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kmart99
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Curious to see what are some favourite plays by ppl in here. I'll start by listing a few of my favourites. These are all plays I've stolen from various Twitch streamers, but man are they effective. Caveat: stack sizes need to be deep all around for most of these to work.
1) Calling with nothing
In position when UTG or early position raises preflop between 2-3x, I love calling really wide here if I can get in heads up. If the flop comes ragged and UTG c-bets, I don't raise or fold. I just flat call regardless of having a piece of the board. My percieved range will hit a ragged board far more often than villain's so Ill lead the turn with a 65% pot bet, provided it isn't an Ace. Ace high will fold very often, and sometimes pocket pairs under 77 will fold as well if there is an over card.
Great play, fairly common , but seems to work often enough to be profitable.
2)bluff raising a small bet at a scary board OOP
This is a pretty specific scenario, but it comes up often enough and I really like this move.
UTG/Early position raises 2.5-3x, Late position hero calls a wide range.
Board comes KsJc4s
UTG bets 55-60% pot.
Hero calls
Turn comes ... KsJs4Qs
Villain bets <50% pot
I check raise then smash all brick rivers.
In this spot, Villain almost never has two pair, straight, or flush. Especially with a tiny bet like 50% pot on the turn. Most of villain's flush cards are blocked by the board, and none of the two pair or straight combinations are in villain's range. I LOVE putting in a big raise or bet here. I feel like this play has a success rate of close to 90%. I'm sure AK, AQ, and AJ have all folded to this move countless times.
3) Holding Blockers
Having the Ace of a suit when three are on board and the flush is the nuts.
I often hammer players on the River with nothing if their bet size looks like a defensive bet and I know they don't have the nut flush because I have e the nut blocker. This play seems to be just barely profitable, and the circumstances need to be just right, but I enjoy it anyway.
Bluffs I HATE:
1)Pretending to chase a flush with zero blockers, then hammering the turn or river when it hits. This is total garbage. Cost me lots of money in my early days.
2)The ragged squeeze.
When a pot has a bunch of Limpers or a bunch of callers to a minraise, often the big blind will go 4-8x the original bet with garbage to just take it right there knowing that likely the original raiser is the only person they need to get by. This is not very profitable long term. Especially since everyone is aware of the popularity of this play. I will randomly limp or flat call with AA or KK when I see this developing because I want to exploit the BB players that think this play is smart.
It needs to work like 66% of the time to be profitable. Which means you can really only do it 2-3 times in an 8 hour session with the same players there the whole time. Any more than that and others will catch on to your nonsense.
Anywho... What are some plays that you guys like to make ?
1) Calling with nothing
In position when UTG or early position raises preflop between 2-3x, I love calling really wide here if I can get in heads up. If the flop comes ragged and UTG c-bets, I don't raise or fold. I just flat call regardless of having a piece of the board. My percieved range will hit a ragged board far more often than villain's so Ill lead the turn with a 65% pot bet, provided it isn't an Ace. Ace high will fold very often, and sometimes pocket pairs under 77 will fold as well if there is an over card.
Great play, fairly common , but seems to work often enough to be profitable.
2)bluff raising a small bet at a scary board OOP
This is a pretty specific scenario, but it comes up often enough and I really like this move.
UTG/Early position raises 2.5-3x, Late position hero calls a wide range.
Board comes KsJc4s
UTG bets 55-60% pot.
Hero calls
Turn comes ... KsJs4Qs
Villain bets <50% pot
I check raise then smash all brick rivers.
In this spot, Villain almost never has two pair, straight, or flush. Especially with a tiny bet like 50% pot on the turn. Most of villain's flush cards are blocked by the board, and none of the two pair or straight combinations are in villain's range. I LOVE putting in a big raise or bet here. I feel like this play has a success rate of close to 90%. I'm sure AK, AQ, and AJ have all folded to this move countless times.
3) Holding Blockers
Having the Ace of a suit when three are on board and the flush is the nuts.
I often hammer players on the River with nothing if their bet size looks like a defensive bet and I know they don't have the nut flush because I have e the nut blocker. This play seems to be just barely profitable, and the circumstances need to be just right, but I enjoy it anyway.
Bluffs I HATE:
1)Pretending to chase a flush with zero blockers, then hammering the turn or river when it hits. This is total garbage. Cost me lots of money in my early days.
2)The ragged squeeze.
When a pot has a bunch of Limpers or a bunch of callers to a minraise, often the big blind will go 4-8x the original bet with garbage to just take it right there knowing that likely the original raiser is the only person they need to get by. This is not very profitable long term. Especially since everyone is aware of the popularity of this play. I will randomly limp or flat call with AA or KK when I see this developing because I want to exploit the BB players that think this play is smart.
It needs to work like 66% of the time to be profitable. Which means you can really only do it 2-3 times in an 8 hour session with the same players there the whole time. Any more than that and others will catch on to your nonsense.
Anywho... What are some plays that you guys like to make ?