Interesting topic about hands vs AA
So I've been very successful since I started playing professionally for the past 9 months. My strategy is much more exploitative than gto, and it's been working. This is for live low stakes play and would probably be horrible online. These players underbluff, overfold, and a fair bit of time play face up post flop. Because of this, I 3b and 3b/call with mediocre hands more often, and put people in tough spots often post flop. Aggression has gotten me very far in this game. I had a discussion with a friend but he disagrees with this type of play that I'm about to explain.
In the game I play I'd say 95% of the time if someone 4bets, it's AA. Doesn't matter if it's AAKK or AA72r, the 4bet is always AA. Say a fish who's opening wide and too often opens UTG (they will open that same hand in any position so being UTG doesn't matter) and it folds to me in the SB. Occasionally I will 3b pot with a hand like 9854ds to iso and outplay post flop. If they 4b, I know for a fact it's AA and will occasionally call. Reason being if I flop a marginal hand like a pair, I can turn it into a bluff and get folds, and if not I'm likely flipping which I'm fine with. I cover more of the board than just broadways like most of these other players would call with (like KQJT, QJT7, etc). And it makes me harder to play against. He thinks it's just too loose and not good to do.
Not sure what your thoughts are on that, but my other question is.. let's just say every time somebody 4bet they showed you they had AA but you couldn't see the suits or their other cards (since this obviously affects it way more).. would this affect what hands you're flatting with and how much more loose are you calling?
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so you call vs an obvious AAxx hand and hope to flop something just to be a 40/60 dog or better when the money goes in?
To seriously answer your question: it depends how deep you are and it depends on how often you think V is going to fold AA on the flop. The situation you're talking about is a very common spot in PLO.
This is a very common argument from players that start to crush low/midstakes with a lot of aggression.
Aggression is great. Pressuring and punishing weakness is great. The next step is too think more deeply and nuanced about where ev comes from for every specific hand and situation. As you get better at this you will drop your 3b percentage again and mix in more flat calls and take advantage of the same reads but without putting in tons of money pre behind.
Don’t be content. Don’t let your succes blind you from improving.
Board coverage is not as important here as you think.
Yeah I mean you’re exploiting them right now good work, but the way you are doing it is super exploitable.
