So I never made a Pooh-Bah post. This is actually my 3239th post but w/e...here's a Pooh-Bah post if anybody's interested. (I meant for this to be a lot better but I got tired of writing it and it would've been long as hell if I did what I was originally going to. Sorry, hopefully it still helps somebody somehow)
First my quick poker story.
I'd played poker in the past and was winning live and had lost a bunch online especially at cash games. In Sept. 05 I decided to take it serious and play online in order to earn money....Started at sng's...I've played over 5k sng's (made a bit over $11K at them). In like Dec. 06 I start trying to switch to cash games/ Go to 200NL FR and crush it then start to lose...go to 100NL and same thing....switch to 100NL 6max and losing continues. So I go to 50NL 6 max and start posting in this forum a lot. I play a bunch of hands at like 1.8 PTBB/100 hands and I keep posting and reading and playing...Now I have a winrate over 5PTBB/100 hands at 50NL over a 6 figure sample size....and currently I'm playing 100NL... successfully so far (4.82PTBB/100 hands over 35,000 hands).
I have nothing really amazing to say so my post is going to focus on some things that I learned, changed in my game and the big leaks I think I fixed that helped me to improve so much. So here we go:
Pre-flop
Stealing
Implied Odds
3Betting (Best section I think)
Flop
Overpairs
C-Betting
Turn
Baluga
Double Barreling
Marginal Hand (Bet it or check behind) - very short
Turn and River
Thinner Value - (not really instructional just something to work on)
PRE-FLOP
(Don't ever open-limp.)
Stealing:
Tighter range in Ep and loosen up on CO or button. Steal those blinds. My attempt to steal now is between 30 and 35 and it could probably stand to be higher. Raise those suited A's and suited K's in LP...raise the suited 2 gappers...raise, raise, raise.
Good Threads:
6 Max fundamentals:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...t=1#Post7827947
Blind Stealing:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=5348855
Blind Stealing Part 2:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=6073737
Implied Odds
You need 11.7 times your investment to set mine with a pocket pair. That is all. That adjustment from what I was previously using undoubtedly made me a lot of money. Thanks go to dbitel though I'm not sure where that thread is now.
I'm not really going to say anything. Here's a good thread for this regarding suited connectors:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...part=1&vc=1
3Betting:
Obviously we 3bet our big hands...but we're going to have to open up that 3betting range. When we 3bet pre-flop we can take it down right there or we can take it down on the flop with a c-bet. We also still have the chance of hitting something big and we will be disguising our big hands. So don't call OOP with AJ/AQ,etc....3bet it.....or fold.
Pick the right players to 3bet light. That 56/14 guy is probably going to call you too much for 3betting 76s to be a good idea. However, I will 3bet AQ and maybe AJ vs. him because those hands are definitely ahead of his range and very very possibly are ahead of his calling range. (AT may actually be too.)
TAG's are generally very good players to 3bet especially in LP since they will be raising a lot and stealing the blinds with a very wide range, but generally will not be calling 3bets with too wide a range especially not if you haven't 3bet him a lot in the past. Let's look at this:
Let's say we are playing 50NL. We've got a 19/16 TAG with an attempt to steal of 29% on the CO and hero is the button. Villian raises to $2 making the pot $2.75. Now if hero raises to $7 he has to win about 72% of the time to immediately break even. Let's say villian calls/or 4bets with 88+,AJ+ (I think that's a pretty loose range btw especially for a TAG who is going to be OOP post-flop.) That's about 6.8% of hands and remember villian is stealing with ~29%. 6.8/29 = x/100 and x = 23.45%. So villian is going to fold to our 3bet about 76/77% which makes 3betting here immediately profitable. So IMO 3betting here with ATC is not bad until villian begins to adjust to you. And if you can bring your 3bet size of 7 down in certain situations where you are doing this then that will make it even more profitable.
I hope that gives people an idea that 3betting ranges can really and should really be opened up in certain situations.
FLOP:
Overpairs...
So the common I raised with AA/KK pre-flop, got called, bet the flop and got raised. This is really an opponent and situation dependent problem. You really don't want to fold too much though. And I will say this...if the flop is drawy you generally want to shove it in on the flop and if it is not drawy then it is usually best to not 3bet.
C-Betting:
In headsup pots cbet nearly always. In 4way pots cbet nearly never if you don't have a hand.
3way: A good one to c-bet is a flop with 1 big card and not very drawy like Kd8c3h. Bad flops to c-bet are low card drawy ones like 8c7d3c This is because a lot more hands will call on flops like the latter and if we have no hand we don't want calls.
TURN:
Stacking Off Light:
Baluga. Turn check-raises are almost always big hands and TPTK is no good....don't stack off light. I used to do that waaayy too much.
Thread:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=6607951
Double Barreling:
Orange explains it so well...so nothing from me. Here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...page=&vc=1
Marginal Hands:
If you have a pair of aces with say a T or 9 kicker (or something like this hand) and you are IP and checked to then I think it's better to bet on a drawy turn and on non-drawy turns check behind then call on the river or valuebet if checked to on the river.
VALUE on TUrn and River:
This is something I vastly improved on....getting more value and getting thinner value on the turn and river. Have to learn to read hands and get thinner value on these later streets. This will really only come with experience and effort IMO as well as study and analysis of many different hands.
Ok....I meant for this to be a lot better. I was going to really go into depth on everything and really try to flesh out my thoughts. But it would have been long as hell and I've already gotten tired of writing this. It probably sucks and it espeically got so much worse towards the end of it but whatever.
Hopefully the part on 3betting is good and will help some people.
Good luck at the tables guys.