Bet sizing - dont just bet 1/2pot because its a type 1 board, think about who the villain is and his range? if villain is never folding a pair, bet big for value. If villan is folding to any bet, bet smaller as a bluff.
3betting - 3betting different ranges vs different players. More tweener hands if they like calling, and suited trash if they fold too much. And pay more attention to gameflow, adjust air:nut ratio based on recent history. dont just 3bet bluff because it is in our normal air function.
Cbetting - just like bet sizing, think about who villain is, how hard did the board hit him? How likely is he going to peel light? Think about his strong/weak range on the turn, can we fold out his weak hands by firing multiple barrels? knowing where the point of honesty is for villain.
Dont call too much in the blinds - Dont defend shit like small SCs and PPs just because bobbo is doing it, just have to admit i am not good enough to play them profitably OOP for now.
PSR - beware with PSR at all time to plan better bet size, and think about how to max vs worse hands with diff PSR.
Hand 1: Facing donk bets 3 streets
Villain is 20/15 donk bet 11% of the time.
History: I joined this site 2days ago, and villain has been pretty aggressive preflop against me, but i have been owning him with 4bet bluffs + he ran into the nuts a few times. My image is pretty laggy, running at around 28/24 3bet round 10%
I can def see him donking the flop as a bluff, but when he donk into me 3streets, i think its either air or nuts. There is no semibluff in his range, i have a bluffcatcher on the river. His value range is really narrow but i just dont think he is donking 3 streets into me as a bluff, i guess i should fold?
Hand 2: Value bet river?
Same villain but this hand actually happened before.
I think when he calls my cbet, his range cant be very strong as i expect most sets and straight will raise flop, i think with FD he will raise me some% of the time too, i think his mostly range is 77 - JJ pair + str8 draw etc. So after he calls my cbet i planned on firing 3 barrels on good turn and river cards. Turn is pretty decent card to rep so i went ahead and bet it, but i expect most mid pairs will still call one more street so i was going to bluff him on most rivers.
But now i hit my ace which i think its the best hand like always, how should i maximize? Shall i value bet? i think all those mid pairs i ve mentioned earlier will have a tough time calling, if i decide to bet, how much shall i bet? a small bet since his range is most likely to be weak? or shall i bet big to look like a bluff? or is checking to bluff catch vs missed draws a better idea?
Hand 3: TP 3bet pot
Villain is 18/14 folds to resteal 67%. I dont really feel all that comfortable calling with ATo OOP vs this guy so decided to 3bet which is probably bad.
Even tho i flopped TP, i m not that excited because he is pretty tight. Do we want to just bet 3 streets for value? or is my line ok?
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Generally I am against this thinking because altering your bet sizes upsets Shania (balance). However, against 1 time Charilies that you are never going to see again or against people clearly so tilted or stationy that they call even when they shouldn't then I am all for making bigger bet sizes on type 1's. However, it is very transparent and you should be aware of this.
ReplyDeletePerfect analysis on 3bet pots.
If there are hands that you are tempted to call because Bobbo does, but feel you don't play them as well then try 3betting them instead, I think bobbo 3bets 54s way more than he flats. Alternatively only play them v fish to get experience in these situations.
Hand 1: Disagree that this is nuts or air. I strongly doubt he has any air that does this 3 streets esp as the turn card is the worst to bluff. I see people donking in with Ax that is better than yours but not classed as 'nuts'. I also think that some people can lead marginal hands to see where they are on the flop and then mistakenly for value because theny find it difficult to put you on an Ace. Anyway that's unlikely as they always check the river. In this case villain has no bluffs and doesn't expect you to fold to that river bet size. Flop and turn standard, river is a fold.
hand 2: You would always bluff that river card and so for that reason I would always bet it with an Ace. I like to appease Shania.
hand 3: The only problem with 3betting AT here is your stack size. 100bb generally it is fine, but when you are deeper you are likely to make a bigger mistake. I'd prob go ahead and bet the turn again and mix it up between betting and checking the river depending on my opponent.
Thanks for ur comments dude, ye i only change my bet size against fish and bad regs.
ReplyDeleteHand 1, I really wanted to fold at the time, but ended up calling in the end and he had 44.
Hand 2, i did ended up betting the river, and i went for a big bet (close to potsize) is that a mistake? i feel like if i bet 1/2p, it really will look like i m trying to get value.
You talked a bit about balancing, in your opinion, at wot limit should i start worrying about balancing? There are so many spots where i have way too much air (cbetting flop & turn etc) and some spots where i always have the goods (c/r on turn and river for example) but i seem to be able to get away wit it at 100nl so far.
U havent updated ur blog for a few days now, how ru doin man?
Bobbo believes we should play every hand to maximise EV and we kind of naturally balance by doing this. Against guys you play with every day and aren't brain dead try and keep things like bet sizing etc. consistent so they don't get a read, but really it only matters when you play people are somewhat good. I'll update the blog soon.
ReplyDeleteOnly just notice this got updated, will read and review..........
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