Killuminati77

Hello everyone.

In this thread I want to share how I build my ranges against flop continuation bet BB vs BTN, I'm going to simulate differents situations against differents opponents tendencies, my main goal is to open a discussion on how is the optimal way to adapt to the preflop aggressor strategy and what would be the best strategy to play on the turn take in to account the profile of each player. Let's start with the Villains stats:

Villain N°1 uses a very aggressive style, his VPIP 30 / PFR 25 / Cbet 70 / WWSF 51 and is likely to make larger bet sizes >66% pot.

I'm going to use two types of boards, where ones the nut advantage is for the preflop raiser and the other one is favorable to us, the boards types are: A♠ K♦ 5♠ & 9♠ 7♣ 5♦

Let's start with the scenario where villain N°1 has the positional and nut advantage on the board AK5. My first adjustment to this type of player is to tighten up my BB defense range, because I'm going to see the turn for a high price on average and it's going to be easy for the BTN to play against my projects because he is in position, also this allow us to take range advantage over him (see the equities of the ranges on the next section). This type of villain have a nearly 50% opening raise on average in the BTN, here is how it looks the opening range:

After make the adjustments, my defense range would be like:

Let's take a look on the equity for each ranges:

As you can see, my adjustment of tighten up my range of defense makes the effect of having 55% of equity on a board where the villain has the nut advantage (He still have all the nuts because I don't have KK+, AK on my range).

Now lets see the frequency of made hands for each ranges:

Villain has a top pair or better around 27% of the time (red box), on the opposite he has complete air 44.5% of the time (green box).

My defense range have a total air 33% of the time, wich avoid us to over fold on the flop and made hands of top pair or better 31% of the time.

Now assume that we are facing a bet of 66% of the pot on this flop, my main adjustment at this point is thighent up my check/call range and make a few check/raises, this is because the profile of the villain have the tendencies of put pressure of medium hands on later streets, so I want to keep my defense range with relative strong hands than normal. My check/call range is:

On the red boxes have the top pairs, orange is for second pairs where K6-K9 have the flush draw, the green is for QTdd a gutty + BDFD, pink is for medium FDs and yellow is for bottom pair + BDFD. I fold hands that the may seems like an easy call such like 75hh, QJo, JTo because I feel they are to weak to continue on aggressions on later streets and I dont going to see the river enough times to realize their equity.

Here is my check/raising range:

The red is for the value that includes TPTK+ and the green is for semi bluffs, QTss and second pair with FD and backdoor straight draw, we can go on the turn with the combo draws but if K4-K2 missed their BDSD we can check/call or check/fold (depends on the sizings) because we are going to see enough times the river with that draw after check/raising on the flop.

Now we are going to build the ranges for the flop 9♠ 7♣ 5♦. The equity of the ranges are:

On this board the equity gets so much closer, but the BB have slightly the range advantage.

The frequency of made hands for the BTN is:

The made hands of top pair or better are 20% of the total range and the air make a total of 24%.

The BB have a total frequency of made hands of 12%, but the air on his range is much lower than the BTN 17.4%.

Now assume that we are facing a bet of 66% of the pot on this flop, my main adjustment at this point is to make a wide range of check/raises because the villain is not going to respond optimally often, and I have all the nuts on my range.

On the check/call range I have the top pairs marked on red, the green are for guttys + overcards, the yellow is for mid and bottom pairs and finally the pink is for pairs + gutshots.

Here is the check/raise range the red is for value, TPTK, two pair, sets and straights and for the balance the bluff are made by the top of the setup (hands that make the highest straights possible like J8s, T8s and JTo.

So that is basically how I approach this kinds of spot, if I'm missing up some kind of approach or you have a different way to build the ranges on this spots let me know. Im going to create more spots against other player profiles and I would post later...

Good day to all who pass here to devote your time to read my thread

Almost 3 months ago I began to climb levels from nl2 with a bank of just $ 30, a curious fact is that when I started playing I had a down that took me to bustear because it is $ 6 just, never get to feel anger or any kind of injustice because I understand that it was perfectly normal, in my mind I told myself that mathematics is balanced in the long term (this applies to really serious samples) and I kept playing 90% and studying 10% until I got to where I am now that it is nl10, I have tried a few times nl25 and I feel pretty confident to win at that level. I play 5k daily hands (if my connection allows it) to 4 Zoom tables, this in the future I want to increase it to 6 Zoom tables but it will be when I understand the game better to increase the volume of hands played. My goal is to become the winner of nl100 / nl200 before the end of the year, I have to move my ass studying and playing but I have no problem doing it because it is what I want and where I am going, I invite you to follow me in this thread and I will accept any comment you want to leave me...

PS: If there is a player who wants to achieve the same goals, I am interested in setting up a study group with people who are fully committed to improving their game, not something that is half-hearted.

Here are the graphs and the Stats that I have left over these 3 months