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[Closed] NL200 FR 55 OOP call pre?

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$1/$2 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)

Known players:
[tg]UTG1$200.00:///////;UTG2$80.00:///////;MP1$60.50:///////;MP2$417.30:///////;MP3$219.60:///////;CO$231.55:///////;BU$208.60:///////;SB$249.15:///////;BB (Hero)$202.00:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is BB with 5:h, 5:s.
4 folds, MP3 raises to $6.00, 3 folds, Hero calls $4.00.

Flop: ($13) 2:s, A:h, 6:c (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets $8.00, Hero folds, MP3 gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $13.

He was 20/17. I have been told that this is a leak - "He is not going to pay you off". Actually I am calling just 4$ to see the flop and if I hit my set 1/8 of the time, I need to get paid 32$ on every single pot where I hit my set. And I agree that he usually only C-bets and it is unclear whether he is going to pay more (so most likely I only have total profit 16$ when he invests 6pre and additional 10 is Cbet.. If he C/bets flop, turn is checked and he calls my donk bet river 16, I can earn 32 which is needed to justify the call pre and effectively break even). I assume that if I don´t hit set, I give up all the time (as it is huge variance move to c/r when not hit the set, I was experimenting with c/r flop bluff quite a long time and I came to conclusion it is better to avoid c/r move on flop in these spots where you don´t hit).

If this is correct, than it is much bigger leak to call PP 22-77 from SB as well. And it may be leak to call 88-TT as well in principle.

Basically it means that (when 100bb deep) pocket pairs
- should be called only IP against good players (ofc calling 3-bet OOP is total leak, I am discussing just normal call pre here)
- can be called OOP only aggainst aggro players or loose players who are going to pay you out / and PP can be also called OOP in a multiway pot where it is morel likely that you will get paid (but I would like to discuss the situation only against 1 open raiser)
- if the open-raise comes from CO/BU you can 3-bet them for a bluff / value.

What do you think?

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6 replies
Tim64
Joined: 03.11.2008

Agree. I would have thought that on nl200 you are even less likely to get paid off when you hit.

I have to admit that I do still call sometimes oop, particularly against a tight ep raise.

In regards to your comments about check raise, I am not sure. I agree that pps may not be good hands to check raise when you don't hit your set. but I guess you have to have some bluffs or semi-bluffing your check/raise range, otherwise you are readable as always having a strong hand when you do it.


ofc sometimes you can c/r when you have reads and feeling for the moment and also to mix up the play.

my comment was more that one should not c/r frequently


Bierbaer
Joined: 27.05.2005

What you say is a bit contradicory:
On the one hand you said people are folding to your checkraises on the flop all the time when you have a set, but on the other hand your bluff-checkraises don't work too often because the opponents play back.

Maybe the boards you pick for bluffcheckraising differ from the ones you hit your sets on and c/r?
Or you c/r the wrong people/in the wrong spots?

To get to your question: It's hard to make a general statement, in my experience/from my calculations I found that you can't call for setvalue against CO or BU-raises because peoples ranges are too wide to give you the implied odds you need.

When they sit UTG or in MP a call is ok most of the time (I only know this for shorthanded tables, but I guess it's the same on a FR table because the ranges are tighter as well) because their ranges contain more hands that are willing to pay off a c/r and maybe an additional bet.
That's what I found in my experience, it's hard to make statements about this and I think you'll hear a lot of different opinions when you ask different people...


Mhmm, you are right - good comment. I typically use TAG opponents (or weak players) who C-bet a lot for my c/r move on flop and preferably on dry board with low cards, where he likely did not hit. Which is right I believe?

You don´t want to c/r flop against LAG or maniac or call station as they are not capable of folding too much.. Maybe my negative experience with this move is that I frequenty second barreled turn if they called me on flop (to push them off the hand and represent set) which lead me to some costly mistakes.

Against CO and BU I agree, I almost always 3-bet my PP OOP, find it better than cold calling OOP.


Bierbaer
Joined: 27.05.2005

Originally posted by jekyll001
Mhmm, you are right - good comment. I typically use TAG opponents (or weak players) who C-bet a lot for my c/r move on flop and preferably on dry board with low cards, where he likely did not hit. Which is right I believe?

Yes and no.
A TAG is usually capable of folding weak hands - but he doesn't have too many of them because he plays tight aggressive ;).
So in general I would look for spots in which people open wide and cbet wide, but they rarely hit - and you also want to be able to represent a strong range.

So in general lowcard-drawy boards are nice for blufcheckraising as you can represent a lot of draws (they put you on SCs and small PPs once you call OOP) and they have highcards a lot which they're cbet/folding.
Ofc some opponents like to check back and give up on those boards in which case you should of course not bluff-c/r.
As I said it's hard to give general advice here, you have to look at the opponents range individually for every spot.


yep, good post