kurtkeoki

This is specific to zone poker on Bovada, and/or ignition. I've found myself raising and reraising much more often preflop than when I played rush on FTP, where people had huds available. Obviously balance is not important, and each hand needs to be played in a vacuum. The thing is, the vacuum play is often to raise, because opponents are folding so often, as in a vacuum, it's usually correct to fold pre-flop.Also, people play fairly weakly on the flop and turn. I'd be curious to see how many hands go to showdown.

I was giving some thought to the idea of raising a very large range of hands, maybe as many as 50% of them preflop. I was also thinking that it could be theoretically correct to 3-bet a very large percentage of the time. Think about your own play for a moment. If someone has raised, you generally need a decent hand to continue, and even more so if you raise and someone 3-bets you. You're going to assume, correctly in most cases, that your opponents have good hands. Now turn that logic 180. Assume your opponents are going to be folding to a majority of 3-bets. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that it's profitable to 3-bet a very large percentage of hands.

Has anyone crunched any numbers, or explored this concept before? Are there any videos that talk about this? I'm curious to see how an extreme preflop strategy could work on the anonymous zoom tables.

5/10/25 at Rio. I have 6.5k, villain covers. I have been totally card dead and several people have mentioned how tight I've been playing. Villain isn't a drooler by any means, but is playing a lot of hands pre, and loves to run it twice, which means he might be more likely to get it in light, expecting that he will get to run it twice.

I am the 25 blind with AsAhTd6s. The other two blinds fold (it starts with the SB due to the button straddle) and I just 50 call for several reasons, mostly due to my very tight image and bad position. I don't want to raise AAxx if they will assume I have AAxx.

Villain calls, button makes it 200, I call, villain calls.
Flop Tc5c5s Pot $625
It checks around.

Turn Tc5c5s6d Pot $625
I bet $500, villain makes it 1900, buttons folds.
I feel like this could be a shove, since I block 66, TT, 56, and 5T. Also, my shove has to look super duper strong to him. He may not raise a FH here either, although with 56 he might for protection. The reasons not to raise are because I have no money left to continue in a great game, (theoretically not a concern, but in real life it matters, I was done for the night if I lost that hand) he might call lighter if he gets to run it twice, and in general, I don't feel that it's a good idea to try to move loosish players off big hands.

Thoughts?