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Originally Posted by johnnyBuz
I appreciate advice and criticism to an extent. I guess I'll refrain from posting hands where I intentionally deviate from a tight ABC strategy for meta-game purposes. I thought it would be occasionally useful to play hands in an unorthodox manner for purposes of image and making people unsure of what your actions mean.
But it sounds like a lot of this stuff is irrelevant at $1/2 either because the player pool is so deep that you aren't always playing regs and thus don't need to randomize your image or the pool is just bad and you can achieve a nice win rate just playing basic sound strategy.
It's just when you c-bet enough flops like this only to see it get folded it makes you start to wonder if there is a better way and that is what I was out to find out.
I sense that you are struggling with getting folds when you bet, and to handle your frustration you make the adjustment of creating FPS type of lines to maybe get paid? Thats my first impression after reading this thread.
You have the right mindset when you are thinking of doing adjustments, but your are deploying wrong and not optimal adjustments in my mind.
Probably you play to tight/nitty of a range, or you only C-bet when you have it and check/give up when you whiff- and your opponents have caught up on this tendency.
If your villains are folding to much to you,so much that you cant get any action with valuehands-then the correct and more optimal adjustment will be to C-bet bluff more flops when you miss and probably also opening up your preflop raisingrange a bit to come across more active.
Maybe your 3 bet range also needs some tweeking? I dont know, just doing some reflection. The reason i mention all of this is because your overall agressionlevel in all aspects of the game play a part in whether you get paid off or not in fat value spots like this.
Hope this make sense to you OP. Ive had the same issues myself to work through, so i definetely have some experience on this topic. To illustrate what i am talking about
: In this hand i easily fire 60-80 percent of the pot on every street with a bet-bet-bet line and get called down by worse A hands like A-10 or A-J-even A rag hands one pair hands.
Last edited by Gilmour; 03-26-2014 at 07:20 AM.