% 60% vill donk shoves 39k into 23k pot. We have AT what should we do. We are in a good pos and it cost our tourney life
Here we started with over 50bb so we go broke with trps Q high ki, we only had t h ki but also there line looks very strong it was a cc over bet ai big over bet so fold
Rule of thumb when considering call regarding number of bets.
If your plan was to invest a certain number of bets and a non dag card comes then you can call. Example you have AA BvB (plant to bet twice) you bet the flop on wet brd turn brings some straights and flushes so you elect to check villain checks the riv is a blank so plan was to invest 2bets so bet 2/3 if you checked and villain bets then call.
When thinking through villains value range what must you also think about.
You must think of both sides of the coin, if the villain has a wide range he also has more draw cobos or weak holdings as well as made/ nut hands.
Lpc EP fld by sm xr?
if they lpc ep then xrr sm be suspicious, you can slow down
From UTG/MP vs <2.5x 3b what can we call
Everything we raised we don’t fold
If a Nitt 3b what should we consider
Fold more but still call the pairs to set mine vs their premium hand.
How often should we 3b blf vs Fish
- Don’t bluff vs. fish - go lighter for value (f.e KQs/Ajs/AJ) ○ Hes prob calling to wide with kj at etc he dfd more with shit ○ If you blf T9s they call to much with shit that dominates you - The shouter we get, the lighter we go for value as a 3bet and hence go broke
We want to 3b vs reg with fish behind what adjustments should we make.
- The more fish behind, the more you want to flat call. ○ i.e. KTs in CO mp reg is OR and good spot for us to 3b blf, Yet we have 2big fish in blinds now we call the money comes from the fish.
As you get shorter what hands fair better
- As you get shorter you want hands you can go broke with, so if you can flop top pairs, GS with over and flus dr, etc so J9s is good but 22 does not ever flop go broke and 45s rarely does as you never really flop a top pair. Playable vs flatters, blockers vs guys only 3betting.
In the HJ <25bb whats a reasonable adjustment for your OR range on a soft table
Norm 66+, X9s+,89s, AT+, KT+, QJ, AXs Add K8s,J8s,Q8s, A9, QT, JT
SB Raises we are in the BB and call. We have A9. Our opponent checks. On which flops do we bet? KQ9 with flushdraw JT9 K92 rainbow
K92 rainbow
We open R UTG AT and HJ calls. Flop is KT6 with flushdraw. What do we do? check-raise bet 50% pot check-call check-fold
check-call
Why do we have to check midpairs and Ahigh more often when we are out of position and cannot bet for equity denial alot?
Because it is harder to realize our equity Because we cannot take freecards and cheap showdowns
We Raise and a 8bb stack jams what do we do
Generall rule of thumb is to call final tab bub or something we can still fold
We are in the bb with a crap hand like Q4 20bb deep what do we do
3x, limp playable hands raise a lot of crappy hands
What is a good rule of thumb which hands to defend multiway in the BB?
Hands that can make good straights (eg. 87, 97) and good suited hands
What kind of hands should we flat on the BU vs a minraise rather than rejam with 25bb? Broadways, especially suited (KQs KJs QTs KQo) AQ AJ ATs AJs AQs small pockets
AQ AJ ATs AJs AQs Broadways, especially suited (KQs KJs QTs KQo)
What is the rule of thumb for calling all-ins in low/midstakes tournaments? If you are getting 2:1 you cannot fold anymore If its close between calling and folding always fold
If its close between calling and folding always fold
We 3b AKo 4x the vil riase in SB vs BU, the board comes 5T9ss none of ours what is our action.
Check give up
Dry boards Such as A72, whats are line in the below spot
Bet entire range on the flop small to fold out crp
On the turn,
bet big - 80-100% pot
Draws to fold out 2nps
(GS, flush dr esp with no sho down)
Strong hands for value, stron TP, 2pr, sets, AA we can switch it up as hard for them to have an A.
Bet small
Mid prs 2prs 88-JJ T7 etc where we can still get value and want to deny equity.
KK-QQ x back bluff catch riv
3rd pr/ bt pair x back
weak AX xback bluff catch
x 98, KQ, KJ etx
hands like JT, QJ, T8 etc we might want to turn into bluffs on a a board like A722 as we do not have many bluffs and they never call ar value hands on this board we bluff out KQ etc and if we hit we know it is live as they fold dominating hands.
The opp flatted pre then bet very small twice. Thinking about relative hand stregth vs their flatting range what is are plan on the river and why.
If we give them a range for flatting like that for hj then we assume they x back a lot of mid strenght then are trips is worthless as most there range if betting is Ax or 9x or flush so we should x/f as only have around 12% equ potentially. Even if no flush is there there many st combos
Bluff?
Here it is worth looking into the Cbet stat, if it is high or they have shown to cbet a lot then is fine to bluff
This is an exploit though vs players cbetting too much.
If you need to balance then you work out roughly your value combos, A9, K9, 2p, 33,44 maybe around 40 combos then choose you best bluffs, so bluffs with back door best first, JTs, 76s, 87s, 86s, T8s, QJs, QTs, 76, 87, A2s, A5s this is already giving you the correct frequency.
56 better to call as do not want to fold if the shove better to realise equity with such a strong draw.
If you do not bluff you can just fold, you can call something like JTs if you decide not to bluff it.
If you elect to bluff you want to keep barrelling if turn an 8, J, K
When you do bluff you can raise a bit smaller as you give yourself a better risk reward ratio, around 320
squeeze?
You can squeeze bluff with hands like AJ, KTs, KJs
Here you would have to call off the BU if they went ai
Bluff?
Don’t bet here when they check back they are splitting there range you do no deny equity now
But we can blff things like 67s etc but khigh no
What would we do vs an unknown limp from ep when on the BU 18bb effective
18bb vs ep limp on bu lp brown, shove purple raise go broke lilet rf pink
We are PFA OOP
Here we can check but CB is better as we block a lot of his continuation range.
He can not have the k high kjd, ktd, k9d flush draws which can call and bluff you off on later streets
Also you block AQ and KQ- he can only have QJd, QTs which is only 3combos each
We fold out Ah, JT, T9 that fold out write away
He has pocket pairs but we can barrel any Dimond, T, J
So CB is best with Kd even better if we have the Ad but check if not dimond.
What should we do here?
At this stack depth there is not need to raise we get good odds to the small bet we can bring them to the streets and relise our edge.
If it is close between calling and rejam always x
What should we do here what is our general approach with Ahigh hands.
Here we should x down give up, if we have two overs to the mid pair it can be good to equity deny as many 2prs check to us here as often they stab with many missed hands.
Generally Ah are check down hands or stab once give up
SPR1 limped pot we CP sm - Whats are action
It is unlikely he is limping many Ax so we can X/Jam with an SPR of 1
When deeper we can give up these spots even give up with all but 2 pairs when deeper.
Here it woud never be terribel to give up in a 3way pot
Genreally we cp a bit less when shorter but 92s still ok
HU SPR <1.5 it is a must x/j with a pair, 3 way we can still x/j but it is nota must
Here we called in the sb why did we not jam, whats are action on the flop to the raise
Pre we dont have much FE here with 7-8bb we want to see a favourable flop.
it is a favourable flop with an SPR less than 1.5 we can rr ai now any pair HU pot.
The guy limp calls what is the action here
Here it is unlikely the do not riase or limp jam with an A so we can riase small to induce
here we are in limped pot what is our action
We can in gerneral jam here, take a look at their stats or how they have played in other hands.
If they are passive then yes jam if they are normally agg and now suddenly limp then x behind
We raised pre and got a flat
here we can open shove, sometimes they fold sometimes they even call AQ if they have a pair we still have 6outs.
If they trapped the so be it we would have called a rejam any how.
Talk about this spot
This could be a nice spot to squeeze with hands like Kjo, Ato, A6s, AJ hands that are not quite good enough to flat but have good blockers, we can pump it up to around 120k putting a lot of pressure on these
It also puts the stacks all in behind .
What to we bet here
He has a big weak part so attack this with a small bet,
Also he can havesome 3x you don’t
Small can keep in KQ etc so they xr as bluff of peel one then can hit make a pair and call another bet.
He can freak out and decid to bluff his 76 or something.
Also you can bet big on the Turn so you can still get value from Ax
you could bet 20k here even as you need know protection
can we flat here?
Here 16bb we cannot flat as do not have the implied as 22 gets if value from hitting set when flatting, we can 3b to a size to commit them but allows us to get away if the deeper stack comes over the top.
We don’t want to flat these low pockets <30bb
Here we are 16bb and the button has played 9 of 10hands and the BB seems play happy also. What do we do with QJ here.
Generally what hands do we shove deep for exampl low pokets at 20bb deep
Here even if it is only 10 hands but CO has played 9 of 10 this is already a tendency and bu seems play happy as well
This is a good adjustment to jam the QJ 16bb instead of the normal raise.
You could MR if regs behind
You have to get a feel for the thresholds say normally you jam a hand at 15bb the threshold with these players goes up to 17bb
It can be 15-20bb
20bb always mr these hands
From the CO 16bb just shove the suited Ax - mr at 18bb/19bb
Same HU 15bb just jam suited A
So normally mr 17bb+ and shove <15bb for mid range hands
What hands do we want to jam in this spot
AQs, TT+, AK+
99, 88 we would fold
The implied for set mining we need 13-15 times the investment esp here as we may have worse set more often against such a strong range
Also think we do not always get the whole stack and loose it to a str etc so that’s why we can use the 7x rule
What do we do in this spot <30bb
x/jam the OSED to the small raise
<30bb jam to the small raise definately
With 2overs and OSED
With <66% bet or to there standard bets, there are lots of bad turns for us
even UTG has all the broadways in their hand, 40% of the time you win then when they call you have 33% equity
What do we do here the pre flop was 4x call you called bb cld
Here we just fold it is too likely someone has a strong range even to a 66% sizing. Pre if they 4x likely strong so just flat, if they had bet 2.2 or something then there is a call then we can 2b TT for the extra dead money when normally it is JJ but if bb fish still flat as want them in the pot.
What do we do here
Raise call vs SB fold Vs bb
Final Table - What are line with ICM
here with ICM dont like calling but a riase with the back doors and ICM pressure. folding is also ok
