Poker Hands and Strategy

I was never confident enough in my NL skills to play cash games and I used to enjoy LHE because most games i barely had to think against the opponents but one of my great joys is successfully bluffing the river for like 8 bets. Good spots don’t come up often but you also don’t need to have that high of a success rate to fire one off once in a while. Can’t remember any specific hands but my guess is it’s usually pots with a lot of action or limpers pre, I’ll raise flop with a big draw and thin the field, and no one improves. Occasionally I can make a bet on the river and fold out a better hand.

I’ve mastered the limp-reraise and the fake post oak bluff. For a while, my bread and butter was abusing that guy who always had to raise limpers OTB.

I do it every time for value and with unmade hands that flop well. All exploits are exploitable themselves, so I accept the fact that I might have to switch gears if someone is playing back at me. Hasn’t really happened yet. I don’t try it at tables full of stations, so I might just be picking my spots and running fairly well. I feel like I extracted extra streets way beyond expectation in 2019. Checking the river or downbetting after firing two barrels induced a ton of jams into my really strong hands and hands that became bluff catchers on the river. I got shitloads of value last year. Probably going to kick off 2020 this Saturday. Hope the streak continues.

There are plenty of bluffing spots around, based on the fact that people are so predictable. The other night I raised 94s OTB after 1 limper, two callers, flop K85r, check to me I cbet, both call. Turn K, check check, I bet 40 into 90 I think it was, both fold. That bluff has a high probability of success because those kind of guys will always lead a king OTT there, they don’t want me to check behind.

I’ve got a lot of players in my local player pool who will limp-call pre and check call flop and turn on that board and show up with AK. YMMV.

K85 two callers with neither having a K. Would be nearly an automatic double barrel vs players that bad.

They’ll call flop there any gutshot any pair.

Sounds like small stakes Unibet

Lol what?

Raking that is a crime

TR pls

10,000 starting chips 100/100 blinds at the start. This tourn director did not think this one through. (okay it’s BB ante, that’s a bit better, if it’s say 100 not like 25)

Level two is 500/500 with a 1000 bb ante. Ante in level one is 200.

This is not some new event. It’s been done before.

I talked to some people at HP who played it before. They said it’s 1 hour levels so it takes a while (actually I guess it’s 100 minute levels). BB gets a lot of walks obviously.

I’d rather play a $120 tourney where everyone has to go all in every hand. That would be awesome.

Hand today from the HP $150 - which is generally very soft.

Blinds 800/1600+1600a - I have 66 in SB - HJ raises to 5k out of his 13k stack, folds to me. I look over and BB (old guy) is clearly ready to fold. HJ had been playing pretty straightforward - 55ish guy with a WSOP shirt and a fedora.

My question is do you put more strength in the 5k raise for the average player? I generally just look at this like a shove and play accordingly. I hadn’t seen this guy shove yet so I’m not sure he knows when he’s supposed to just shove. But for some reason I’m not sure if I should put him on the same as a shoving range, or a little stronger.

Just late reg during the break and come in at a 20bb stack. Single reentry, so people can’t just fire a bunch of bullets.

Some players raise less with premium hands because they want action, but jam with hands where they are happy to take down the blinds.

I’d treat 5K as a shove because it’s not a particularly small raise anyway. Probably the guy has no awareness of his stack size. I’d be more wary of a minraise.

Yeah I shoved. He had AK. I’m still not sure 66 is good there because I think he’d need to be doing the same with 22 and some suited connectors. I forget which tool I’m supposed to use to figure this out.

Later when I was below 10BBs he did the exact same thing UTG and I grudgingly tossed my AJ in MP - best hand I’d seen in an hour. He shows up with 86s. Grrr.

i’d discount QQ+ with that sizing, with all the money in the pot and guaranteed BB fold id maybe fold the worst two pairs…dont really want to…