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Originally Posted by spikeraw22
I have a wider 3 bet range than most in my games. Everyone thinks I'm squeeZibg when I'm almost always just raising a big hand for value. Make sure this is actually what he's doing before going off the rails and 4 betting light.
So if you have a wider 3 bet range than most players the proper adjustment to your play should also be to 4 bet or shove on you wider than normal.
That being said i totally agree with you that you got to observe actual hands being shown down in 3 bets pots with this villain, to get a grasp of how wide he is indeed 3 betting. As soon as you get some actual proof from in game of how his 3 betting range is constructed you can start build your 4 bet range.
Ive have been handling a couple of young aggro 3 bet monkeys in my games and noticed how effetice it is. 95 percent of the players just calls with speculative hands trying to smash the flop, and if they dont they check-fold.
One of the keys to handle these guys and also win some decent money off of them is to being able to adjust- because in my experience very very few are able to adjust back to whats happenning. They are often used to being stuck in 1 gear: full aggromode and running over the table.
Example hand from a game last Christmas:
I raise aggromonkeys straddle to 8 BB with AQ. 2 callers in between before its around to aggro 3 bettor in the straddle. Young hoodie internetkid with very high 3 bet percentage.
I was not surprised seing him 3 bet/squeeze out of the straddle to 35 BB as he loves to put pressure on these kind of spots. (And its the right move, because so few fight back at him and most people folds too many hands to him).
When it comes back to me i waste little time to move allin for approximately 100 BB as i know for a fact that aggromonkey can 3 bet hands as weak as 55 or KJ in this spot.
The guy calls me pretty fast and the whole table know me as a pretty tight player so they say like "show your kings Gilmour". I announce AQ and to my surprise i am up against AJ and shipped the pot.
Last edited by Gilmour; 02-19-2016 at 09:07 PM.