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Originally Posted by illiterat
Don't use blockers like this. Having TT doesn't mean "he can never have a T".
It just makes me weigh things like 2pair+flush draw/sets (possibly with a fd) more than only betting the nuts. Opponent is definitely not a maniac, but I can see him betting any of those here.
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Originally Posted by illiterat
At 500bb deep this should be much easier to fold than if you had 100bb, just because you almost never want to put all the money in.
In this game I was playing far deeper than anyone, so my effective stack size was much lower, and given it's 1/2 5 to go, it was a bit closer to 250BB than 500. Not sure how to weigh that -> it makes it so you can play tighter (also is a timed game) without paying as much in blinds than a 2/5 game, but it also builds pots much faster (you can open to 15 in this game, 10-15 is common when raised, although there is a TON of limping).
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Originally Posted by illiterat
You really want to be controlling the action, and in the BB you basically never will (and from previous point you can't x/r it).
Yes, this was a result of me being a bit lazy on this hand and not realizing how deep opponent was until this point. If he has a $300 stack, this is not as hard to play by a longshot. He recently scooped a big pot to get a stack and I missed it until he put out the $200 and saw he still had piles behind. Given the way this player plays, calling the first $60 is not the worst as he tends to not overplay a lot of hands in position. I've gotten to the river cheap against him a lot of times after he takes a first stab.
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Originally Posted by illiterat
Raising turn is bad unless villain is complete maniac. Yeh, sometimes you might be ahead but against ranges you are probably lucky to be 35% (and that implies you can play river correctly). When you raise about the only hands he calls incorrectly will be worse straights with a set or better flush draw.
Raising turn is never going well for me. I never considered it. This guy's not a maniac, is one of the more aggressive players currently at the table, but generally betting only with strongish hands here. He very well could be betting a set on the turn with my weakness of two checks.
A line I didn't consider is betting out $100 on the turn, and folding to a big raise. Without the flush draw I probably bet out flop or turn and pretty easily fold to a raise. Given I really would like to get to the river and showdown, I prefer to keep it smaller here.
But the big lesson here was getting myself into a bad spot against a thinking player out of position with a marginal hand. This game has such an easy lineup, I get away with a lot of that against most opponents (no one that deep, they let me know when I'm behind, I make routine folds of top and bottom pair, even sets in the right spots when it's clear I'm behind). It's a small player pool and I have pretty well figured out which players are the ones who are potting 100% with the nuts every time, which ones are overvaluing stupid hands (got raised off a hand by a guy with bottom 2 pair who thought he had the nuts last night). That kind of exploitative play can work in the right spots and I don't end up with a positional disadvantage as they will either greatly telegraph their hands (raise = AA) and not give me difficult decisions or tricky spots like this guy did (and when they do it's not for big stacks).