re: Poker & Trying to optimize the Blind Defense
Originally Posted by eetenor
Thank U 4 Posting.
Your plays are fine as long as your reasons for playing them is correct.
In hand 4 you over shove river the same way as you had in other hands but why?
In this hand villain can put you on the K. Your check turn-shove river screams K. If the river is an ace you could shove if villain leads but a check by villain means we are targeting a weaker range. So we bet smaller hoping villain has the Q and thinks we are chopping.
So if you are thinking about why you are over betting great. Are you?
Hand 4 says maybe you are not thinking enough.
Hope this helps
 
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Hey eetenor thanks for your analysis. I really appreciate it, it is very good for my game improvement. Now, hand 4 I am not always calling down a 3x raise just because the SB called too. My calling frequency here is very short, and I also 3bet this KTs some times to balance my range.
Against Late Position raisors, I elect to wide a little bit my calling and 3betting range. Most of times they are the same: The same hands that I flat I could also be 3betting.
Preflop I have odds of 4.5 to 1, which is very good, because both players (CO raisor and SB caller) are 100 BB Effective Stack.
The action in the Flop is very weird, and normal from the player in the CO, but most of times I am not chasing flushes, gutter, OESDs, etc without proper odds: When the Raisor in the CO bets 1/3 pot against two players he is mostly trying to make the trashes from the SB and BB to fold. The problem comes when the SB player re-raises to Pot the CO raisor out of position versus two players.
The SB is telling everybody a lie: because when SB raises 100% pot, OOP x 2 players, it is representing AA, KK, QQ, KQ or a strong draw. However, we in the BB block most of Kx combos that SB could have right now, so, SB has QQ, or AQ, or QJ or AA. (and bluffs and hands that should not be firing here). I thought the SB player was a recreational one for this move is damn bad.
So, for all of these reasons I am calling here. I saw no reason for raising in the flop, otherwise I could be turning a strong value hand into a bluff. In the Turn I checked to try to induce more bluffs from the SB, but she/he doesn't bet the River.
According to my reading at the time the hand was played, SB was a recreational so I thought she/he could be calling down with a lot of worse hands here, but there wasn't too much: Only Qx, QQ, JJ and AA could be calling a shove. And you are right, when I do that I am screaming that I have a Kx in my range.
You are very right: a smaller bet in the river could induce even more bluffs from a Qx, QQ, Jx and AA. Or a call which also would be profitable, considering BB defense. (We don't see many recreational players folding a Full House in spot like this). IT is more likely that the SB tried to buy the Pot by showing power in its Check-Raise Flop. As long as the bluff didn't pass, it seemed that SB turned off the hand.
I still have some doubts if this call is probitable, this is why I thank you for your comment eetenor.
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
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Respect and gl always!
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