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Originally Posted by shorn7
Maybe re-read. We are on our 3rd buyin as far as I can tell.
Winning poker is not played in a vacuum or by rote. Gameflow and recent hand history play a role in how people perceive you and correspondingly how light they may call you on future hands. If you ignore these types of factors, you will negatively impact your earn.
Ok, but the first buyin was short. We're only down 165BB's.
I'm just not seeing how a whole table full of people are suddenly going to start thinking "Let's beat up on this guy 'cuz he's losing". There' a big difference between someone who's losing because they fall into too many bad spots, and someone who's losing because their premium hands aren't connecting with the board.
When people make adjustments toward looseness, it's generally when someone is playing like a maniac and they're eager to get in there and win a big pot against a wild player.
Furthermore, if it folds to us on the button.....we really don't care if our image is all that bad. We actually want the blinds to be calling us wide here.
This is the secret sauce to playing K3s. You raise a suited hand, with card removal benefits, and some top-pair potential. That way you can connect with a fair number of flops so that your future bluffs are backed by equity.
It's GOOD if your opponents call wide, because it means they will make more folding mistakes post-flop.
If you make a half-pot c-bet after the flop, your villain has to call 67% of the time to prevent you from making an auto-profit with any two cards.
Loose players can almost NEVER find 67% of their range that connects significantly with any given flop. And the wider they call pre-flop, the worse this problem gets for them.
This is an ultra-sweet spot for us to make money. I'm not passing it up because I'm worried about someone at 1/2 adjusting to my recent downswing of 165BB's.
And calling us wider is the *wrong* adjustment anyway. If V really thought we were on losers-tilt and thought we were chasing losses, then he'd raise us pre-flop, not call.