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I'm always set-mining my opened PPs to a three-bet open (reasonable sizing, not 5x 6x mongo re-pops) when it goes multi-way, especially when there are fish coming along; and even more so when deeper-stacked. In fact, over ~1,200,000 hands, I have over 75 BB/100 with all non-premium PPs in large part due to these spots. I think they're immensely profitable. You might get different results over a smaller sample because of variance but having consistently run this way, it seems to be the optimal and exploitative strategy. Contrary to some other comments, I think it's even better against more aggressive LAGs than a tighter more balanced 3-bet raiser. They're less likely to get away from high PPs. It'd be better to have this sort of situation in-position. Like a button open, small-blind 3-bet and BB or limper flat. Sometimes you can float small flop leads that fold out the third player too. A lot of the time the re-raiser will c-bet AK into a brick board and give up on the turn with little equity. That's a bit more advanced and relies on your read against the villain and I'd certainly never float/barrel against a fish. On larger c-bet sizings, it's always a fold. But that's an exploitable strategy that works against regs sometimes, you just need to have the balls to do it. Also: never 4-bet this OOP against this player type. You want to 4-bet for value or with a weaker hand that has better postflop playability and preferably with blockers (KQs, A5s, etc.) What are you going to do when this aggressive LAG flats you and the board comes high cards?

Fold pre. Not playing a 3 bet pot oop vs a good LAG

WOW! One hand history review better than the past one. Congratulations for your awesome work Nathan, as always, and let me give my fishy contribution to this scenario. First of all, I would be opening this range of hands when I see there is opportunity to do so: when I have a villain in my left that tends to 3bet a lot, I would never open 22-66 or 45s, 56s, and two gappers no way! From the Hijack, versus a spewy 3bettor ahead I would do two things: A) Find a better table where on my left I could find a more passive player either tight or loose, because these guys will call a lot and 3bet less. When these types of players 3bet the weakest part of my range I also tend to fold. B) Find a better group of hands to raise and that could play better versus a 3bet or even could 4bet the player in position because it sucks to call and play out of position with the weakest part of our range or even the middle part, as professor Nathan comment in the beginning of the video. Important factor: when you raise 3x BB from the Hijack and takes a huge 3bet of 3,5x or 4x like that from a player in position it is not funny to continue, because we are going on with the huge faith that: A) We are going to set 1/7 or 1/8 B) When we setmine are we going to paid for worst hands? That's even more crucial. The stats are available: If I am aware that the villain ahead, in position, is 3betting 12% of his entire range, I would rather open from HJ: 88+, 87s, 98s, T9s, JTs, QJs, KJs, and so on. If I got a 3bet to play out of position with 98s, for instance, I would have much more playability than if I had called with a pocket pair. Now, is there an argument for a 4bet here, after this huge 3bet size (3,5x) and a cold call from a broken stack fish in the blinds? Well, if we 4bet/Squeeze with a huge size like that out of position our 4bet range would be very, very weak and broken and exploitable. Because, if we can 4bet out of position with 55, we could easily say that our 4bet range OOP is something like: 55+, AQs+, A5s-A4s, KQs, QJs, JTs, T9s, 98s, 87s, 76s, 65s, AKo (9% of 4bet range out of position) which is not possible, because if we do that we began to experience a lot of 4bets for value that we could not sustain with 55, 77, 99 and then we would be forced to live our hand or go all in. Continuing, Hero decides to call OOP versus 2 bad players and the flop comes 5sTc6s. Well, I suppose the range of the LAG player who made a 3bet in the button is something like: 99+, A2s+, KTs+, QJs, ATo+, KQo (12%). I almost forgot that, because the LAG player with 12% of 3bet is still ahead of Hijack's range when he 3bets. Preflop, the Hero in the Hijack has 33% equity with his 55, the LAG in the BTN has 40% and the BB Fish has 26%. Now, it would be a very different scenario if the BB decides to fold and we have a heads-up HJ x BTN: Hero Hijack would have 46.33% and the LAG Villain BTN would have 53.67%. I am assuming the fish in the BB called with 40% of his range. (best case scenario because he could be calling easily with 60% of his range or more) and the fish in the blinds decides to lead with a 1 blind bet, which is a very professional move (no it is not, I am just making a joke). Well the BB Fish bets having nearly 8% equity! (in this particular FLOP) and our friend in the Hijack with his beautiful 55 had at the time nearly 84% equity!!! (The LAG in the BTN with his 12% 3bet range had close to 9% equity after this specific flop) So, this is one thing Nathan says a lot in his videos and I take under my thoughts when I am running through a hand: When you have a value strong hand like that you should try to build the pot as soon as possible and BET FOR VALUE because these guys will pay with anything they hit or not: horrible gutters, second pairs, TPTK, Top pair decent kicker and top pair with no kicker. If Hero Hijack 55 had raised for 1/2 Pot the LAG player would leave his AK, AQ, AJ, AT? I believe not, but I agree with the line of thought of hero partially only: if the LAG player has a strong draw and decides to call just 2 cents in a pot of 64, 66 cents it would be nasty for Hijack. Because there is a draw in the board I am almost raising this spot 100% Now, the LAG player make a huge non-sense polarized bet of over 100% pot which means that either he has the absolute nuts or that he has "nothing" (when I say nothing a mean a huge draw, a poor draw, any draw lol) and the Hero shipping here I believe is the best move, considering he had nearly 84% equity to go all in here, and in the long run this is sweet. OF course that 16% villain would be realizing his huge non sense range of hands equity, but this is why we play poker: to find spots like that and put all the chips in the middle. (paraphrasing Nathan) Thanks again, this is wonderful!

LMAO. King Jack?! Omg I just spit out my drink lol. That has got to be one of the worst all-in calls I've ever seen haha. I can just hear him now: "Back door straight draw? Ship it!" xD

I think the hand was played correctly. Villain 15 got lucky at the end. I have been in this situation .. lucky at these stakes when the flush card also pairs the board! They cant wait to get it all in if there is any money behind.. and a nice win for me! Nathan if you get this and I haven't seen it or missed in other videos. I know you play many tables.. I play 2-3. When you are card dead at a table, how many orbits/hands do you play before leaving that table?

The old minbet of 2 cents. Saying , hey dudes i want a cheap turn to hit my K or J. But if you raise i will call any ways. No matter there is no logic to that calling since i pretended only to want a cheap turn and not that expensive one you made it..... I think hero played this hand just fine. Although the option of isolating the small stack fish is interesting and good tactics to in my book. You can always fold if TAG is coming over the top to your 4bet if not your odds on winning the hand against overcards are way better. Still a flip but risking just a small part of your stack. If hes a reasonable reg he should be able to fold his ace suited rags there. If not then he himself would be labelled a fish or?

I'd say 4-betting pre would be a bad choice, and here's why: Short version: we're hoping for a flip with 55 in a spot where both villains can easily have higher pairs, and there's just not enough dead money to compensate for the weakness of our hand. Math: 1. I expect Villain 15 to call with JJ+/AK, which is 3% of hands, so with 12% 3-bet this comes down to 25% call, 75% fold. Against that range 55 has 33% equity, and we'd lose about 30BB EV here if fish folds. Calculating spots where he overcalls is much harder, but it's also a losing spot for sure. 2. Even if 3-bettor folds and fish decides to call, we're not too happy here either. I've played a bit with ranges here, in most cases we have about 35-40% equity, which is roughly 0EV, depending on a specific range. 55 just perform too poorly against any kind of reasonable call/call range. Only if fish gets it in with 100% of hands, 55 has 60% equity versus that, and it would be ≈15BB EV win, which would result in a 4-bet being profitable (0.25*(-30) + 0.75*15 = 3.75BB EV profit)

Wouldve played it the same as hero. Wouldve played it the same as villain 15 aswell though

Wondering if i am overplaying this hand. If i flop a set, I usually worry about straight draws, flush draws and possible two pairs making a bigger full house on the river. So I raise pre flop, raise post flop and then shove all in on the turn. I rarely see the river. Also, is there any benefit in showing the set after everyone folds.

I love the fish having KJ without even a backdoor draw.

Thanks for the video. I'm definitely starting to take more things into consideration when playing PPs.

4bet or fold. The 3bet from a lag in the dealer position doesnt means too strenght. Set mining doesnt works too well because he will not have a strong hand to pay us when we hit, and with an AF frequency of 4, when we miss, we should expect virtually 100% of cbets when checked to. In a scenario whit a shortstack fish coldcalling, theres a lot of dead money in the middle, then for me the best line is sometimes fold and sometimes 4bet, mainly if the villain have a high fold to 4bet stat.

Fold preflop. If we decide to call, flop is played perfect.

should i call 3bets with any pocket pairs if i am in position and have good odds?

Calling the 3 bet is fine here. Vs. the villain we should be worried about, we have plenty of implied odds. We must call 15 to win 200.

I would try to get it in pre vs the fish, who’s likely to call a shove while being behind. The lag will fold 70%+ of his range with a 4bet and that sort of action. And the we flip 15% of the time and are crushed the other 15%.

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Definitely not a call for me. I want minimum 20x implied odds because I don't get to double my stack every time that I hit a set. Only a fraction of the time. You have played many hands. Do you know how often you get to double your stack when hitting a set?

Hello Nathan! I read your article yesterday about how you did your dream and im back again to start making it with 50$ bankroll:p after your inspiration (even though i have made 1000$ 2 times and gone broke due to wrong bankroll management and tilt 😕 ). So i would like your opinion about my strategy with 88- pockets.. So if i have a pocket 88- i always limp and if someone bets 4x or smaller and we are heads up i always call in position but fold out of position (if there are more callers i call anyway due to odds).My logic for calling Ip is that except the case that you catch the set you can also steal the pot if he doesnt have anything or u bluff him etc..My logic for folding OOp is that i think its not +EV to call 4x raise OOp with low pockets because its only 12% to catch a set + he has the position advantage am i wrong with that? And finally the reason i limp with these pockets and never raise preflop is because if for example i raise 0,15 (nL5) and the small blind 3bets to 0,60(4x) its not profitable to call whereas if i limped with 0,05 and he raises 0,20(4x) it is cause i call less money to win the same amount of money if i catch the set, but all the other times that i dont catch the set im most times behind so i lose the pot.Tell me your opinion because i think limping with 88 or 77- is more +EV than raising preflop and all the pros and theory say to raise.Thank you

Villains pre-flop stats say lag (what hand sample size?) That being said, im not sure how many good lags you face in micros at full ring. Playing lag seems almost counter intuitive to everything we know about micros. To put it in perspective, I play 17/15 at full ring in micros have a consistent win rate, and i feel like any more hands than that and im probably playing way too many hands oop against a bunch of people who don't have fold buttons. When I move up in stakes, I can absolutely open it up bc people have fold buttons, and I'll HAVE to open it up to be more balanced. I see no reason to do it at this level. On the subject of 4 betting pre. If im 4 betting 5-5, its not for value. j-10s is a small fav against me, so if I'm doing it, I'm turning it into a bluff/semi-bluff. I actually like 4-betting some weak hands once in a while, but I reserve that for when im up against good regs, just to keep them guessing. Not sure if laggy fits that bill. If Laggy is the type of player that is going to fold stuff like 6-6 through 10-10 and broadways that have equity, then we can do that if its lag only. If lag will defend his 3 bets with most of his range, im not a big fan. Now lets add fishy. Even if hes bad enough to call with k-7os (im assuming he's never folding to my 4 bet) im still only a small fav. I'm not a fan of giving bad players coin tosses bc | feel like im doing them a favour. I probably just fold and move on. There isn't a ton of stack depth, so my implied odds aren't amazing especially bc fishy is short stacked. Also, laggys 3-bet range is wide, so it's far from a lock that i stack him when i flop the nuts., especially as im oop.

What are we going to do with sites banning HUDs?

Why is 26/17 considered a LAG since it has a big gap between VPIP and PFR?I understand the loose side but not the aggresion

Set over set was never mentioned when considering pre flop call or fold

Set mine in this situation is a poor decision. Not enough implied odds to make it positive. Will go broke in long run. Much more stack relative to ours is necessary. Gotta at least be a 10:1 payoff minimum. Larger multiway pots required here. Initial 3 bet turns it into an unprofitable situation immediately.

If you 4 bet with 55, aren't you 4 betting with too many hands?

i don't know how u can play good poker at these stakes. i would never fold any pair to a raise to .70 from a LAG. 😂😂😂 r u joking? in fact, I'm raising the flop to .50 after hitting the set b4 the LAG. such a waste of life to play poker with pennies. how much can u really win? pennies. sure ur risk is minimal and a total waste of life...😴😴😴