June 07, 2010
Intro to Deuce 3
Continuing with some of my general thoughts/initial impressions of sdl:
Concepts like light 3betting, cold 4bet bluffing, and squeezing for the most part are non-existent at the lower levels of this game and snowing is infrequent. Before attempting any of these plays, try to gage first how the players you are using them against are likely to react. If someone isn’t opening light, don’t 3bet light (unless perhaps they have a high f3b%, then we can 3bet things like our medium and good one card draws). Good candidates for the light 3bet would also include those isolating weaker players limping. Tend not to cold 4bet bluff/semibluff if the opener is tight or the 3bettor doesn’t 3bet frequently or isolate and do this sparingly in general. As previously mentioned hand equities don’t run close together and we’re repping an extremely small range of hands. If I am cold4betting (as a bluff/semibluff) , OOP I’d tend to do this with snows (provided of course that we're semi-deep such that I can bluff postdraw), while IP I’d tend to do this with good 1cds. Don’t squeeze very wide (probably limit to medium-good 1cds or better and occasional snows) as the guy in the middle isn’t often folding and the guy opening isn’t usually opening wide. We will very infrequently fold out people who have good one card draws.
Balance is perhaps more important in this game (and drawing games in general) than other games. Exploitative play is difficult (but obviously possible) over two streets (there's only so many things we can exploit), but to keep maximum pressure and uncertainty we want to have a pretty balanced game both pre and postdraw. In practice I think it’s often best to balance your strong drawn hands with your weakest (when you pair your top card or second card top card) and turn the middle parts of your range into bluff catchers and check backs. Sometimes we’ll merge middle parts of our range into our value and bluffing ranges respectively based on our opponents and how we’ve been playing.
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Just played first tdl session of the day at 1/2. Won about 22.5BB in 261 hands. Ran hot against one guy, ran pretty poorly against 3 or 4 others. I missed at least 2 bets on whiffed c/r attempts against generally aggro value bettors and played 2 or 3 hands pretty somewhat poorly including breaking incorrectly once or possibly twice and making a weird bet/fold first to act in a 2:2:1 when I decided to make an out of tempo lead (it's only a donk bet when it's my opponents doing it :)) with a 87543 (because of how frequently it's checked through at this limit, even though last to act is card ahead), got raised and 3bet before it was back to me. I couldn't break and thought capping with the plan to lead into two likely pat hands would be spewy. It ended up going 0:1 after the 2cd just called the 3bet. Then bet call bet fold.

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