Alex, what do you do when you have no Ace on the flop but less than 7 outs?
Does the profitability of this approach take into account the cash you may lose in these situations?
Also, is there a min and max stack size, outside of which this becomes unprofitable?
Cheers.
Ok i get it
LOL, was being a bit keen in my twilight thinking, probably being just a touch naiive with the specifics.
Obviously big aces and also smaller suited wheel aces make up a very large chunk of 3-bettors ranges, which is why Ace high flops aint so good.
7+outs normally means that given the pot odds we are getting and the stack sizes we are never that far away from getting the right price anyway. Ill show the math sometimes soon i promise.
And the minimum stack size matters as you must have enough clout to fold out better hands that might be pot-commited if you shove for less, i.e you dont want ace high winning hands to call you. Much more than somewhere between 60-75BB and you are risking too much to gain too little, overbet shoves dont make the most of the situation.
If this is dependent on having a 60bb stack, wouldn't the players be less inclined to 3 bet a player with that stack size and instead call your raises and turn the tables if they hit?
Problem is hands dont connect often enough with the flop i dont think, roughly 1/3 of the time for 2 big cards. Which is why being in the lead is such a massive advantage as im sure you know. Most players dont think logically enough to check - raise with air so the strategy becomes unprofitable over a large sample size, especially as we will just shut down if they give any grief.
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