thecrook88

Makes sense, thanks for detailed response. Just ran it through flopzilla and we're so far ahead. This has definitely been a mistake in my game when assigning our equity against defend ranges in 3bet pots

Hi Paul @ 38 mins you 3bet Jacks in the BB and mention that Qxx is a bad flop for V's range so a great board for us to bet aggressively. Isn't he going to have all KQs, QJs, AQs, AQo and potentially QTs and KQo if he likes to call a little wider. Seems like a Q really smashes his calling range?

Given that V is more than capable of calling down with worse than A J why do you feel this is spewy?

Thanks for the message.

I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of his range in this particular hand though.

Even if we assume he doesn't shove his pair + flush draws and other combo flush draws and give him a strong range of KT, AT, All combos of T7, all sets and all overpairs, plugging in that range vs A9hh on Flopzilla gives us 40% equity against his range.

Given that this is BVB, I believe a lot of V's are shoving hands like 89hh and pair + flush draws a lot of the time as well given how small our value range raising range is.

With the equity against his range and the dead money all in the pot I believe this makes it a call here.

If we're just raising here to be profitable by having fold equity against a lot of his c-bets on the flop and to take free turn cards and with a plan to fold to a reshove wouldn't it make more sense to raise your weaker draws that will have very similar fold equity and still have the opportunity to realize equity cheaply OTR by checking back turn. Seems like the results will be very similar and you won't waste the equity of a big draw.

Although equity of a big draws reduces by half on the turn if it bricks (as you mentioned), the combination of the ability to play our range effectively on the river and the amount of equity we still have OTT often means we can call turn profitably (villain dependent) even if we don't have the immediate pot odds.

Would love to hear anymore thoughts on how best to include draws when constructing flop raising ranges

thanks for the feedback on the hand, I agree.

RE the HH, the software is on the english language version so that's not it. The HH also works when I post into a converter site and 2+2, just not on here...