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MCat, Pelion, Noble-
saying things like "i cbet 75% of flops" is counter-productive. More important is finding betsizes and preflop/flop/turn lines which have positive equity against an opponent's range.
If a 20/6 opens in EP the logical counter-adjustment is to call with any suited 3 gapper or better, any Axs, any PP, fold AJ KQ KJ QJ AQ, and 3bet AK 50%, QQ 50%, KK, AA. So against this player we are never 3betting light we are calling light cause of the narrowness of their range.
However if the same player limps in any position, we should be raising them with a range of something like: any pair, any suited 2 gapper or better, any two cards ten or higher, Axs, Kxs, maybe 67o+ connectors. Now the value of our hand becomes less important as if we are in position and are capable of double barreling/ triple barreling against their incredibly weak range we have put ourselves into a +ev situation. However this preflop isolating range tightens up to a certain extent if they limp re raise frequently or semi frequently until we can put them on a range of LRR hands.
So thats a standard mid stakes strategy on how to exploit loose or tight passive players preflop. For obvious reasons a 50/5s range is even more exploitable (though this is almost debateable) than a 20/6s.
Postflop we are going to have to evaluate texture and metagame slightly to play well. The single most important skill we are going to use is taking notes on our opponent's postflop tendencies. These will fit into two basic categories
1) they never fold
2) they fold too much
If 1 is true we will catch on pretty quickly, here's an example:
25/5 limps UTG+1 for .25, we raise to 1.25 with 85s (A bigger raise should discourage other cold callers which we dont want and inflate the pot so that we win more with each cbet as each cbet is going to have positive expectation against this player) UTG+1 calls.
flop 529 rainbow villain checks we bet 1.75 villain calls.
Turn 2 check/check
river 3 Villain bets 1.35 we call villain shows AQ0 we win!
This situation is going to become increasingly common as we become by faaaar the most active player at the table. For future reference this villain is going to be categorized in group 1- If he has a pair or AK or AQ he is going to keep us honest on 1-2 streets and we will have to commit a sizeable portion of our stack to get him off bottom or mid pair regardless of scare cards. Our adjustment to this is going to be to bet for value liberally and to keep the hands like 76o or 32s out of our isolating range and focus more on weakish big unpaired cards like KT0, QJo to isolate with. These big cards are going to serve both as blockers (we are still going to be cbetting a high % of flops as our opponent will often have absolutely nothing at all and be forced to fold) and as a way to get three streets of value out of top pair weak kicker. Needless to say when we get our big pairs this guy is done for. Also, when this kind of loose passive raises we are going to lay down some pretty big hands until we get a range on him for raising as this will often be polarized to bluffs/near nut hands which is uncomfortably close to playing well. So we give up those pots until given reason otherwise.
Heres a sample hand against villain number two:
25/7 limps in UTG+2 we raise to 1.25 in CO with 42s he calls
flop comes K92 rainbow he checks we bet 1.75 he calls
turn A he checks we bet 5 he folds and starts typing some random bullshit about how aggro we are into the chatbox
Same preflop stats but definitely a different kind of player. Theres a ton of these floating around at low stakes live and online games. They see people paying off light and decide the way to adjust is to keep the pot small preflop and set/flush/straight mine until we go broke to them with top pair. They know not to go broke with weak (one pair) made hands from reading some basic poker literature and from watching TV but fortunately are completely exploitable. Against these guys we can isolate basically whatever the hell we want and fire two barrels with any gutshot, pair, or draw until they fold. they will fold on the flop enough for just cbets to be very profitable and definitely enough on the turn for all scare cards to be profitable bluffs. Also, its often a good idea to follow through off a missed double barrel for even 1/3 pot on a blank river if the board has many missed draws as these players will often be calling big bets with incorrect implied odds and almost always wont read hands well enough to surmise our mini bet on the river is just air designed to get them to fold their bottom pair and flush draw and avoid showdown for our missed 5 high gutshot. Also, when these guys donk bet its frequently to find out where their at and we can raise with just about any two we opened with.
As you continue to think more along the lines of exploiting these passive players and less on your cards, fold equity and profits will increase and you will move up in stakes. Hope this clarifies why I'm stressing an aggressive approach whether its for 3betting open raises or punishing limps of loose passives.
If people are interested I can kind of expand on flop/turn texture and other HUD stuff but this is just kind of explaining as best I can that I'm not saying be a lagtard and 3bet the nit with 76s when he raises UTG and get yourself pot committed, its a way of using our HUD stats to set up insanely profitable C-betting opportunities when our opponent basically shouts to us "I HAVE A MEDIOCRE STARTING HAND." Its a reaction to the range mistake low stakes players make: without the ever-present threat of big pairs + AK being in an opponent's preflop range (cause they are raising 6%-premiums- and limping wiht the rest) we are free to constantly run over them....
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