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KQo can be 3b btn vs hj..but at a low frequency..30% sounds about right

Iuba, you are asking questions - very few ppl dare answering. I would at least expect answers and a debate on your issues. Don't see the point otherwise / simple waste of my time if you read my answers and bring nothing in return. I am not trying to be rude but I think that it would be fair on your part.

As played he's got all sets, less % of set of 22 obv but is in there decent proportion of the time. He s got most importantly all combos involving a Q with a better kicker. AQ and KQ that dont 4b pre. You are blocking JJ i dont think he decides to turn JJ into a bluff OTR.

too loose PF. -ev combo on the BTN. You should adopt a linear 3b rng A2-A5s/54s/65s/76s/JJ+/KJs+/AQs+/KQo/AK+.

Our btn calling rng vs CO being something like 77 => TT / JTs/KTs/QJsATs/AJs

i wouldnt use bluffing that early in a hand. Quite dangerous way to think early in a hand Tozzy.

looks like you havent built your 3b/4b ranges in this particular spot sb vsbb

you could 4b ATo and call ATs for instance

not sure what you mean by TTs being the bottom of your range. I split TT between calling and jam with some %. Your 4b calling range should look like this...

22+/KTs+/QTs+/KQo/JTs/QJs/A2s.....

How is TT the bottom of your 4b calling rng... I may have missed something to what you just said...

for obvious blockers. Hence, JJ is the top of our 3b calling range here.

ATo+/ATs+/QQ+ standard 4b pre vs bb

KQ is type of hand that cannot 3 barrell and most of underpairs. AK has too much SD value and should be checked on this river.

we have enough sets/2pairs/TPTK/Str in our range to balance this

Q9 is a decent 3 barrel bluff here as well as K9/AQ/K6s/A5s/A2s. Have apref for K9s.

TT is a fold pre here. 4b calling rng: JJ/AK.... 5b QQ+

i actually made a mistake. Misread your post. THought you had AJ on AQ7 board

and we double barrell this turn with underpairs and suited connectors

AJ is on the cusp here. Has to be mixed strategy with a slight preference towards checking OTT. We need to keep our checking range strong so we check 100% of combos of AQ/AK/AT os & suited for instance to balance.

adopting a raising strategy to find out where you're at is a dangerous way to think in poker in general. I don't think vilain is raising to achieve this at all. You need to push your way of thinking a bit further. What rng does he have here? how many bluffs? how does he balance his value? what are best candidates to raise your cbet to balance his value raise? Something like Axcc or A5 with A of clubs for instance. I don't think that your combo of AK should be part of your cbet range here without BDFD. Calling his raise is mandatory here though.

On this particular spot vs bb rng, I think that we can adopt a strategy that tries to put as much pressure as possible on bb rng. Everybody simplifies their gto strategy and bet 1/3 blindly on paired boards but I think better EV comes from adopting 65/70% psb cb as most of bb continuation (around 70%) range consists of suited cards with backdoors and hands that will pick up equity OTT with SD or GS. I don't think that the population calls Q6 with bdfd 100% of the time here which make our double barreling strategy even more effective.

On this turn card, we block some fd which reduces his Turn calling range tremendously to hands holding a 5, an 8 or the very small combos of gs/sd with fd.

OTR: only J9cc seems like a fair candidate to bluff here for psb, I d prefer trash like 64. 96cc, 97 cc, 32cc, A4. I am not sure i d favor bluffs here which makes me think i made a mistake somewhere as Ben advocates bluffing more often...

opting to raise top 2 on this F weakens too much your calling range. I think that we should simplify our strategy. imo, we cannot have a raising rng on this particular spot without weakening our calling range. I think we make our life very hard here trying to raise this board (raising like 3% of our rng here KJ, TT, 99) as it makes balancing our strategy very hard to accomplish. For pure metagame purpose, vilain knows that this flop connected strongly with our btn calling rng and we should call with about 65 to 70% of our rng. I don't think that he expects you to get any fold equity or is doing it to achieve this imo. You beat a very small region containing 2 pairs below Top 2 and few fd + oesd. Vilain cannot cannot lead his over pair region as this is very exploitable and clearly -EV. Considering that he's not a reg and most likely not very balanced in this spot, this looks like sets and KJ for value.

regarding the size cbetting 1/3 here my whole range

Hi LeavingWinterBehind,

I think that you should adopt a more linear 3b range sb vs btn. You are not supposed to have the middling suited connectors you talk about here 98/87/76. I would polarize my range a bit more containing 65s and some % of A5/A4s. Playing a more linear range simplifies your tree enormously. This would allow you to adopt an almost 100% cbet rng on this flop with some x/r occasionally but i don't think taking initiative makes a lot of sense OOP imo. On this particular flop that hits so much your nuty range vs btn i d adopt a x/r exploitatively though considering the massive rng advantage we have here. You have a massive rng advantage on this flop being sb and crushing BTN strategy in EV. The main reason being BTN range has a massive weak region that contains a ton of underpairs and a bunch of small to medium suited connectors. However, your range in sb is more nutted towards high suited cards and less medium pairs and contains almost no region of med/small suited connectors.

sb 3b rng: A6s[/50%], 55+, A4-A5s, A7-ATs, AJ+, JTs, KQ, KT-KJs, QTs+, T9s, 65s

A simplified btn 3b calling rng could then look like this:

22-TT, 43s, 53s+, 64s+, 75s+, 86s+, 97s+, A2-ATs, AJ-AQ, J8s+, K6-KTs, KJ+, Q9-QTs, QJ, T8s+

Simplified btn 4b rng: JJ+, AKo, AKs

Hi mpuskad3,

I don't think JTs is a profitable limp vs. utg 3x rng. utg has a massive range advantage on this flop strcture. Your range should be played more linearly with very few limps here. 99 and TT limp 100% & AQs 50% looks fine. You represent very thin on this board as you are not even supposed to have top set 100% of the time here. The board has draws, your range doesnt contain almost any of them. 65 is in your 3b range almost always and small fractions of 76 and 54. JJ is a -ev raise OTF. You could also be drawing very thin regarding potential FD as you almost never hold the nut FD. AQcc best ev comes from a standard call OTF as well. Raising here weakens your check back range too much.

I started working on Pio last few months myself. We could try and open a group chat on skype if you are still up for it?

Hello Nick, I am up for coaching if this post still holds... Let me know pls

dont seem to be able to find you on skype Jeffrey

I am flying to Miami on Friday for 1 week though. Would be good to meet up. My cell is 6467043444

I am based in NY

Hello Chris,

I actually don't use Facebook. How about creating a skype group where we can share views/ideas etc?