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Originally Posted by threebanger
A few items from this feedback
1. "Standard for a min raise" - do you advocate players changing the size of their raise based on their holding?
2. I would almost never "squeeze" with KK - squeezing with the intent of getting the original raiser to fold, would be a huge mistake here.
3. I 3 bet here 90% of the time, meeting your criteria, and if the post-flop action wrecks my risky move, I can easily lay KK down here and get away extremely cheap. It's only a blunder if I am not able to lay it down, no?
4. I had played on this table for more than an hour and expected a large 3 bet from one of the players left to act. You are making a blanket judgment on my 10% play without considering other factors such as these or my read on the original raiser, who raised a hand I understood was easily in his 35-40% range from that spot. Are you still saying this is standard pre? Around 40%?
5. Serious question and no disrespect intended - is it all GTO charts and solvers for you?
1) No but a smaller raise size means you get to open a slightly wider range because your pot odds are better. So if a hand is a mix open at 2.3x open size its probably a pure open at 2x open size. And probably a fold at a 2.5x open size. Im not saying that one size is better, but the size you choose is going to have a small effect on the EV of a specific hand.
2) You squeeze because you want to play a large pot IP vs 1 player and not have a spot were you are 4-5 ways in a smaller pot. More players in the pot take away equity from you. And if you just take down the 6.5bbs that are already in the pot preflop, thats a pretty good result, and definitely more than you can expect to win seeing a flop 3 ways in a 8.5bb pot.
3) A squeeze is simply a 3bet when you have cold callers between you and the pfr. You seem to think a 3bet and squeeze are different, or maybe I am misunderstanding your 2nd-3rd points? Its not just about getting away from it when you are behind. Its about getting max value when you are ahead, and its going to be harder to get value in multiway pots, because your equity in multiway pots is generally lower.
4) What makes you expect a squeeze from the blinds if you flat? Have you seen them squeeze a specific hand(s) that makes you think they are wide, or have they just happened to 3bet several times in hour (60 hands or so) you have played together? Do you even know what hands are supposed to squeeze from the blinds to even make a baseline to determine if they are too wide?
Same question about the pfr. How do you know he is opening 40%? Global doesn't have HUDs so its going to be based off of hands you have seen villain showdown. Do you even know what a Top 40% range looks like? Because Q8s is a top 22% hand, so to assume he is opening 40% you need to see bad offsuit Ax, Q4s, 96s, 65s, T9o, etc.
5) With preflop.... yea I try to be as close to GTO as I can. It just makes it easier to study that way plus preflop is the foundation to your poker game and it doesn't matter how well designed your house is if the foundation is poor.
With postflop, I try to base my game around sound game theory principles. I dont try to memorize solver outputs but I study them and try to discover different patterns that I can implement in practice. You cant properly exploit people if you dont know what they are doing wrong, and you dont know what they are doing wrong if you dont know what is "correct"
Last edited by ledn; 09-15-2023 at 03:49 PM.