Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
Hand 1: The cutoff is pretty tight, so you can bet he's not going to be doing much betting and raising without a good hand. He limps after a limper then calls your raise, so that would seem to limit his range to mostly pocket pairs and a few broadway hands like AQ/AJ/KQ. With that in mind, your plan when seeing this flop is to bet until he raises or until you get to showdown. He'll call down with second pair and worse Ax and draws, and he'll only raise with that narrow strip of his range that beats you. Your flop bet size should probably be bigger since it's not going to change anyone's continuing range.
I just want to be 100% I understand this. I am getting value of his AQ and AJ, hands because he can't let them go. The reason I want to make it bigger is because IF i am ahead I want to make the most money and if I am behind the really money is going to be lost later? Is that the right thought process.



I have been replaying hand #1 over and over on PokerTracker. Some things you guys said I do not understand. For the last 5k hands I raise religiously 3x+1bb per limper. I know this needs to be refined.

My thought process is why would I raise it more OP? I want to play smaller pots out of position and bigger pots in position, thus raising big here would be counter productive unless I can isolate SB.

I was beat by A5 of spades. I would never in million years put that in his range. What type of adjustment should I make when I see player do something that I didn't expect. I now have to include Axs in his range. What is more important than adjusting my range for this particular player is how do incorporate this idea to ever player, or is that a dangerous way to think?

7% VP over 191 is small sample, but I think enough to make decisions.