Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]

***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** Poker Stars
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 13, 08:16:07 ET 2011
Table Mrkos VI Real Money
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $92.30 USD - VPIP: 25, PFR: 21, 3B: 9, AF: 3.3, Hands: 99049
Seat 2: Player2 $71.10 USD - VPIP: 59, PFR: 57, 3B: 37, AF: 2.7, Hands: 390
Player2 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$0.50 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
Player2 raises [$0.75 USD]
Hero raises [$3.50 USD]
Player2 calls [$3.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $7.25)

   
Hero bets [$4.00 USD]
Player2 calls [$4.00 USD]

Turn (Pot : $15.25)

   
Hero bets [$10.00 USD]
Player2 calls [$10.00 USD]

River (Pot : $35.25)

   
Hero bets [$24.00 USD]
Player2 raises [$53.10 USD]
Hero folds
Player2 wins $29.10 USD
Player2 wins $83.50 USD from main pot

Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]

***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** Poker Stars
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 13, 08:32:57 ET 2011
Table Mrkos VI Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $77.30 USD - VPIP: 25, PFR: 21, 3B: 9, AF: 3.3, Hands: 99049
Seat 2: Player2 $81.90 USD - VPIP: 59, PFR: 57, 3B: 37, AF: 2.7, Hands: 390
Hero posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Player2 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
Hero raises [$1.25 USD]
Player2 raises [$3.50 USD]
Hero calls [$2.50 USD]

Flop (Pot : $7.25)

   
Player2 bets [$6.00 USD]
Hero calls [$6.00 USD]

Turn (Pot : $19.25)

   
Player2 bets [$7.00 USD]
Hero calls [$7.00 USD]

River (Pot : $33.25)

   
Player2 checks
Hero bets [$26.00 USD]
Player2 calls [$26.00 USD]
Hero shows
Hero wins $85.50 USD from main pot
Player2 doesn't show

Awesome multitabling regfish, I wish he didn't quit.
He never called PF, 3bet 37% and folded everything else, and then X/Folded 60% of the time on flop in 3b pot.
He folded to 1-1.6 donks 80% of the time and bluffed just in random spots and had huge bet sizing tells.


I have also found out that my sub-concious (auto piloting) game is badly broken and I can't stick to my plan when I play instinctively even against a freemoney guy like this one when I lose awareness:


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Dont think 4betting T3s is profitable in the long run, nor is 3betting K3o or K5o. Pretty thin :/

I mean if he is never calling your open, perhaps you should call his 3bets wider, and play pots IP, rather than 4betting him with your bluff range. If his 3bet % is super high then his 3bet range will be wide, and calling with mid-top of your range is gonna be pretty profitable. I just dont like 4bet bluffing this guy too often, and if you do, I would rather do it with like 67s or 46s, not T3s imo.

Also the K3o hand, another reason why its not good to 3bet K3o. You have no showdown equity, and you force yourself to bluff your way out of the situation. If you 3bet there with say, K9s, you might have alot more equity. Also, the flop is a complete whiff, if his 3bet calling range is small, I hounestly just give up here, because he is never folding on that flop, as we probably expect him to call 3bets with the mid-top of range, and rarely weaker SD hand like yours

4Betting T3s is 100% profitable in that spot, simply because of frequency of his 3bets and the timing. At that point he was 3betting some 35% of all hands, but he folded to some 9/10 4bets during the whole match and I didn't 4b him in a long time. A call is +ev as well no doubt though, I simply didn't 4bet him in a long time and I don't lose much value by not calling T3s so I went for it (At that point in time when I didn't know he is starting to get pissed and calls 4bets I would Flat AA KK and 4bet just junk and probably QQ AK some of the time)

I agree with your analysis that when he is so easy to play postflop I should call a lot preflop, and I did. My 4bet %was really low, but I needed to have some 4bet% so that he will pay me off when I get a monster and my 4bets are not ultra transparent as just for value, and when he folds so much 4betting him is just free money.


For the 3bet...
My 3bet was roughly 40% in the match, he raises 90% buttons and folded 60% to 3bet and folded a lot of flops. Basically I would attack this by 3betting junk like this and hands that dominate his range and call all other hands pre and fold just complete junk (although 3betting is +ev with any 2 as is calling), I don't want to make it obvious to him that he is being exploited hardcore, so I'd fold junk when I 3bet him 3x in a row for example. He also did adjust somewhat and where he folded 80% 3bets at first it dropped down to just 60% at the end of the match - I might have overdone it. He still was playing fit or fold on the flop though). With K9o I will be inclined to call preflop tbh, its too good to just raise, take it down or cbet and take it down on flop as happens so much in 3b pots, but not not as good as to dominate hands that he does call with.

In the hand K5o hand I will cbet 100% of the time here even with two jokers as he has fit/fold strategy. With this size cbet has to work just 35.6% of the time with 0 equity when called and although the J hits his range there is no way the bet is not profitable. I know he peels any pp 100% of the time, and he would call decent aces and fold them on turn. Turn might be more thin as he doesn't have air now, but he still has PP that he is folding and he would also fold weak Jx a decent amount of the time. River is a spew against him because he never folds Qx and I folded out all pp and significant amount of Jx on turn.



TBH that's why I love HU and why I will pure bumhunt (aside from BR). The standard ABC play is usually not the correct one against non-standard players with huge non-standard leaks when you have solid reads like I had after some 300 hands

I understand that you should balance your 3betting range, but I dunno, I think balancing it with hands that will just get dominated if called is pretty bad. In my eyes balancing the 3bet is 3betting hands like 35s,46s,45s maybe 78o etc. Just hate K3o imo. Maybe K3s. If you are getting called in those spots, and he is calling flop to your cbet, I am shutting down there 100% because the board is so dry that he has to be peeling with a made hand most of the time, given your info on him.

Also i put K9o on the lower end of range here, which could easily be 3bet with or called pre. But as you said, it all depends, you had reads.

Just remember dont let it go to your head and start over aggressive thinking "lol this guy folds so much, bet bet bet".

On January 13 2011 11:06 Chewits wrote: I understand that you should balance your 3betting range, but I dunno, I think balancing it with hands that will just get dominated if called is pretty bad. In my eyes balancing the 3bet is 3betting hands like 35s,46s,45s maybe 78o etc. Just hate K3o imo. Maybe K3s. If you are getting called in those spots, and he is calling flop to your cbet, I am shutting down there 100% because the board is so dry that he has to be peeling with a made hand most of the time, given your info on him. Also i put K9o on the lower end of range here, which could easily be 3bet with or called pre. But as you said, it all depends, you had reads. Just remember dont let it go to your head and start over aggressive thinking "lol this guy folds so much, bet bet bet".

Balance didn't even cross my mind Chewits

3betting him is just instant profit, he just plays his hands and keeps raising 90% buttons. It was just about not 3bet 100% and make him shift attention to my table.

And yeah the turn really is thin, but I was pretty sure he folds a lot of made hands. Maybe check will be slightly better there, and I don't even have to bother with breakeven plays against him.


And actually the 'this guy folds so much, betbetbetbet' is a good thing, but I think I know what you mean - because he folds in one spot like preflop and flop doesn't mean he will let go of hands on turn or river, which was clearly my mistake in the 3 barrel hand