VPIP/PFR seem good.
As you said EP and MP opening a bit too low. Based on your %'s , im gonna suggest that you could add QJs, JTs, T9s, A2s-A5s to your range. These all play quite well. I dunno if youre opening 22-44. Not everyone does. they're fine to play but not too important.
MP is where you can start adding in hands like KTs, QTs, maybe Q9s, QJo, any suited A, 98s, and the likes.
3bet a lot more . MP is fine. Any higher than this would look suspicious. CO could be a bit higher, maybe 5%. BTN should be higher.
You 3bet% should really correllate to what hands you want to stack off with. BTN vs MP what hands are you 3bet/5bet shoving? QQ+/ AK?
this is 2.6% of hands. A good balance(in order to not be exploitable to 4bets), is somewhere between 50/50 bluffs/value hands. to 60% bluff hands, 40% value hands.
So if you're stacking off QQ+,AK BTN vs MP, you could be 3betting between 5-6% .
BTN vs CO is an interesting one. People don't really 4bet/call that light at NL25. So 3bet/5betting JJ might not be worth it. However, the more value hands you have, the more bluffs you can have. And BTN vs CO is a very profitable spot to be 3bet bluffing. So we'd like to be able to 3bet at least 8% here.
you could consider 3bet/5betting a hand like 22. It may seem pretty spewy. but if youre doing it against a guy who only ever has QQ+, AK, shoving 22 isn't really that differently to shoving QQ.
Guys at NL25 will 4bet bluff too high, which means you could 5bet shove very light.
At the moment, regs will probably see you as a tighter 3better. So they probably won't 4bet you that wide. For now i'd add in more bluffs to your 3bets, and when regs start to adjust by 4betting wider, you can add in a few others hands that you'll be willing to occasionally shove back .
fold to 3bet% probably slightly on the high end, but i couldn't really pinpoint how you could get it lower. Similar to the point above, having more hands that you're willing to get it in with , allows you to have more 4bet bluffs.
CC% probably a little high in the Sb. vs BTN and CO 3betting will nearly always be better. and Vs EP and MP we're only really getting the price to call with a small % of hands.
Yeah, as you said WWSF% is worryingly low.
First things first, BB is where its at its lowest. Seeing free flops due to limped pots, and then just check folding your 72o and the likes is one reason for this. The discounted price we get in the BB to see a flop, usually leads us to check/fold if we don't hit. Fight back a bit more on the flop. If flop checks around, lead out a lot on the turn.
other situations. If you see a flop 3 ways. Sb checks. you check, BTn checks back. On the turn Sb checks again. BET! . regardless of what you have betting here is nearly always best.
For the rest of WWSF its really just about being alert, and being aware of common lines that you see. Its hard when multitabling. But i'd say in an hour session, there's at least 5 times where villain is literally turning his hand face up, clicking the check fold button, etc... and you don't notice, and check behind Q high or something like that.
Get flop cbet % up a bit. I know cbetting all the time seems kinda obvious or something. But when i multitabled i used to cbet 50% and had a WWSF of around 42%. I now cbet closer to 70% and have WWSF of around 49%. So theres definitely a relationship between the two. Also theres too many spots where villian would easily check/fold for only a half pot cbet, which doesn't need to work that often to show profit.
Turn cbet% is too low. especially with your flop % being so low, you should actually have a hand by the turn quite often. People call the flop way too often, and you should be firing again a bit more here.
Flop fold vs cbet too high. Its good to have this around 50%, but id rather have it on the lower side of 50, than the higher side. Float more. Also concentrate on the board texture, and what villain thinks you will do. Don't just fold your underpair to a cbet on a K high flop. Do you not think villain will be cbet bluffing a very high% of the time on a K high flop.
Check raise flop % too low. Getting this up will obviously help out your low flop fold vs cbet % , and your WWSF.
You should be check raising your big draws occasionally. Should be check raising big hands on wet boards, Top two pair, etc..
You should also check raise boards that don't really hit villains range. He min raises btn, you call. Flop comes out T 5 4 rainbow and he cbets. Check raise him. Occasionally. A good player will realise that you don't really rep much yourself by check raising here, but at NL25, it will work a lot.
Sqz more from the blinds, specifically BB. no exact number, but its a good move.
4bet range : Similar to the 3betting point above, it should correlate to what hands you want to stack off with. EP you could be 4bet/calling with KK+, and balancing this by 4bet bluffing AQo, for example. Gives a 4bet range here of 1.8%.
MP . Probably 4bet/calling QQ+,AK vs both BTN and CO, so we could 4bet bluff KQo, and AJo, for example. which would be 4.4% of hands. MP vs the blinds, we might not always 4bet/call QQ+,AK. and even if we did, we might be getting fine odds to call with KQo and AJo, and we could add other hands to our 4bet bluff range.
CO vs BTN/blinds. essentially 4bet/calling QQ+,AK again, and should have similar bluffs OOP. IP vs blinds maybe stuff like A2s-A5s.
Once again the more value hands we have, the more bluffs we can have. If we're willing to 4bet and call a shove with JJ, then we can have another bluff hand.
BTN. Blinds will be 3betting us wide, and we wanna be able to 4bet bluff a bit back, and call a bit too.
We could 4bet/call with JJ+, AK here, and 4bet bluff A2s-A8s perhaps. This will have us 4betting 5% of our hands back at him.
vs 4bet fold % is good, however this is correlating to a currently 5% 3bet. So as you up your 3bet%, you should note your vs 4bet fold % go down, until you start to adjust your stack off ranges.
Lastly 3betting from the blinds. This should be highest in SB.
Being polarized in the BB isn't too important but its certainly something to consider. It leaves your calling range stronger, and also allows you to add in more hands to your range that would have otherwise be folds. So vs a 2x open, we might wanna 3bet TT+, AQ+, and then stuff like Q2s-Q5s, etc, and we could flat KQo, KJo, those kind of hands. but not that important, and if you're against guys that call 3bets too often, probably better to have high cards.
you should be quite merged with your 3betting in the sb, mainly due to the fact that we should not have much of a flatting range.
Vs the BTN we can be 3betting up to 20% here. vs the CO obviously less. It should also be noted that , in order to not be exploitable to 4bets , you have to be willing to 5bet shove a lot of this 20% range back . to start off, try notice BTNs that 4bet too much, and shove any pocket pair back at them.
You only actually need around 40% fold equity to profitably shove a small pocket pair against a guy who's stacking off with QQ+,AK.
Sorry if this was too long.
Last edited by garyk5846; 12-18-2014 at 12:58 PM.