Developing a 4/bet bluffing range

[Jarud]

I've been playing $2 zoom games to some success, the player field as a whole seems to 3bet at quite a high frequency from the blinds against button and CO raises so it seems only logical to develop a 4bet bluff range.
Can anyone give any tips or where I might look further to study this.
I was contemplating using some offsuit brodayway hands to bluff with as they have good blockers.
Any help much appreciated.

 

[gustav197poker]

In theory, a bluff range of 4 bets should be formed by the set of hands, which cannot call a 3-bet, because they are outmatched in equity, with respect to the rival hands they face.
Because it's Zoom we don't have enough information about the villains. If you add that this is micro stakes, there shouldn't be too many bluffs in a 4-bet range.
In general they could be:
99
88
98s/98o
AJo-ATo
A9s-A6s
K9s-KJs
KJo-KTo
QTs-Q9s
QJo
I don't recommend too many off suited combos, as this is micro stakes. And villains will rarely have bluff when they call your 4-bet. Therefore this should be the maximum amount of bluffs for you.
Greetings.

 

[BelFish]

What is the ratio of value bets to bluffs with this range of bluffs? I can’t do it myself on a poker calculator, because i have a smartphone, not a computer...

 

[gustav197poker]

What is the ratio of value bets to bluffs with this range of bluffs? I can’t do it myself on a poker calculator, because i have a smartphone, not a computer...

The relationships must be proportional, so that the hero rank is balanced. Since this is zoom and micro stakes, hero shouldn't have a lot of bluffs in his 4-bet range.
For example with 99 and 88 we are eliminating more than 80% of the combos of these values. So we expect V to continue with TT + AQs + AKo. While our full 4-bet range (99-88, A9s-A8s, 98s / 98o = 2.71%) balances out the villain's fold equity range:
2.71% for your 3-bet range = A5s-A2s, 87s; 76s; 65s; 54s; 43s.
The equity for full ranges approach 60/40 against us. So our bluffs allow us to compensate for the missing 20%.
Regarding the bluffs KJo + KTo, with these hands we block 12 value combos, which we could represent: 6KK; 3JJ and 3TT.
Our bluffs should also be formed with 12 combos, made up of 10 eliminations of combos off suits + 2 suitable bluffs combos.
In this case, our full range would be made up of 3.77%:
KK, JJ-TT, KJs-KTs, KJo-KTo. It is balanced for the villain's fold equity range. 3.77% for his 3-bet range: 77, A5s-A2s, 87s, 87o, 76s, 65s, 54s.
The villain will most likely continue at 3.77%: TT +AQs + AKo. And so on for each of our bluffs.

 

[gustav197poker]

What is the ratio of value bets to bluffs with this range of bluffs? I can’t do it myself on a poker calculator, because i have a smartphone, not a computer...

In the first example: 88 and 99, we must include Q9s and K9s in our bluff range (from 4-bets). Besides that, if we include 6 AKo combos and 4 AKs combos, we are accumulating 4.07%. AKs come from 2 combos: K9s and 2 combos: A9s. And the AKo come from the off suit combos that we unlock.
In this case, the fold equity range of V is balanced with 4.07%, this being:
88-66, A5s-A2s, 87s, 76s, 65s, 54s, 43s. And the top 3.77% belongs to its continuation range: TT + AQs + AKo.
So, starting from our starting hands: 88 and 99, our full range of bluffs, can be broken down into this structure: AKo, 99-88, AKs, A9s-A8s, K9s, Q9s, 98s, 98th (4.07%)
The fairness of this range, relative to the villain's calling range to our 4-bet, is 30.9%.

For the AJo and ATo bluffs, our values ​​are: 6 combos: AA. And the bluffs could be 3 combos: JJ and 3 combos: QJo (could also be 3KJS or 3KTs), so we could add 4 combos of AKs to break down the range.
At a general level, the hero rank structure would be: QQ-JJ, AKs, KJs-KTs, AJo-ATo, QJo (4.52%)
For which, the villain must have a fold equity range: 99-66, A5s-A2s, 98s, 87s, 76s, 65s, 54s (4.52% belonging to his 3-bet bluff range)
The full range equity of 4-bet bluff vs the equalizing range V with the top 3.77% is: (33.40 / 63.6) negative for hero.
A6s-A9s bluffs can form the following bluff structure for hero:
99-66, AKs, A9s-A6s, K9s, Q9s, 98s (4.22%). Which impacts 4.22% of the villain's FE: 77-44, A5s-A2s, 87s, 76s, 65s, 54s. And the equity of the H range with respect to the upper 3.77% of V: ​​31.84%
For the K9s bluffs; KTs and KJs. Range H can have this form:
QQ-JJ, 99, AKs, A9s, KJs-K9s, QTs, ATo vs FE balanced with: 77-55, A5s-A2s, 87s, 76s, 65s, 54s, 43s. Hero's equity vs. the top 3.77%: 34.69%
For QTs and Q9s bluffs, the hero rank has the following form: 99-88, A9s-A8s, K9s, QTs-Q9s, 98s, KTo, QTo (4.54%) balanced with villain FE. The equity of rank H relative to the top 3.77%: 28.64%
For QJo the H rank can have a similar structure to this: QQ-JJ, A9s, KJs-KTs, QTs-Q9s, ATo, KJo and equity increases to 32.7% compared to the 3.77% superior of rank V.