tbeckett

When playing an aggressive player who 3bets a lot what is the best way to adjust:

1. Do you just get comfortable calling more 3bets and playing a wider range.

2. Or do you reduce your opening range

Is there maths that tells us how often you should 3bet against an opponents range??

Say I'm heads up and someone is opening 80% of hands how do I workout how much I should 3bet him?? It's obviously going to be more than 3betting someone in 6max who's opening tighter. But how much more??

The reason I ask is becasue I'm really bad at adjusting to players with different ranges, I just play the same against everyone. which doesn't feel right.

If I'm playing against a very tight player that's only 3betting aa,kk,ak do I fold or call KQs?? Flopping a pair doesn't really help me but should I still call and try to hit a flush or straight draw??

I'm trying to learn how to bluff catch using mdf and I wanted to check I'm understanding it correctly.

This is my understanding:

1. You count the number of value hands the opponent has to bet

2. You then check the pot odds to see how many bluffs he needs to balance these value hands.

3. If I think he has more bluffs than his value hands and pots odds allow I can call, if he has less I fold.

Is this correct??

What would you need to see from your opponent for you to start calling 4bets with KQs??

To be clear when I say calling 4bets. I mean that someone has opened, I 3bet them, they 4bet me and I call.

Right now I'm just calling 4bets with everything suited. Which for me is:

-AQs-A2s
-Suited broadways
- pocket pairs qq-88
-suited connectors T9s-45s

I don't really have any good reasons or theory for why I'm calling hands, I just call. So I was wondering how other people are thinking when calling 4bets. What is your thought process?? How do you decide what hands to call or fold??

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I was reading an article on auto profit spots. And it said to find autoprofit spots you need to work out the required fold equity and then compare it to how much your opponent is actually folding.

Requied fold equity for my bet:

Bet size / (Bet size + Pot size)

How much my opponent is actually folding:

Actual fold equity = #Fold / #Total

If the "actual fold equity" is above my "required fold equity" it's an autoprofit spot. Which means I can bet any two cards and make money.

I just wanted to make sure I understood the underlying theory correctly. When it says I can bet any two cards. It's because I can take any hand put it in a spot and when I run it against my opponent's entire range he's folding enough for me to profit.

So lets say my opponent has 120 hands in his range, I can take 72o, put it in a spot and then I run that spot 120times (every hand in my opponents range) and if he folds the required amount I auto profit. Thien this can be done with any two cards in my range.

The maths for a bluff is:

bet/(bet+pot)

So if I make a pot size bluff it's 1/(1+1) = 1/2 = 50%

So I will need my opponent to fold 50% to make a pot size bluff profitable.

But how do you actually use this while playing??

I thought it would be about bluffing on boards that don't connect with lots of hands.

So I make a potsize bluff on K72r because I can expect villian to fold 50% of their range.

But on a board like J 10 9 I'd expect villian to be calling most of his range, so in this spot I need to bluff with a small size.

However when I watch good players video's they seem to be doing the opposite and bluffing small on the dry boards K 7 2r boards

If someone has $1000 dollar stack and the opponent has $500. The effective stack is $500. So if there is a spot where one player has 20 hands in his range and the other has 5 hands. Could you say the effective hands are 5.

I love to gamble and try to take people off hands. But sometimes I think I'm doing it too much. How do I work out whether I'm bluffing too much??