Played a bit over the last few days, looks like I'm going to make goldstar again which is good.

Ran 11/8 with a 4% 3-bet as usual. I've lowered my 3-bet call% significantly, and have been 3-betting wider IP with moderate success.

Here's the garphskies:



I know this OP is called "Mission to Exploit" so I'm going to try and post some hands where I exploit the tendencies of my opponents.

The following 2 hands villains were both 3-betting 12-14% from the blinds:

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG+1 ($23.90)
MP1 ($36.05)
MP2 ($18.55)
MP3 ($28.55)
Hero (CO) ($31.70)
Button ($16.30)
SB ($25)
BB ($34.50)
UTG ($28.70)

Preflop: Hero is CO with K, Q
5 folds, Hero bets $0.75, 1 fold, SB raises $2.45, 1 fold, Hero raises $6, 1 fold

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($30.45)
BB ($71.20)
UTG ($3.05)
UTG+1 ($34.65)
MP1 ($19.25)
MP2 ($25)
CO ($40.15)
Hero (Button) ($25)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q, A
5 folds, Hero bets $0.75, 1 fold, BB raises to $2.50, Hero raises to $6, 1 fold


I know this might seem like not a big deal to some, but I never would have considered 4-betting KQ on the button, but when playing ranges that include small pp's it def becomes a profitable play, especially when you 4-bet smallish.

Here's a hand where I'm not sure what the best flop line was:

Villain was 18/11 with a 0% 3-bet over 100 hands

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($37.90)
UTG ($25.35)
UTG+1 ($14.65)
MP1 ($25.05)
MP2 ($24.30)
MP3 ($24.75)
CO ($25.35)
Button ($31.10)
Hero (SB) ($25)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K, A
7 folds, Hero bets $0.75, BB calls $0.50

Here's my range for preflop for this guy, I still think he 3-bets his monsters so here we go:

22,A2s+,KJs+,QJs,JTs,T9s,98s,87s,76s,65s,54s,A9o+, KJo+,QJo,JTo

Flop: ($1.50) 9, A, 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $1, BB raises to $3, Hero ???

I know that my equity is great vs pretty much any hand, but I don't know if villain is capable of doing this with AQ or AJ. So my tentative range after he raises my bet would be:

99,A9s+,QhJh,Tc9c,Td9d,Ts9s,8h7h,7h6h,6h5h,5h4h,A9 o+

Against this range my equity is ~60%

If I take out combos of AJ and AQ we have ~46% equity

So what to do? I don't think any option other than folding is a huge mistake, but which line is better when he raises?