i'm going to be honest, you limp/ripping that one hand deep in the merge major is what was going through my mind as the table started folding to me. haha. you were a lot more deep stacked, and icm pressure was huge, so it's a very different spot, but it got me thinking about it. what do you think of limp/calling all the suited hands i would choose to limp? i don't know how i feel about clicking it, because in my mind i don't want to give them the ability to put the last bet in. that might not be an important thing to consider, i'm not sure, but if their range starts out pretty wide, i think i'm likely to get rebluffed since theyll have a value hand around 1/3 of the time. i don't want the villain to 3b/5b 22 i guess is what i'm saying. do you think i'm reading too much into that?

Hey everyone, thanks for taking the time to think this one out and reply. In my mind, the fact that there’s a dead big blind tells the better players that some extra chips belong to them with respect to position and skill of the players in. So in theory, the players that act after a better player opens in late position have a easy to see opportunity to 3bet not all in very wide, with a lot of value and a lot of bluffs. This is because my perceived range in this spot is going to be like 50% I’d guess. In this spot, I do limp a more or less balanced range in order to allow me to play more hands. I think I’m convinced to limp/call whole range to put them in awkward spots with a low spr.

I wrote a range for what I believed the reg villains (they were like 20/20) I used that note to show that they will definitely be playing better than the average player in their respective spots. I did it in icmizer and wrote it by hand and equilab as well just to make sure I did it right. Limp/shoving QJo exactly with a raise/fold of like 70% (like raise 40%, call 12%) or something for the reg players, it profited more than 2bb I’m pretty sure. It’s been a while since I’ve run it, but it was profitable. I didn’t have villains raise/calling A9o, which lowers cEV by a bit because each Ax combo that raise/folds is significant. It’s actually why I don’t really like the idea of limp/shoving an Ace blocker. If I myself have A2o here, villain is less likely to have A6s or A8o, which I expect to be raised and then fold to a shove. At 25bb, we generally have a raise/4b jam range consisting of some manner of bluffs and value hands. I have a lot of raise/calls at this stack size because of how much direct odds we tend to get, which is more important at the lower sprs since reverse implied odds is lower, but I’m thinking that’s putting me in too many tough spots. But anyway, this stack size has room for 3b/folding and good regs definitely do it. I don’t like calling a 3bet with that hand because it’s harder to continue on the flop unsure of where I stand since Ace high will still cbet a lot of the time (but will fold on the turn or river). Hence, I’m convinced having a limp range/call range is going to be good. Like I don’t mind giving up having the ability to steal the pot preflop with just a raise because postflop we still have a decent spr if limp/calling and if it goes limp/ck I get to play deeper in position with a range advantage (because sb won’t fold 62o for instance) 100% of hands will be played from the sb player. I hope all that makes sense.

On a more fun note, I think posting this mayyyy have gotten me exploited (or I’m way dumber than I think). Last Sunday in the $22 25k, the sb was 3b way too much and taking every spot they could. I opened the btn with 89o and I think 40bb. SB 3bets, and I planned to tiny 4b line. I think a lot of people have a sizing tell in this spot with AA and I believed he would take it as that. It looks really nutted and I’m thinking this will always get a call and ck/fold. He called and flop is QTThh. I have a h. SPR was like 1.25:1 and I cbet not all in. I think I leveled myself on the cbet sizing instead of just ripping full range and I made it too easy to call the flop. I shoved a low turn for 3/4 pot and he snap called A7o. I binked river and felt like the biggest tool ever. I don’t think villain will ck/call my rip because ripping AA there would work fantastically (all pair call, KJ will call, there are fewer Tx hands, etc) so he’ll expect that and just fold. So anyway, felt like an idiot. I can’t wait til my computer is set up. I’m borrowing a laptop and I have a demo of HEM2 on here. No flopzilla 🙁 Grinding isn’t bad, but studying is harder. I’m going to get back to blogging again too.