So as you can I see my first couple days back at the tables were pretty rough. I was pretty rusty and just playing very spewy in general. Since then I have experimented with my game quite a bit with donking, overbetting, and 3betting and just some crazy bluffs in general. I’ve come to some very cool conclusions and interesting lines I’m going to make my standard in the future. Games are real tough these days, thankfully I can say I haven’t played a single hand on stars since I’ve been back, but FTP is loaded with regs and I’ve been really racking my brain how to exploit them.
Don’t want to give away too much but one pretty cool thing I’ve been doing recently is 3-betting guys who always either 4-bet or fold when out of position smaller say to 9 big blinds instead of my usual 11. If they are never calling it is optimal to make it as small as possible while still maintaining some sort of fold equity preflop. While it does make it cheaper for them to 4-bet bluff me they win less when they do plus if I’m playing deep which I seem to be doing more of recently I can actually flat the 4-bet in position with reasonable hands and go from there.
If you haven’t seen it yet check out FoxwoodsFiend/DaEvils in the well on 2+2. While I’m not the guys biggest fan or anything it really can’t hurt to read it & he does provide his insight into how he thinks about the game a bit as well as a couple interesting points on turn play.
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