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Originally Posted by Bahaus
I understand the point that I shouldn't fight over a small pot but no one tells me where is the exact point where I should give up
A default strategy, or an approximation of the GTO strategy if you will, is to bluff with a frequency where the size of your bluffing range is proportional to your value range with the odds you're laying for the opponent. When there's a lot of action, the pot becomes very large and your value range tightens up. This means that there are
very few bluffing hands that would take this line.
If the example hand is representative of your strategy, you are bluffing way, way, way more than the equilibrium (ie. a balanced strategy). This means that you need to have a
specific read that your opponent gives up easily and folds too much. You have to
know that. No one of course plays exactly the equilibrium strategy, but if you go to one
extreme with your strategy, you better have a good reason for that. Just being aggressive for the sake of it is not a good reason.
(Heisenberg used to post similar hands, but he had reads. And he still didn't always succeed with his lines.)
Bluffing
is profitable and useful exploitation in many situations where the pot has grown big, but the idea is not to grow the pot for no particular reason. That's why semi-bluffs are so powerful. You have good reasons to bloat the pot and if you miss, you typically have a pretty good spot and odds to bluff with your missed hand.
And of course, there are other ways to make sure you don't get bluffed out of pots.
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And by this notion you should always just play fit or fold when SB limps because it's always a small pot
You shouldn't play fit or fold. You should base your strategy on the size of the pot. You should have a better plan than to just blindly re-bluff. Betting in a 4 bet pot with air is certainly a good idea typically. But betting, calling a raise and then bet/3-betting with air on turn is a whole another thing. You need to realize that
your own distribution changes with every action you take.