|
|
Limping to set mine at 5NL is almost certainly +EV, but MuddyWicket is right that as you progress towards 25NL it becomes more of a leak. Make sure that you look around the table and recognize the late-position TAGGs and LAGGs who will isolate your limp. If you're sitting with a bunch of fish and nits, limping can still be OK.
The stats look pretty good. Even your ATSB and blinds stats look pretty solid.
Some things to work towards:
1. Play against the fish. Start isolating limpers with a wider range, especially when you are in late position. Your money comes from the fish so you want to get into as many hands with them as you profitably can. You'll end up getting in some interesting spots with 2nd pair mid kicker or air hands, and by necessity you'll improve your hand-reading a lot.
2. Slow down and think of ranges. If you're doing (1), you're going to need to make more and better plays postflop. Before you take your action (especially on the river), consider what Villain's range is and what the best play against that range is. Make more thin value bets on the river and make bluffs when Villain's hand can't stand pressure. When out of position, realize whether it is better to be bet/folding or check/calling.
3. Consider how to make life difficult for the regs. Start to look for spots where a 3bet bluff might make sense, i.e. against T/LAGGs in the HJ or CO when you are on the button. You don't have to start 3bet bluffing now, but if you are looking for good spots to do so it should be easier to do once you get to 25NL. Start to consider spots where you can profitably flat late position raises and outplay them in position postflop.
4. Suited connectors. Mix it up a little and throw some hands like 87s into your iso or MP open range from time to time (not always and especially not when fish have position on you). When you're on the CO or Button with 20:1 implied odds against a nittier player, "set mine" with these hands. Start to notice the kinds of players who are able to make big folds (i.e. overpairs).
5. Have a plan for the hand. The situation: you raise A K and get flatted by a set miner who has position on you. The flop comes J 3 3 . Cbetting once here is bad, but barreling can be very profitable. We have a backdoor flush draw, so let's cbet the flop, expecting to get called. When the turn comes A or K we probably have the best hand. When the turn comes Q T or , we improve our equity and bet again. Thus we barrel with a good chance of taking it down almost 50% of the time.
6. Mix up postflop play against regs. Before value-betting on a given board, consider what you would do with the majority of your range. If you're out of position on a board that a lot of your range misses, it might be good to check/raise instead of just leading. In (5), we decided to barrel AK a lot of times on the turn to get a fold, so when we have AA, let's check the turn sometimes to induce a bet or get value on the river. Remember, this is against regs. Against fish, it's still all about value-town.
With some of these tips, I'm not recommending them to specifically make you more +EV at 10NL. With the SCs for example, I think they will help you get into some interesting spots that will help you further down the line. It's probably better to do that now when a mistake will cost you $10 as opposed to $25-100 down the line.
|
5nl review - dont be gentle
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by mbiz
