Well if they have it they have it spot?
1/3 NLHE 8 handed.
Table is loose passive at this point.
V1 - Whale that everyone is targeting, drives the action. Buys in for the max VPIPing 98% (leaves for a smoke here and there) and just calls off with any draw any pair anything. Can show up at the river with all the 2-pair, any random straight that makes no sense, any BDFD etc etc. He will also bluff sometimes. CO. ~1k.
HH - Folds to H in SB who opens K2ss, V calls BB, HU to 8-4-2 one ♠, H cbet V raises, H calls. Turn Tos, H x, V pots it, H folds, V shows 62os.
V2 - Loose passive MAWG I've never seen before. Went on a heater and went deep. 3-betting range is AK/KK/AA pure and opening range is almost as nutted. VPIP about 50%. UTG+1. Covers.
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V2 limps, folds to H in HJ with A♥ J♥ who opens 15 off 385$ eff, V1 calls CO, V2 calls. 3-ways 2nd to act.
Flop 45 - J♣ 9♦ 9♣
V2 checks, H bets 15, V1 raises to 50 (when I say he CAN bluff this is usually less so MW), V2 calls 50, Hero?
For starters we dont beat bingo players with K2. We also dont beat them with silly solver bet sizing. You need to begin probing what his pain tolerance is for calling preflop raises. We're going to play pure exploit poker, super tight with big raises and just limp with everything else. So with a hand like AJs I'm going to open to 10BB and see how he responds. If he's calling raises of that size then the next one will be 15 or even 20BB. We're just going to keep making obnoxious raises until they start folding too much preflop. I've actually managed to get up to raising 75BB's before in a 2/5 game. Basically anything that has showdown value qualifies, so I'd say 77+ and QJs+, looking to flop TP preferably. For everything else we'll just try to slide in cheaply with low suited connectors and such.
Essentially these guys are on borrowed time and we need to make the most of it. We dont want to spend all night whittling away at his stack while he's busy trying to punt to someone else. If you flop TPTK you might as well be 100% to win the hand so set yourself up to win everything QUICKLY. I've lost 600BB's in like 15 minutes to these guys and then won it all back and cleaned them 3 hands later.
Now lets say he legitimately wont call more than 5BB pre, we're still sticking with the same range but just playing it extremely aggro postflop. The flop will be pure pot, maybe 1.5 or even 2x. Turn will once again be 1.5 or outright jam. These players arent going to pay off river bets so just try to get it allin while they're still calling off with A7o on a 469Tx turn.
For starters we dont beat bingo players with K2. We also dont beat them with silly solver bet sizing. You need to begin probing what his pain tolerance is for calling preflop raises. We're going to play pure exploit poker, super tight with big raises and just limp with everything else. So with a hand like AJs I'm going to open to 10BB and see how he responds. If he's calling raises of that size then the next one will be 15 or even 20BB. We're just going to keep making obnoxious raises until they
This guy in CO will call 60$ pre at 1/3 no problem with 75s. Especially IP.
Well then $60 isnt enough. Try 90. In fact I like to use pricing psychology and always raise just under the next whole dollar amount. So if I want to raise to $100 I actually make it 90 so it 'looks cheaper'. Keep in mind a lot of these guys wish they could play in bigger games. There are guys I've played with for an entire year at 2/5 before learning they were millionaires. Some of them even deliberately play bad just to hurt you. The satisfaction gained in stacking a thirsty grinder with 23s is worth the price of admission, so oblige them and bump up the stakes! Dont be surprised when you put half your stack in pre with AKo and the flop is J82r and they just jam because somehow they hit. Also dont be surprised when you jam on the same flop and they call with 44 and it holds. MOST of the time your premiums are going to play well enough. I've had to get it allin with 66 on a 558 flop and AJ on a KJ9s flop etc etc etc. Usually what ends up happening is you open with TT and the flop comes low or you just flop TPTK with AQs and it's a pretty no sweat event.
For starters we dont beat bingo players with K2. We also dont beat them with silly solver bet sizing. You need to begin probing what his pain tolerance is for calling preflop raises. We're going to play pure exploit poker, super tight with big raises and just limp with everything else. So with a hand like AJs I'm going to open to 10BB and see how he responds. If he's calling raises of that size then the next one will be 15 or even 20BB. We're just going to keep making obnoxious raises until they
What's your strategy, when you raise huge and other players (not just the donk) get involved?
What's your strategy, when you raise huge and other players (not just the donk) get involved?
It almost never happens. But when it does you'd astonished how often it's not a trap. Live players are so stricken by FOMO (fear of missing out) that even the non-whales will get tired of folding and eventually start calling 50BB pre with KQs because they couldnt sleep at night knowing they missed a double up when the flush came in. Really the only thing I have to worry about is someone jamming pre as that is the most likely outcome to a ridonkulous overbet, and then you look silly putting in that much and just letting it go in what seems like an otherwise pot committing move. But hopefully by the time they figure out what you're doing you've already stacked the whale and they havent made any practical adjustments to you.
Full disclosure I can literally count 4 times I have been fortunate enough in a situation where someone was able to buy in for 200BB and play like this with me. The first 3 times were actually total breezes and I just hit every time against them and wiped them out at lightning speed before other players started complaining about this guy paying me off every hand. The last time it happened I was in for 4k at 2/5 against one guy but I actually won it all back before he started buying in for the min which was so insulting I just lol-hit n run on him.
I need more javi in my life
31 posts and nobody asked you what your rng call/ fold % is here
