Useful Heuristics to Approach 0 EV Bluffcatching Scenarios

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Useful Heuristics to Approach 0 EV Bluffcatching Scenarios

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Francesco Lacriola

POSTED Oct 11, 2024

When facing tough opponents, it's common to be put in situations that are deemed to be 0 EV for a bluff catcher and Francesco Lacriola offers tips and tricks for dealing with these situations.

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SoundSpeed 5 months ago

Great video. This helped with bluff catching but truth be told I got a lot about turn barreling from this video. I am way to wide and aggressive with my barreling.

33:40 So he shouldnt barrel the As because it blocks our draw range? I think vs a lot of lower stakes players they will often expect you to barrel flush draws, as such barreling the As allows you to finish the bluff on a river spade.

Thanks!

Francesco Lacriola 5 months ago

AsJx wants to bet the turn, because it wants to block AsQs, while AsQx does not want to block AsJs AsTs that check call the turn and are going to call a jam on a river Ace: this is an effect of tight ranges. In wider ranges scenarios you sometimes see AK without the spade betting the turn for value against the Ace high flush draws and the AsJx AsTx betting to leverage the fold equity generated by the FD blocker (getting to fold AQ on a second barrel).

In general, betting AsQx is not a punt, but if you're not careful and do not understand the implication of your choice you end up with too many potential bluffs on the river. This is not necessarily bad, as if you expect the opponent to overfold the river overbluffing the turn with a hand like that and overbluffing river spades is a good exploitative play (the opponent can counter-exploit you by calling all the 0 EV hands at full frequency). You have to be aware that you're doing it to exploit the opponent without assuming it's the theoretical baseline, though.

Linc 5 months ago

Hi Francesco,

I don't watch cashgame videos often, since I only play MTTs, but your videos are always great and helpful. Nice one

777TripSevens777 5 months ago

Francesco,
Great video. Enjoy the topic as well as the use of node locking to illustrate some of your points.

Thanks Francesco.

mx404 5 months ago

Hey fantastic video Francesco. Agreed with the above comments that a vid on wider range situations will be very nice!

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