Thinking about a fairly broad concept (mods, please feel free to lock if not appropriate):
Say I'm on the button at a 9-handed table and it folds to me. At a normal table, I'm raising a fairly wide portion of my range -- call it 25-30%.
If your standard LLSNL villain 3-bets me, without any specific reads, I'm probably:
- 4-betting a very small amount of the time
- Folding some
- Calling some
And under the 'calling some' category, a large majority is probably is best characterized as "I need to hit the board or pick up a read that he's weak to continue in the hand."
I'm wondering if that type of line is exploitable to light 3-betting and c-betting, and, if that's the case, if I should try to add that trick to my arsenal.
Example hand:
Standard 2/5 NL, $500 effective.
Folds to hero on button with Q
T
, hero makes it $20. SB folds, BB makes it $50. Hero calls.
Flop ($102): Anything other than Q-high, t-high, OESD, two pair, trips, two or more spades. Villain bets, hero folds.
Maybe I just play in an exploitable fashion but I see this at tables sometimes and wonder if it's not worth adding as a tool against the right villain. Does anyone think so, and if so, what do we look for in categorizing such a villain?