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Originally Posted by aba20
Great of you to do this and congrats on the success. Some of these questions may be to indepth/hard to answer.
1) Do you have any plans to play other games? Mixed games, NLH?
2) What do you think are sustainable winrates at 4-6 handed plo games from 25/50-200/400 that consistently run.
3) Obviously player dependent so you may not beable to answer, but at HU PLO what do you think are reasonable winrates at 25/50-200/400 against a standard reg at those limits.
4) What do you think of Niki Jedlika and Icallsowhats games?
5) In HU PLO what % of hands are you reraising against a standard opponent from the big blind? Could you discuss some "standard ranges"? I often notice you just min reraise instead of a full pot size raise. Can you expand on why you are doing this?
6) Can you discuss 4 betting ranges in 100BB-200BB short handed PLO. Are you ever 4-betting kings against aggressive opponents? Do HU or multiway pots effect your 4-betting ranges? For example if you open on the button an the sb reraises and the big blind over calls does that effect your 4-betting range vs the big blind folding?
7) Do you ever fold hands oop to reraises? Say you open AKJ2 with a king high flush draw from the CO and good playing button repots. Do you fold that hand preflop? Are there any hands you fold preflop in that situation?
8) Do you ever fold hands in position to pot size reraises?
I got a lot more but don't want to take all your time!
Yo Brian
1) I have a love/hate relationship with NLH. I actually think (well i would) that i’m fairly good at HU NL. I’ve played some very good players and my results against them are good when my head is right. Thing is if i don’t play my A game i’m terrible, and thats often the case because i often play Holdem when i’m tilted and can’t find action elsewhere. I do play Omaha Hi/Lo a bit on Full Tilt and sometimes HORSE.
2) I guess 10-15bb/100 would be the aim 4-6 handed.
3) Against average players i’d be looking at 20bb/100+ at Heads Up
4) Well i’ve only played Niki a small amount, he seems fine. He’s definitely loose aggressive, can’t really say how good he is. I did pretty well against IcallSoWhat at 50/100 HU. He was tricky for sure, and he is not someone i’d love to play every day. I think i caught him at a good time though after he was already on a $2 million downswing, and he seemed to tilt off money quite easily.
5) Not sure if i can find the stat in my Poker Tracker. I’d guess its around 30/40% though. I guess my range is almost any hand that isn’t in the bottom 20% of starting hands. I have lucky hands such as 3579 that i always reraise with preflop. I feel comfortable playing out of position with a huge range of hands i guess.
I min raise for a few reasons. It allows me to physiologically take control of the pot, and puts the emphasis on continuation betting on me which i like. It also tilts opponents as well as they think you are taking the p!ss if you reraise them nearly any hand. Plus, if they four bet you 100bb deep, you only have to call 15bb out of position rather than 27bb.
6) I hardly four bet bad kings even against a really loose opponent. I’m far more likely to four bet four pieces of paper that are double suited than any hand with a pair (unless its Aces). I rarely four bet in ring games without Aces, unless i’m tilted or playing smaller stakes.
In the example i guess when you 4 bet there i’m assuming both are going to call, the problem is that the SB may well actually have the Aces, so a hand like AKQJ DS isn’t going to look so hot when you get 5 bet for most of your stack. I’d probably rarely 4 bet in that spot.
7) I’d say i raise and fold to a reraise less than 5% of the time. I normally just autocall. I don’t even mind so much if i open with AKJ2 and a good tight player repots me from the button. I know my hand is probably in bad shape, but i’ll look to outplay him on the flop. I could easily just lead out for a decent bet on a 457 flop and take it down. The image of always having any four cards works well, because my opponents can’t define my range easily at all.
8) Probably even less than the answer to question 7