Small session review $2NL

[tripaces]

Yeah sorry my bad, I just thought he meant in the actual hand, so is A9o in MP3 a fold without reads? The CO and BUT can call and ill be out of position, but SB and BB ill be in position.

[DoubleJ]

w/ 100BB in an unopened pot:

• i'd raise A9 from the button
  
• i'd raise A9s from the cutoff

but i'm crap @ this game so maybe don't listen to me

do you have a HUD?

[scott_owen]

Yeah sorry my bad, I just thought he meant in the actual hand, so is A9o in MP3 a fold without reads? The CO and BUT can call and ill be out of position, but SB and BB ill be in position.

Dont play A9o in middle pos. Admittedly your villains arent likely to be positionally aware, but say they are, the button and cut off are likely to play a wider range and call more hands just because they have pos on you. As it is, your likely vs loose passive villains that call a wide range of junk in any pos so you arent likely to have position much of the time here.

my bad about the A5, but i'm still not over the moon about it. In that hand its probably a bit more of a 3bet bluff/fold situation, although i almost always just fold. calling is bad because it leaves villain with initiative and you're not really thinking about his preflop range much..

you said villain limped 4 hands before this point. Which means that he probably limps all sorts of crap, isnt positionally aware. His raising range probably consists of any A, and mid to high pairs. so if he has A6+ he's dominating you, and there's also not really going to be alot of times you value bet a pair of 5's so you're never making money here unless you flop 2pair or better. Other hands in his range are all pairs.. all of which are are ahead of you.. here's some stove

739,715,328 games 0.556 secs 1,330,423,251 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 38.303% 33.68% 04.63% 249099972 34232718.00 { A5s }
Hand 1: 61.697% 57.07% 04.63% 422149920 34232718.00 { 22+, A2s+ }

This means that for your call to be plus ev the villain must pay you off with middle pairs, or you must very often be able to steal the pot on the flop/turn. But since you are playing a loose passive who probably calls with any ace regardless of flop you have no fold equity and are going to be in an annoying check down situation a lot of the time despite your positional advantage.

against a wider range of unpaired cards, but less low value cards you still barely scrape a coin flip


1,239,708,096 games 0.956 secs 1,296,765,790 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 49.867% 49.16% 00.71% 609387588 8818192.00 { A5s }
Hand 1: 50.133% 49.42% 00.71% 612684124 8818192.00 { 66+, A8s+, K6s+, K6o+ }


Also, many loose passives shape up to be something like 30+/2 in the hud. This makes their raising range JJ+, AK. Which against you is horrible, ~30/70 in favour of villain.