Two flops. 955 985 One is very dry, the other drawy. What’s the difference? Flop 1. there are very few hands that this flop helps, especially if someone raised preflop. Yes it’s possible that your opponent holds a 9 but there are far more AK/AQ/AJ/AT/KQ/QJ/JT hands that miss this flop entirely. In a limped pot, [...]
I was searching through some of my old posts, searching for cashout/deposit information because I was trying to build a spreadsheet that tracks my “net”; my online bankrolls plus my net cashout/deposits. It’s actually starting to get to the point that I can’t keep track easily any more because of redeposits (chasing redeposit bonuses) and [...]
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 [...]