Ep 10: Merged Flop Raising - how to continue if called, esp. with middling hands
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Ep 10: Merged Flop Raising - how to continue if called, esp. with middling hands
First I want to say that the merged flop raising is spot on and works wonders in terms of realising protection and fold equity so far when I just started incorporating it into my NL5 and NL10 games for two weeks now.
What I still struggle a bit with though is how to continue OTT if called with middling hands. Especially on super dry flops I find these calls quite strong and can't decide whether to turn our hand into a kinda bluff and continue barreling on brick turns (f.e. 87 of Q82, turn 5). Especially since we are OOP I often fear a value raise.
On semi-wet flops which turn wetter OTT I guess now we should usually barrel again with a large sizing as it fits well with our story, (f.e. the third flush card hitting), and I figure we get even better fold equity, but maybe that's also debatable?
One last question: do we merge-raise small PP as well, especially if they are third pair on dry flops? Like 55 on J72 rainbow? With hardly any chance to improve im quite disincetivized to raise and usually call OTF and give up OTT.
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As a general rule:
When we checkraise merged we check very often on turn.
When we checkraise polarized we barrel turn very often.
Less often. Because when we do get called by better it's harder to make a better hand. A set has 2 outs but a pair + card has 5 outs.
Just wanted to revive this thread. What are some examples of runouts where we would continue barreling after a merged raise? A competent villain would probably know to call often if he knows how wide we are raising.
This is normal. When we raise merged he is supposed to call a bit wider. Which is the reason why we can raise merged as well. When we raise 2nd pair or 3rd pair and our opponent only calls better then it isn't a good raise. If he calls wide (which will happen due to our lower sizing as well) those raises are value raises.
When we have a merged range we just don't bet with a merged range. When we do barrel we would do so with a polarized range.
Cards that would make our merged range much more polarized would be barrel cards.
For example 872r and we checkraise. When a 7 comes we would barrel with most 7x or better and bluffs. But our 8x, overpairs, etc are checking.
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