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I am playing some heads up live with a friend. He limps arround 90% from the Bu and almost always limp calls when i raise. On the BB he defends 90% hands and never 3 bets at all. What would be an optimal preflop strategy against his play. I am struggeling against this cause his range is always so wide and never capped. I play 6max online and doing quite well atm but hu i rly suck and wanna improve.
July 29, 2017 | 8:26 p.m.
I dont think going small here is the right play as all your value hands want to go big here especially OOP in this spot. Your biggest mistake is tho that your 2 bet on the river is way to small you would never bluffing with a sizing this small and with your value hands you are missing value. He gets pot odds of 16.5% you. He only needs 16.5 % equity to call here. River huge mistake imo although i dislike betting small on flop and turn also your not using fold equity and allowing him to call with backdoors which can now fuck over your street in the river. Your value hands would go bigger AA QQ JJ 55 Aj JT KJ all woud bet for protection on the flop
July 20, 2017 | 12:32 p.m.
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July 19, 2017 | 8:29 p.m.
Just asked because of the time difference that we might have hehe ok gonne add you
July 19, 2017 | 7:07 p.m.
nl 10 here i would also be interested where are you from?
July 19, 2017 | 7:23 a.m.
I agree totally with kafrinius you are very deep so you have to give him a bigger price to not have huge implied odds onto you especially oop he could call this raise with any pair. And after the flop this should be an easy call as he has weaker hands than you do i assume he would 4 bet ak most of the time so his 44 88 beats you but you win against anything else except maybe 8 9 but i dont see him having it all to often
July 18, 2017 | 7:50 p.m.
When he has AK AQ there or AA you wont have nothing most if the time as he blocks it hard so inducing blufffs makes a lot of sense even when you are in danger of the diamond flash draw
July 18, 2017 | 5:32 p.m.
But he could also be trapping with AA KK or the AK- AJ cards without a diamond as your range seems so weak so he wants you to bluff by checking on the turn.
July 18, 2017 | 5:30 p.m.
I am no pro but i think you betting 70 cents on the turn doesnt make much sense i mean what hands would you play like this for value you said it yourself you dont have any sets in your range also no two pair as you would not call a 3bet with K5 K8 85 pre also So when you bet 70 it almost screams you are bluffing and that you want him to fold. Since your KQ would not bet into an ace and you only have. The question is what aces you can represent and i dont think there is that many AQ maybe slowplayes AA but i dont think any other ace would bet that big even AQ you would fold in some cases on that flop so you really dont have that much value hands that make sense when going this big i would like you to go smaller since you are in position and by going smaller you can rep more strong hands in this spot. I dont know exactly how strong is 3 betting range is in this spot cause it depends on your game before against him how often you steal the blind etc. But him checking on the ace seems suspicious to me as he has a lot of those in his range. So honest checks would be KQ QQ JJ TT 99 but again he can have AA KK AK AQ Some AJ. Its very likely he has on of those hands with the Ace of diamonds so he is not scared of the flash. I would not really give him 55 88 unless you have a read on him 3 betting those hands pre cause i didint seem a lot of it in nl 2. I think a smaller bet than 70 wpuld get the job done in folding out 99-QQ maybs KQ but you are blocking those hands so he wont have them as often. But when he call the 70 i think his range is very strong and i would not fire again. As you wont really have a flash there almost never in a 3 bet pot when the ace and king are on the board and it was a backdoor so even less likely you got it. So when you bet like this you can only have AQ maybe? I dont really see you having any other hand for value And yeah. His most likely cards the he showed you would be AK AQ AJ with a Ace of diamonds imo. I do believe he could bluff catch you with hands like KQ cause your range really was not that strong
Agree with emil wehner here. Further i would say that he does not reall have a lot of 33 here OOP from the SB according to preflop also he would probably 3 bet JJ sometimes. He should never hold two. So he can have sets here but not very often.
July 21, 2017 | 11:57 a.m.