shootaa - $200 NL

[dj_mercury]

Originally Posted by shootaa

I generally will call KTo out of position for a few reasons. The lesser important one (not demeaning your question or anything, this is just how I'd rank the reasons in order of importance) is the one that you brought up. If you 3-bet a hand like KTo, especially only 100bb effective, it's fairly unlikely that any hands you dominate are going to call your raise. You might reply, well ok, then why don't I just 3-bet everything since so many hands are folding, sir? The reason is that I think I can get more value from a hand like KTo in this position than from the folding equity I'm getting pre-flop by 3-betting it, not to mention the hassle of trying to navigate sticky spots out of position in re-raised pots out of position with basically no reads. So 3-betting seems bad here, IMO. If I knew he was caling 40% of 3-bets in position and folding a lot of flops or something along those lines, then go for it.

Obviously in the first hand at the table I am not 3betting KTo for value, but as a bluff. Advantage being that I have blockers to his value range, villain should not defend too light and I still have decent equity against his calling range. But I can see your point about the sticky situations that can come up, although the probability of both flopping the same top pair is close to the one of flopping a set, and 75s is surely much easier to play.

The more important reason is that I want some Kx hands in my range that can stand the heat of 3 barrels on a Kxx board. If you only have discounting KQ (because you 3-bet it some of the time) and KJ, then it's pretty likely that when you check and call a continuation bet on a Kxx board that you rarely have a good hand. This means that your opponent can value bet you extremely thinly and bluff you off the best hand fairly easily if the board gets scary for a middling hand. I also like to have a balanced floating or check-raising range (depending on the opponent and stack sizes) and KTo fits nicely into a range of hands I'd be calling out of position like QJ KJ Q9s sometimes, things like that in order to be able to credibly represent hands when I'm bluffing and to get paid when I'm valuebetting after draws miss.

This is pretty long-winded, but basically just made you like 300 buy ins I think.

This makes total sense. I will report back when I make those 300 buyins. Thanks.

[shootaa]

LOL you do that, sir. GLGL

[Shades]

Nice video , 100% vpip you say , id be interested !

[SvenRipa]

Very good video!

Your answer to the KTo vs. 75s hand was awesome too!

The Ts7s hand where you stacked the UTG+1 guy that had AA; on the the 9s8s6c flop that was 5way and the UTG-PFR had CB and UTG+1 called you said that the best way to get the money in is probably to raise immediately before a scarecard can hit on the turn and increase the chance that someone puts his stack in right now when he might think he have some decent amount of equity. You then said that this is also a good postflop squeeze spot for the same reason. How does that make it a good squeeze spot? (I’m assuming you mean a squeeze bluff, I might have misunderstood.)

Also to clarify, I think you said that he needs hands that are not just the complete nuts to take a stand with here otherwise he will fold way way too often(not disputing this just wanted to know if I understood you right).

Regarding the smaller opening size OTB on the 100bb tables, you said that one of the benefits of this is that you think this will make our opponents 3bet you with a less polarized range. Could you please elaborate on why that is a good thing?

Thanks.