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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Thanks for doing this. My questions are very general, and likely unanswerable. But here they are anyways:
1. It looks to me that you better players sometimes flop felt naked draws (like J8hh on K76hhd or something). What conditions should be met in order to do this?
2. It seems that my preflop 100bb 4 bets are always pushes. I'll do this with AA and KK no doubt. What conditions need to be met in order to do this with weaker hands, say AK or QQ?
3. I have just switched from fullring to 6max. I think I played laggier at fr than most of you guys do at 6max, and it worked very well due to fr being a bunch of weak players. I've noticed 6max is a bit more aggressive. What adjustments should I make for 6max? I"m thinking more specifically about how hands change strength postflop.
1. it's all about balancing ranges. For example, if we're only felting sets, 2pair, maybe AA, and crazy megadraws like 89hh on this board, we become pretty easy to play against vs a thinking player who's trying to play optimally vs your range (which I'm going to assume that since we have J8hh, it's pretty wide). The best time to stack off with this hand is by shoving (or putting in the last meaningful raise) when you have some fold equity in a moderate sized pot and you're not losing a whole lot when you get called. Figure you might have 30-35% vs his calling range and at that point it's just a matter of putting him on a couple ranges and voila! I don't mind taking slightly the worst of it in these spots for metagame/image purposes.
2. First of all, it's probably not ideal to only 4-bet shove if you're going to 4-bet, but you're probably not given up a whole lot either since with 100bb stacks, once you 4-bet you are almost always committed to calling a shove anyway. I think 4-betting AK is generally awesome unless you're facing someone with a very tight 3-betting range (e.g. JJ+/AK where he's calling a shove with all of them), but you have to figure that you're cutting the number of combos of AA/KK in half since you have one of each, and you equity when called isn't that bad at all (AKo/AKs has about 40% vs QQ+/AK). The amount of pots you pick up vs even a slightly light 3-better more than makes up for this. Now QQ or worse pairs it's hard to say in the context of your game, because your hand has a lot of value by just calling and seeing a flop, but if you can shove and get called by worse pairs (99-JJ) all day like I sometimes can, it becomes a great play. Another thing to consider are the 30% hands... Axs, small pairs, suited connectors with emphasis on Axs. 30% against any reasonable calling range, sometimes it can be worth shoving them if there's enough dead money in the pot and they fold enough (break even point is typically around 2/3 of the time they have to fold given 100bb stacks and typical 3-bet sizes).
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