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LizzyJ
Legend
Silver Level
I have been playing quite a bit of HU SnG's as of late. I learned how to be very, very aggressive because I playsed so many 9 person SnG's. So I watched a few videos and turned up the aggression even more.
All fine and dandy.
UNTIL...I ran into call stations that would hit the board and I wouldn't. Now I had a problem. I would get call down on the absolute lowest pair and would lose a nice sized pot. Your stack goes real quick when you always raise from the button and then when you miss, try to run over your opponent. If he has any part of the board and you don't...you gotta problem.
So I learned how to switch gears from the 'run your ass over' school to 'value betting your stack away from you' school.
Here is how I did it. I would flat call EVERYTHING. If I didn't hit the board, don't try to steal. Check it down to the river and if they outdraw you...so be it. At least you didn't build a monster pot, and lose. This requires a lot of patience and tilt control, because lemme tell ya, nothing from frustrating than a true calling station winning on 3rd or 4th pair. Also, in the BB, if I found a super duper -EV, I would just fold.
However...
As soon as you have a hand, I learned to VALUE BET,. 1/4- 1/2 -3/4 sized pots. As long as the calling station has a piece of the flop, you are gonna get called. Value bet all streets and build a nice sized pot. That's how I did it. However sometimes it took checking down 8-10 pots (that's how bad the cards were hitting me) before I found something reasonable. Until then I would lose only my BB.
I did take a hit on the good 'ol bankroll before I figured this out and learned how to implement it, but in the end I'm very grateful. Just another tool in my poker toolbox to use and exploit.
All fine and dandy.
UNTIL...I ran into call stations that would hit the board and I wouldn't. Now I had a problem. I would get call down on the absolute lowest pair and would lose a nice sized pot. Your stack goes real quick when you always raise from the button and then when you miss, try to run over your opponent. If he has any part of the board and you don't...you gotta problem.
So I learned how to switch gears from the 'run your ass over' school to 'value betting your stack away from you' school.
Here is how I did it. I would flat call EVERYTHING. If I didn't hit the board, don't try to steal. Check it down to the river and if they outdraw you...so be it. At least you didn't build a monster pot, and lose. This requires a lot of patience and tilt control, because lemme tell ya, nothing from frustrating than a true calling station winning on 3rd or 4th pair. Also, in the BB, if I found a super duper -EV, I would just fold.
However...
As soon as you have a hand, I learned to VALUE BET,. 1/4- 1/2 -3/4 sized pots. As long as the calling station has a piece of the flop, you are gonna get called. Value bet all streets and build a nice sized pot. That's how I did it. However sometimes it took checking down 8-10 pots (that's how bad the cards were hitting me) before I found something reasonable. Until then I would lose only my BB.
I did take a hit on the good 'ol bankroll before I figured this out and learned how to implement it, but in the end I'm very grateful. Just another tool in my poker toolbox to use and exploit.