Lars Bonding - Poker News. Lars Bonding In this series, Card Player asks top pros to rewind back to their humble beginnings and provide insights regarding the mistakes, leaks, and deficiencies that they had to overcome in order to improve their games.
Lars Bonding is one of the most consistent and aggressive no-limit hold’em tournament players on the circuit today. The Danish poker pro started cashing in major tournaments back in 2005, and since then has accumulated nearly $2.4 million in career earnings. The Las Vegas resident had been on one of the most impressive tears in the history of online poker earlier this year — all before online poker was widely shutdown in the United States. Over the course of a few months, he recorded two wins and a fourth-place finish in the $200 buy-in PokerStars Sunday Warmup, which had consistently drawn more than 4,600 entrants each week. Classifying Bets & Raises Part 2 - The Risk-Reward Approach - CardSharp. In this series I discuss how bets and raises are classified, and the thinking behind determining if a given bet or raise is correct. Part 1 As you’ll recall from last article, there is a well defined system for classifying calls as correct or incorrect using odds math.
That math essentially analyzes three relevant facts: How much money you win if your call works (ie. you hit your draw, or have the best hand already) ($win)How much you lose if your call doesn’t work ($lose)How likely your call is to work (P(win)) At that point the expectation for the call is easy to calculate: NLHE: 3betting and facing a 3bet - Poker Theory - General Poker Theory Forum. All IMHO.
Hey guys. I wrote a similar article about a month ago, but did more research and wanted to release a new version. This is just a pretty standard 3bet article for beginning and intermediate players (and myself, as I write). I think there are at least a few somewhat newer players that will appreciate this post, so I hope you enjoy. Also, if I screwed up any math or something...sorry. Historycliffnotes for lazy people:- Everyone 3bets a merged value range.- Everyone realizes that 4bets are really big in No Limit, and folding JJ preflop sucks A long time ago, when online games were passive and nits made millions, people were 3betting a merged (depolarized) range preflop.
Games became incredibly tight in 3bet scenarios as a result. It’s important to understand why 3betting ATC was good when it was…and that is because there were two types of players: people who folded to the 3bet OOP, and people who called and check-folded the flop. This is where the idea of Polarization comes in... (Simple?) 3-bet Scenario - High Stakes Poker Pot Limit and No Limit - High Stakes Poker Forum. Since the dude is good and aggressive we're assuming he's capable of CRing AI with a lot of stuff on the flop and could possible be slowplaying a monster right now.
Anyways, as to the answer to your "How much does it matter" question I think we'd have to look at 1) how likley am I to fold a better hand when I flop nothing? 2) how likely am I to get called/raised by a worst hand if I flop something? Now, with A2 and KJ a "missed flop" would consist of all little cards (or some variant of Q52 or something) and if we C-bet in these positions we are unlikely to fold QQ-66 from a smart/thinking player.
However, if 88 or 75s misses the flop (like say AQ4) and then we C-bet, we are more likely to fold better hands such as JJ-66 and of course we will fold if we get CR'd all in (which we would have done with A2s and KJo anyways). Now let's say we flop a BIG hand with these hands, which one is most likely to get paid off? - Villian totally won't see it coming. Theories of Poker. Two Plus Two Poker Forum - Poker Strategy Forums. Classifying Bets And Raises Part 3 - Aggression Is Overrated - CardSharp. Part 1, part 2 The 10 most aggressive players in Vegas are broke - Bob Ciaffone in Improve Your Poker This is probably going to piss some people off, but Bob’s exactly right. For the last 25 years, the poker literature has been pulling a bit of a con on unsuspecting players by claiming in almost unmitigated terms that aggression is good. Now, up to a point they’re right.
But the fact is that excessive aggression, or aggression in the wrong spots, is probably the biggest mistake being made in poker today. However, before I continue, we have to figure out exactly what it is we’re talking about. The third definition is a little more interesting. Hands he will fold | Hands he will call or raise with <---------------------------------------------------------> worst---------------Opponent Range------------------best The key point was the dividing line in the middle that split the hands he would fold to a bet from those he would call or raise with. What do I mean by that?