Quote:
Originally Posted by poison_arrow_frog
If instead I 4bet bluff KQo then I block 10 value hands whereas with A5s I only block 7
But a further wrinkle is that you get dealt KQo three times as often (12 combos) as A5s (4 combos), so you'd now be bluffing much more often if you *always* chose to 4-bet an offsuit hand instead of a suited one.
I'm not going to suggest "optimal" hands for this spot, but if I was looking for 12 combos of bluffs to put in a particular range that was still fairly easy to remember, I'd typically pick three different suited hands (e.g. KQs, ATs, 65s) in preference to all 12 combos of just one offsuit hand (like KQo). A GTO bot would make it even more complicated and use mixed strats, like bluffing KQo 12% of the time, ATs 84% of the time, 65s 19% of the time, A5s 82% (and several other "random" hands at low frequencies) and also have a "sometimes call, sometimes 4-bet, sometimes fold" frequency with many hands) so that its range was much harder to pinpoint and exploit, while keeping the total bluff frequency the same.
Blockers and anti-blockers, mixed frequencies and board coverage make everything so damn complicated, as I already mentioned. Choosing different raise sizes further confuses things. You can drive yourself crazy thinking about it. :/