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Originally Posted by Luurifax
My question is if we are in a spot where we have 60 value combos and 40 bluff combos on the river we should size it up to 60% river betsize to play GTO?
Playing GTO isn't as simple as dividing your range into value hands and bluffs, partly because villain doesn't always have a pure bluffcatcher. (He can have some strong hands that actually beat some of your 'value hands', so it's rare that 60% of your range
always wins when called and 40% always loses). All that said, if you wanted to bet in a 60:40 ratio, the size should be
2x pot, as statman said.
Just remember that a "balanced" range for a
pot-sized bet would mean you have air a third of the time (a 2:1 value:bluff ratio). If you want to bluff more than a third of the time, you need to go bigger than pot, essentially to give the bluffs a better chance at working.
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Originally Posted by Luurifax
And if so we are playing a weaker calling station. How should we exploit that?
1. cutting down (or remove all) bluffs?
2. sizing up bluffs? (or sizing down?!?)
3. Betting bigger for value aswell?
It obviously depends on his specific tendencies, and how he reacts to different sizes etc, but generally speaking you should reduce your bluffing frequency (sometimes down to zero), but increase your sizing with your value hands, until you reach a sweet spot where your bet size multiplied by the frequency it gets calls maximises EV. e.g. Getting a $100 bet called 50% of the time is more profitable than getting a $50 bet called 90% of the time.
Exploitatively against fish that aren't particularly cognisant of betsizes (e.g. they've decided to call or fold whether you bet half pot or 3/4 pot) you can often get away with going big for value, but a bit smaller with bluffs.