Re: steel108 - $100 NL (Part 2/3)
This video was made on June 1st so sorry if the stuff isn't fresh in my head. There is one thing though that is REALLY important if you are to take something from this video:
Raising with a draw that has no showdown value (or very little)
In the video, I 3B a garbage hand bb vs button (a mistake) and villan defends w A9s.
Villan flops an OESD and raises small; this is a mistake, but I'll use a better example to illustrate.
We raise preflop to 2.5x on the button w T9hh and get 3B from the blind to 9.5bb and we obviously call since we are a huge calling station. The flop comes 723hh and villan CB half pot (for an illustration, villan bets 44 into an 80 flop). We raise villans CB (might be good, might be bad, but not the point) to 100. THIS IS REALLY BAD.
You might be asking yourself why this is bad since we are giving ourselves a good price on a bluff. I agree we are giving ourselves that, but why not save that for our bluffs (pure bluffs). With that small of a raise size, are we really trying to induce a bluff? Shit, his bluffs beat T high (most of the time). Once we raise, we have to call. If we induced villan to bluff shove AQo, WE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE. We called our stack off with T high and villan got his money in good.
I learned this the hard way a few months ago. I CB w a K high FD and an aggro villan raised me. I am so smart that I made a small reraise and he bluff shoved over the top. SWEET, but guess what, his A high was ahead and it held. When I reviewed the hand after my session, I realized I made the mistake, not him. Moral of the story and video: if you are raising small with a draw, make sure you can beat his bluffs; if not, either call and play the turn/river OR raise an amount where villan won't bluff shove since you look committed. In the example I gave, if we had A7hh, AQhh, etc... raising small isn't bad; he will ship worse draws, we are doing well equity wise versus his value range, and we are ahead of his bluffs. Hopefully, you can see the difference. I think this pretty basic now, but I played a hand 2 days ago with a reg I thought was good who made the same mistake; thankfully, I shoved the A high and it held versus his 9 high (flush draw).
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