like every week we present another great addition to our poker strategy section. Today, the brilliant Phil Galfond advises us how to play some hands in a "special" to embarrass our opponents. So stay focused.
galfondAsí you have reached the level where you can win without problems on the table No Limit $ 3 / 6. You've studied the game and spent many hours. Congratulations, not easy. If you take a look at the $ 25/50 games will see that most of the people you play you have read the same books and even has practiced more than you. They know what they're thinking. Know why betting on the river. They know what range of resubirías letters in that position before the flop. They practice, condition, calculated and standardized everything. So how can you beat?
As you've been moving to higher levels and has begun to play against opponents who understand the game, you open your game. One way to gain solid professional players online is very studied with standard moves, with Multi and making them think. They're used to the same situations. You make a pot-sized raise from the button. Pay in the big blind. The flop comes A Q 5 of different suits. He goes, betting $ 30 on a pot of $ 44. He has already been there, experienced that scenario (or one just like him) hundreds of times, and knows how to handle it.
But what if you bet $ 10 on a pot of $ 44? What if betting $ 87? I should stop and think. It would be in a situation that is unfamiliar and not feel at ease. Why bet that number specifically? In the game No Limit we have many options. Why make a move that is out of your arsenal? The reason why you should make plays out of the ordinary (and almost any move fulfills that) is to allow your opponents commit a fault. And please be careful. The key to using your options is good to know why you're making the move you're doing. Do not go around making strange bets without any particular reason.
Let's go with some examples. The simplest reason for an odd move for best appearance is: to change what other players might be thinking that you are. My friend Craig once told me about a play he likes to do. Three players pay before him and has Js 8s last. Instead of paying or making too big a raise, make a mini climb, Why? To his opponents think it's stupid. It's a great way to confuse your opponents, and later you will pay, the night he committed judgments based on which they think is your game, be a great night for you.
Sometimes you can make a play for reasons of image and receive the added benefit of gaining information. $ 50/100 No Limit play with piles of $ 10,000. You go up to $ 300 on the button and you pay the big blind. The flop is 9 7 2 with two diamonds, your opponent does check to you. Betting $ 150 on a pot of $ 600. Your opponent pay. You've got two things. You've probably got your opponent thinks you are stupid, and you get some information from his hand. It is almost impossible for your opponent has two pair or better. On a flop with such potential to link project would never call with a strong hand. Would go to protect her and take her money. Now you can use your information to bluff against weak hand later or go slower and make the possible value of your strong hand. We also have given the opportunity to see a river of very cheaply, since it is likely that you check on the turn.
Here is a hand I played recently against a very good professional player and very aggressive high-limit. We were playing at a table of four at $ 200/400 NL. Got $ 47ky you got it covered (I have more money on the table than he). Up on the button and pay in the big blind with Ad 8d. The flop comes K 8 offsuit 6. Paso bet the pot ($ 2600); Payment. The turn is an offsuit 6 to those in the flower. Step and again bet the pot $ 6800. It is very aggressive and definitely a value bet on the three streets a hand like K Q. Happen on the turn with K 10 probably. Also bet on the turn but sometimes they leave the river with hands like 9s 7s, 7d 5d, 10 9, and sometimes with a total bluff. I decided to pay on the turn. The river is 10. Paso. Think for a while and bet $ 15,200 into a pot of $ 24,400. To pay for this bet bluffs would have to argue that 30% of the time (Based on pot odds). I have a pair of eights, so I can only win against a lamppost.
So I shot payment or no?
I believed that I was bluffing 30% of the time. Perhaps 15-20%, which was not sufficient to pay, so I went! I went all in with $ 36,000, had to pay $ 21,000 more to see. So, he was risking $ 36,000 to win $ 35,600. This move would be run half the time for it to be profitable. So, even won the 15-20% of the time you're bluffing. If you are not throwing a lantern, will have a hand like KQ or AA, a hand that we must ensure that pull at least half the time to make a profit. (Daros realized that if it is profitable to call a raise might be even more profitable). Have someone pull overpair seems a difficult task, but notes the play from his perspective: I call on a flop that nearly did not have any type of project. The turn paired the last letter and again paid a jackpot bet. It is impossible to have paid twice a pot-sized bet with a project in the two streets. I have to have a made hand, a pair or better. Now when I raise on the river, the AA can only win against a lamppost. Do not bet on the river for value with A K. So, What hand could pay two pot-sized bets, doing that to win had to be going to bluff? He exhausted his time and pulled so I assume it would be a hand of AK, so I managed to win a jackpot of $ 52,000 with great effort.
One caveat before I go: Do not make a raise in each river bluff. Your opponent must be able to get a hand and make a great fold. The same warning for unusual stakes. Think what kind of reaction you expect and if your opponent will be adjusted or not. The examples I have given here are just to show you how to think outside the establishment. I could have made a list of hundreds of situations where different thinking than normal may help. Consider all the options you have. Before you pay or do fold, thinks for a second whether a raise could be better and why. Before betting 2 / 3 of the pot, consider what would your opponent if you bet ¼ of the pot. Even if you decide that the standard is the best move, at least now you know why you're doing.
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