Poker and Things to Work on
Overall:
1) Get in more volume
2) Keep up the video watching
3) Hire a Coach
Preflop:
1) Work on open raising only 3x in my game instead of 4x. All the higher stakes pros and videos i’ve seen have opened to 3x for some in the Full Ring setting. It helps deal with 3bets and 4bets and becomes less exploitable.
2) I’ve got a real good polarized 3betting range right now, but its almost too polar. Given that a lot of players play bad in 3bet pots I need to 3bet more spots, and in position too. This isn’t that prevalent for playing at 100 NL, but it is necessary for 200+ and 100 NL is a good place for practice. I think reraise/folding AK is still +EV against the correct players but its about figuring out who the players that are only going to shove all in with big pairs.
3) Work on some 4betting of my own. Its not +EV at the 100 NL game but certainly will be at 200+ and I need the practice. Figuring out good 4bet bluff raise sizes then merging that with my monsters is something I should definitely work on.
Postflop:
4) Work on stealing more pots postflop. This is for a) calling OOP in blinds, and b) calling an original PFRer. This is going to be pretty general but I need to bluff raise baby pairs IP after cold calling preflop and check/raise missed hands OOP on good boards.
5) I really need to work on leading into the preflop raiser OOP, both for bluff and for value. This is something completely missing from my game and I don’t have much of a clue on how to distinguish when I want to do it as a bluff and for value.
6) Bet sizing. I’m not taking advantage of my villain’s willingness to call one street but fold the next, and I need to make my bet sizes appropriate so I can manipulate my equity vs their range. I was doing this pretty well at 400 but I find myself getting lazy at 100 and 200.
7) Continuation betting. This involves situations when I hit and when I miss, when I want to do it for value and as a bluff with a made hand as well as without one. This will go in cooperation with #6 but I feel it deserves its on topic.
I think the best thing to do on these 6 topics above is to create a video 4 tabling and solely work on one subject at a time, then hire a coach to talk about things I’m having trouble with. Maybe not each topic but I feel like I can combine 2-3 of these in each video and then go on there. IMO, #3 and #5 are the least important on my list where 1, 2, 6 and 7 are the most important.
