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PokerPT2645
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From the book Applications of Holdem:
"When a player bets on the end he’s usually doing it either with a bluff to make stronger hands fold or with a strong hand to get value from weaker hands, since it doesn’t make sense to bet medium strength hands if the opponent only calls when you are beaten."
In Upswing Lab DP says the same.
So this is about polarized ranges.
I don't get what is the problem to 3bet a medium hand, miss the flop and bluff the medium hand all the way until the river and try to win with a bluff. Why should we only 3bet with the extremes? In the text says that we will only get called when we are beaten, but if our bluff with a low hand is called we are also beaten, so what's the difference between being caught bluffing a low hand of a medium hand?
I don't get the point here..
PS: Is this even relevant for 5NL? Or nobody cares?
"When a player bets on the end he’s usually doing it either with a bluff to make stronger hands fold or with a strong hand to get value from weaker hands, since it doesn’t make sense to bet medium strength hands if the opponent only calls when you are beaten."
In Upswing Lab DP says the same.
So this is about polarized ranges.
I don't get what is the problem to 3bet a medium hand, miss the flop and bluff the medium hand all the way until the river and try to win with a bluff. Why should we only 3bet with the extremes? In the text says that we will only get called when we are beaten, but if our bluff with a low hand is called we are also beaten, so what's the difference between being caught bluffing a low hand of a medium hand?
I don't get the point here..
PS: Is this even relevant for 5NL? Or nobody cares?
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