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Originally Posted by Bostrow
I don’t doubt the insight, but can you show me the logic behind this hand being excluded. Is it because it is in a bottom % of my range? The pot odds (for this hand) look fine against a 5% range (see above) with the benefit of stacks going in if I hit a set.
For reference, my opening range was probably 13% to 15% of hands. Is that too wide from the HJ 6-handed live?
If someone is only 3-betting JJ+, AK, your hand isnt doing very well. The fact he made it almost 4x pre instead of the “standard” 3x IP means you are getting a worse price to call. Then that means you should be folding more of your range.
If he 5x’es it pre, you should fold more hands, if he 6x’es, same, and so on. If he jams pre obviously you should call very narrow part of your entire 13-15% range.
People live are too value heavy when they 3b, so when they choose to 3b bigger than normal and are IP vs you, the correct strat is to tighten up your calling range significantly. No, you are not exploitable doing this because you are exploiting the fact that almost every live player is extremely unbalanced here and isnt bluffing enough.
Conversely, if he made it <3x pre i dont ever fold simply because of the great price we are getting and hence we can defend more of our range more profitable. If he 3x it, folding or calling are both dicey but i dont rly mind either way. Vs basically 4x raise OOP and against an avg range of JJ, AQs+ or possibly tighter think calling is pretty leaky. Against nonregs i see people flat AQ/AQs/AK/JJ/QQ at some decent frequency so yeah im just trying to say that 3b ranges overall are super tight
When you say 13-15% HJ 6-handed do you mean first to act or second to act? Seems like you opened UTG first to act here
UTG 6-handed 13-15% is fine, HJ you can probably do like 16-20%. These are okay RFI for online but for live since people just play post you can open up a little wider depending on how comfortable you are post, though imo not too much wider. There are a lot of reasons why you can open wider and capture more EV but that’s a little long and could be part of another thread
Last edited by Minatorr; 07-17-2019 at 06:56 PM.