Operation: Ben learns poker and builds a roll

Originally Posted by bjsaust

Specifically, you should be exploiting the specific fish in question. What are their leaks?!! For instance I've seen a number of players that limp PF and fold to raises, but cant fold any piece of the board postflop. Reggy Mc'NonThinker raises preflop and congratulates himself on making an extra BB. I overlimp with two high cards and when I hit TP I take them to value town and win 30BBs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7M7d8u40I4

Perhaps this has merit in full ring, but in a 6max situation it certainly doesn't.

To win your 30bbs a few things need to happen:
1) You need to hit
2) He needs to hit weaker
3) You need to hold
4) Neither of the blinds decide to shit on your party

By raising to 5bbs you will win the dead money quite often (which is worth more than any hand other than QQ+ maybe JJ/AK) and force the blinds to play a big pot out of position or re-raise out of position. However if you keep up the pressure you eventually will earn enough mistrust to get action. Then you're playing for medium pots and stacks!


If the TAgg-bots won't shit all over you, a min-raise or 3x raise will at least get a pot going if you don't want to apply quite so much pre-flop pressure.

Originally Posted by bjsaust

Anyway, that kind of thing I think I'm pretty good at. Heres a quote from Marshall in that thread from Fnord though:

Originally Posted by Marshall28

I think I make money when I manipulate my perceived range to cause opponents to either undervalue or overvalue the particular part of their range they are holding to suit my needs.

I have to admit I really dont get what he's saying here, or how to implement what he means. Anyone got some ideas on that?

Basically, most NLHE hands don't reach showdown. So it's a hand reading contest. When your opponents misread your range, they will make mistakes and you will profit. However, really weak players aren't thinking quite so deep about our range (unless we've built a wild image) so this matters less than just shitting all over the hand they're representing.