December 01, 2010
Turn Play
Tackling the Turn by Foucault Pokersavvy+ notes
- Goals: 1 learn how to play monster hands, 2 how to play draws and air, 3 how to play medium strength hands
- GENERAL THINGS TO CONSIDER
- Is your opponent tight or loose?
- Is your opponent passive or aggressive?
- What does your opponent think of you?
- What does villains turn action COMMUNICATE?
- Put yourself in a situation where you can make GOOD DECISIONS and MAKE THEM MAKE A MISTAKE- this is WAY TO WIN POKER!
- CONSIDER FLOP ACTION..
- Â What does my opponent have, or is representing (2nd level thinking) Can he peel light, does he slow play?
- What did your play represent to him? (3rd level thinking)
- What does he think his play represented to you? (4th level thinking)
- Think about his level of thinking and play ONE level ABOVE
- CONSIDER SPR... (Stack to Pot Ratio)
- How many bets are left in the eff stacks?
- Do YOU want all the money to go in?
- Whom DO YOU WANT to put in the LAST BET?
- WHEN ACTING IN POSTION
- More POT CONTROL with medium strength hands
- More Pure Bluffs
- Take more free cards with your draws (same concept as medium strength hands)
- These concepts all revolve around your EQUITY in the current situation. With good equity but poor showdown value, preserve your EQUITY. When you have great equity (nutted and strong made hands) push your EQUITY advantage. Take the line that makes your opponent make the biggest mistake.
- WHEN ACTING OUT OF POSITION
- Do you want to check-raise?
- Be more aggressive with medium strength hands - semi-bluffs, good made hands like tp weak kick, overpairs on wet boards etc. Be willing to fold when you face a big raise. With semi bluff hands consider C/R with your draws if you think your opponent can fold. End the pot eariler when you can OOP where you are able to fold when you get raised
- Few pure bluffs (bets where if called you have little to no equity)
- Again, EQUITY is KEY. Plan your plan around whatever makes your opponent make the biggest mistake considering his range.
- Some Examples with playing monsters:
Lets define monsters as nut hands or near nut hands: Sets on dry boards, big flushes, made straights, made two pairs with no straight or flush on the board, over pairs in 3bet pots.Â
- IP and the PFR checks to you when you've got a monster, you should bet. Build the pot. Get value. Give them a reason to be suspicious. Make them make a bigger mistake by calling turn and river rather than just calling the river if you check back.
- OOP and you check as the PFR, you should look to C/R big and look to get stacks in. C/R bigger lets them make a bigger mistake. A C/R on turn is always percieved as strong, so the bigger the bet only increases your value while at the same time can make opponents doubt themselves and make big mistakes.
- OOP and you check as the PFR with a turned top set but a flush completes, whats your action? You control the pot size! Think about the range of hands that will get it in on the turn vs you. You do not want to bet and get raised and be committed to the hand as a dog. Check, call is better. This is because he can bet worse, it widens your range, you can keep more bluffs in his range, you don't get blown of the best hand, you encourage him to put money in with a much weaker range and you are preserving the value of your hand.
- PLAYING DRAWS AND AIR
- have little equity but showdown value check back
- you dont want to have to fold out your equity
- its fine to bet if the only hands that raise have you drawing dead anyway
- figure out what his range is and what his betting COMMUNICATES
- think how can you make a bet that defines his range or makes him make a mistake
1 Comments:
micsquab posted on June 28, 2012 at 17:44 PM
Thanks for posting this.
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