Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
Because of this I want to transfer some of the profit I could make with my infrequent semi-hands onto my more frequent air hands because that way I make more money with my range as a whole.
Here's what I think he's saying here, please correct me if I'm off: Even though a check/call is probably a more profitable way to play the strongest hands by themselves, when we do this we weaken our bet flop/bet turn range a lot (because it's already pretty wide to take advantage of how our opponent plays the flop and turn, etc). So we play these strongest hands in an "inferior" way by barreling to protect our bet flop/bet turn range because it is so wide (and profitable). The net effect is that the way we play our strongest hands loses some value, but causes the rest of our bet flop/bet turn range to gain so much value that it's a net +EV.
This is a superb concept that has changed the way I play poker a lot.

Not to take away from it, but this concept is only true IF opp is calling our turn bets with what we calculate as an "unoptimal frequency" of high or in other words, he calls the turn too much, he's a station. For example if we were playing a player who raised all his hands tp or better on the flop when we bet here and would fold anything midpair or worse to a two barrel, he'd be folding the turn everytime we bet the flop and turn when he calls the flop. In this situation keeping a made hand or nut hand in that turn betting range is not valuable for that range (in fact looking at it from a shania perspective, its -EV for your game). I actually use this concept a lot. I.e. HU someone is opening 100% of buttons but calling with maybe 15% of hands. Adjustment: I threebet all air, flat everything else including AA-TT, AQ+. Why? Because opp is folding so much, made hands have more value in context of shania and in a vacuum by flatting pre.

Now the tricky part, like in this situation, is when your not making these adjustments preflop or on the flop, but rather on the turn or river. The reason is because people are normally poor at forming their ranges on the turn or river because they lose connection to the flop. So lets say in this situation we decide to c/f most of our air on the flop and bet most of our made hands. And let's say we determine that our opponent is folding "too" much on the turn to the point where we would like to add more air to our turn betting range. Now given the line we took on the flop we can't do that. In fact, our opponent is now folding for good reason: We can't have a lot of air in our bet flop-turn betting range because we don't have barely any air in our flop betting range.

/rant