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BlueNowhere
Legend
Silver Level
A few days ago I came across someone who was 3-betting depolarised and I struggled to make any effective adjustment against them. Card distribution was pretty brutal as well but think after a decent session against them at $3.50 they were like 25-16 up. Usually people at $3.50 games are pretty soft and I almost never end up 9 games down against one person and if I play someone enough I'm confident I'll end up in profit against 99% of players.
Stacks are 500 blinds 10/20. I min-raise to 40 he 3-bets to 110, I shove and he call most of the time. I was geting so frustrated and not being able to make adjustment. Once I realised he was 3-betting alot I jammed looser. Once I realised he was 3-bet/calling depolarised I only 4-bet shove polarised but the problem was I had to weight this towards monsters which is extremely hard in a HU hyper turbo. I then started calling more with things like K8s rather than jamming only for a king to hit and him have KQ/KJ type hands. The problem with calling hands like this I was ending up dominated alot when I did hit which meant shoving over his raise just wasn't profitable.
How do you adjust against someone like this in matches that generally only last 5 minutes so you can't sit and wait?
Edit: I also started calling with non-dominated hands to his 3-bet range like suited connecters but when I missed I was hemorrhaging chips and even a double up would only leave me even stacked. I also started jamming more on dry flops to take pots away but this was nowhere near making up for chips lost over the games.
Stacks are 500 blinds 10/20. I min-raise to 40 he 3-bets to 110, I shove and he call most of the time. I was geting so frustrated and not being able to make adjustment. Once I realised he was 3-betting alot I jammed looser. Once I realised he was 3-bet/calling depolarised I only 4-bet shove polarised but the problem was I had to weight this towards monsters which is extremely hard in a HU hyper turbo. I then started calling more with things like K8s rather than jamming only for a king to hit and him have KQ/KJ type hands. The problem with calling hands like this I was ending up dominated alot when I did hit which meant shoving over his raise just wasn't profitable.
How do you adjust against someone like this in matches that generally only last 5 minutes so you can't sit and wait?
Edit: I also started calling with non-dominated hands to his 3-bet range like suited connecters but when I missed I was hemorrhaging chips and even a double up would only leave me even stacked. I also started jamming more on dry flops to take pots away but this was nowhere near making up for chips lost over the games.
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