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The link below is to a COTW in the micro forum on double barreling by an excellent player.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...reling-651776/

This thread is starting to turn into a blog. If it continues in that direction, I'm going to lock it.

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02-08-2014 , 01:01 PM

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Wilverine

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 6,208

Wasn't meant to, I just played a hand that directly applied shortly after posting. Thanks for the link

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02-08-2014 , 02:21 PM

#28

Vital_Chips6

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Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 161

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Originally Posted by slimshady1999

best cards to barrel are big overcards, specifically any Q, K, or A on turn or river on J high or lower flops when you're PFR. the reason is those cards are in your perceived range and villain is likely to peel flop light. An ace isn't always as good a barrel card as a Q or K though because a lot of villains peel flop with ace high and passively call down when they hit top pair with their ace

Exactly.

I second Bart Hanson's material for barreling and also for bet/folding which comes with barreling.

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02-08-2014 , 08:34 PM

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Willyoman

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 10,468

A hand example I just played where I double barreled a very wet board.

Villain is TAG. Hero is TAG. Hero raised w/rags in HJ, Villain called from CO.

Heads up to the flop:

KcQcJx

Not great c-bet texture, but villain's range contains so many pocket pairs, connectors, non-club suited Ax, and weak broadway. I bet a little over half pot. Villain called.

Villain's call is going to be extremely unbalanced here a lot of the time - basically, it's marginal made hands, one pair + weak draw type hands, etc. I expect him to raise almost every good two pair hand, strong draw, and monster hand, unless he has damn close to the nuts + a re-draw to the nuttier nuts, and that's like 3 combos.

So I don't even remember the turn card except that it's a blank that doesn't interact with the board or villain's range at all. And while I barreled somewhat weakly on the flop, I bombed the turn, which threatens a river all-in (and I did plan to keep firing) and villain folded after 15 seconds.

It's not common, but sometimes you can ID villain's hand range as being so incredibly unbalanced to a weak range on a scary board when your range is clearly capable of being much stronger throughout that you can barrel without much pot equity and without good barreling cards that change texture. This was a spot where villain is a TAG who can fold and where his flop call totally betrays his hand strength (JT, QT K9s type hands) while I can have a wide range of good value hands like KQ, QJ, AT, KJ, etc. I basically committed to 3-barreling (as a bet/fold) after villain just smooth called the flop bet.