2/5/10 a few preflop sizings
2/5 1k cap with “mandatory straddle”. For all intents both hands everyone is 1k eff.
H1: good reg not a pro opens to 35 in MP and gets four calls including two guys stuck/steamy and two passive players. Hero in straddle with JJ 3bets to…?
H2: same reg opens in MP to 35, next player 3bets to 105. He’s been 3betting heavily only occasionally flatting). He’s stuck a few K and seems steamy. Hero in straddle with AA 4bets to….?
Note my image is very tight I been getting dust for 2-3hrs.
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First hand you are 100bb effective and 19bb in the middle already so it's a mandatory all in imo.
H2 I like making it small but not minclick, since minclick is always AA and people don't balance correctly. I would go to 265 or something.
2/5 1k cap with “mandatory straddle”. For all intents both hands everyone is 1k eff.
H1: good reg not a pro opens to 35 in MP and gets four calls including two guys stuck/steamy and two passive players. Hero in straddle with JJ 3bets to…?
H2: same reg opens in MP to 35, next player 3bets to 105. He’s been 3betting heavily only occasionally flatting). He’s stuck a few K and seems steamy. Hero in straddle with AA 4bets to….?
Note my image is very tight I been getting dust for 2-3hrs.
It seems like a pretty garbage game. Why not play 5/10 instead of a mandatory straddle.
1. Are you willing to put all of your chips in here? Pot is $140 already. The person most likely to call you or re-reaise you is the guy who opened. You hav to think about what happens after him. Go small, he calls and you're easily in a 4 way pot. I'd go $250. Depends on your tolerance for risk really.
2. What's your tolerance for risk? Would you rather have risky larger pots or take down $ $140 now.
Suppose you could go to $280 in both hands. Don't mind jamming hand 2.
Hand 1 probably just rip it in. Big win to take down 175+ in dead money and fold out hands like AQ, KQ.
Hand 2 220-250
Probably go 225-250 in both
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Hand 1: Either $300 or just shove. Either way the good reg that opened will know you are committed. The smaller size may increase your chance of the stuck guys calling with garbage but it depends on how tilted they are. If they are going to be reasonably sensible then shove to get them off AK/AQ or charge them to gamble.
Hand 2: How does the raiser react to reaises? If he hates to fold then shove some of the time and $300 the rest. If he is more careful then $300.
If he is careful to a 4bet preflop but will try to bluff you out of the pot in later streets then consider flatting. It's a big gamble and you might be letting the opener along but AA is strong enough to ride it out.
Just a quick note since someone brought it up. In H1, I would not assume that the original opener is the most likely to give us action. The original opener is most likely to be ahead of us, but I could easily see someone else calling if he folds, based on the Villain descriptions.
This is probably the biggest reason not to jam. I want to give another Villain a chance to feel like they can gamble with me with money behind.
In case it matters...
H1 we're OOP, so I just used 4x + 1x per caller, so 8x = $280. Seems like a good size, in that it's not too large that we could never fold to a jam, yet is large enough to slow the field down from wanting to go multi-way post flop, with a super low SPR.
H2, we don't need to go 3x with our 4B size. $260 is 2.66x. Again, it's just below the threshold where we could never fold to a jam. And might be small enough to induce a spaz jam from either V.
I don't like jamming JJ in hand 1. If we get called, we're probably dominated, or flipping at best. I don't mind jamming hand 2, if we think one of our V's is steaming and will GII with us.
Seems just borderline jam or realise in each case as any sensible size has got nearly a third of our stack in. Once a third is in we are committed.
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