tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166680589294972243.post5422433721569833961..comments2023-08-22T06:23:18.203-04:00Comments on The Short Stack Hero: Musings between the agonizing pacing of handsLorin Yellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217221028351659344noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166680589294972243.post-73335135983448100732008-09-23T19:06:00.000-04:002008-09-23T19:06:00.000-04:00Well, if you give me a scenario I can help you wor...Well, if you give me a scenario I can help you work it out, but I was basically referring to this:<BR/><BR/>I judge the relative strength of my hand and then determine how far I want to go with it. If I believe that I am either way ahead or way behind, I will be the amount that will tend to force a player to reveal their strength or fold. Say I have JJ and I raised and got called by someone behind me and the board comes A 4 4 rainbow. A bet of just over 1/2 the pot will tend to get "truthful" information a strong majority of the time. A 1/2 pot bet or less may look fearful and might get raised as a bluff, but making it slightly more ambiguous while also making it "appear" expensive to bluff at or call down will tend to get your typical to strong player to reveal their strength rather quickly.<BR/><BR/>Even though I would consider the option of checking and calling in a live game, I don't like doing this online where phyical cues are lacking.<BR/><BR/>Now for a better hand that I want to commit them to, I prescribe to the ideas expressed by Sklansky and Miller in their book No Limit Hold'em: Theory and Practice- and idea called bet chunking. It is based on measuring the pot size to their stack and making certain bet sizes that appear non-threatening on the outset but might leave them 4:1 odds on the river but effectively putting them all in, making them very hard pressed to fold any hand that has any chance of winning. However, this has to be planned from the flop. <BR/><BR/>I also like to do this against certain stacks sizes preflop when holding a hand such as AA or KK. You can structure the pre-flop betting as such that they might be getting 2:1 or better odds to get all in on the flop, where it would be very difficult for them to fold top pair or a smaller overpair. Of course, when doing this you are just praying that you miss your set of aces! :)Lorin Yellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00217221028351659344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166680589294972243.post-20375497568131034322008-09-17T13:49:00.000-04:002008-09-17T13:49:00.000-04:00care to discuss how to choose bet sizes?care to discuss how to choose bet sizes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com