How to play scrap hands

How to play scrap hands

29/04/2024
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Below is the UTG1 reaction to an open from a 40BB stack in GTO Wizard. The pink hands are raises.

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Pink=Raise, Green =Call, Blue=Fold Great deals of worth because variety. The bluffs are the fit broadway hands like KJs, KTs, K9s, QJs, QTs and the Ax hands like A9s and A8s (The other Ax is probably worth). As bluffs go, these are really excellent hands. They are simple to play post flop, making one set is typically excellent and they can make a great deal of really strong hands when called.

This is the 40BB action from the BB to an open from the SB:

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Pink=Raise, Green=Call, Blue=Fold It’s a much larger variety since the SB is broader and we get to close the action. What do

you discover about the bluffs? They are mainly total scrap like Q5o and 92s.

Why is it that our bluffs are rather quality hands in one example however trash in the next?

Your bluffs need to be your worst hands

Dara O Kearney

Dara O’Kearney Our variety in basic requirements to be much more powerful in the very first example, which is why our bluffs require to likewise be strong hands. Many people comprehend this.

What some battle with is why we do not choose playable hands like A5s, T9s or 87s for our bluffs in the 2nd example. If we get called, we desire some sort of playability, right?

The brief response is we would dislike to get 4-bet and need to fold a hand like T9s. It has excellent equity and plays well in position, so it draws needing to fold it. We have no issue, nevertheless, folding a hand like Q5o to a 4-bet.

When we raise in this area, this is how the SB reacts:

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Dark Red= Shove, Pink=Raise, Green=Call, Blue = Fold If we bluff a garbage hand like 92s, the SB folds 39% of their variety. That is a fantastic outcome for 92s. If the SB raises we have an exceptionally simple fold, we are not even ahead of their bluffs.

If they call and we have a weak bluff, their calling variety is high card heavy, mainly broadway type hands. We will have fairly simple choices moving forward. If the flop comes Ace high we can bluff at it, if it comes broadway we can close down, if the flop comes low and we struck, we can remain a bit longer.

Your bluffs ought to constantly be the bottom of your variety. When varieties are broad, that implies your bluffs will be outright scrap. When varieties are large and you have position, you are better simply calling with the playable middle strength hands and taking it to the streets.

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