- I am running good! Has to be said! It is not all skill. I have of late got paid in big pots when I have either hit flops hard, or hit my 19 outer draws! For example, last night I raised with 5 3 suited, flopped trips on a board of 5 5 A, and got paid by an opponent holding an ace with decent kicker (who turned a flush draw along with his top pair).
- I have hugely opened up my range. I am adopting a semi loose aggressive style. My hands are very well disguised, therefore my opponents struggle to identify / narrow down my possible holding / range, this is very advantageous post flop.
- Raise it or dump it. I am not limping in (in unopened pots). Not at all pre flop! If I am going to play, I am coming in betting / raising. Combine this strategy with the extended range I am playing you create a very loose table image. In an unopened pot, I will come in raising with any pair (22-AA), any high suited connector (two gappers included -favourite hand: j9 of clubs!), and any two suited cards late position. It probably works out to be around a 15-20% pre flop raise frequency.
- I will however play pots passively pre flop when it has already been opened, with multiple callers. In these spots I will set mine (call with all low - mid pocket pairs), play suited connectors (ideally low enders such as 5 3, 6 4), I am hoping to hit a well disguised hand on the flop.
- A key strategy which varies my play in multi way opened pots is to squeeze raise / isolate the original raiser in position.
Now, this is not a play I will use too frequently during a session, as it is often a very marginal situation which involves committing a decent amount of chips. I will either deploy this move upon identifying either a weak spot, or a loose aggressive opponent (who also has a high pre flop raising frequency). I also look for several callers (before the action is round to me), this creates value for my play.
For example, there is a bet of £8 by a player I have identified to play pretty tight aggressive preflop, and passive post flop (if he misses), he has also been nice enough to have a structured betting pattern, so I know he bets £8 with AK,AQ and £12/£15 with AA,KK,QQ, and limps all other hands. There are two callers. I hold 10 7 of clubs, now although my holding is not as relevant to the situation here, I would like to be in this spot with some sort of hand with showdown value, and ideally a range which will play well against the original raiser's holding. I will 3 bet up £24. I expect my opponent to fold AQ, and call with AK, and hope to chase away the cold callers. Often, I will see the flop with the original raiser, and simply look to out play him. I will continuation bet a dry flop (boards out of his range), to which I will hardly get a call from a passive opponent. The beautify of this play is I am in position, and controlling the action, not to mention the times when I hit the flop hard! I am very cautious against tricky opponents who may smooth call pre flop with monsters, and check call on post flop, you really have to identify / know your players to execute this play.
- So aggression is helping me, but I am also controlling the pot size much more effectively than I have been in the past. I playing small pots with small hands, big pots with monsters! I am thinking about why I am betting, and I am going through an actual thought process and reasoning for the bet sizing.
- Apart from my game strategy, I feel I have a great deal of peace of mind now, in turns of several key issues. Main one being my bankroll. I have a much more comfortable financial situation now.
So they are some of the reasons why I am winning! I will keep thinking and post more later, but for now I need to get an online session in!
So for now....a very confident Yigit signing out!
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