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piratematerial Netherlands. Aug 05 2009 18:36. Posts 773

a classic example of fish watching highstakes HU vids (by Krantz, deucescracked videomaker) and i guess misinterpreting the information and as a result stacking himself in the wrong spots instead of the right spots occurred when i started the last HU match of the evening.

villain immediately appeared very aggressive. taking the first 3 or 4 small pots down with a lot of force. i don't mind this at all but he immediately made me think he was a reg. no limping or any other fishy behaviour. now 19 hands in or so i 3bet him, for the second time or so, with KJo, he proceeds to 4bet.
KRANTZ TOLD ME: 1st 4bet is ALWAYS A BLUFF!!!!!
so i instashove my monster "

that does well against his 4 bet call range: pairs and maybe suited aces but mostly because he has to fold. 1st 4bet!

ofcourse its not suprising at all that the nl100 reg instacalled with AKo en has me destroyed

but what made the incident worthy of a blogpost was what villain said in chat immediately afterward:

"1st 4bet always a bluff

"

i got SOOOOOOOOO levelled sick.

also today i experimented for the first time with flatcalling AA pf. i've literally never ever done this in my life before. but lately i have been using the tactics of 3betting trash and calling with good hands vs opponents who fold like 80% to 3bets and it was working out well.
i already knew about this but i heard Krantz :king remind me of the trick of flatting AA and what power this gives you postflop. i do c/r a LOT of flops with imo(plz tell me if im wrong and you happen to know this) a merged range and being able to include overpairs here sometimes is very valuable.
so whatever let's try it.

1st time
i flat AA
flop J 9 3 (rainbow)
villy bets, i raise, v raise, i shove
J9 obvio

so no big deal i felt good about it because i had been c/r this villain already a few times, so thought it was ok getting it in against his range.

not happy with the result though a few villains later(same pf characteristic of high folding to 3bets) i try the same trick
i flat AA
flop Q 9 6 (2 hearts or something, villain did play Ahi fd for stacks earlier)
i raise bla bla allin Q 9

this time i didn't feel so good about it afterward. but i was a little bit shellshocked from some punishment i had been getting but actually villain might have been too passive and generally nitty to get it in here so enthusiastically. so maybe my mistake.

i guess with experience i'll be able to judge better when i should fold aces postflop in a single raised pot.

so today i've had some bad experiences with the new tricks i'm trying to work into my game. but i think in the long run i will become the better player for it.

thanks for reading.

peace.

ps. so far kept to max 2 tables. except if some 20bb ss joined my open tables, i may have left the tables open for a little while cause they are so easy and standard to play. and i 3 tabled against a regular for a little while (but this was all the same villain and thats a lot easier to 3 or 4 table then 2 different villains.) i only played the reg because no one was joining my tables and there were like 60 tables with regs sitting and waiting. thought i might as well find out which ones are any good. he was pretty good but i was lucky and quit him when the momentum changed after he won a 260bb pot and was clearly refinding a lot of confidence