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Originally Posted by Bob148
This is your problem.
The selection of bluffs should satisfy some conditions:
1) make better hands fold
2) maximize equity when called
3) have an expected value higher than checking
Yes? And I chose to do so with bluffs that has more equity than 2 outs when being out of position on turn. I do not understand your point here. What is my problem?
You have to me more clear about what your point is please.
I will give you an example:
When I bet flop I want to do it with a polarized range. My bluffcombos should retain their equity vs opponents calling range. I therefore chose to bet flop with flop-draws, BD draws, gutshots, overcards, third pairs for instance.
When turn comes I aim to remove half of my flop bluffs at the same time as I keep all my value combos. This means that the ratio will be 50/50. I then chose good draws and bet them together with about the same amount of value combos and check rest.
If board do not have alot of BD draws on turn, and if I need more bluff combos in my range then I will bet overcards for instance. There will almost always be gutshots with overcards, BD straightdraws, BD fludhdraws, flushdraws from flop, gutshots from flop, straightdraws from flop etc to bet on turn.
Not often will board be so dry that I can not even bet overcards as a bluff. If I bet AJo, and Aqo as a bluff on turn I have 32 combos right there. I will not have difficulties to balance my turn range after bettin flop because my range will not include all sets from flop for instance. On a dry board I will probably only bet middle set for instance. That is three combos. Then let us say that I have two overpairs that I do not want to check then I have 6 more combos, maybe I want to bet TPTK, that´s 16 more combos. As you can see, not even now have we reached valuebets enough to cover only two hands of overcards. Of course we will have more valuebets than that sometimes. But we will also very often have many more bluffs to bet too. Please note that this example was just to give you an idea of what my point is. Of course the runouts will change ranges completely very often and my valuehands from flop has become bluffcatchers on turn etc. The point is though, that I got the impression that you thought that I would have problem to find enough bluffcombos if I did not barrel low PP:s from oop. This is not true if you bet flop in a balanced way.
You can not have it both ways, a dry board with a very few bluffs but at the same time always with a range with too many value combos. If that would be the case I often would have made a mistake on flop by betting too many valuehands to start with. On dry flops I can only bet as many valuehands as my bluffs allow me to, and vice verce. This means that I will bet less often on some dry flops than wet flops and so on.
I believe you think I will have a problem on certain very dry boards because you think I bet flop with more value combos than I do. I believe that many players value bet flop too often. Which means that their turn range gets messed up and their flop checking range gets too weak.
Last edited by bNice!; 02-25-2014 at 01:47 PM.