A9s on monocolor flop

Not a professional/hand evaluator/coach but I'll chip in:

I've shoved it pre before with these stacks against 35/17 players but it requires more information about the table dynamics and some knowledge of his calling tendencies, even having a look through his previous calls in this game may be enough to make the decision if he's overvaluing a lot of hands.

Definitely don't alter your raise sizing, for a multitude of reasons, here's a couple obvious ones:

1. Over time it unmasks your hand ranges in these spots.

2. There aren't many successful players at this limit who raise to more than 440 at this blind level for their intended raise-call/raise-fold range, they're usually liable to get flatted by too many recreational players in the blinds and find an unfavourable board texture and an unpredictable postflop opponent. It's so awkward at this limit when you're on the bubble and UTG makes it 550 and the BB flats with like 3BB left behind.

3. There must be a reason you usually raise 2x in that spot or shove in that spot that gives you an advantage with other hands or in other positions, such as playing A-9 the same way you play 9-8 for more believable steals in raise-fold spots, or playing A-9 the same way you play K-K for more traps vs. high frequency 3-bettors. Obviously occasionally you have to mix it up, for example whilst my default play is probably to min-raise bigger hands at this blind level, if I haven't min-raised a hand yet in this game and there's lots of unfamiliar players, I'll definitely open shove it as I have been with weaker hands, so as to not raise suspicion. Other than those sorts of spots where you're fairly unexploitable either way and mixing it up for obfuscation purposes, it's important to stick to the strategy.

I find the further I deviate from my core preflop strategy for specific situations, the more unsure I am about my opponent's thought-process and range when they react/counter.

preflop: ok
flop: I make a tight b/f, betting slightly bigger and folding to a raise sizing like that, b/c doesn't achieve much because we have to check turn and our opponent can bet big IP on many turn cards, so we're looking at a c/f on the turn very often
turn: as played, yes c/f

just play & go

Hello all,

Preflop:

Yea, bigger size would be better. We are giving too good odds to call us here. Raise to ~2.5BBs is fine.

Flop:

Against such a fish I would push for value after his raise. He is going to have weaker made hands. draws and draws with weaker made hands.

Turn:

As played, nothing to do on this board. Wp here.

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Antoan