If you’re the only one straddling I can’t imagine it’s +ev even on the button. 2BB is a lot of money. If you win 9bb per hour (which is a decent rate) and you get 3 rounds per hour ~30 hands you’re vpiping 6bb an hour that you don’t have to ie 2/3rds of your winrate.
Sorry to be Mr Buzzkill and honestly if you’re largely recreational I doubt it matters much. But if I was grinding 1/3 trying to build a bankroll (if so then kill me) or trying to maximise ev there’s no way I’d be straddling button or otherwise.
Ya I’ve thought about this a bunch and I agree it might be slightly -EV when I am am only one but I do it because it often gets more people to start, making the game bigger, which is my goal. It also feeds my lag image.
Best games are when whole table is doing it. I know some argue it makes blinds play tighter but in my experience, in my pool, it’s the opposite. They just call cause they are already committed.
I figure it can’t be too bad raising the stakes when I have position and get last action preflop.
I do play for fun, not a living, so for me a bigger more wilder game is the goal.
Then squeeze the hand of you’re gonna play it. :) If you make it 115 you’ll take it down quite often and if not you can easily stackoff on the flop and get all the variance you want.
I am betting close to 100% when checked to and think it works a fair amount.
I am not going to argue hard on the preflop. With my player pool and my style I just can’t see ever folding pre here unless the other three players are all Bruce’s. Then I snap fold.
Yeah, as played have to call. There are literally zero hands that beat you that check turn and river. I was thinking maaaaybe A4?, but A4 bets river for sure after you checked turn. EZ call for me I think, even though I have NO idea what he has.
Flop is 976, all diamonds. Checked to me. I bet 15 into 21. One limper calls. Turn is an off-suit 3. He checks. I bet 40. He calls.
River is 8d, giving me the sucker straight flush. He confidently donks for 100 with 100 behind. My read is that he’s never bluffing here. He has more Ad in his turn-calling range than Td, but I’m not sure he bets so big or even bets at all with the ace.
Having already considered on the turn what I would do if the 8d came on the river, I pretty quickly decide to just call. I would have jammed vs a smaller bet size, but I’m not loving a passive player acting like he has the nuts when he obviously sees the four to a straight flush on the board.
you can’t really raise/fold because of overplayed Ad hands bluffing you out maybe. if they only raise Td i could raise/fold here and hate myself. raise/call is gross. i’d call here and not think twice. it looks like a great hand but it’s not. there’s toooons of Td in his range on that board.
just shove there’s so many more ace of diamonds than tens in the players range, because of preflop choices on what hands people play and willingness to continue with a naked Td vs Ad here. He’s not folding the ace either
I just had a really uncomfortable feeling that he doesn’t play Ad and Td the same way. But if I’m right, then maybe I’m supposed to fold and if I’m wrong I’m supposed to raise, so calling like I did seems like a mistake.
Does your opinion change if I said he once check-called the second-nut straight on the river because he was afraid of the nut straight?
After catching a bluff that had my table impressed, one player turned to another and volunteered that he doesn’t like to bluff me because I always “sniff out” his bluffs.
Obviously, I make exploitative folds against him. At the same time, he’s sticky so that doesn’t mean I can run him over. Plus, he slips into pot control lines against me with hands he plays more aggressively against others, so I risk value-owning myself when I bet too thinly.
Right now, I’m thinking about how much lighter I can call him on the flop knowing that he’ll check the turn too often against specifically me, but I don’t know that I should loosen up with my overcalls in multi-way pots.
Mixing in overbets might change things, but it feels like I have a good thing going against this player and I shouldn’t upset the current dynamic and risk making him less predictable. Or am I leaving money on the table by keeping the game easy?
, after you call the SPR will be 10 in a 3-handed pot where you have 9-high.