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Originally Posted by btimm
Question here: What do I care about SPR when I am not willing to stack off here against this villain? If he is willing to get it all in, I am in really bad shape on this board.
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Yes the most basic application of the SPR concept is creating situations that allow you to jam the pot in the most optimal way given your hand. For instance, say you have a hand where you want to be sure to get the stacks in on the turn, you want to control the SPR so that jamming the turn is a reasonable bet. A common trick for this is the formula: (your stack - potsize)/3= flopbet. So if there is $20 in the pot and your effective stack is $72, you bet $17 on the flop so you can jam with a slightly less than pot sized bet on the turn. If you only bet $14 on the flop, your remaining SPR would be such that getting a commiting bet in on the turn would just look wierd. (it would either be a shove of more than the size of the pot, or a large bet that left you with an inconsequental amount in you stack)
Now to your question..
Why do you still need to care about SPR even though your not willing to stack off here? Just because you know you'll have to concede the hand once your opponent applies pressure you still want to make it difficult for him, and to do this you can use SPR to your advantage. By controlling the SPR you can limit the weapons in you opponents arsonal. For instance as the hand played out, if he donked into you on the turn you would be in a very tough spot. Should you fold what is possibly the best hand for such a cheap price? Raising will only get called by better, and calling just builds the pot while you have no idea where your at. Basically with such a bet he can leverage you whole stack vs the whole pot for a very small amount of his stack.
However if you had tailored you flop bet size to avoid creating such an awkward stack to pot ratio on the turn you could have effectivly removed the turn donk bet from his arsonal, thus not giving him such a good price on a move that leverages your stack and puts you in such a tough spot.
