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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 442
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I think a lot of peoples problems when it comes to situations is that they know "what" to do, but not "why". It's like they have memorised a textbook, and can regurgitate it, but can't answer any questions about what relates to the textbook, if that makes sense?
Once you understand how ranges etc work, then you can answer most of your own questions. There's a huge huge difference between knowing and understanding, you need to be able to understand in order to change your strategy in order to exploit someone you haven't had much history of exploiting or haven't read how to exploit....and that goes far beyond just the simple loose/tight adaptions.
Not really good at explaining things, but I like this bit.
"If you have been getting 3bet a bunch by a player in the blinds when you open OTB, why are you opening A5o this next BTN even though the BB 3bet you the last 4 out of 5 times you opened from this position? I see a lot of players not thinking enough to realize that they are about to get 3bet, then decide, oh well I have to fight back now, without actually being prepared, so now you are making your plan up as you go and have to 4bet A5o without any actual idea how villain is going to respond. --Your standard in these types of spots should be to NARROW your opening range and WIDEN your value 4betting range.
The same goes for 3betting, if you keep getting 4bet by a player, stop 3betting him w/ QT/QJ/Q9/JT/J9 type hands, you are wasting them, you have to prepare and widen your 3bet value range so that you can shove over him w/ 88/99/TT/AJ/KQ next time he does 4bet. "
Staying one step ahead of villains is so crucial. Anticipating what he expects you to do to adapt to what he is doing is huge against the standard tags....who are 'standard' for a reason.
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