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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by threads13 (Mid Stakes)

Villain opened SB , he had 30% steal , you had T6s. I struggle BvB in constructing how wide of a range i should flat , 30% steal bvb is somewhat on the tight side , without reads that might give us a gameplan vs villain is there any way to construct a range ? i might question hands like A9o , 98o , T7s , K9s , what post flop reads would make T6s a pretty easy call ?

I tend to think as long as I have a tighter range than him than I'm good to go. Sure, I'm 3-betting some of my better hands, but if I had a tighter range and I'm IP, then that's a pretty good starting point. If I feel like I have a good read then I'll loosen up even more. It's been a minute, but I had a read on him, right?

77-22,AJs-A2s,K2s+,Q7s+,J7s+,T6s+,95s+,84s+,74s+,64s+,54s,AJo-A8o,KTo+,QTo+,J9o+,T9o,98o,87o


So, there's a 30% range that we could elect to flat. Maybe some of these hands we could 3-bet, and, if so, we could add a few more hands to our flatting range.

Wow your 4bet sizing is really small here , could you tell me a little about that. My standard is 22bb here and 23 / 24bb oop. At 100nl most regs 3bet to $10 oop and i make it $22 , your sizing would make it $18. I guess with AA we arent afraid of getting called oop but i think i fear villains would start calling to this size , if they fold i guess its a much cheaper 4bet bluff. Is this your standard , do your 4bets get called much ? should i be making it smaller ?

Some guys will call, and then I take a note and make it a little bigger. I've been experimenting with making it smaller and it's been successful vs most. I haven't really noticed my success changing much, but I take a note if they call. I like making it as small as will get the job done as it makes it such that we can 4-bet more often since they are getting a worse price on a 5-bet shove.

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Wow folding JJ there, not sure about that one. Those short stack overshoves are literally never strong.

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Also, why hide your alias? I only want to know cause I play on Merge right now and itd be cool to know some people on there that are part of the DC community (I like this place a lot more than 2p2 in general). I'm not bankrolled for 200NL right now anyway, I'm sort of forcing myself to grind low stakes because I've played tournaments for nearly 100% of my 7-8 years playing NLHE and have rather little cash game experience. Grinding from low stakes is really beneficial too. Anyway when my downswing ends and I grind up a bankroll though, we shall meet...

Wow folding JJ there, not sure about that one. Those short stack overshoves are literally never strong.

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Also, why hide your alias? I only want to know cause I play on Merge right now (not bankrolled for 200NL right now though, for obvious reasons).

Yeah, that might have been a little nitty. I think it's a deceptively bad spot as the other player has some equity in the pot that's easy to forget about.

It's nice to not have everyone know how you play and have some of idea of how you think. It makes it a bit more difficult because you don't know what reactions to expect from people. I noticed my results dip a little when people started knowing who I am, and nowadays it isn't as simple as just playing on a different site.

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I know this guy mreddy300 plays pretty passively/straightforward postflop, but do you honestly feel it is +EV to be opening a garbage hand like 94 OOP? Obviously after he shows you 75 your play will change, but even before that I just think this is too light. You're also deep which gives the BB more incentive to play but even without that I still don't think its a good open. Was it something you just didn't give as much thought to in the moment or do you actually feel its profitable against him (have you checked your HEM or PT database for SB vs BB to see how you're doing with hands like that)?

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I dont really like the overbet shove on the river with A2 ...... yeah its hard to get more value with any bet and obviously we're never really beat, but we're repping a crazy strong range here (flush, straight, 2 pair aces up) because its nearly impossible for us to have air here ... the straight got there, flush got there, the ace hit the turn, etc. We'd have to be double floating with JT or 78 so the vast majority of the time he's just gonna shrug and fold his one pair that he was planning to check call a normal bet with (which obviously makes shoving a worse choice than betting 3/4 pot or whatever). For him to call with something like Kx or Ax here I feel there needs to be a ton of overbetting history and general fighting over pots.

I know this guy mreddy300 plays pretty passively/straightforward postflop, but do you honestly feel it is +EV to be opening a garbage hand like 94 OOP? Obviously after he shows you 75 your play will change, but even before that I just think this is too light. You're also deep which gives the BB more incentive to play but even without that I still don't think its a good open. Was it something you just didn't give as much thought to in the moment or do you actually feel its profitable against him (have you checked your HEM or PT database for SB vs BB to see how you're doing with hands like that)?

I think I'm opening about 50% vs him. My read was that he folds a decent amount pre and that he folds to a decent amount of c-bets. I think 94s fits in that range and is +EV, yes. My thought was that he folds pre close to often enough for me to open ATC (100%). Now that I see 75o maybe that's not true, but I still opening 50% is fine.


EDIT: This is definitely really close to the bottom of my range though.

I dont really like the overbet shove on the river with A2 ...... yeah its hard to get more value with any bet and obviously we're never really beat, but we're repping a crazy strong range here (flush, straight, 2 pair aces up) because its nearly impossible for us to have air here ... the straight got there, flush got there, the ace hit the turn, etc. We'd have to be double floating with JT or 78 so the vast majority of the time he's just gonna shrug and fold his one pair that he was planning to check call a normal bet with (which obviously makes shoving a worse choice than betting 3/4 pot or whatever). For him to call with something like Kx or Ax here I feel there needs to be a ton of overbetting history and general fighting over pots.

Fair enough.