You should be opening less than 100% of BTNs as a default, but the reasoning in this paragraph is misguided:

Your goal on the BTN can't be to simply "not lose money", so that 50% figure is irrelevant. Your opponent needs to defend a lot* more than 50% against a min-open** to prevent 72o from turning a profit (unless he doesn't flat anything preflop, lol).


*50nl has a lot of rake, so it might not be a lot more there.

**I'm assuming you are min-opening, because of the phrase "at least 50% folds", which is unconnected to any other raise size.

Not in 2014.

^^ Care to explain why?. If you open with 7-2o & i call a 50% range oop & have flop fold vs cbet of 39% & you bet half pot how is 7-2o making $?(plz lets not get into semantics about betting 1/3 pot or anything).


another question: I notice alot of regs are defending my 4bets with a call nowadays & im not seeing too much light 5bet jams, im now wondering if 4bet bluffs should even contain blockers anymore but rather s.c n gap connectors & also what ratio of bluffs to value/stack off range should your 4bet range be vs your typical 15-20% 3bettor who is calling alot more 4bets in today's game be?.

72o is never drawing dead preflop. 72o is very rarely drawing dead on the flop. 72o has other options than to cbet mindlessly.

Let's work with your figures but assume villain has a reasonable 3-bet frequency.

(% villain folds)*(EV of villain folding in bb) + (% villain 3-bets)*(EV of villain 3-betting in bb) + (% villain calls)*(EV of villain calling in bb) >= 0

(0.50)*(1.5) + (0.20)*(-1.5) + (0.30)*(x) >= 0

x >= -1.5. So basically, 72o can simply surrender the pot postflop every time and be a neutral EV open. But 72o has equity when called, so it'll make more than that against a 50% defender.

Depends on stack sizes. Adding SCs is good at deeper stacks, but unnecessary at ~100bb.

This is an easily solvable spot, and it should make good homework for you. Pick a ratio such that hands like 87s can't ship profitably.

Me: 100bb, open to 2bb otb
villain: 100bb 3bets to 7bb in the bb

me: 4bet 17bb

pot now 24bb

villain: ships 93 more bb

If i fold 80% of my 4bet range here villain shows immediate profit( winning 96bb & risking 93bb), but that's clearly not all to take into account cause he still has equity when called, he has 31% equity vs 10's+, aq+ stack off range. So then instead of risking 93bb hes actually now risking 93*31.83%= 64.17bb. So if i had a stack off range of 10's+, aq+(4.68% hands) & i have a 4bet range of 2.75% of hands * 4.68%= 12.87% of hands then villain has a profitable light 5bet jam with 87s, hence my 4bet range in this spot should be anything less than 12.87% of hands?.


^^^ Is my calculations off here?, i dont do this sort of stuff normally hahah so i mean if im off let me know buddy.

He loses (200*31.83%) - 93 when called, not 64.17 bb. Rest is close enough.

Is it true that you can see if you get the button first at pokerstars heads up cashgametables?

i mean i guess, but if u consistently only start on btn and end on btn then you'll get banned if ppl report u

i know it is forbidden and don´t want to do it.
anyway i would like to know how you can see it when you join the table at first and wait for opponents (i don`t mean that you see it when someone joins and you are asked to post your blind)?

looks like u can see where the btn is be4 u join someone. im not sure if it resets or not when do actually join. i dont see where the btn is on my empty tables but after i play a game and they leave then it will display btn.

Any good books for HU, recommendations? Heads up SnG, I should add.

tipton

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http://www.twoplustwo.com/books/poke...-limit-holdem/

Might be a bit dated but for starting HU players it's still solid i guess.

Can someone please recommend me good hu videos from Run It Once?
I have just got the elite subscription and I am not sure which videos to watch right away for hu. Which coaches besides Phil Galfond and Ben Sulsky are there to get some decent hu content out?

Kevin Rabichow / barewire on here

Kevin Rabichow looks very good but he only has 3 videos. Anyone else?

Just wondering if its worthwhile playing 0.10/0.20 on IPoker given the rake?

how much is it in bb/100?

Just bought Hm2 so is that 15.67/100bb in Rake that i am paying?

play husngs until you have a ~1k br (or some amount you are comfortable with), then play nl50; gl.

no its some type of currency $/pound etc. depending i guess on your settings. prob comes std as $ tho? anyways you can tell this because if you add them you get that total, as opposed to the weighted avg--see how bb/100 column does it. so if that 15.67 is set in $ which i suspect it is, then your avg bb would be worth like $.32 or so since you're playing mostly in pounds. so thats like 49bb rake in 600 hands, or ~8bb/100.

yeah i changed it to Euro as i was playing on IPoker but I changed it back to USA$ in new pic now

The 15.67 was Rake paid in general because when i added Rake in Euros it was also 15.67, but as you can see in new pic i added rake in USA $ and its $22.39, so basically the 15.67 was rake paid in Euros.

So if i have this right it looks like i paid 110 big blinds in rake for the 591 hands played?

112 x 0.20 cents bb = $22.39? so this is 20 bb/100 on average?

using your numbers here yeah 112bb/591 = 19bb/100.



but you need apples to apples. your rake is $22.39, but you played in euros/pounds, which $1=1.7pounds, and $1=1.35euros, so your bb is worth more than $.20 its worth like 1.6*$.20 = $.32, because 80% of your hands are in pounds.

so effectively your bb is worth $.32 and you paid $22.39 in rake which is 70bb or ~12bb/100.

So is it worth playing Hu cash vs HUSNGS as i prefer cash over the other, or does the rake make it not worthwhile?

samooth mentioned to play HUSNG but i don't really like the Hu Sng format quick blind increase sort of shove fest when getting low in blinds