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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy
Why would you open jam AQ at 15bb? It's not that it's -EV, it's that it's worse than other options such as minraising or limping.
It's also worth mentioning, that picking and choosing what to do using NASH charts is an incorrect implementation of the charts. They are for a game where you can ONLY shove or fold preflop (and therefore your opponent can only call or fold). If you start changing up some of the hands on the chart that you should jam and start limping or minraising, you're no longer playing NASH in the small blind, you're just sometimes using a chart that represents optimal play under different circumstances to justify a decision. A better approach would be to jam hands that are best to be jammed, don't try to use a chart like NASH that is really a misapplication. It's so widely used bc it's basically a crutch for players, a way to not have to "think" about a decision and to feel good/confident about it. But it's a lot of false confidence imo. Think about what is best with each hand, such as your AQo at 15bbs, and why you'd make the play you would make.
I think the biggest takeaway here for you is that you can find better actions than jamming at 7-8bb+ from the small blind against your opponents with many hands.
That's not the original question you asked, but it 1) potentially improves your expectation and 2) if your expectation improves then everything is better on avg (downswings aren't as bad, etc.).
Thanks for your reply. I do not automatically jam anything at anytime, other than when I am like below 10BB.
And things have not improved. Over the last 100 games I have gone -8000 and my all-in equity has again dropped. And I have been keeping track of my all-in because this is getting out of line. Of the last 35 times I have gone all-in and been called I have come up against pocket pairs 26 times. This is impossible. In one match I went all-in 4x, 3x with pocket pairs and I was dominated on each one.
How am I supposed to maintain a CEV in this situation? I mean, its not as if I am going nuts and just popping off all-ins. I am getting chip leads, grinding them down to like 6 or 7 BB, pushing all-in with AK and getting slaughtered by AA. And speaking of that, today alone I have come up against AA 8x when going all-in.
I am not writing this as a whine. I really don't care about results from a win/loss perspective. I could care less when my AA gets cracked, or when my AJ gets killed by A2, I am concerned that I am suddenly getting it in bad pretty much all the time; I am only concered with CEV. I mean, what am I supposed to do when I or my opponent are in single digit blind, push/fold situations and even my A10 + are bad? How can I maintain cev in this situation?
Edit: Just happened again - was ground down to 4BB, jam all-in with 10-10, get smacked by AA
Last edited by silky28; 08-20-2020 at 08:33 AM.