stormswa
Legend
Silver Level
I have been watching alot of cardrunner's video's lately, if you don't know they are a site that I support 100%. Taylor one of the guys that runs and teaches on the site is a amazing player that started from small stakes and worked his way up and now plays the highest games on the net.
ok back to the subject of this post. Taylor and his group of teachers 3-bet alot, what is 3 betting you may ask. Im soooo glad you did, basically it is betting 3x the blind or the bet in front of you. When I used to play I used to look at pot amount to dictate how much I was going to re-raise you and I basically found that I was committing way to much to the pot. Take this for instance you are in a tourney and blinds are like 100/200 and you each have say 5K in your stack. So you 3-bet preflop to 600 and get 2 callers so pot is 1800, you have AK and hit top pair. Guy leads out for 200 (because he is a moron? you look at pot and make it 2000 which is pot size. You basically are committing 1/2 of your stack and if he pushes you basically have to call. So in that example you committed 2500, and also you are scaring away hands like KQ or KJ and losing value.
ok lets play it different 1800 in pot and guy bets 200 on flop to which you 3-bet to 600, next guy will fold most likely. You have put 1200 in the pot now and still are able to fold if someone comes over top of you and you still define your hand. You can also do this in cash games, which now is how I play. It also helps me to define my opponents hand, I don't really like playing the all in poker thing and would rather wins alot of small pots then take the chance of pushing all in on flop and hopeing my hand holds up.
they say in beggining stages of a tourney you are only supposed to add like 20% to your stack anyway. So thoughts concerns?
ok back to the subject of this post. Taylor and his group of teachers 3-bet alot, what is 3 betting you may ask. Im soooo glad you did, basically it is betting 3x the blind or the bet in front of you. When I used to play I used to look at pot amount to dictate how much I was going to re-raise you and I basically found that I was committing way to much to the pot. Take this for instance you are in a tourney and blinds are like 100/200 and you each have say 5K in your stack. So you 3-bet preflop to 600 and get 2 callers so pot is 1800, you have AK and hit top pair. Guy leads out for 200 (because he is a moron? you look at pot and make it 2000 which is pot size. You basically are committing 1/2 of your stack and if he pushes you basically have to call. So in that example you committed 2500, and also you are scaring away hands like KQ or KJ and losing value.
ok lets play it different 1800 in pot and guy bets 200 on flop to which you 3-bet to 600, next guy will fold most likely. You have put 1200 in the pot now and still are able to fold if someone comes over top of you and you still define your hand. You can also do this in cash games, which now is how I play. It also helps me to define my opponents hand, I don't really like playing the all in poker thing and would rather wins alot of small pots then take the chance of pushing all in on flop and hopeing my hand holds up.
they say in beggining stages of a tourney you are only supposed to add like 20% to your stack anyway. So thoughts concerns?