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	<title>Sunny Mehta on Hand reading for the 3bet/4bet/5bet game</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[well you&#39;re either incorrect about your opponent&#39;s range/tendencies, or you&#39;re running bad.&#160; if it&#39;s a real source of concern for you, my advice is A) don&#39;t get carried away making vehement reads when you have only small samples of hands as evidence, B) err on the side of caution.&#160; if a strong player is playing back at you, respect his position, tighten up a little, and don&#39;t go overboard trying to outplay him back.&#160; just play solid tight-aggressive poker against him.&#160; you reduce your variance, and really how much equity are you giving up by folding a couple more marginal spots?&#160; plus, the upside is that if he overestimates how open you are playing, you might bait him into making some really marginal/terrible plays when you&#39;re loaded.&#160; (which might also possibly lead to tilting the hell out of him.)
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Lorenzo on Hand reading for the 3bet/4bet/5bet game</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>If you want to 4bet-resteal in this way, you should use another stack size. 40-50 BB are optimal because</p>
<p>1- they might call with weaker hands due to better odds</p>
<p>2- if you are wrong, you have made a lower mistake.</p>
<p>With 100 BB you can&#39;t 4bet shove, you should reraise to 30-35 BB but this leaves you in a difficult spot on the flop.</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>WantToLearn on Hand reading for the 3bet/4bet/5bet game</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#180;m struggling badly with the 3bet/4bet/5bet game.</p>
<p>So maybe you can give me a hint wether I&#180;m playing bad or running bad.</p>
<p>I have hand reading problems with their potential resteal 3bets.</p>
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<p>Example: The game is NL100 full ring on Stars. 100bb deep.</p>
<p>It is folded to me in the CO, I have A9s. I open raise 3bb. Button is a reg who&#180;s on the sLAG side of full ring, like 19/15. Over 460 hands, he has 3-bet 9% of his hands in general. In the big blind, he has 3bet 45% of his hands. Please note, I understand he is not in the big blind in this hand, but I think it&#180;s a stat that gives us an idea of how he likes to play resteal situatuons, and more than that, one that I had on my HUD in the actual hand. Oh yes, and he sees me as a 16/14 probably and I steal a ton, but I fold way too much to 3bets (like 90% or so). I think it&#180;s pretty safe to assume the villain understands all of this. I look down on my notes on him and they say that he "might bluff big". To summarize, this player is not shy and is in a resteal situation as clear as they come.</p>
<p>So, he 3bets to 10bb. I&#180;m not sure how to play him postflop and decide to fall back on the 4bet shove.</p>
<p>I&#180;d expect this to get a lot of folds and be marginaly profitable.</p>
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<p>Now, he calls and turns over QQ.</p>
<p>My point here is that this happens way way way more than I think that it should. It is not just this hand, this is something that seems to happen like always. It&#180;s a clear squeeze/resteal situation, their stats tell me they squeeze and resteal a lot, I 4bet and they show QQ+,AK like one third of the time. Am I going too fast? What am I supposed to wait for? 2000 hands? Or is this just bad luck? What am I missing?</p>
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<p>EDIT: I&#180;d like to add that both blinds were taggish player, leaning towards nitty, and thus unlikely to get in our way with anything but monsters.</p>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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