[5NL] I have a range in the BB, how should I play it?

Looking into 3bets now for a while. I'll underline major questions I have, and hopefully be able to discuss them either here or in the IRC.


SB: $10.87 (217.4 bb)
Hero (BB): $14.93 (298.6 bb)
UTG: $5.36 (107.2 bb)
MP: $8.04 (160.8 bb)
CO: $13.46 (269.2 bb) {33/26, 62% ATS, 6/12 fold to 3b, 237 hands}
BTN: $11.38 (227.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with a range
2 folds, CO raises to $0.15, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.60

This guy is a multi tabling reggish player.

To begin putting together how I should play my range here I need to know what my unexploitable strategy looks like.

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

Without going into a lot of math to explain how these values are found, the unexploitable folding frequency will be bet/(bet+pot) and the unexploitable bluffing frequency will be bet/(bet+bet+pot).

This is taken from a strategy article posted by Spoon here http://www.flopturnriver.com/poker-s...pponents-20665. I'm not sure how this applies to this situation. I was told in IRC that generally speaking in a 100bb game our unexploitable strat is to have roughly 2/3 of our 3b range be bluffs and 1/3 of it be value. I should've asked how we got to that conclusion. Oh well, next time. Even though I don't like just blindly following rules, I'll do it to start out with here. I guess our opponent's unexploitable frequencies would be calling folding 2/3 and calling 1/3?

Also I'm unclear on sizing and how that effects our unexploitable strategy.

So a general starting point for our value 3b range would be QQ+ AK. Our opponent is folding 50% so far, and we can reasonably assume he's probably not going to deviate too far from that, even a margin of error of +/- 10% leaves him in the calling too much range. This means we should be bluffing less, and value betting more. If this guy was completely unaware what was going on, we would want to never bluff. However, he does seem somewhat competent, and semi-aware so I don't think that's our best strategy.

QQ+ AK is 34 combos. To be 3betting unexploitably here, we need to add 68 combos of bluffs. our best candidates are hands we wouldn't want to call with but also have blockers, lets go with A2o-A6o, 8xA7o.

However we've already established this player is exploitable in that he's calling too much. To exploit this, we either add or subtract hands from our range. We could take out all of our bluffs, but I think that's a poor option as he'll figure out that we're only 3betting for value and re-exploit us by folding a ton. We could take out most of our bluffs, lets say 3/4 of them, leaving us with 17 combos of bluffs, or A2o, 5xA3o. I think we could probably add JJ and AQ (maybe just AQs) to our range as value bets as well.

I don't know, I feel like 3betting 61 combos isn't defending my blinds enough. Maybe I can widen my value range further? I guess I'm calling sometimes too with dominating hands as well, but that feels bad OOP.


...... wall o' text ....... if anyone gets through that I'd love to hear thoughts lol.