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Originally Posted by cAmmAndo
That was more an observation of your exchange with Spike regarding the nittier culture in his area. It just seems that you west coast guys coming from what seems to be a looser culture are more willing to consider a wider range in a lot of spots where as some of us might have to "reach" to consider the extents of someone's range.
Yeah, you are probably right. I have had several students from the Midwest who ended up having to make big adjustments to their preflop games when they moved to the West Coast or East Coast because they weren't used to preflop 3bet/4bet/5bet aggression. In other words, they used to hero-fold good hands like QQ incorrectly because they weren't used to their new player pools.
I think most people would be best served by learning to profile their individual opponents better in the context of game flow. I see far too much 2plus2 groupthink on these forums where people just make huge generalized statements about certain situations without paying attention to player reads/game flow.
For example, many of the posters advocating a fold with QQ in this thread basically said "LLSNL 2plus2 conventional wisdom says that a 4bet is automatically 95%+ probabilty of KK+, so fold your QQ." And they completely ignored all the info provided regarding Villain image/history, Hero image/history, game flow/dynamic, and handreading/sizing patterns of the table leading up to that hand. Regardless of whether they are right on 4bets being 95%+ probability of being KK+ in general, it is always important to consider the specific details that are unique to the HH itself when ranging Villains correctly.
Regurgitating generalizations is not doing anyone any favors. Taking the time to read and consider all the information (reads, image, game flow, sizing patterns, etc.) is how you really analyze hands.
Last edited by ATsai; 08-07-2015 at 09:52 AM.