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James Romero is widely considered to be one of the best tournament poker players in the world and today he takes you through the wonderful world of 3-betting!
He talks about how the size of your 3-bets should vary depending on the effective stack depth and the post flop stack to pot ratio (SPR).
He also discusses how the frequency in which you should 3-bet drastically increases when you are facing later position opens. This is because the range of hands is much wider when players open from late position.
The in position player gets to print lots of EV from calling 3-bets rather than 4-betting which is why you see a very high percentage of calls when looking at the GTO sims.
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Source: YouTube
Do you think you 3-bet too much or too little? 🧐
Great stuff! Wish I could practice more 😢 Bring back online!
I used to hardly ever 3 bet. After cash game masterclass that all changed!
3 minutes in and I'm already hooked, the only falsehood I can detect so far is that shot of James cheese grinning.
TLDR:
basically just 3bet when you have a good hand or when your hand Isnt quite good enough to call 😋
Running late coach,tks for waiting.
Thank you for this. This is good stuff
I have noticed a mentality amongst rec players who don’t 3 bet enough that their reason is that “whenever I 3 bet, a junky looking flop always comes that misses the 3 bettors range and I will likely have to check/call or check/fold depending on what my opponent’s range looks like and how it could connect with said flop, and more often than not just end up waiving the white flag and folding to another barrel on the turn/river if I check call the flop” so for them they believe 3 betting at an optimal frequency is a negative EV play. Bad mentality and logic. There are plenty of ways to still steal pots after bricking the flop and check/calling to see a turn. You have to know what your opponent’s range will look like and know what good turn/river cards are to bluff with and how to rep hands with proper bluff sizes, etc. Basically you need to know how to play later streets well. Secondly, 3 betting at an optimal frequency will reduce the odds of the occasional junky hand staying in that would have coolered your semi-strong second best hand. Lastly, it will set you up to maximize your wins with big pots when you do hit the flop. If you haven’t been overly bluffy when bricking the flop on later streets after check/calling the flop as the preflop 3 bettor, when you finally do pick a good spot and bet big, your opponent will likely have to give you credit and let you buy it. But by properly check/calling at the right frequency with the right type of backdoor draws/overcard draw type hands when you brick the flop as the preflop 3 bettor, you can then pick optimal spots to balance your OOP check/IP check back range when you flop a really big hand and take a bluffy line on the turn/river and potentially trap your opponent and extract max value with it.
Thank you for this video today. It helped me recalibrate my inner poker player. I had lost part of the skill to help me cash in many tournaments. I couldn't figure out what I had changed. Then today, I dominated two tournaments recalibrated; adding this information back into my game was the key 🔑
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