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Yeah I agree with what has been said here.
I think flop 20$+ is fine.
Turn 1/2-3/4 is good. Against a pot size villain can just call good hands and fold the rest so it's not very hard for him.
And river no more than pot.

But as ibey33 said, checking the river has a higher ev than betting with my hand. And I prefer to bluff other combos.

Thanks for your answers !

Thanks a lot for your answer.
Yeah I agree I could do like this but the point being to do it fast, that's not a option that provide my needs.

Thing is, it should not be hard to develop such a feature in a software, and I still can't believe there's no way to do it easily. For example when you plot the equity of a range vs range on a board (I know we can do that with few softwares), you have what I need. You can see the top 50% of a range. And I would like to extract this range.
That has to be possible with crev imo. Like having a condition "Call with top 50%". Or maybe it's possible with the equity ? Like "call with 33%+ equity" ?

Hi Kevin !
I really love your videos, I'm learning a ton, thanks !

One thing that bother me in this video is when you say you have to tighten your opening range.
For me poker is all about the blinds, and especially in hu where I feel like we always can find a strategy with any hand in the top 90% that is better than losing -50bb/100 by folding. Cause we have the position advantage.
So I feel like we already loose a part of the match when we get to fold more BTNs. Except if it's for an exploitative reason because villain is putting too much money with his bad hands in general. But I don't think it's the case of a 50/100 reg. Like I'm consistently hunting regs that plays too tight cause I'm printing money against them. And that's a reason why I defend wide and aggressively early in a match. And the guys that give me troubles are not the one that tighten their ranges (on the contrary I love when they do that) but the ones who don't let me run over them.

So wouldn't it be better to develop a limping and raise strategy in those situation ? Instead of tightening and opening bigger ?

And also isn't opening bigger making villain's 3bets more efficient and reducing our positional advantage (esp in 3bet pots) ? (I guess this is less relevant though).

No, he has to call 50% on every street.

Cool video !
It's really nice that you explain and show us in detail those kind of theory concepts.

What I would love is a video where you show how to build our ranges. For example a situation MPvsBTN on a particular board wouldn't be too hard as the ranges are narrowed. And you could show us how to build a good strategy using betsizings, 3streets betting range, 2streets betting range (bet,bet,check or bet,check,bet), check/(fold,call,raise) range,.. I tried to do it myself but I miss few theory concepts or method I think.

Thanks anyway !

It's quite hard to put villain on a range here. I think he should bet Tx/QJ on the flop almost always. His non-showdownable flush draws as well I think.
So what remains that makes sense is a nut flush imo.
And as a bluff I don't really know. He tells us that he has some showdown value when he checks flop, call turn. So does it make sense for him to bluff the river then ? Maybe he could do that with AsQ/AsJ ?

It really depends on what hands you think villain can have. But in general when someone overbet he has nut or air. So it doesn't make sense to shove over it with a bluff catcher.

But your raise can make sense since you rep KT/KK some 77. Even though I think KK is a bet OTF. I would maybe prefer having the Qs though.
The problem is that imo you are trying to make him fold a nut flush. If I'm villain and I think you are competent, capable of making moves, I would call you.

All in all I don't like your shove. I think I might just call here as he doesn't rep much. And I don't want to try to make him fold a random slowplayed nut.

Yeah I agree. I think leading is good sometimes, but def not here. I was experimenting a little bit.

Yeah I totally agree with that.
But villain doesn't know we are thinking like that. So it's not a big deal to have some bluffs even if don't have value hands in reality; we can have some value hands in our perceived range. So that would let us raise Q9 as a bluff turn for example right ?

We might still have enough FE and equity to make it +ev.

Yeah I totally agree with you, my hand is not strong enough to be called turn.

Would you have a raising range OTT ? If yes, then this is a hand we should be raising.

I have a serious image. I don't even think I would call AK if I was villain. Except if I know the guy is a very good reg and is balanced on most spots.
Cause I absolutely never see people bluffing these spots OTR.

Nh

Ok thanks.

River :
Well if you are villain, what's your 3 barrel range ? Every DP+ and maybe 1 or 2 hands of bluff or maybe more (cause that's a good 3 barrel bluff spot for villain as my range can't be super strong here). And then what do you do if you get raised ? Don't you even think about folding 99 here ?
I would. So I think it's a good spot to turn hands into bluffs as we might have something like 60%+ FE if we have some blockers on sets and str8.

It's not about GTO, it's about general reg exploitation, I mean bluffing where nobody does.

I would only check/raise if I have a particular history with villain where he saw me doing that with a draw. Otherwise I prefer just betting flop turn and river it depends on the board.

Yeah I have to admit that I don't really know how to set up my sizings. I'm always wondering if I should think GTO and so bet big when my range is strong and small when I have a lot of bluffs (Axx board for example). Or if I should consider more his range and his tendencies. But then here for example, I said the guy calls a lot flop and turn and fold a lot on the river. Would you bet big turn to make more money when he folds on the river or would you bet small cause he'll not fold many hands on this turn ?
I'm a bit confused.

Yeah against a good reg i should be balanced but i guess against his particular guy i should 3barrel all the hands that i bet turn with then right ?

Thanks for your answers !

Yeah against a good reg i should be balanced but i guess against his particular guy i should 3barrel all the hands that i bet turn with then right ?

Thanks for your answers !