lukbawkz

7 months ago

A common spot

There's a spot that comes around often that I've been having trouble with.

Hero raises hijack to 3bb with 88, button (a good reg, let's say 23/18ish) calls, blinds fold.

9 months ago

3bet pot question

Understand why the standard is to cbet half pot in 3 bet pots and you will understand how to play vs people that bets bigger.


This is why I asked the questio...

9 months ago

3bet pot question

So the standard wisdom is that when we 3bet and get a call, with 100bb stacks, we should bet about 1/2 the pot on dry flops.

One thing that confuses me, though, is when a not-great-bu...

11 months ago

Disgusting spot with AA

UTG is a fish and quite a calling station, seems confused about how to play poker. Not totally sure about his thought processes but I've seen him spaz out one way or another a couple of times (x...

11 months ago

Never Tell Me the Odds : Episode Seven

"he could have ten jack of spades" lol

11 months ago

AK Bluff Line

Tbh I think, with no reads other than 'this guy is a reg' (even a fish) it's a fold pre. 3betting a 2nd position open in FR is super strong unless the guy doing it is pretty good or generally ve...

11 months ago

Defense Ranges

I wouldn't approach it this way. Your defending range should be dynamic, not just to steal percentage but to other things. For instance, if you think you can take a lot of pots with checkraises ...

11 months ago

30nl: I hate being deep :(

Are you sure our implied odds are that good? I know we're getting called by sets but if, say, the 2Heart comes on the turn do you think a big bet is getting...

11 months ago

30nl: I hate being deep :(

Villain's a typical TAG, stats are 17/12/1.5, 47% fold to cbet, 8% raise flop over 609 hands, no other reads. LP is a fish, 49/13/2.1 over 53 hands.

OnGame - $0.30 NL - Holdem...

about 1 year ago

50NL, A high 3b pot

It's a river bet, and he's laying me 3:1 (so needs to be bluffing 25%). But yeah I definitely see what you mean, and I do agree he's probably value betting a reasonable majority of the time.