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Poker Video: Misc/Other by DeathDonkey (High Stakes)

if he is spewy / pats quickly why do we want to get involved with a relatively weak hand?

this spot will be 3 handed even if we 3b a decent amount

With us last to act. I want to get involved because 1) its +EV in my estimation, not wildly +EV but a little bit, and that's all that matters, this isn't like a "wait for later situation", you can play now AND later. 2) This guy is really bad, he is going to go broke if he stays in the game, you need to think about it like a race to get that guy's money before someone else does. Sure folding here and waiting for a wheel draw is easy, but you aren't maximizing your EV from marginal situations.

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How do you feel about keeping 249 as we have 3 9's so the relative strength of the 9 is increased? I guess one counter argument to this is that we would likely be 3-betting all good 2 card draws, so when we call and draw 2 our opponent can pretty precisely put us on a weak draw.

I do think you make a good point about the relative value of the 9 increasing, but on the other hand we have extra information that might help us later so that's already worth something, and if the choice is draw to a wheel early or draw to a hand that can win as long as villain doesn't make any 8, the latter doesn't seem so hot (its like think about if somehow you knew all the 9s were removed from the deck, and you were dealt 2678 multiway, its probably still a break of the rough draw to draw to the premium)

btw I could easily be wrong about this, its kinda not something I've thought a ton about since having a bunch of 9 blockers rarely occurs or rarely affects your decisions

in the end when playing HU vs Jeroen for some hands, we open 86. I usally fold 86 85 84 74 74 75 76 in HU esp vs loose showdownbound oponents, but even vs regs its my standart, id need a good reason to open it, i.e. if i think villian is really "snowable"

you fold too much.

ty for that inspiring answer

it was a response, not an answer because you didnt ask a question

sorry due my poor english skills, i didnt realize theres such a big diffrence between an answer and a response .

Let me try again and ask a question

Wich 2-Card draws do you open in a standart Hu Battle vs a reasonable opponent, which should be folded pre, and who do you change your ranges when playing vs. a loose passive or a loose aggressive opponent.

Are you defending those same ranges when oop ?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my missability to wirte down correctly what i want to know.

Cheers Basti.

i open all those aswell as 87 and 2xxxx. against better aggresive players fold the worst ones. OOP you have to play much much tighter.

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