In two hands in my Daily Grind I 4 bet on the small side, indicating that I want action. In one case I have AA, in the other AK. In the AK one I say that the other reason for 4 betting small is to be able to fold to a shove. But this may [...]

This is just me, working through something that I need to work through because I don’t have it burned into memory yet. Last night I sat at two $25nl tables at Tilt to earn some FTP points for their September promotion. At one table I had been fairly active due to the hands that I [...]

I was fooling around in Excel and came up with this. (Click to view full size) The upper area is the hero, the lower area the opponent, and the center row is the pot size. The blue boxes are where I entered data and the rest of it was calculated, which means I can re-run [...]

One of the things that surprise me often is the hand ranges that people will play in 3 bet pots, so obviously I’m looking at this differently than my opposition. This doesn’t mean I’m better than my opposition or worse, just not the same. It’s very situation dependent. I’ve already looked at a variety of [...]

Here’s the crux of what I wanted to get to. I don’t have a lot of experience playing in 3 bet pots postflop because I play full ring and often at fairly low buyin levels so 3 betting is not commonplace. First let’s make sure we know the situation. Someone has raised preflop. Someone has [...]

I guess I should look at situations one by one. Then next likely situation that arises is when I have a good hand in the blinds and someone in mid or late position raises. If they are raising from early position, and if I think that they are at least somewhat positionally aware, that means [...]

I want to think about 3 betting a bit. There are some aspects of 3 betting that I’m comfortable with both in terms of understanding as well as in practice, but there are also other aspects where I’m fuzzy. First off, some readers might need a definition. 3 betting means making a 3rd bet, and [...]