THE TRIPLE RANGE MERGE?

[dakky]

Tease.

Cannot find any resources saying anything about it, bar that 'no such thing'!

Cliffs?

I will get it up on urbandictionary asap

if you don't think it's a real thing then you're not worth discussing poker strategy with

 

[SuuPRlim]

lol my "not worth discussing with" was a dig at wazz lol who made a silly post in that 2+2 thread that was linked

I'm still not enitrely sure exactly what a triple range merge is but I'm pretty sure I've done one, and it was sick, people stood up, high-fived me and were calling me the sickest Mofo in the room.

[SuuPRlim]

Ok lets have a go at this

SO, by definition a "range merge" is an exploitative play when you take hands from one range and use them in another, for example you have Q9 on AJ985 now this is typically a hand you would not value bet, but you decide for expoitative reasons you WILL value bet on this occasion - you have in essence "MERGED" your check back and your value betting range together. This would be also known as a "thin value bet" lol.

In the same example, spose you have KJ, a hand you would usually value-bet, HOWEVER you decide for some reason to BLUFF with it on this occasion, you have merged your Value-betting range and your bluffing range together - this would also be known as "turning your hand into a bluff" (lol)

It's a pretty old concept, traditionally you'd turn the worst hands you'd wanna check back into bluffs (because these have the least chance of winning at a showdown), you'd pick the best hands you'd wanna check back into value bets (as these have the best  chance of being called by worse) things have moved on a bit since then but i believe the basic theory that lies behind "merging your ranges" starts somewhere with that.

So a "triple range merge", imo would either be a hand that has gone through ALL the ranges - i.e you pick a hand from your value-betting range to bluff with (it's gone from value-bet, to pot control-to bluff) or visa versa you take a hand from your bluffing range and value-bet with it.

OR

It's a hand that you could either call, raise or fold (for value or as a bluff, or a combination of the two) with the idea to either bluff or valuebet a later street, in essence you don't have a value-betting, a checking or a bluffing range, you're using the same hand for all three (just depends exactly what you chose to do on this occasion)

Conclusion: I have no idea what a triple range merge is. The words don't even seem real.

[david3103]

I'm a simple soul but isn't this just barreling with tens on an Ace high board?

It's a value raise pre flop, it's semi-bluff on the flop, turn and dependent on image it could very well be any of the three options on the river?

[wazz]

How about this sort of holdem hand:

board reads 

You have and make a thin value-bet on the river. Villain raises, we now use the blocker and turn our hand into a bluff by 3betting all-in.

Or would that be only a double range-merge?

[SuuPRlim]

make it and I think we have a possible winner!

A hand we would usualy have in our checking range we elect to use as a value-bet (merge 1) and we get raised, in a spot where our opponent is unikely to be making a thin value- raise, we have a hand we could use as a bluff catcher (merge2) but elect to bluff with it (merge3)

Interesting!