Do you 3x in 3 blind game as a standard? How do other good regs size?

Dont like turn bet/sizing fwiw esp if reg = good

Normally I go 60, will increase to 70-75 if lineup is more loose/passive pre. Standard in my game is 60, some regs will go a little smaller or bigger. I'm not fully sure about the theory behind how you change your range/sizes to account for the third blind, I just try to do something I think is reasonable. I'm sure you could argue the straddle will have a harder time defending vs the smaller sizing. To me, it seems like doing this would sacrifice ev from the top portion of your range esp. vs live players who are playing too loose as field callers.

Why? I have some reasons but wasn't too sure about this spot

Hand seems fine. Maybe go smaller on turn to attack AK whiffs. Either that or start overbetting against a range that is capped at AQ/AA.

Think it's fine as played. Alternatively just pot turn and bang it off on the river.

In 3 blind games, you should treat the small blind as an ante and size up pre as a result, due to the additional dead money up for grabs.

For example, at 5/10 I'd raise to $30 pre but at 5/5/10 I'd raise to $35 pre. At 10/20 I'd raise to $60 pre but at 5/10/20 I'd raise to $65 pre.

I was kinda thinking along these lines. Basically trying to fold AK, potentially fold out more on some rivers with a big sizing. Have a lot of strong hands dont have many bluffs. IP range is somewhat capped

I plugged this into the solver. IP flop cbet was 40% and favored checking back most combos of AK/AQ and surprisingly JJ more than AA. Thought it'd be the other way around for protection reasons.

When the flop goes x,x I gave the OOP player 5 options for sizing and thought it was interesting it bet at a 75% frequency or more depending on which sizings were allowed. I think if you node locked the IP player to no raises vs turn probe (more realistic imo) that number would be close to 100%. It preferred a 22% sizing and then a 1.5x pot sizing, nothing really in the middle. Seems like I'm allowed to bet so much since my range is so strong. JT gets there plus we have sets/2p/overpairs. AJ/AT/KJ are the only unpaired combos, 3 of which are combo draws.

I'd think jamming blank rivers picking the combos without hearts makes the most sense. Thought it was interesting that after a turn call and a river 2c the solver chooses to bluff the most with KJ and some AT (all suits), and check AJ 100%. Maybe because it doesn't want to block Axs/Jxs pairs that call turn.

Hmm yeah not sure why JJ is a higher frequency check than AA. I suppose it's because JJ blocks less A high bluffs which you're likely to do on this board when it goes check/check?

You can remove certain lines from the solver if you update Pio. In this case the line would be Check, Check, Bet, Raise. I've been removing those unrealistic lines since I've updated mine. Gives a more realistic solution and helps solve solutions faster. I also upgraded mine from Basic to Pro a few days ago and I really regret not doing it sooner. Studying is so much more efficient now.

BDFD came in on the river right? I would think the solver chooses combos with 1 heart to bluff with instead of no hearts.

Sounds good in theory but really you should just be raising to an amount that people will call. I've played in 5/T games where $50 is a standard open and limpers will call $70+. I've played in 2/5 games where $25 is a standard open and limpers will call $35. However, those same players that will call $25 opens and limp call $35 in a 2/5 game are far less likely than their 5/T counterparts to call $50 opens and $70 raises when there is a $10 straddle.

Aside from that, some games use $10 chips or $20 chips and the use of $5 chips in raising is severely frowned upon if not disallowed altogether.

There's also something to be said for keeping it simple for the rec players to put their money in the pot more easily. IE sizing up to $80 is just 3 greens and a red, whereas $65 is 2 greens and 3 reds.

I don't think thats the reason. KK/QQ also bets more than jacks. It probably does this bc I gave a .25 weight to QQ in the oop pre range.


Yes, river was the Ah. Picking 1 heart would make sense except there aren't any unpaired off suit hands to pick from. The only natural bluffs i'd have on this river are 3 combos of KJ

Yeah that’s prob why.


Yeah true forgot about that. Could also have KTs. You’ll prob have to bet 77/66 on the turn though to have enough river bluffs. I think Pio would like to see a bet from those hands. Maybe choose the combos with 1 heart to overbet with and the ones w/o heart to bet small with for protection.

Stack sizes and opening sizes are much more important than the blind size is most cases. Most 2/5 games and a lot of 5/10 cap games already play <50bb stack poker regardless of a straddle or not due to the huge opening sizes. The difference between two blinds and three blinds is almost nonexistent for a solid player.

Your opening strategy depends on your own skill level playing deep stack or short stack poker and also how your opponents play short stack or deep stacked poker. I'd say most regs and live pros play more <50bb eff poker than 100bb, so if you're 100bb+ game is solid then you should open small and wider if they're in the blinds.

If the fish is in the blinds you generally want to open larger and play <50bb effective poker to try and stack the fish before anyone else.

Nobody ever bluffs this spot=good spot to bluff?

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 50 BB
UTG: 58.8 BB
Hero (MP): 121.12 BB
CO: 125.43 BB
BTN: 44.7 BB
SB: 165.57 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J Q

fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 3 players) 8 Q 8
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (7.5 BB, 3 players) T
SB bets 10.54 BB, fold, Hero calls 10.54 BB

River: (28.58 BB, 2 players) T
SB bets 16.89 BB, Hero raises to 108.08 BB and is all-in

Not sure how good the average zone player is at folding to river raises. If you're against a good player you'll get a fold but a fish isn't folding and a reg fish prob isn't folding either.

blouffing with the best hand

What hand would you prefer?

YUK

Huge spew that even libratus wouldnt do imo

But fairly trivial fold when I post the hand from his spot and you have less than Tx?

Thought process?

I like the bluff. You are blocking QT which is only value hand besides 8888.

Theme hasnt changed since i was saying this 2 years ago...you are way overthinking this stuff.

1) He isnt blocking the important tens
2) Blocking Qx is bad
3) lol at the only value being QT and quads. This is bovada 200 zone. Villain has AA in his range here.

I was thinking his range can’t have a T besides maybe QT, which is still unlikely given turn and river sizings + preflop. My range can have QQ/Tx/sometimes quads, so when he faces a jam he has a pure bluff catcher at best.

In order for him to call with a bluff catcher he’s basically saying it’s possible the population’s jamming range consists of >37% bluffs (pairs being turned into bluffs).

He can also have quads but the sequence of sizing (large to relatively small from previous street) feels inconsistent to me. This is more of a feel player thing but to me his its feels like a value hand he’s not too confident in betting otr.

As far as just calling river I didn’t feel like my hand was good enough.

Didn’t answer my question

Yeah sizings look a lot like 8x. Think your range is able to rep credibly here. Couldn't see who villain is right? Flatting a lot out of sb is prob indicative of a fishy player so they might not fold any fh..

So here’s the thing. He’s repping 8x here, and with his overbet on the turn, he’s either a good player, a spewy maniac, or a fish. Weak regs that take standard lines can be ruled out. With your overbet sizing you need > 70% folds to profit. So what are the chances that you’re up against the good player or spewy maniac? With his flat in the small blind I would say it’s much more likely you’re up against a fish than a good player. Thus the bluff is bad because fish aren’t bet/folding 8x.