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Postflop adjustment theory

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Postflop adjustment theory

Sup folks, I've been playing a while and have recently got into HUNL from 6max. I'm not entirely sure how to adjust postflop in terms of complete ranges and how combinatrics fit into that. For example preflop, it's pretty easy to assign yourself a value range against somebody of what you would get in preflop when thinking about 3betting and then it's quite simple to figure out a bluffing ratio depending on how often villain folds/4bets etc.

Postflop though I'm quite unsure, it's easy to say "value bet thin and don't bluff vs calling stations" "bluff a lot vs really tight players etc." but I only really apply that on the river, and in this day and age, it's not really that simple as mmost players understand ranges etc. What I really want to know is how to specifically exploit certain postflop tendencies. I was playing somebody the other day who opened minraise opened ~70% OTB (the site I play on isn't supported by HEM/PT) and cbet 1/2 pot 100%, so I was attempting to exploit him by C/R a load on the flop and doing so by turning the best hand I'd usually fold to cbet on the flop and C/R them (If I had 67 and the flop was 10 9 2r, I'd C/R instead of C/F) after a while, he started to float and 3bet my flop C/R's so I thought the best thing to do would be to just C/R a complete value range, like the top 20% or so of my range on the flop, but I feel i'm not really ever exploiting people in the way I want to postflop...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Felipe Boianovsky 12 years, 2 months ago
Hey. I recomend you download Flopzilla and start studding range combos.

People who played HU are usually more intuitive based, but in 6max the hand ranges are that much narrower, to the point where you can actually see in your mind people`s entire ranges. Flopzilla is a great tool to study that. And then after you have a better idea for how ranges are in 6max, you naturally exploit them with hand reading, knowing when their ranges are to weak or too strong and that kind of thing.
dhara111 12 years, 2 months ago
I watched that video, but didn't really get much from it to be honest...I mean, I'm talking about what do ou do with your whole range when you're playing someone who is doing X, Y, or Z? I've been playing people over the past few days who I thought were exploitable because they'll cbet 100% or they'll check back every top pair so their cbet range will be weighted towards air, or they'll never bluff rivers...but I don't feel like i'm exploiting them. For example I'd C/R maybe a 4:1 bluffs to air ratio when they are cbetting so much in an attempt to exploit them there, or I'll never bluffcatch rivers when they don't bluff...but I don't feel like i'm winning/exploiting them.

Preflop is fine, I know how to exploit them by adjusting my range from merged to polarised and the ratio of bluffs to value and so on and so forth, but postflop...I just feel lost in terms of how to adjust to people...with my whole range in spots.
dhara111 12 years, 2 months ago
Often I'll be playing somebody and they'll open 80% on the BTN and cbet 1/2 pot 100% of the time...I don't really know what to do here. The problem with 99% of the videos I have watched is that they'll say what they do with their hand and why in this spot, for example, they flat with 10 9 from the BB and the flop will come 9 Q K or something then they will say "I have to call here because he cbets 100% and I'm ahead of his range"...I can understand why people do the things they do in videos with the specific hands they do, but they don't really ever go into what they do with their range, like are they exploiting the villain there by C/C really wide? how often are they C/F on that board when he cbets, and with what? what else are they C/C and C/R with in order to exploit villain? (I know you can say things like "How often does he double barrel, how often does he folds to C/R? what's your image? etc) but this is just a hypothetical hand to try to illustrate what i'm struggling with. Just analysing the hand you have vs their range isn't really that helpful in terms of adjusting and exploiting villains HU I find, what I'd like to know, or if anyone has any links to videos/articles that are helpful in terms of talking about this, that'd be a great help.

Sorry for the fairly long paragraph.
dhara111 12 years, 2 months ago
Also, a quick thing, after I watched the video linked here, it said how nowadays most really good HU players will flat a huge % of hands from the BB to a BTN open so I started to try and flat more (I was probably playing around 80% of hands from the BB on average when villain was opening around a similar amount, to start the match off, I would generally have a 3betting range of 1010+ AJo+ and then the bottom 10$ or so of hands in my defending range (75o, Q2o, 64s etc) roughly so I'd have a 1:1 ratio of bluffs to value and then I would start to widen my value range to include A9o+ 88+ and decrease my bluff range by maybe 50% if they were calling wide, and do the opposite of that if they were folding a lot. (My overall 3bet% would generally be between 17-20%, maybe a bit more if they opened more and a bit less if they opened less) but often I'd feel like I got exploited postflop.

They'd cbet a high % and I'd C/C a wide range because of this, I'd usually C/C bottom pair to TP, and C/R most gusthots that didn't have much SD value/overcards etc (basically the worst of the hands that I couldn't C/C) and C/F the rest, which is quite a high %, probably around 50. then the turn would come and I would be pretty lost as what to really do, I don't find I vary my play much at all depending on my opponent here, I just take a fairly fixed strategy and play that.

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