$1/$2 Rush: Finding Deviations and Exploits
Posted by Gary Chappell
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There were a number of spots where you were deep with villain in this video. It makes me wonder how much time you spend studying deep spots. I don't put a lot of time into it and I feel like that may end up costing me a lot of money if I am not modifying my strategy much from my 100bb study. At what stack depth do you think I should reset to 100bb given my lack of expertise playing deeper?
I think ranges/strategies change drastically once you get to 150bb+. You can quickly scan through GTOw and see this. Too many players play static 3B ranges and don't change when deep and therefore open themselves up to being exploited. At 150bb+ we can't just mindlessly 5B jam JJ/QQ/AKo, so players can 4B bluff us more IP. Also they can dominate us postflop deep stacked IP in 3Bp where we're often left in tough spots with single pair hands. This is why we start to develop calling strategies OOP (eg SB), and 3B hands that play well deep or vs 4Bs (eg suited aces).
26min was an interesting hand when deciding to barrel the turn to target flush draws and get hands like 88-77 to fold. Then changing the game plan to get KX to fold the river with an OB. Do you find these BBB lines profitable in this pool? Earlier hand you gave up Q8h BvB on a 764hh-2-2 run out vs J4s. Are you only barreling on a scare card that lands on the river?
I think this specific river allows me to bluff because I'm left with very little air (all flush/straight draws hit). Kx will overfold this spot. Whereas on brick rivers I get called by all Kx, and I have showdown vs Ax flush draws, AQ etc. So turn I get called by worse, fold out better (eg 66/77).
41min what are these chips in front of your cards that block the view of your suits?
47:40 this feels like a criminal fold against a guy with a 40 vpip. Don't you want to play more pots against players with a purple tag? I thought it would just be a call or a shove. I never considered folding this spot.
I wanted to ask more about this fold with AK here. If the rec only has QQ+ AK then AKo has 38% equity against that range. AKo has 33% against QQ+ AKs. Using red chip fold equity calculator we need villain to fold 28% of the time to show a profit. So if he never folds our pot share is 38% of 200bb for 76bb, so we lose on average -24bb in this spot by shoving? And by folding we lose -10bb? So its -1000bb/100 by folding and -2400bb/100 by shoving? What is our stack off range vs this player type then? Just KK+? Maybe AKs? I assume if AKo is folding QQ is also folding? QQ only has 40% equity against that range.
the chips are just a GG graphic.
yeh it seems bad. i guess i had a read/notes on player. im not sure fish 4B bluff that much IP v BB 3B from my experience. AKs goes in, as does JJ+ probably as this sizing feels AKish.
Gary Chappell to be fair I wasn't saying it was bad. I was more curious in live games vs so many recs if I should just be folding AK myself vs these 4bets. I typically call and try and hit A/K high flops vs their 3b/4b. I can get behind folding preflop if you think its correct.
41:12 being a little deeper, with some dead money in the pot. Even to 7x, I was surprised to see you auto fold… I would assume we normally roll this spot? Maybe 50/50 ?
you mean the 44 hand? vs big size and high rake environments im pretty sure it's just a fold. tight formation so not sure its going to be profitable. 150bb+ it may become more of a call, but then we need to consider reverse implied odds of set over set, or flush over set etc. its not as simple as hit a set of 4s and win a stack.
23:00 facing 4bet with AQo
I would like to hear your opinion on population in this pool - do they under4bet here? Are the 4bets too strong?
And so would you say that overfolding vs the 4bets is good starting point until I know the guy?
Yeh vs LS/MS population a good starting point is overfolding vs 4Bs, perhaps just folding the 0ev defends. Picking hands that play well and can cooler/stack AA/KK is important (i.e. suited hands). AQo is overplayed massively.
34:00 in the replayer bottom right Q8s spot - probe b33 and barrel river b150
I think its very hard for you to get credit for a hand here once you block turn -> imo its perceived as 7x 6x 88 and just never Tx or better
So when you use b150 OTR it just looks full of shit
I would go with b33-75 again not to maximasi my fold equity, but to challenge his Ahighs KQ KJ to somehow defend properly vs smaller size, which is more consistent with the range we rep both realistically and perceived
Also interested if you ever use b33 probe with very strong hand - I mean you said it multiple times, pool is just too passive so using b33 with nutted hands makes not so much sense, when we dont expect to get raised both for thinner value and as bluff.
Interested if you try to "protect" the b33 size OTT in this spot
Q8s - I think you are wrong in this spot. I am going to want to bet the turn here very wide (all pairs). Therefore using a block sizing makes sense. This is a simplified strategy. River then I will have 2 sizes (block and overbet) and will split my range accordingly. B75 is not really a functional size for what my hand classes will want to do. It's too thin to B75 with 6x/7x, and not getting enough value with Tx+.
I would use B33 on turn with range as mentioned, unless I have opponent exploits. But if you want to split, then B33 with hands that block calling ranges is important (eg T7/T6).
40:00 Table 3, BBvBU 2bp facing turn b50 barrel that is mergy/weak
You face this turn merge a lot in this pool, so I would like to ask you, what would be the adjustments you would make vs the face up half pot size.
Would you just go very hard with the half pot here = weak and just raise the shit out of it?
Probably KQ and maybe KT and some other lower equity/cant call turn hands, can just try to attack?
Also think we should just raise KJ QJ but when I am in game I struggle to do that, raising very thin vs this size which is very likely around the hand he had.
I also expect him, if we raise 4-5x, to fold almost everytime.
Bluff raise a lot, and raise thinner for value (eg decent top pairs).
Thank you for feedback Garry
Do you think due to BBJ there is merit to vpip more with these AT-AQ hands? i think popolation is atleast playing them more against 3b/4b because of that.
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