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« on: December 13, 2012, 09:32:24 AM »

Flatting with Medium Strength Hands vs Loose Passives

I have a hand on the Hands tab which is an example of this type of situation. It is something that has been discussed in the first month of the online training course I am taking.

When in position and facing an opening raise from a loose-passive player, what types of hands are you looking to flat with as opposed to 3-betting? If the opener is 40% VPIP, does this give an indication as to how much of our range we can flat hoping to dominate his range with; i.e. 20%? So, we may go a little lower in our range and include hands like KJ/AT where versus a 20% VPIP we might only include hands as low as KQ/AJ (this is just an example so don't take those ranges as exact).

Also, are you concerned where there are limpers and a single raiser and do you then try to force a HU situation or are you comfortable playing the same range versus 2 to the flop?

I have been continuing to 3-bet my medium pocket pairs which are trickier to play post-flop, say 77-TT/JJ, and started to try and find spots to flat hands like AJ/AQ/KQ hoping to dominate and stack them when we both make top-pair type hands.

I want to start to include a new stat on my HUD to showing pre-flop raise-call. I have been using the limp-call stat which I have been able to take advantage of where I can continue to raise for value the above hands knowing they will still call off after open-limping.
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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2012, 11:23:35 AM »

Moving to PHA for you, hope that's ok
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2012, 11:29:08 AM »

Sure.  Thank you.  
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