
buddhadan
4 points
Some additional thoughts from me:
PREFLOP CALLING
#1 How often do I dominate his hand
#2 Will I be able to outplay my opponent effectively enough?
- how good is my hand for floating, x/r flop light etc.
#3 How well do I know my opponents tendencies? Do I know how to exploit them?
TIP
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3. The output will tell you how often you flop more than 50% equity against given range
RAISING PREFLOP
#1 Will he 3bet/5bet light with good frequencies?
#2 Will he dominate your hand often enough to make your raise unprofitable?
- for example to make shoving 100% from button unprofitable, BB needs to call just with premium hands and fold all the rest
- as stack sizes go up domination becomes less important (because implied odds go up)
#3 Will he be making post-flop play difficault for you?
June 2, 2014 | 1:44 p.m.
pookerazor
May 1, 2014 | 7:50 a.m.
OK, first –
preflop: Villain's CO calling range after BB 3bet:
all pairs
22-JJ
75% of QQ (i assume 25% of time he raises it)
10% of AA (i assume he raises AA 90% of time)
some suited connectors and 1-gappers
best offsuit broadways – AQo, AJo, Kqo
95% of some suited aces – AQs, AJs, ATs, A9s
67% of smaller suited aces – A8s – A2s
+ suited broadways
with some small random raising frequencies.
This is how it looks like:
Now let's look at Villain's flop ranges (I could consider only calling range but for
education purposes, let's do all of them):
Folding: 22-55, A2s-A5s, AJo – Aqo (he could float with them, but there are better
hands for that in his range), AsJs, AsQs, As7s, As8s
Raising: some percentage of sets – 66, 99, TT + two pairs T9 + QQ + random bluffs
Calling – all the rest (JJ, 99-77, AA:0.1, QQ:0.37, TT:0.6, 66:0.5, AcQc:0.95,
AdQd:0.95, AhQh:0.95, AcJc:0.95, AdJd:0.95, AhJh:0.95, ATs:0.95,
A9s:0.67, Ac8c:0.67, Ad8d:0.67, Ah8h:0.67, Ac7c:0.66, Ad7d:0.66,
Ah7h:0.66, A6s:0.67, KQs:0.95, KQo:0.9, KJs:0.8, KTs:0.7, K9s:0.95,
QTs, QJs:0.99, JTs, J9s:0.99, T8s, T9s:0.78, 97s+, 86s, 87s:0.99,
76s:0.99, 65s:0.99)
Now the turn:
Fold: 88-77, KQo, KcQc, KhQh, KsQs, KcJc, KhJh, KsJs, Kc9c,
Kh9h, Ks9s, Jc9c, Jh9h, Js9s, 6c5c, 6h5h, 6s5s
Blue means all combinations except flushdraws:
shove: TT, 99:0.9,
66:0.3, AcQc:0.18, AhQh:0.18, AcJc:0.18, AhJh:0.18, AcTc:0.33,
AsTs:0.52, Ac9c:0.22, As9s:0.38, Ac7c:0.13, Ah7h:0.13, Ah6h:0.12,
As6s:0.24, KcTc:0.23, KhTh:0.23, KsTs:0.23, QcTc:0.24, QhTh:0.24,
QsTs:0.24, JcTc:0.24, JhTh:0.24, JsTs:0.24, Tc9c:0.11, Ts9s:0.12,
8c7c:0.67, 8h7h:0.67, 8s7s:0.67
and he calls all the
rest. His final range at the river is:
JJ, AA:0.1, QQ:0.37,
99:0.1, 66:0.35, AcQc:0.78, AdQd:0.95, AhQh:0.78, AcJc:0.78,
AdJd:0.95, AhJh:0.78, AcTc:0.73, AdTd:0.95, AhTh:0.95, AsTs:0.46,
Ac9c:0.59, Ad9d:0.67, Ah9h:0.67, As9s:0.54, Ac8c:0.67, Ad8d:0.67,
Ah8h:0.67, Ac7c:0.57, Ad7d:0.66, Ah7h:0.57, Ac6c:0.67, Ad6d:0.67,
Ah6h:0.59, As6s:0.49, KdQd:0.95, KdJd:0.8, KcTc:0.54, KdTd:0.7,
KhTh:0.54, KsTs:0.54, Kd9d:0.95, QTs, QJs:0.99, QcTc:0.76, QhTh:0.76,
QsTs:0.76, JTs, JcTc:0.76, JhTh:0.76, JsTs:0.76, Jd9d:0.99, T8s,
Tc9c:0.77, Td9d:0.78, Th9h:0.78, Ts9s:0.77, 97s+, 86s, 8c7c:0.42,
8d7d:0.99, 8h7h:0.42, 8s7s:0.42, 76s:0.99, 6d5d:0.99
OK, now the actual decision.
Possible lines:
1) shove
2) check-call
3) check-fold
assuming that no one will use betsizings other than all-in (so I exclude bet-fold and bet-call lines for both players).
SHOVE:
if he calls with set+ than (final stack) EV = 1020.3$
if he calls with set+ and AQ than EV = 968.15$
Check-fold or check-call?
Version a)
if he checks-back 666, two pair, and all Aces
(27.84%) and goes all-in with the rest of his hands (72.16%) than EV
of calling his shove (valuerange: 999+, bluff range: Qx-)
= 1266.4$ while EV of folding =
570$.
Version b)
if he checks-back 66, two pair, all aces, all Q and JJ(34.74%) and
goes all-in with rest of his range (65.26%) than EV of calling =
1187.7$ while EV of folding = 570$.
SO WE SHOULD X/C RATHER THAN X/F
CHECK CALL:
Version a) EV = 0.2784 * 891.62 + 0.7216 * 1266.4 = 248.2270 +
913.8342 = 1162.06124$
Version b) EV = 0.3474 * 1000.6 + 0.6526 * 1187.7 = 347.6084 +
775.0930 = 1122.70142$
So check-call is more profitable as we allow him to bluff
with hands he would fold to our shove while all the rest is the same.
I think taking a break is not a solution to the problem. It works well as a palliative like painkillers, but the backbone of "not-optimal mindset" is not changed.
June 2, 2014 | 1:55 p.m.