LSB - Module 2 - Crushing the fish Flashcards
What’s the first principle of playing vs fish?
It’s all about preflop: Most of their leaks postflop is a result of their wide range preflop. They call weak hands, so it’s impossible not to overfold or overbluff when you play so many weak hands.
Their weak range allows us to bluff them, and to call light vs them.
Why is it wrong to fast play value hands vs recs?
Give them rope - I’m making more money against their air region than I’m making vs their bluffcatching region. Therefore the way to play against them most of the time is to slowplay my strong hands.
Name the 4 principles of playing vs recs
- It’s all about preflop (fish wide ranges)
- Give them enough rope (slowplay strong value)
- punish their wide range (overbluff)
- Play my hand in a vacuum, hand vs range, no complex strategies or randomization.
Should I open wider or tighter vs fish? Why? From what positions?
Wider from late positions- their postflop mistakes make a wide range open more profitable (and the fact that they hardly 3-bet). From early positions if I’ll open wide, ppl will be able to exploit me (at least in theory).
Should I 3-bet wider or more tight vs fish’s BU open as BB? Why?
Wider; They under-4-bet; Postflop exploits vs fish will make it profitable.
Should I 3-bet linear or polorized vs fish?
Linear - goal is to flop a decent hand and then print using the exploits vs fish
Should I 3-bet more or less as BB vs fish sb open?
Less, fish make more mistakes as the aggressor OOP than as caller OOP. In position, they make more mistakes as the caller.
At what circumstances should I open limp? With what range? Why?
As LJ/HJ when there’s at least one fish on my left, with TT+ and AK. The fish will iso wide and then call a 3-bet so this prints money.
(If i open they are going to cold call too much and 3-bet too little)
If I do this with regs, it has to be regs that don’t know me
IP as PFA, what’s the most profitable line vs fish? Why?
Bet small- check-bet river.
How often do fish bluff on the line bet flop- call, x x turn, fish bets river?
over 50% bluffs up to a 70% pot-sized bet, pot size or more- their bluff frequency decreases. Up to 70% pot it’s profitable to call them with A-highs.
At what level do fish think about the game?
One or zero- they think only about their specific holding, and not about my range, what i represent etc. Therefore, it’s profitable to bluff them even if I don’t represent much.
Vs fish: What’s the benefit of raising air on the river on a bet-call-x-x-bet river (half pot or lower)? What range do we target? With what hands it’s good to do so?
The extra benefit is making the fish fold his low pairs or pocket pairs, which is what we target with this line. We can do it with A-highs (that are profitable as calls too), or with total air (K-high).
What’s the recommended line as PFR OOP with SDV on the flop vs fish? Why?
Bet small flop, assuming I have SDV: check turn and call down their bets (turn and river). Fish over-stab turn and overbluff the river. I need to call with A-highs on low boards(!) if I have enough equity eg I beat the bluffs.
On the flop, what if I get raised by the fish when I have SDV?
Still call down
What’s the other line (other than bet small flop and call down) vs fish as PFR OOP? Why is it profitable? When does it fit more than bet small-call down line?
Check flop, bet turn, bet river. It’s profitable because fish will bet their range linearly on the flop once checked to, so their already wide range preflop has a lot of air on the turn once they check flop.
Bet big turn to bet big river, or bet small turn to bet big river (and make him fold). Saulo prefers bet small turn-bet big river since there’s more FE at the river.
This line is more appropriate with my air hands.
