bet sizing

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bet sizing

as a general "GTO" is this good bet sizing? 1/3 pot on flop, 1/2 on turn, 3/4 on river. I think it works well because the small bet on flop keeps the pot small so encourages them to stick around and keeps pot small if you need to bluff the turn which with a 1/2 pot bet offers the opponent 2 to 1 on a call, not good enough for flush/ straight draws to call. Then on the river you can bet 1/2 when triple barreling or getting a tight player to call a value hand, or 3/4 against either a calling station or to put pressure on in a cash game. I understand bet sizing changes depending on the board texture just wondering if this is good in general. Might set my bet slider to something like this if you guys agree.

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lagu123 10 years, 2 months ago

This is how alot of fish play on lower stakes..
These ranges are far from GTO/ balanced; on river people will just start to call you when you bet 3/4 and fold when you bet 1/2 (which is what I often do vs weak players)
If we're betting for value on flop, we extract alot more on average if we bet 3/4, than if we bet 1/3.
If we're bluffing, 1/3 doesn't seem very profitable as well, and our bluff range would have to be vary small. Therefore we will be checking back on flop very wide/weak range, and will be folding vs turn lead way too often.

ZenFish 10 years, 2 months ago

Board texture adjustments aside, think about how this will generally affect players drawing to beat you:

-You give them cheap turn/river cards to beat you ==> Implied odds
-If you don't adjust your bluffing frequency correctly to small sizing (fewer bluffs), you are overbluffing

Against calling stations, this makes their loose early street peels more correct. They will peel a lot anyway, but now they are getting much better odds for it, and might even be exploiting you by accident. Strong players will also quickly learn to take advantage of your generous pot odds, of course.

nittyoldman 10 years, 2 months ago

It sounds like you are trying to simplify the game more than is possible. Its like you're saying, "if we just pretend there aren't complex things to consider for each decision, can we just choose between A, B, and C instead of the whole alphabet of choices?" To this the answer is yes, you could do that IF the game wasn't as complex as it is, but in reality, this simple game doesn't exist and you need to consider board texture, opponents tendencies, ranges, etc. to choose the most +EV action. So I would answer your question with a firm NO, you cannot just go with those 3 bet slider options and get away with it.

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