$5/$10 Bodog Shorthanded
Posted by Krzysztof Slaski
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Hey Slaski, how did you know who were the weaker players?
Were you already playing against them before the vid?
The the way you articulate both ranges is clean and smooth, thanks for this great content!
Hey guilis
Recognizing who the weaker players likely are is mostly coming from experience and guess work. On bodog you won't see good players using different preflop sizing strategies, of limping strategies, or not topping off, so even with a very small sample you can make some pretty accurate assumptions about who the weak players are.
Cheers.
2nd table 5minute you folded ATo BvB vs 3/4 pot, you said he bets often big. Think this hand is +EV call flop, and we have enough worse folds. I believe GTO would call it too, because it is above mdf (2overcards is strong) and we can outplay weak player on the turn/river
Hey Jeff_
Yeah I agree, that was a tight fold.
decent changes by bodog
Hey ! Thanks for this vid !
i have a question for you :
(1st table, 37:00) As deep as you are (140bb), do you think raise 5x AQo in the bb is really good ? Because I think that when you are deep here, facing an open from the bouton you have more incentivies to develop a raising range witch doesn't contain a lot of unsuited combos.
I Don't know how do you construct your range but I presume that you have a polarised strat in the bb againt BTN, but is it more profitable to just have Ako on offsuit combos, and keeping AQo in our Calling range ?
A message from a Young French Poker Player ( an excuse for my English) :D
Hey Yoyoooo
You definitely do not want to make changes as drastic as just not 3betting any of your offsuit hands weaker than AK just because we are 140bb deep(this preflop strategy won't differ that much from just 100bb). The deeper you get the more incentive you have to keep both ranges more balanced and keep some stronger hands in the calling range, but only if your opponent is good enough to abuse situations where he ends up with a polarized range and very high SPR and develops very large bet sizes in those spots.
I am not sure why you would want to just cut specifically all the offsuit hands here either. If your reasoning is that on specifically flush completing boards with higher SPR our opponents will abuse us as described above^ - sure against such players we would replace some offsuit combos with more suited/board coverage hands, but this adjustment will be small; by not 3betting your AQ here at all you will definitely be leaving money on the table.
Cheers.
At 25:50 table 1. You 3b sb vs co with 88. Flop 235s, you opt for 1/3 Cbet. I thought on these boards we want to size up, especially with vulnerable hands like medium pairs. Or do you think flop sizing doesn't matter that much? Why do you use small size here?
Also after opponent checks turn, what do you think about block betting? If we decide that we want to bluff catch here vs a 3/4 size bet, would that make us want to block bet more than if we were going to mostly check fold river? Since we avoid having to make a marginal bluff catch, not sure if that makes sense or not.
Hey therapist
So the issue with using a larger sizing here is that we would be getting dangerously close to isolating too strong of a defend for IP. Keep in mind he has all the sets, 99-JJ and A4s, on top of that he will have a bunch of 6/4 out+FD hands that are doing pretty damn well against us in position. When we get to the mid overpair region, like TT-QQ, I would much prefer the larger sizing. However, hands like AA and KK, especially with a heart, just don't really mind letting IP see another card cheaply. So my strategy will be some kind of split between the half pot-66% and small sizings.
I think the blocker bet would be a decent option, but it's close. Remember to make a blocker bet effective we need a good chunk of hands in his range that will otherwise have checked to call us, and if he folds his AQ, A2, A3 type hands the check becomes a better option. We do miss a street from 77-66 with the check though, which hurts.
Cheers.
hey Slasky, i downloaded the holdemindicator and it doesn't work, it could not find any tables on bodog. so, i have to get a lisence to use it to collect data?
Hey,
I believe you have to get a license to use Holdem Indicator on bodog. I've had it for a very long time so I may not be the best person to ask about this.
Hey, Krzysztof Slaski - thanks for another thought-provoking vid. I had originally written up a long-winded, overly wordy, and misguided comment that I decided to delete (to save you the frustration of having to read it). But basically, at around 38:00 with the AQo 3bet from the BB hand, what is your value range on the river shove looking like? And assuming you are triple barreling overpairs on that runout—though being somewhat deep makes me more than somewhat scared of doing so—are there any blocker properties that you are looking for with those overpairs, such as AA unfortunately blocking AJ (though maybe having the AA with the A of hearts and A of clubs would be the best combo, with AJ of hearts already being blocked by the board, and the club unblocking his suited AJ flop calls)? Any input at all that you may have here is much appreciated, as always. Thanks again, Krzysztof!
Hey,
My value region there is gonna be something like QQ+, AJ would be a little thin. AA is a funky hand in that spot, as you've recognized, I would generally bet it for a smaller sizing or check on the turn, so I don't get to the river with AA very often with this line. That being said I would split the AA between a small bet and a check on the river as well. it's a pretty good spot to use a larger frequency of blockers given all the marginal calls for IP.
Cheers!
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