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Bluffing with Brokos hand
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January 4, 2015 - 7:16 pm
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Nice series so far, Andrew, I am finding it very helpful.

At 51:00 on video 2 of the bluffing series, you have this hand going:

4 handed tournament at 25/50 blinds with about 2500 in your stack and 3200 in SB's stack, he limps into you, you hold 67o and you say “not gonna have that with 67o” and raise to 150.  As this is just the preflop action, I know it is not the focus of the example, but it caught me off guard because I'm not doing this, at least not as standard.  Is this what we should be doing as standard in this situation when the SB limps into you?  Is it standard, perhaps only when it's a 4 handed tournament?  If so, are you raising with your whole range here, or are there some hands you're doing something else with? Or is it not standard, and are you only doing this sometimes, and for specific reasons, such as tells on villains or for reasons of rhythm or stack dynamics when short handed?

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Good question. A few things.

First, forget that the table is short-handed. This situation is the same whether two or twelve players have already folded (in theory there is some very small “bunching” effect based on what those players folding ranges presumably look like, but in practice the number of players who have folded in front of you doesn't really affect how the hand plays out).

My comment was sort of a joke. I don't think you can/should raise this against a good player who will limp and respond to limps in a balanced way. I also don't think you should raise it with shorter effective stacks, at least with no antes in the pot. Really I'm just banking on the fact that I have position with relatively deep stacks and I think that V's open-limping range is pretty weak/capped. I doubt he raises much after limping, and I doubt my equity is too bad vs his range, so I don't have much to lose by raising even if he never folds. Add to that that he may fold now or overfold to c-bets plus I'll be in position later and I think raising is slightly better than checking. This is one of the worst hands I'd raise in this spot.

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