How much adjustment is needed for 1/2??

[the_rookie]

Well I've decided to settle into 1/2. I won about 55 BB in a 1000 hands before today. Short term luck I know /images/graemlins/wink.gif.

I've dropped 86 BB in about 3 hours of 3 tabling.

I'm beginning to question my play. One of the problems I think is I'm open raising way too many hands. My PFR stands at 13.11. Some hands I open up with are A7s from MP mid pairs from middle position and stealing from hijack and CO with things as low as 78o and I think this causes me problems postflop. I need work here I suppose. But do I need to start making fancier plays and get away from ABC poker already?

I'm playing draws aggresively and my TPs aggresively as well, but when I meet resistance and theres some semblance of a made hand I will fold.

That's the dilemma I've been running into. I'm use to being the aggresor in hands and at 1/2 I feel that's taken away from me.

In this hand villian isslightly loose and haven't seen anything spectacular with their postflop play. Meaning his postflop play is fairly straight forward.

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Preflop: Hero is CO with K/images/graemlins/club.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
UTG calls, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, Button calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG calls.

Flop: (7.50 SB) 4/images/graemlins/club.gif, 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button folds, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: (5.75 BB) 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG 3-bets</font>, Hero calls.

River: (11.75 BB) 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets</font>, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 13.75 BB

I was pulling the stop and go in this hand.

[ArturiusX]

I find 1/2 is just as soft as .50/1, with good table selection.


Also, thats an easy flop 3-bet. The hand plays very differently from there, calling the raise is scared poker.

[Greg J]

this question gets asked a lot. play poker. win. 1/2 is not hard. when i get drunk i stop using the shift key sorry

[the_rookie]

I wasn't scared of of his raise. I was planning to pop him on the turn. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[ArturiusX]

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I wasn't scared of of his raise. I was planning to pop him on the turn. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Why?

[the_rookie]

The bets are bigger on the turn. If I 3-bet him on the flop and he just has a jack, he'd check it to me on the turn and I'd lose a bet. It's a pretty standard move for me.

[DeathDonkey]

Yeah your play in this hand is great. Overall I find myself stealing alot at the tighter 1/2 tables but you have to pick the opponents to do it against. I also isolate alot etc. These things will affect your variance so your loss today might not mean that much. Post more hands I suppose but this one was played great.

-DeathDonkey

[gasoltub]

I would reraise the flop.
If the flop was capped by villain I think I would check/call to the river unless I improved.
Not sure about the turn and river in this case, but I think I would play it the same unless I had good reads on the villain.

[ArturiusX]

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The bets are bigger on the turn. If I 3-bet him on the flop and he just has a jack, he'd check it to me on the turn and I'd lose a bet. It's a pretty standard move for me.

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You've got a lot of faith if you read a check raise as 'jack high'.

[grjr]

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The bets are bigger on the turn. If I 3-bet him on the flop and he just has a jack, he'd check it to me on the turn and I'd lose a bet. It's a pretty standard move for me.

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You've got a lot of faith if you read a check raise as 'jack high'.

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Yeah, that hand smells a lot like J9 or 99 to me. I wouldn't be expecting to win when I called down the river.

[TomBrooks]

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I think is I'm open raising way too many hands. ... Some hands I open up with are A7s from MP mid pairs from middle position and stealing from hijack and CO with things as low as 78o and I think this causes me problems postflop.

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If I'm not mistaken, I think you only raise to steal the blinds with hands you would have played anyway. I'll take a guess that openraising from MP 2 w/ 77 might be as low as you want to go.

I think you played the hand gOOt because UTG seemed to be representing something better than top pair. i.e. 2 pair or a set. I'm thinking 44 is most likely as he only limped preflop. Maybe he played J9s if he's a pretty loose limper.

[fluxrad]

Set of 9's?

3-bet the flop. If it's capped then I probably call down.