To Block or not to Block
Posted by Francesco Lacriola
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Nice Beard!
do you have the link or title of the other block betting video you mentioned at the start?
https://www.runitonce.com/poker-training/videos/blocker-betting/, https://www.runitonce.com/poker-training/videos/block-betting/
Hey Francesco, in the first Krzystof's video, the SPR doesn't change much of the block betting frequencies. (as you can see in the image below).
Why do you think it ocurred here when you increased the SPR from 1 to 1.5 (timestamp about 34:00)?
I think the factors that influence this are:
a) Nutted hands in the blockbetting range;
b) Ratio between nutted hands and bluffs in villain's range in relation to all in bet size (they can bluff more combos if a big overbet is possible).
If villain has the opportunity to always go all in with their whole range (or almost 100% of the range) because even if they bluff 100% of the combos for an all in bet it would be impossible to bluffcatch, then blockbetting get punished by huge overbets.
Question about the high SPR scenario. You say we shouldn't block with bluffcatchers because villain can jam and give us horrible odds. However, villain can jam vs. check and give us horrible odds as well. Is it worse to block-bet fold just b/c you lose EV from putting money into the pot and then folding?
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