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Originally Posted by wesbtn
thanks nice reply
vs a good opponent are we not going to be exploited as villain will see we are raising to much, if we raise knowing he is doing it with any two cards?
What tool do you use to wok this out, I'm a noob.
I used
http://www.pokercalculatoronline.com/ to get the data for J2o vs 100% range - there are better ones out there but it's been a while so that's what I used - for the record though, I already knew it'd be roughly in that neighborhood because it's pretty hard to get worse than that vs ATC. I just did the formality of checking because I didn't want to say 40% and have some pedant come at me with 35% or 45% but the general idea is that most cards are terrible and J high beats a lot of them.
for you though, this is an obvious fold, you're not at a play J2o profitably level
The reason for mixing in 3bets is that basically any cards you're willing to call with, you need to be 3betting with at least some of the time. This is especially true if he's raising with ATC
If he's raising with ATC, then there is going to be a huge gap between his raising range and his 3bet defending range.
Pot is $30, you are risky $65 to win that.
65/(30+65)=68%
If he folds 2/3 of the time here you are breaking even - if he's doing that with atc, then he's probably ditching it around that often if not more so
Even better, you now still have 34% equity against his top 32% calling range
You also have position to better exploit when you have the best of it and get out cheap when you are beat
it also serves to disguise it well, he's not going to expect J2o here very often and makes it harder to hand read. Next time you have AK he may stack off with A7 because he thinks you're popping it with J2o
It also gives you command of the hand, the flop is 100% yours, he's going to check to you most of the time and it'll be your option to see a free turn or cbet it
if someone is raising me with ATC and I'm going to call with J2o, some of those times I'm going to pop it
Last edited by rickroll; 06-26-2019 at 11:05 AM.