Jalo

sup Sal?

"I will not coach/mentor/whatever you"

This really made me smile.

When you are refering to a "large sizing" , i understood you to be referring to the open raise of villian. Not his 4 bet.

To have a polarized opening range ,one would have to raise first in with best and worst and limp the middle. Which is a really bad idea.

So most player play a linear range preflop, so they are never polarized when they open raise.

A larger thean usual opening size usually idicates a fun player with a good hand.

When they are 3/4/5 betting this gives them the oppurtunity, to split thier range and polarize.
So simple example is 3betting A2s and AKs, but calling ATs vs a open raise.
All three of these hands would also be a open raise, for the same size.

"the large sizing made me think he either has it or he doesn't: is this reasoning correct? "

i do not believe so.

lol

it is not a coincidence, it is a conspiracy, everyone vs. BDP.

Maybe in your example , when we consider all of the turns and rivers to come , AA isn't that strong of a hand against BTN calling range + beneficial flop. maybe its mostly a bluff catcher on most rivers when all is considered? Esp. when villians range is narrowed by a flop bet. We are going to have a dry overpair on a wet turn mostly.

Don't see any folds on turn if i call flop.

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Attachment to material things creates suffering because attachments are transient and loss is inevitable. Thus suffering will necessarily follow.

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If your site supports it, switch to BB instead of $.

Recently sat @ Blitz50 mistakenly and didn't realize my mistake due to everything being in BB instead of $. Played solid , and relaxed because in my mind i was playing blitz10.

This is my line of thinking, well said.

Thanks for the comments.
I am trying to break my game down and rethink while on a tilt break.

I decided to start with UTG vs BTN flat, due to narrow ranges and my lack of solver knowledge.

So the 50% only sizing is only in reference to this situation.

Trying to simplify i guess, but i don't know how to determine if doing so is + or - overall.

Assuming the simplification results in increased balance.

Could be wrong here but,
SB going to check a lot, wide weak range?

EP,MP, CO range checking a fair number of flops that favor IP.

When MP 3bets AQs vs calling UTG, if he calls he is sometimes playing a multi-way pot, often OOP. Mostly due to BB getting a great price on an overcall.
Also open to squeeze.
By 3betting he is playing a HU pot much more often IP.
The ev gain mostly due to position acquisition?

Button already has position, 3bet or not, so it doesn't have the corresponding gain in EV of acquiring position.

Hi Luke,
Welcome to RIO, not an elite so i couldn't watch ur video.

Thanks for the advice, and you hit it on the head, lack of aggression.

Watching one of Lister's videos recently, he mentions lack of aggression as the most common shortcoming of micro players and i struggle with this.

One heuristic i use, is that playing for stacks ina SRP without better then 1 pr. is often overplaying. This could be tying my hands, so to speak. What do you think?

If i CR the hand above, and the draws come in, what could i be bluffing with on river?

Turn KK and other made hands into a bluff? Bet fold?
Thanks for the help, good luck!

Thanks , good point.
My line makes no sense if i am not going to call it off on brick rivers.

Thanks for the tips on blocking Kuduku.

@ Hawks- His stats seems reg ish, but does a reg flat 87s , QJs preflop here?
IDK , i don't have a flatting range here, obv. villain does.

thanks

I did not consider a block here, guess that's why i suck @ poker.
It seems like the correct play. I like it.
Is there a video covering block betting? Don't think it was covered in "from the groud up".
In game I wanted to call, but it is hard for me to give villain any credit to bluff that line.

thanks

I have no calling range here , and i am range betting flop.

Villain's size and the dry flop texture leads me to assume he is skewed to value .

thinking not folding here is a leak.

Seems nitty to pitch it here , hence the thread. But i folded.

My backwards thinking was that i block some FD so his range is more skewed to value and with his sizing we aren't realizing bd equity before stacks go in.

If i call the flop, OTT there is PSB ish left and folding on everything but a heart, A or K, will feel really dirty and so will calling on anything else.

Vs this sizing i pitched the flop, exploitative fold or just nitty idk.

Thanks to all for the comments.
I was thinking in game on this board villian's range is unbalanced to bluffs because

I will flat some JJ+, in villains spot, but i am not gonna be playing them that way on this dry ass flop.

I called it off and he showed AcQc and we held.

A good sizing here?
i guess that's my OOP sizing by mistake, maybe 22.5?

Yea, i need to increase frequencies across all streets cbetting.

Thanks for the answers.
My overall is 8.5% ,on the lower end as i imagined.
Watching a henry lister video recently , he commented on lack of aggression as the biggest shortcoming of most micro players. I resemble that remark.
He also mentioned that when you node lock a solver to play like micro players(not fighting back at each node enough), solver says to run them over with aggression.
When i run leakbuster in PT4 over 100k sample, everything looks ok'ish, but i am b/e over 100k sample @ 10 blitz.
My redline is as bad as they get i think.
Any thoughts on generating aggression appreciated.