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Study night turned into study morning on saturday (no chance to play or study in between) and I worked on the areas I mentioned above. I did loads of Wiz quizing and I think developed a much better feel for the button situations.
I also looked at a couple of other things I wanted to share. As I mentioned in another thread I'm now folding JJ-99 to a 3bet without a pf read. It turned out that I'd lost a ton with JJ sticking it in to 3bets, and that flatting was a leak, so now I default to fold.
I'm going to have to keep an eye on 3bet ranges of regs though. If I have enough hands on an opp I see regularly I'll see if I can get a good read on their ranges and then stove JJ vs that range to see if it is profitable to play another way against them.
Something else I've realised during study is that my bet sizing pf in L1 and L2 was irrational. If I raised, I raised to 4x. It seems obvious to me now that this is just stupid. The goal early is to conserve stack and be ultra tight, and yet whenever I got anything I 4x'd it when 3x does the same job. Fine when I have QQ+, but getting 3 bet with 99-JJ as above hurts more. In particular AK,AQ and in LP, AJ,AT suffer in my old strategy. Missing with AK and cbetting is sooooo much more expensive having raised to 4x, and it can and has led to me being shorter than I'd like in the midgame.
E.g. You have AK on the button in L2. You raise and the blinds call and the flop comes 844 two tone. They check, you bet 2/3 and BB raises. You fold.
If you 4x it pre this costs 120 + 240 = 360
If you 3x it pre this costs 90+180 = 270.
That's a pretty big difference. Now I thought, ok but when they fold I win more having 4x'd. The thing is, when it's early in SNG time losing 90 extra chips hurts a lot worse than gaining extra when you win. You hit push fold earlier, you lose the ability to standard raise marginal hands quicker (eg KQ OTB. at 12ish BBs you can't really afford 4x or 2.5x but shoving is an ICM mistake), you lose implied odds for limp calling PPs quicker.
Ideally you'd raise 4x with QQ+ and 3x with everything else, but that is pretty obviously exploitable. Do think many regs would spot this pattern if I did it?
Anyhoo, the study night (and morning) proved very profitable. I increased the roll by 25% this weekend and I've felt pretty good in general when playing. I shall be doing it again soon.
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