6max Pre Flop Strategy

I'm probably calling all suited broadways and T9s. I'm 3betting some AXs and some lower suited connectors. Flatting 22+ and AJo/KQo

you can mix in some KJo/ATo sometimes in your 3b range. Thing to note is that you should roughly know what your 3b range is like here (maybe 5-6%) so you need around 3% bluff hands.

this is very much based on your comfort level. but general rule of thumb is that you can defend as much as he opens.

I think you can call like J6o+, T8o+, 9Xs+. I would 3bet J2o and some 8Xs or worse suited garbage, while flatting stuff which is remotely playable (like 96s, 85s). just be prepared to call down lighter if people are getting out of line

3b range amounts to something like a 12-13% range. Thats around a 6-7% air range.

Originally posted by mbml
this is very much based on your comfort level. but general rule of thumb is that you can defend as much as he opens.

I think you can call like J6o+, T8o+, 9Xs+. I would 3bet J2o and some 8Xs or worse suited garbage, while flatting stuff which is remotely playable (like 96s, 85s). just be prepared to call down lighter if people are getting out of line

3b range amounts to something like a 12-13% range. Thats around a 6-7% air range.

that sounds like a calling range of close to 50%?

what is your plan on the flop? most of the time you are going to miss and have garbage and facing a cb, what hands would you choose to check/raise? check/call?

how many % should we be giving up on the flop with this 50% calling range? we need to win so often right?

I think 10-15% raise is reasonable. More volatile texture = More raising, less volatile texture = less raising. Don't raise for the sake of raising. And 20%+ is way too high IMO. You should be defending ~60% of your range, so if you are defending only 50%, that's way too low.

On a J86r, texture is on the less volatile side (3 over cards, some straight draws, no flush draws) so while raising with some hands like AJ could make sense, I would be doing a lot more calling here.

Strategy on whether to raise should also be based on how likely villain is to flat raises.

Bluff raising 8X is not good IMO. It's def strong enough to flat. 6X could be more of a raise but again, I would usually flat this and sometimes turn it into a c/r bluff on the Turn (bottom set blocker)

Originally posted by cutegoldfish

Originally posted by mbml
this is very much based on your comfort level. but general rule of thumb is that you can defend as much as he opens.

I think you can call like J6o+, T8o+, 9Xs+. I would 3bet J2o and some 8Xs or worse suited garbage, while flatting stuff which is remotely playable (like 96s, 85s). just be prepared to call down lighter if people are getting out of line

3b range amounts to something like a 12-13% range. Thats around a 6-7% air range.

that sounds like a calling range of close to 50%?

what is your plan on the flop? most of the time you are going to miss and have garbage and facing a cb, what hands would you choose to check/raise? check/call?

how many % should we be giving up on the flop with this 50% calling range? we need to win so often right?

You need to float some backdoors, bluff raise some air/backdoors.

Example: Flop is A92r, you have KJ - This is a spot where you should often consider floating, since you have 2 overs to the 9 and sometimes K hi will be the best hand (like when the board is A9293 you can check it down.

Hi,

How about IP with weak hands?

how often should we raise? how often do we call? what do we call?

on the flop in position, on the button vs Co and button vs MP, i used to be raising an average of 10-12% on the flop and calling around 30-40%

i now raise an average of 20-25% and call 30-35%.

assuming a board of

6 Spade 8 Heart j Diamond

with CO opening 30% into me and i call

i call with around 14% of hands as follows

most broadways (stronger ones and weakest ones are 3betted), suited connectors and pocket pairs for about 185 combos, i will go ahead and fold about 40-45% of them and defend in the following ways

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i raise a total of 17.3% (can it be more?)

bluff 78s 89s A8s 67s 56s 9Ts ( 23 combos)

value 66 88 JJ (9 combos)
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i call

TJs JQ JK AJ TT 99 ( 63 combos)

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am i defending too little? too wide?

raising too much? raising too little?

calling too much? calling too little?

what if the board was wetter like 7 Spade 8 Spade 9 Heart ?

what if the board was dryer like 27kr? how does that change my overall defending range in BU vs CO, and how does that change the weight of raising and callingconfused more % of raises or more % of calls because its wetter/dryer?)