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athanatos's picture
Rypac Video33 $10.50 against loose opponent

I've recently gone on like a zillion buy-in downswing and other than the fact that I've been sucked out on so much that I didn't even get upset when my AA lost to his 84o shove pre, I couldn't figure out why my game seemed so bad lately. I play really aggressive post flop but all of a sudden people started floating me and killing me with straights/flushes and calling me down light more often. After watching this video, I realized that right at the start of my downswing (I think I've won only 4 or 5 of my last 30 games, after having like a 20% roi over the last 400 4mans) is when I switched to making 1/2 pot cbets on the advice of another player. Ryan mentions over and over in this video about how a 2/3 cbet is much better at lower stakes to get folds or charge people enough for draws, and it was like hearing angels sing for me. I was betting 3/4 pot as standard cbets, which might be a little overkill now that I think of it, but 2/3 seems like it's probably perfect. People at these low stakes just don't seem to fold to 1/2 pot cbets much and they end up hitting their draws so much more often. It seems to weaken 2nd barrels too because the pot is smaller and they kind of end up just chasing easier. I really hope that changing my cbets back to a larger size will get me back on track because it really seems like that is a key component of my game that I've lost and didn't realize it. ------Also, I'd like to hear from our hero has to why he folded KQo OOP against this ultra loose opponents open of 340, especially when he'd been making a few of these huge opens in a row?      

sierikas's picture
KQ is marginal hand,

KQ is marginal hand, especially postflop, and I did this, because I was looking for a better spots to outplay him...

RyPac13's picture
It can a weird situation when

It can a weird situation when you have unordinary opponents doing strange things like opening 10-15x the BB preflop.If a villain opened for the very first time all match to 10-15x, I'd likely fold something like KQ.  Maybe even if he did it twice (depends over how many hands).  But as they continue to do it, you open up your playing range (primarily shoving range I would say).