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your sizing with AA i think is wrong in a few ways here i think and you somewhat said this but more in an indirect way.

If your not going to make it big preflop, even thou the flop board texture is such that he is somewhat inelastic, we face a spot where we have shown now so much strength that its basically impossible for anyone ( even a decent amount of fish most likely) to think you dont have a very strong range here. Like you said even a fish is intuitively going to realize you have a very strong range and they are not going to be making big mistakes here all that often (the call pre is going to basically be the only big mistake unless they hit a good top pair good kicker, and even then they probably find the fold button at some point in the hand).

If you raise it small pre I really feel your cbet size has to be basically an auto 1/2 sizing here. This would imo consistently tell the story of a somewhat strong range but could def allow for fish to think your just cbetting your whole range and allow for them to think its possible you don't have a pair. I don't see how a fish thinks you simply have AK here OTF when you bet it close to pot.

if you raise bigger pre, I'm not much sure which % would be best for this type of flop. I would figure a smaller bet, like 1/2 pot would be best. Again if we are going to give away the fact we are strong and don't plan on them trying to ever play back at us, there is no reason to bet bigger imo.

If we had said just opened, or basically done anything other then such a strong move of raising 2 limpers, one UTG pre, I very much like cbetting bigger on this kind of flop, his range is inelastic but at the same time we haven't actually totally telegraphed the strength of our range to the fish.

Basically i see the line of raising somewhat small pre then betting big on the flop counter productive. We are getting called pre most likely regardless of what we bet. Fish will see flops then give up. Making a huge raise pre then even 1/3 potting the flop surely gives us more chips the vast majority of the time then small pre and then big OTF, seems like we let the fish off pretty easy that way by taking that line of sizing.

love, love, LOVE the Time Capsule concept. It is so helpful to see and hear you spotting the leaks in your old game. Your discussion of changing trends from then to now is a great way to encourage decision making according to hand-by-hand dynamics. I hope the series will expand to FR and 6-max as well.

Keen to tuck into this for some weekend homework!

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If you raised as you stated to 1815 and he called, what line are you taking on the flop? c/f?

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Great series btw, def can see alot of mistakes Iv made in the past and a few im making in play these days, so thank you.

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Say you were In position to 1 player and OOP to other like in tunny spot for example. Do you Cbet?
I find myself betting these boards a lot on the flop here just due to the drawn nature of the flop and either betting again then check back rivers, or checking turn and deciding based on villain, sizing, and board texture on the river. Thoughts on taking this line as opposed to check back? What kind of effective stacks are going to change your decision in that regard and how?

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If ctfire bet a more polarizing size ott here would you ever look him up? Say like pot or just under?

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I personally would either open/4ball or fold here. Thoughts on that based on the other players 3bet stats?

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I think i play this spot differently then a lot of people. It is more relevant to weaker fields /against weak players. If i 3bet here and get flatted with such short effective stacks on this board i would tend to bet like 1/4 pot to induce.

I don't think flush draws are ever folding or flatting to any bet size really or over pairs so like if we can get villains to spazz with things were ahead of like ak no spade or something i think it is more profitable in the long run.

Also applies to pre flop where i will pull that move against weak villains with something like AK. 20bb effective and 3 bet to 8bb's and then bet like 3 and a half BB's on the flop where they will sometimes fold better or attempt to bluff with worse. I guess kinda a post flop stop and go. Not really talked about at all but i think a really interesting concept and would love your thoughts on the merits on this line as opposed to more conventional lines against weaker players.

An interesting concept i think in regards to balancing this move could be balanced against the entire player pool but not nessicarily against villain types. Like against stronger reg type villains you could pull this small 3 bet with stronger hands 20bb effective because they should know were not folding and probably stack off, stuck in the classic levelling spot of "raise smaller to look stronger" if that makes sense. Against weaker villains you could do it with the hands that traditionally we would just jam like broadways because if called our equity doesn't change and we get say an extra 20% fold equity.

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Really Really cool concept. PLease let this series come to light

rrumsey, great points and I agree completely.

I'm just going to go in order according to the timeline with your questions guys.

Jaime questions!

13:51: I generally check all the time here regardless of my position and stack size. I don't think there's enough value to a bet and I think they play face-up on the turn. With smaller eff stacks I'm more inclined to check since bets will be a larger %.

16:45: No I actually don't think 40/6 fish know what polarization is but they do do it unconsciously. They bet bigger either with stronger hands or because they really really want folds. The problem is I don't know which one it is until I see a showdown!

41:28: I'm assuming you're talking about the 22. If I was playing it today I'd probably raise and call blazin, possibly 4b over Angel, and possibly 4b/f to 7Delux. Anytime players have >8% 3b you can pretty much always profitably 4b shove a pocket pair for 30-35bb. Haven't worked out the math but it's a decent general rule.

45:19: I like the logic behind what you're discussing. It shows you're actually thinking about poker and not just being a mindless midstakes robot like 80% of the population. I don't mind a 1/4 bet to induce but on that specific board it's triple Spades so he can actually peel something horrific and get there.

In general I think stop n going 20bb with AK is pretty bad. I don't mind stop n going with worse hands though but stop n go's are usually better for either trapping dead money or when you don't have fold equity pre. AK dominates a lot of their reshove calling range so you'd be better off reshoving it.

One of my favorite plays I've started doing recently is just go n going a lot of spots (raise like 1/3rd of stacks pre and then shove any flop). I do this in spots where ordinarily I would have just shoved pre. i.e fish limps at 150/300 and I make it 1600 with a 4200 stack OOP instead of just shoving. They only hit 33% of flops so yeah the basic idea of what you're talking about has a lot of merit.

If you raised as you stated to 1815 and he called, what line are you taking on the flop? c/f?

I would probably check/evaluate. I actually think maybe I could 3b slightly bigger to set up a PSB on any flop.

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The Tc9c hand. I would still open this hand but it's probably at the bottom of my opening range due to the fact that we have a 8bb stack left to act. I'm also going to open any Ax,Kx, Q7+,JTo+ and T9s+ is probably the bottom of my opening range from that position. Is your range similar or are you opening wider or tighter and why?

none of the players left to act are very aggro. i would open a very wide range, pretty much everything that i'm cool with r/cing versus an 8bb stack (definitely opening 56s+ and any pair).