AKo ex.2 4.03.

Hello Sikac,

Well, I might even prefer just calling and playing it postflop. He continues here just with strong made hands and never any weaker Ax/Kx. You are turning your hand into bluff, that's the problem.

Best Regards.

Originally posted by veriz
Hello Sikac,

Well, I might even prefer just calling and playing it postflop. He continues here just with strong made hands and never any weaker Ax/Kx. You are turning your hand into bluff, that's the problem.

Best Regards.

When to 4bet then? And why except KK+?Do actually people 4bet? I simply do not feel comfortable playing this hand OOP? Sometimes I do against so specific opponent but against this one I think that I do not have the required knowledge to make this a profitable play so I rather turn into a bluff then play without a plan especially deep.

I prefer a 4bet tbh. The problem with calling a 3bet OOP and trying to play postflop is that on the majority of flops villain can take the pot down when we miss even when he has a bluff like Kxs or something. We only hit the flop ~30% of the time so by calling and trying to play OOP we give villain the opportunity to take the pot down 70% of the time with any hand he 3bets with, whereas if we 4bet we can fold out a potentially large equity share of his preflop from hands like 88-TT and low pocket pairs/suited connectors with 2 live cards against us.

Whilst we do fold out a lot of hands we beat by 4betting we don't lose that much value in that sense, since on the flop if we flop TPTK and check to villain, he cbets and we shove and he folds. We can't get a lot of value when we do hit, AQ and AJs on Axx flops is really our only chance of getting stacks in ahead. random Kxs hands aren't going to stack off on a Kxx flop, and A2s-A5s isn't going to stack off on Axx flops.

Originally posted by Wriggers
I prefer a 4bet tbh. The problem with calling a 3bet OOP and trying to play postflop is that on the majority of flops villain can take the pot down when we miss even when he has a bluff like Kxs or something. We only hit the flop ~30% of the time so by calling and trying to play OOP we give villain the opportunity to take the pot down 70% of the time with any hand he 3bets with, whereas if we 4bet we can fold out a potentially large equity share of his preflop from hands like 88-TT and low pocket pairs/suited connectors with 2 live cards against us.

Whilst we do fold out a lot of hands we beat by 4betting we don't lose that much value in that sense, since on the flop if we flop TPTK and check to villain, he cbets and we shove and he folds. We can't get a lot of value when we do hit, AQ and AJs on Axx flops is really our only chance of getting stacks in ahead. random Kxs hands aren't going to stack off on a Kxx flop, and A2s-A5s isn't going to stack off on Axx flops.

Well, I also think this way also from what I know Luiz(I sure you know who I mean) also thinks this way. But must be a reason why a much more experienced player thinks this way. I have to admit I can t by calling play this hand profitable. I simply not that good. I do not have a plan for such spots OOP that I could comfortable call and outplay him postflop.So basically I depended if I hit or not. Could you sure Veriz your reason for a call rather then a 4bet? Also what do you guys think about my raise size?I mean I know that I m OOP but I plan to muck it if he shoves so basically I could save some money(let s say 3,40$).

Originally posted by Sikac
Correction: 3bet BU 7,5%
Do you mind the 4bet since the player 3bet more on BU?

In order to call you need to know your opponent's tendencies (NOT STATS!). You have to start with preflop where that 8% BU 3bet can pe polarized or depolarized. Against depolarized you should have good implied odds because he will flop the 2nd best hand very often. The problem though is that some players actually 3bet those and then potcontrol when called, especially at such low stakes, which means you won't be able to get too much money in OOP.

Against either polarized or depolarized 3betting range, 4betting AKo should be +EV. For one thing, he will call a decent amount IP because of stacks (SC and PPs will peel to see a flop imo) and second, if you don't 4bet AKo here you shouldn't have a 4betting range against this type of player. I say this because not 4betting AKo means you 4bet KK+, which means you will either fold too much to 3bets or call too much OOP 200bb deep neither of which is +EV without solid info on opponent.

You know so little about your opponent that you can actually go any of the 3 ways. Your biggest problem is that after 900 hands with the guy you only have stats. There will never be one right way to play this, you always need to go from what you know. You know you are ahead of his 3betting range so you can 4bet or call. If you 4bet you risk getting thrown of the best hand/flip preflop or postflop and if you call you take the same risk postflop. If the reverse implied odds are so big for you when either calling or 4betting then you should choose a weak preflop fold.