Nicely done van
Thanks.
Before i joined DC i was a recreational break even sng player, now i am begginning to up the amount of games i play and have a 22% ROI over a small 350 game sample on pokerstars.
Don't discount your small sample size. If you were breakeven, took action to educate yourself, and then started winning, it's probably no accident. Congrats and keep going!
I have been employing more stealing into my game and have often come across these exact scenarios where my steal raise is reraised and the flop is jammed knowing my range misses 2/3 times.
There aren't a lot of guys doing naked go-and-goes in STTs, so a lot of the time, you'd probably be shown something decent. But if you do have some knowledge that an opponent is capable of it there are a couple adjustments you can make.
For one thing you can lower your steal raise size, which in effect makes your opponent's stack larger which makes his risk/reward context less favorable, and allows you to lose less when you just have to give up.
Post-flop, you can pull off a few hero calls with hands like Ace-high, second pairs, flush or straight draws with overs, etc. But don't just do it willy-nilly--have some sort of read, and make sure you aren't playing fancy for its own sake.
what sort of hand range would you use in the stop and go against the pre raiser?
I wouldn't want to flat-out say, do it with A, B, C hands and not with X, Y, Z. It's contextual. The guideline, as I said, would be: any time you aren't sure if simply getting all-in is immediately profitable and you feel you can get away with it often enough, i.e., your opponent's range includes several hands that he can't/won't call with on the flop.
As the pre flop raiser how can you exploit this? i presume that when someone makes the stop and go on you they are not folding if you jam?
A stop and go is made by a player with a stack that is <10BB so you should usually be all-in pre-flop when stealing against such a stack. But if you are in position such that you have to make a normal raise through several similarly deeper stacked players but there happen to be <10BB stacks in the blinds, you should already have a plan and make your raise accordingly. If you make a raise, and then find "oops I got stop-n-goed, what do i do," you're doing it wrong. You should already know what you'll do before you make the raise, otherwise don't make it.
Sorry for the torrent of questions within an hour of you posting lol
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Thanks for clearing that one up though.
