Thanks a ton Jyms. You caught my attention for sure.

Anyways, I might not be able to finish my preflop calling thing for a few days as I'll be traveling again tomorrow evening but I wrote a mini-3betting article for a FTRer. I realized my PM sentbox is full and wouldn't save it so I thought I'd copy and paste it here and see if anyone has more to offer.


"Ok here goes. First of all, I don't really know of many good articles so I will try to make some stuff up/pass on advice given to me in the past.

In almost any game it should be essential we 3bet with more hands than monsters. Why? Shania. If you are unfamiliar check out this 2+2 post: http://archives2.twoplustwo.com/show...?Number=533592

Basically, you don't want to play a hand just because it's +EV or -EV, but you want to play hands that create the most EV for ALL your ranges. Sometimes it's easy as in just playing strong stack off ranges while other times it's much trickier. I'll go ahead and talk about preflop. We 3bet AA because it's +EV right? Well, we need to think deeper. Our calling/folding/3betting range needs to be created to form the most +EV in each situation. Sometimes AA is actually better calling while a hand like 72o should be 3bet. An example here is if someone is raising a lot but folds almost always to a 3bet. When he doesn't fold, he always 4bet shoves (though rare). We shore up our calling range to ridiculously strong hands while using our weaker hands (even 72o in this case) to 3bet which then causes that to be +EV. Now we are setting our foundation for having our 3betting AND calling range to be ridiculously profitable. Think about the alternative of just 3betting AA here. It results in him folding a ton. Also folding 72o becomes oEV. Does that make sense?

Anyways, here is 3betting in a nutshell. Let's say we are playing a standard reg. We should 3bet our monsters but we need other hands too or else we won't get paid off as much. Not only that, but 3betting other hands will just become instantly profitable because:
1. Our range is balanced and he'll fold a lot
2. He'll call a lot in which case we'll form a 3betting range that includes linear hands

1. If our range is balanced, he'll obviously have to fold a lot and not know where he's at and play in a much more predictable way. If he folds too often then BOOM throw in a ton of polarized bluffs. Hands like Kxs or Qxs are great because we have an over, blocker and chance of a nuttish draw. The over is extremely important because, at smaller games, 3bet pots are played passively and we have a chance of bluffing when we don't hit (Axx boards) the flop and we can see more streets to hit our top pair. They're usually not calling with Kx or Qx hands so if we hit we are usually good. The blocker is important for FE (think combonatrics). The suited aspect is just an extra bonus to sometimes flop draws that we can play aggressively as we'll usually have the over to go with it.

2. If he calls a lot, then we just use hands that dominate his range. This is great because we'll win big pots when we both hit TP and we'll also win a lot by bluffing because of how weak his range is. This is best used vs. bad players. This is why a hand like A4s can be raised for value. If he's calling with worse, then definitely raise there. Sometimes they're calling any raise so raising with K7s or something like that can be good.


This is all just the beginning of everything. Once you start thinking about postflop tendencies you'll see where you should adjust your 3bet tendencies (frequencies and your range).

I'm kind of tired but please tell me if this helped at all."

No math or anything obviously and written in like 10 minutes. Yay/nay/sort of BUT.../just stop/etc?