nlhe500 live

[berry1]

only 100bb deep (and stacks playing a lot shorter than they would online because of how big the sizing is pre) so you shouldnt open things up too much.

3-betting is going to be pretty villain dependent. Obvisouly if someone is opening a tonne of pots your going to want to start 3-betting them more than normal. The problem live is that it's likely that no-one else is going to be doing much 3-betting so you don't know how someone is going to respond to a 3-bet. Your going to have to guesstimate how likely a person is going to be to fold to a 3-bet. (and how they're going to play postflop in a 3-bet pot)


The average live player will peel off a lot of flops out of position so 3-betting a wide value range in position is pretty good.
A standard ip 3-bet range might be AQ + TT. I'll often extend this to something like 88 + AJ + KQ if i think the villain is going to flat really wide

Even if villains are likely to peel off a tonne of flops i'll still have some bluffs in my 3-bet range (mostly suited junk k5s, Q6s etc). My range is heavily weighted towards value hands than bluffs however given that i'm not likely to get a tonne of folds.

Against players that are going to fold to 3-bets a bunch i'm going to 3-bet a more polarized range (TT+AQ, random bluffs) with a weighting towards value (70-30ish). Obvisouly if they're folding to 3-bets ridiculously often we add more bluffs


that's just what i do. it could be pretty wrong so dont take it as gospel or whatever

[berry1]

villan soul-reads with a pair.

show's

I showed this hand to a friend that plays a lot of live 2/3, 2/5 etc and he wrote the following.




hero spewy river shove, I don't like his flop sizing either with 3 players he should have pumped it to like 25 or so. I see alot of treasury players go for c/r with hands like KT or KJ on those boards and shutdown turn once they get called. But generally they don't fold, they just in c/c mode. If Villain had any real hand he thought was good on the flop and turn, well shit, how can he possibly fold river, especially with a hero spew jam...? AQ-Aj hi may also have reason for a big call, its ahead of all busted flush draws in Heros utg raising range as heros utg raising range probably doesnt consist to much on that board other than AK, KQ, KJ (depending on how loose he is, shave off KQ and KJ).

My last sentence trying to say is that board misses alot of Heros raising range which cant possibly go for max value on the river with that shove. He is so polarised there its not funny.