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When to use polarised versus linear 3 betting range |
Polarised if they fold often Linear if they like to call |
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Small blind preflop strategy |
Tight and aggressive 3bet or fold, can sometimes flat smaller PP suitable range: 77+ 87s+ A5s,A4s, Top 5 J9s, QTs+ KTs+, AQo About Top 10% |
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Big blind preflop strategy |
Good pot odds Defend wide, 150% range of opening Villain |
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How should we treat small pocket pairs and suited connectors/Broadway differently preflop |
Small pp has polarised flop equity, better to call an opening raise with. better in multiway pots Suited connectors/Broadway flop alright but not nutted, play better heads up. Good to 3bet with to thin out the field. |
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How should 3 bet sizing change with position |
Earlier the position, bigger the size- charge Villain lots to see the flop! 5x BB from blinds and EP 3x BB from late position |
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Live tell - doubling bet each street |
Often indicates a marginal hand Did they stop to think about the bet size or was it a snap decision? |
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Live tell - snap call |
Often indicates a draw, try and figure out later if they missed it |
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Someone open raises with their normal opening size after many players limped in |
Often indicates a weaker part of their range. 3 bet often here |
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We have a player who is limping strong hands often as a trap - how to counter |
Tighten iso raise range Over limp |
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How does iso raise range change with number of players |
Should tighten up Against 1 can be wide Against 3 or 4, use the UTG opening range as a guideline for which hands to bet |
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What should our overlapping strategy be in games with lots of preflop aggression |
Tighten range / avoid We might end up leaking money by limp folding Especially careful in earlier positions |
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How to play high dry static flop eg A33r as PFR |
We have range advantage Check flop, bet TURN often with smaller bet size |
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How to play high wet flop as PFR eg KQ8ss |
Bet big on flop we have range advantage but caller may have draws. Proceed with caution If they call |
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How to play low wet dynamic board as PFR eg 456ss |
Bad for us Be careful of aggressive in position players |
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How to play low and dry boards as PFR eg 722r |
Slight range advantage, but dynamic - overcards can change top pair Good flops to barrel with aggression |
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How to choose hands to bluff |
Don't choose hands with no equity If we bet flop turn and river Can we catch a draw or arrive at showdown with something? |
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EP PFR KK T98hhx flop what do |
Board favours villains calling range Probably can't value bet our overapair 3 streets Can use as a bluff catcher proceed with caution |
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what should be be betting on flops? |
sets, flush draws, open ended straight draws,
overpair, top pair (good ones) About 25% of range? |
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when we bet or raise what are we trying to accomplish? |
get better hands to fold get worse hands to call |
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what is the 5th street chicken principle |
if we have shown aggression on multiple streets, perhaps raising pre flop then betting again on flop, calling a raise or anything else - it's highly likely that we a) are going to make it to the river b) at least have a decent hand with some showdown value This means that if we check, and villain bets, we can probably fold if the pot odds are bad |
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What is depolarisation trick |
Betting big on the river on boards with very obvious nut hands eg straight or flush, where it doesn't make sense for the Villain to have that hand, and they also don't think we have it. But they think we are totally bluffing but we are probably good versus whatever they have Exploits weaker players that won't bet as they fear the obvious nutted hand |
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What is a donk bet when might it be useful |
Out of turn bet when you aren't the initial aggressor If we are playing against someone who raises big and often and we have a value hand Against someone who folds often to bets Usually though check raise is better if we have a strong value hand |
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How to determine if player is passive of aggressive |
(Number of bets and raises) / number of calls |
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7 factors when deciding on c bet bluff |
Number of players Flop texture Stack sizes (careful against short stacked players) Hand equity Position Opponents preflop range Skill level- will players Trap us and move on later streets |
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how does a snap big bet on a turn/river card that changes a dynamic flop polarise the villains range?
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they either hit something they were waiting for that is really good, or its a bluff |
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what sort of things are we looking for when thinking of blockers |
do we block draws (villain is more likely to have a value hand) do we block top pair do we block flush draws |
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small stakes exploit - thin value
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1) If we have overpair and we get called with top pair we can go 3 streets on a static flop where top pair doesn't change and no big draws come in 2)if we have betting lead and good second pair, we can bet if scare card comes down if it fits our range. 3) |
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pre flop raise sizing tell - exploitation |
If someone raises after several limpers, and their size is the same as if they raised first in. then they probably are raising a marginal hand - 3bet, can 3bet polar range with blockers too. |
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postflop sizing tell - exploitation |
following up a previous bet with same size or less. usually a weaker made hand. especially if the next card is a brick |
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Dynamic board like 923 rainbow, how to bluff this one with a good holding like KK, AQ etc. |
double barrel, especially if nothing interesting comes down. can sometimes wait until the river, and if nothing comes down then fire the second barrel |
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exploitation - players with high VPIP (40%+) |
They connect with all sorts of stuff on low/dynamic flops. can double barrel if an overcard comes down, we have overpair or something like that.
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exploit - approaching flops which favour the flat caller and we are the pre flop raiser
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normally we should think about checking these, however weak players don't thing about configuration and ranges, just if there hand is good or not. we can adopt a bet/fold strategy here and try and get some weaker holdings to fold good example is paired boards where the pairing is very low e.g. 722 is better than 772. |
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exploit - overfOLDING late street raises
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overfold here - beginners don't usually bluff with their bluff catcher hands, if they bet big on the river or check raise overfold |
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exploit - betting draws multiway on dynamic flops |
if we don't c bet, we let other players pair up for free later on and we might not be able to get them off any high pair that comes up. C bet if we think top card will change |
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exploit - fastplaying |
against bad players, just bet / raise if you flop something good
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exploit - attacking field bettors in limped pots
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bet/barrel on dynamic non draw heavy flops where high card is likely to change. basically a kind of squeeze |
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exploit - iso ranges |
1 limper - can ignore and raise as if it was the same hand folded to you 2+ - raise early position range |
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exploit - we have something better than top pair on a dry board where we think villain has top pair |
if we unblock top pair (maybe we have an overpair or set) C-bet bigger than normal to extract value |
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exploit - not check calling the river when you have the betting lead |
we only check call the river to try and induce bluffs, and to get opponent to value own themselves (bet with a hand that is marginal - they would fold if we bet first)
the reason is that if we bet hard on previous streets most ppl that called
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Bluff catching OOP bets on high disconnected run outs (after checking back the turn) |
if we're the raiser, and somebody bets on a disconnected river, after calling our bets on previous stress - go ahead and check/bet again
they may be bluffing especially |
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Overbetting checklist |
Hero has nuts in range Hero doesn't have thin value bets and is polar Villain has capped range Not many nuts |
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Block bet |
Small bet of 20-40% pot made out of turn usually on river Use if you have marginal or second best hand to try and avoid Villain check raising you Good if action goes raise x/x x/x Stay balanced by block betting with monster hands from time to time |
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Dry static flop bet size |
Small 25-35% pot |
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Wet high flop bet sizing |
Large 55-80% |
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When to overbet |
When you have a strong bluff or nut advantage Example Hero 3bet, Villain calls Flop comes AK4 Hero range has AK Villain doesn't as he doesn't 4 bet If turn is a brick, overbet big |
