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4-betting in the early stages?

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April 30, 2015 - 7:02 pm

#Game No : 505158289
***** 888poker Hand History for Game 505158289 *****
$15/$30 Blinds No Limit Holdem - *** 
Tournament #68613383 $4.50 + $0.50 - Table #10 9 Max (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: kandiss ( $6,162 )
Seat 2: McM0neysack ( $3,034 )
Seat 3: vladku ( $2,838 )
Seat 4: london_ace ( $3,141 )
Seat 5: northoltrang ( $2,445 )
Seat 6: LuckyRuss1an ( $3,105 )
Seat 7: LuckGIRL2688 ( $2,401 )
Seat 9: Andronaft ( $3,010 )
Andronaft posts small blind [$15]
kandiss posts big blind [$30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to london_ace [ A, 3 ]
McM0neysack folds
vladku folds
london_ace raises [$60]
northoltrang folds
LuckyRuss1an folds
LuckGIRL2688 folds
Andronaft raises [$150]
kandiss folds
london_ace raises [$435]
Andronaft folds

Hey

i've only seen v 3-bet once on the button , other opponent folded to the 3-bet so never got to see

a showdown , so hardly any reads on V.

I don't usually 4-bet in the early stages, it's something that i think we should be doing more often even at the early stages! There's tons of players out there that's going to 3-bet wide even pre antes! small pots must really mean something! lol.

so instead of nitting up i went for the 4-bet and the hand i did it with was a reasonably good one imo. We block a lot of Ax combo's and also if we're called our hand flops pretty well and its disguised , we also have postion which is a bonus for us.

thoughts on hero's 4bet? would you prefer if for instance hero had more sufficent reads that villian 3-bets quite often and folds to 4-bets or if theres a dynamic? obv that would be even better imo, but what im wondering is if 4-betting is okay when we lack in reads?

cheers.

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April 30, 2015 - 8:37 pm

I think the reason you don't see a lot of light 4-betting pre-ante is that your average opponent has very nitty 3-betting ranges and has trouble folding big pairs even when those pairs are the bottom of their range. So it's a good baseline exploit against an unknown to assume that if he 3-bets he probably isn't going to give up easily. You're right that this is a decent 3betting hand, but it's not the very best (that would be A5s).

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