Defending from button.
11-24-2013
, 07:04 AM
Hi guys,
I'm asking here in the kingdom of math and poker theory, don't know if it's the right section, however I'm sure I'll get some interesting answers that will help me improve my button game.
I'm dwelling on my button trying not to simply play it but take it to the next level. At the moment I'm playing FR NL25 moving to NL50 soon, my stats are 15 12 4, att to steal 43% fold to resteal 80%. I'm opening 100% of the times when I'm on the button and there are 2 TAGs with high fold to steals sitting in the blinds (even better if there's a nit).
However I think that, even if at the moment my strategy is working quite well, when I face someone who really pay attention to my stats he would exploit me like hell
As I would do with someone like me who's folding 80% to resteals: basically it would be +EV to resteal w/ ATC.
1) Which are the best strategies to use against these guys? How do we construct our 4bet range? I'm asking this because I feel like if we open 100% of the hands when everyone fold to us, our continuation range would be really small compared to our o-range.
2) How do I figure out if that reg is polarized against me or depolarized? And how this would affect my strategy? At the moment I'm looking at the notes I have on people when they reach SD in resteals/3betting situation, for example if I notice that someone resteals with 10% frequency and I have notes on him of 3betting only with AK/QQ+ (2.5% range), the other part of his range is eventually air.
3) I think that one of the most difficult things in poker is to quantify and weighting ranges, for example how do you decide how much to tighten your opening ranges from button or to open up your 4betting range? I mean after all we could find ourselves in a situation where we know that villain is restealing w/ 10% frequency and restealed us 3 times in the last 3 orbits (100% frequency).
Usually these situations make me feel exploited, even more when I decide for example to 4bet a range of [A2s-A5s,K2s-K5s,Q2s-Q5s] and of course if he resteals us with that 100% frequency it hard to have those hands and I end up folding.
Sorry if I wasn't that clear/specific
I'm just looking for good inputs to improve my game
I'm asking here in the kingdom of math and poker theory, don't know if it's the right section, however I'm sure I'll get some interesting answers that will help me improve my button game.
I'm dwelling on my button trying not to simply play it but take it to the next level. At the moment I'm playing FR NL25 moving to NL50 soon, my stats are 15 12 4, att to steal 43% fold to resteal 80%. I'm opening 100% of the times when I'm on the button and there are 2 TAGs with high fold to steals sitting in the blinds (even better if there's a nit).
However I think that, even if at the moment my strategy is working quite well, when I face someone who really pay attention to my stats he would exploit me like hell
As I would do with someone like me who's folding 80% to resteals: basically it would be +EV to resteal w/ ATC.1) Which are the best strategies to use against these guys? How do we construct our 4bet range? I'm asking this because I feel like if we open 100% of the hands when everyone fold to us, our continuation range would be really small compared to our o-range.
2) How do I figure out if that reg is polarized against me or depolarized? And how this would affect my strategy? At the moment I'm looking at the notes I have on people when they reach SD in resteals/3betting situation, for example if I notice that someone resteals with 10% frequency and I have notes on him of 3betting only with AK/QQ+ (2.5% range), the other part of his range is eventually air.
3) I think that one of the most difficult things in poker is to quantify and weighting ranges, for example how do you decide how much to tighten your opening ranges from button or to open up your 4betting range? I mean after all we could find ourselves in a situation where we know that villain is restealing w/ 10% frequency and restealed us 3 times in the last 3 orbits (100% frequency).
Usually these situations make me feel exploited, even more when I decide for example to 4bet a range of [A2s-A5s,K2s-K5s,Q2s-Q5s] and of course if he resteals us with that 100% frequency it hard to have those hands and I end up folding.
Sorry if I wasn't that clear/specific
I'm just looking for good inputs to improve my game
