In Part 1 of a multi-part series, CardRunners instructor Matthew Janda is back and gives us a lecture lesson about optimal 3-bet pots and hands we should be raising with and most importantly why we should be raising those hands.
Here is the information from the CardRunners Site:
Optimal 3-Bet Pots, Part 1 – Matthew Janda – Released 11.17.2010
This week we head back to the classroom as Matthew Janda is helping build out confidence with the always difficult 3-bets pots. But as we’ll learn, it’s not about winning or losing the pot – it’s about optimal decisions. Tune in and learn thinking.
Some discussion from instructor Matthew Janda about the video from the CardRunners Video Thread:
Just a heads up, I talk about it in the video but I really want to stress as streets and situations get more complicated it’s hard to tell what is “theoretically correct” even if you try to use a ton of math and theory. For example, preflop it’s very easy to solve for what is a theoretically correct 3-bet bluff frequency. But as situations get harder it gets much more difficult to tell how to defend in some spots (for example, you can protect your flop CB as the PFR by double barreling, check calling, or check raising the turn, and it’s hard to impossible to tell which combination of lines works best).
As always I try to support why I think what I do with a lot of math and I’m happy with how the video came out, but I don’t want people thinking I’m nearly as confident with me saying “I think it’s theoretically correct to not raise AQ in this spot in a 3-bet pot for reasons X, Y, and Z, but I would raise it in a raised pot since reason Y and Z aren’t nearly as important” as I was when simply saying “Ok we want our opponent to be indifferent to 4-bet bluffing so we need to 3-bet bluff and plan on folding X%.” One statement requires basic math, while to know the EV of a flop raise or flop flat with TPTK is impossible to know for sure without having solved the entire game of poker.
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