Following Assumptions.
I Play Full Ring Cash Game and everyone there has 100 BB. (Dream on)
An MP opponent with (14/11/3) opens for 4 BB.
E1 else folds to me in late position.
I have a medium hand (99+ or AJ+s ), which I understand would be a call against a Nit (with stats of 10/2/2) correct?
Now what? If I flat call the raise, does that add up to the VPIP counter?
How Big do you reraise here?
Minraise to 8 BB or 10 BB to obviously isolate? Or do you make it some weird big amount that reps a premium pair, providing bad odds for set mining?
Do you change the raise sizes in order to confuse villain or generally raise the same amount with AA to 55 here in order to keep him guessing?
@mtdesmoines:
Thank you for your feedback on numerous threads.
I think you are 100% percent right that I'm missing a lot of value by not paying enough attention to other players tendencies.
I am slowly getting there. Probably my worst mistake so far (there'S lots of others, I am sure) was using an outdated and too nitty and weak preflop strategy.
When I pick on players I mainly focus on exploiting the players that go to far with top pair or that only play AA and KK and the likes or the default AJ minraisers :-)
I sometimes float players to see if they will fire a 2nd Barrel on the turn too or try and notice that when I am not in a hand.
What else do you recommend to look for as a next addon?
Full Version: Fine Tuning Aggression 2
you can't think of ur play as an absolute. sometimes i raise, sometimes i call, sometimes i fold.
if i 3-bet i go to 12BB, never min raise to isolate thats a horrible play
i don't change raise sizes to confuse a villian as i raise/3-bet the same with AA and 78s.
if i 3-bet i go to 12BB, never min raise to isolate thats a horrible play
i don't change raise sizes to confuse a villian as i raise/3-bet the same with AA and 78s.
QUOTE (MikeBauer26 @ Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, 3:42 AM) 
An MP opponent with (14/11/3) opens for 4 BB. E1 else folds to me in late position.
I have a medium hand (99+ or AJ+s ), which I understand would be a call against a Nit (with stats of 10/2/2) correct? Now what? How Big do you reraise here?
If you can outplay them postflop (like they shut down on the flop if they don't hit, I go ahead and play against them with my medium strength hand by calling or reraising. If they tend to be the kind of play that plays back hard and gets sticky, then I think I can make a case for letting medium hands go against a (14/11/3) raising from MP. The other guys play more online and are better acquainted with the meaning of those stats, and they may have better opinions. I want to emphasize that calling here is weak, but against an opponent who's exploitable post flop, I don't mind it because we'll have position on them.
If I flat call the raise, does that add up to the VPIP counter?
I'm pretty sure it does -- "voluntarily put in pot"
Minraise to 8 BB or 10 BB to obviously isolate? Or do you make it some weird big amount that reps a premium pair, providing bad odds for set mining?
If he popped it 4 BBs, I want to go to 12BBs at least if I'm raising him.
Do you change the raise sizes in order to confuse villain or generally raise the same amount with AA to 55 here in order to keep him guessing?
It's going to drive people nuts -- I don't have a standard PF raise size. Well I guess I have a pretty standard opening raise -- kind of based on what the table texture has been saying, but if there's action in front of me, everything changes. I try to be cognizant of all the things going on -- standard raises, what the raises have meant in the past on this table (example: are people raising with AT or who's in the hand, for how much and from what position and what that means, how many limpers, callers, raisers before my action, who's been calling what, what a re-raise would mean if I saw one or want one, if people have been shoving light PF, etc etc etc etc.
@mtdesmoines:
Thank you for your feedback on numerous threads.
What else do you recommend to look for as a next addon?
YW. But know that there are better players in this forum than me. Listen to them. Poker is a game of observation and interpretation -- you absorb incomplete data and build assumptions on it and try to make other players make mistakes and avoid your own mistakes based on what is knowable. It's also a game of patience. If you are more patient and make better decisions, the game becomes relatively easy at the lower levels.
Oh, and run goot.
I have a medium hand (99+ or AJ+s ), which I understand would be a call against a Nit (with stats of 10/2/2) correct? Now what? How Big do you reraise here?
If you can outplay them postflop (like they shut down on the flop if they don't hit, I go ahead and play against them with my medium strength hand by calling or reraising. If they tend to be the kind of play that plays back hard and gets sticky, then I think I can make a case for letting medium hands go against a (14/11/3) raising from MP. The other guys play more online and are better acquainted with the meaning of those stats, and they may have better opinions. I want to emphasize that calling here is weak, but against an opponent who's exploitable post flop, I don't mind it because we'll have position on them.
If I flat call the raise, does that add up to the VPIP counter?
I'm pretty sure it does -- "voluntarily put in pot"
Minraise to 8 BB or 10 BB to obviously isolate? Or do you make it some weird big amount that reps a premium pair, providing bad odds for set mining?
If he popped it 4 BBs, I want to go to 12BBs at least if I'm raising him.
Do you change the raise sizes in order to confuse villain or generally raise the same amount with AA to 55 here in order to keep him guessing?
It's going to drive people nuts -- I don't have a standard PF raise size. Well I guess I have a pretty standard opening raise -- kind of based on what the table texture has been saying, but if there's action in front of me, everything changes. I try to be cognizant of all the things going on -- standard raises, what the raises have meant in the past on this table (example: are people raising with AT or who's in the hand, for how much and from what position and what that means, how many limpers, callers, raisers before my action, who's been calling what, what a re-raise would mean if I saw one or want one, if people have been shoving light PF, etc etc etc etc.
@mtdesmoines:
Thank you for your feedback on numerous threads.
What else do you recommend to look for as a next addon?
YW. But know that there are better players in this forum than me. Listen to them. Poker is a game of observation and interpretation -- you absorb incomplete data and build assumptions on it and try to make other players make mistakes and avoid your own mistakes based on what is knowable. It's also a game of patience. If you are more patient and make better decisions, the game becomes relatively easy at the lower levels.
Oh, and run goot.
i have trouble in these situations as well. i think i tend to call to much but that neither here nor there. If you raise i think 3.5x is good, some same 3x but w/e
also i tend to raise/call with pp and muck the AJ. AQ is a fold or raise hand to me depending on the villain
also i tend to raise/call with pp and muck the AJ. AQ is a fold or raise hand to me depending on the villain
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.