Adjusting your strategy (Interactive post)
I was playing a player HU recently that had a lot of leaks that were required understanding of relatively advanced (and a lot of basic) concepts to get exactly what he was doing wrong. Although this is a HU hand, the thinking required in this hand is no different than 6 max and full ring.
In this post I am going to describe two players, one is me and one is my opponent, and we are playing HU. Your job is two fold:
1. Figure out what opp is doing wrong and why.
2. Figure out how opp needs to adjust his strategy (assuming ISF's stays the same).
3. Figure out what i am doing wrong in maximally exploiting opps strategy.
4. Figure out how i need to adjust my strategy (assuming opps stays the same).
I expect any worthful post in this thread to be at least 4 paragraphs if not longer. Any questions can be short.
Here we go:
Preflop:
1. ISF: Opening 95% of hands on the BU to 4 times the BB, threebetting 15-20% of his hands (high frequency), and cold calling about 8% (avg). Calling threebets about 20% of the time.
2. Opp: Opening about 70% of hands on the BU to 4 times the BB. Threebetting about 5-8% of his hands, cold calling about 20%. Calls threebets about 60% of the time.
Threebet pots:
1. ISF: Cbetting around 85% of the time about 3/4ths pot, very small double barrel frequency, and very small c/r frequency. Passive on the river as well. In position when he calls a threebet he is raising a flop cbet a small frequency, and taking a lot of stabs at passiveness. Floating a lot (who knows if opp knows this). Not playing tricky.
2. Opp: Cbetting around 65% of the time, doesn't cbet a lot of midpair and bottom pair. Not playing too tricky. Not too aggressive with draws, and not bluffing much. Will two barrel with most made hands, sometimes will check turn and bet river with nut hands. Small frequency of turn bets are air on relatively random spots. In position when he calls a threebet isn't raising the flop at all. Takes a float line: will call the flop and either check turn and bet river, or bet turn. Not very bluffy when checked to. Often will check down mid to bottom pair type hands.
Raised pots:
1. ISF: OOP Mixes in a lot of leads and c/r (c/r about 20% of the time), not c/f very much. C/c range somewhat imbalanced, flop c/c often give up on turn. Generally bets draws and nut hands on turn after c/r. When opp checks behind the flop is super aggressive, often firing one or two barrels.
In Position: Responds to flop c/r by a lot of calling rather than threebetting. Generally straight forward on turn and river vs c/r, will float flop c/r on occasion and bet turn. Cbetting 75% of the time, checking behind ace highs and mid and bottom pair type hands, very rarely a nut hand. Huge double barrel frequency. Generally passive on the river.
2. Opp: OOP mostly c/c or c/r (only 4% of the time) with a relatively balanced range. C/f a lot. Balances made hand c/r with mostly air. Calls much of his draws, relatively balanced c/c range of nut hands, weak top pair, mid and bottom pair, and draws. Generally passive on the turn and river and will randomly follow through a c/r all the way with air, but rarely. Not a big station. Tends to play pretty straightforward versus check behinds, not bluffing too much, but throwing in a small amount of bluffs, mostly with draws or gutshots.
In Pos: Cbets around 80% of the time, mostly checking behind with pure air that has no chance of drawing out. Doesn't raise leads much, even with his nut hands, so balanced calling range to leads. Isn't betting a lot of turns and checking behind as weak as cbetted weak top pair on the turn, snapping and vbetting on river bets/checks. Responds to c/r with calling, not floating much here.
Alright im sure there are clarification questions and aspects of opp or ISF's game i didn't cover so feel free to ask questions, no matter how trivial. In your responses feel free to be as picky as you want.
I'll respond to every post.
