JCgrind
Legend
Silver Level
Calling 3bs is by far the biggest leak in my game. I believe I could massively improve my bottom line by making some serious adjustments in this department. I've been trying, but in reality it's really too hard to judge whether it's improving or not if that makes sense.
Okay so I used to call a ton of 3bs, fold to 3b was like ~40%. I know this is terrible. It's a bad habbit I picked up from 1c2c in order to play a ton of pots with fish (as well as the fact that you can set mine a lot more frequently at 2nl as stacks are deep). While I believe it worked great at low levels, I know it doesn't higher up. Definitely a big way to bleed at 25nl.
In order to try and fix this, I simply stopped calling 3bs, and now just 4b or fold religiously, but I'm not happy about it, as 4b ranges have to be so tight at this level that I'm easily exploited as I fold to 3bs a ton- which might I add happen every 2nd hand it seems.
Let's say I get 3b and for arguments sake, it's to an amount I cannot flat to setmine.... What's my line with something like AQo OOP vs 10% 3b range? I seriously have no idea. Say i opened CO and was raised by Bu. I hate folding it, because lets face it villain is showing up with shit like 97s here often, i hate calling it because I'm c/f a ton of the time as I miss the flop lots, and when I Bink the ace I'm winning a small pot or losing a big one, and I hate 4bing it because If he shoves I can't call, he rarely folds (people seem to feel super pot committed) and calls often, where I have to play a large pot OOP and therefore just kinda hope he folds to my flop Cbet, which is generally half the time imo
What else should I look at when considering whether to fold/call/4b in the above scenario apart from 10% 3b, fold to 4b and how often vil folds to Cbets/raises Cbets on the flop and turn in 3b pots (I realise pot will be 4b, but 3b stat will be relatively similar and converge quicker)
Really lost here, appreciate you reading that essay lol cheers
Okay so I used to call a ton of 3bs, fold to 3b was like ~40%. I know this is terrible. It's a bad habbit I picked up from 1c2c in order to play a ton of pots with fish (as well as the fact that you can set mine a lot more frequently at 2nl as stacks are deep). While I believe it worked great at low levels, I know it doesn't higher up. Definitely a big way to bleed at 25nl.
In order to try and fix this, I simply stopped calling 3bs, and now just 4b or fold religiously, but I'm not happy about it, as 4b ranges have to be so tight at this level that I'm easily exploited as I fold to 3bs a ton- which might I add happen every 2nd hand it seems.
Let's say I get 3b and for arguments sake, it's to an amount I cannot flat to setmine.... What's my line with something like AQo OOP vs 10% 3b range? I seriously have no idea. Say i opened CO and was raised by Bu. I hate folding it, because lets face it villain is showing up with shit like 97s here often, i hate calling it because I'm c/f a ton of the time as I miss the flop lots, and when I Bink the ace I'm winning a small pot or losing a big one, and I hate 4bing it because If he shoves I can't call, he rarely folds (people seem to feel super pot committed) and calls often, where I have to play a large pot OOP and therefore just kinda hope he folds to my flop Cbet, which is generally half the time imo
What else should I look at when considering whether to fold/call/4b in the above scenario apart from 10% 3b, fold to 4b and how often vil folds to Cbets/raises Cbets on the flop and turn in 3b pots (I realise pot will be 4b, but 3b stat will be relatively similar and converge quicker)
Really lost here, appreciate you reading that essay lol cheers