[spoonitnow strategy] An Easy Guide to Exploiting Your Opponents

On the first hand, you're thinking along the right lines. I think this spot is fine, but just remember to be careful with multi-way bluffs where you don't have much equity if called because you need so much more fold equity to be profitable.

On the second hand, your bet size is too low. You can easily be betting at least $0.90 here on such a wet board against this guy without changing his calling range much at all.

On the third hand, your head is in the right place, but the way you describe it is a little wonky. You can probably value bet your hand here and have him call with a range that you beat just because his range is so wide and the flop is so dry. Value betting with a hand that might not be ahead of his calling range isn't accurately described as turning your hand into a bluff if you aren't expecting him to fold better hands ever. Checking is likely the best play here because of how wide his range is and how aggressive he's likely to be. Basically, you get him to put in more money with a weaker range more often when you check than when you bet. He's going to bet a wide, weak range into you, etc.

Overall, these are some good applications of what we've been talking about.

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

On the first hand, you're thinking along the right lines. I think this spot is fine, but just remember to be careful with multi-way bluffs where you don't have much equity if called because you need so much more fold equity to be profitable.

On the second hand, your bet size is too low. You can easily be betting at least $0.90 here on such a wet board against this guy without changing his calling range much at all.

On the third hand, your head is in the right place, but the way you describe it is a little wonky. You can probably value bet your hand here and have him call with a range that you beat just because his range is so wide and the flop is so dry. Value betting with a hand that might not be ahead of his calling range isn't accurately described as turning your hand into a bluff if you aren't expecting him to fold better hands ever. Checking is likely the best play here because of how wide his range is and how aggressive he's likely to be. Basically, you get him to put in more money with a weaker range more often when you check than when you bet. He's going to bet a wide, weak range into you, etc.

Overall, these are some good applications of what we've been talking about.

I suppose in hand two that if my flop sizing is too low then my pre sizing could be bigger as well. Like .55-.60 or something like that eh.

For hand three, I always thought that the more dry the flop, the stronger villain's calling range should be? I think with that line of thinking I'm trying to lump all villains into one category when I should be playing tendencies. I think with this particular villain he's not really paying attention to board texture, he likely doesn't know what a dry flop and a wet flop look like, etc. which is why we may be able to value bet here? But all that's beside the point of the actual hand.