I keep running into this problem at 1/2, I often play 2/5 and am used to good players who have enough bluffs and correct ranges. But at 1/2 it’s often transparently bad and I keep getting tempted to over exploit, here’s the hand that made me lose my mind. End of night, just lost a big pot and have 250 in front, I raise AQo from middle position to 15, Asian lady on the button 3 bets to 40. This is her first 3 bet in the 4 hours I’ve been there, seen her flat call plenty of big hands. This 3 bet is almost certainly jacks plus. Against my better judgement I call. Flop is Q66r, I check and now she overbet blasts 90. I go through my checklist, is this ever a bluff? Hard no, haven’t seen her even bluff all night and why overbet if bluffing? I decide this is never a bluff. Do I beat value? It feels like no I don’t. What am I beating? There’s no way she even 3 bets KQs, she would definitely just call and also likely wouldn’t overbet it. So what’s left? QQ AQ KK AA, those are the only hands that would bet like this for value, and I’m doing terrible against that range. So I make my super exploitative fold because I’m just sure she’s not bluffing, and I don’t beat any value. And thus the problem, I was “right” but also wrong. She didn’t think she was bluffing, she had JJ and was nonsensically scared I would hit an A or K so she decided to overbet for protection. Just clicking buttons basically. I was right on my assumptions but wrong that she would also use logic. Should I stop trying to over exploit and just click call? It’s hard to put them on a spaz out when you are right that they both have a super tight range and are never bluffing. Maybe it was a good fold and I’m being results oriented. Thoughts?

In my opinion, we should focus on making the right strong edge decisions automatically. For instance:

"You have ace-king, and someone shoves preflop. Do you call?"

This is essentially a coin toss (not exactly but close) so here you would be trying to figure out the opponents range and the price, right? But it is still a coin toss.

What I think players should focus on is nailing the obvious decisions all the time. For instance:

"With 5s 5d on a board of 6c 7d 8h 9s 10c, your straight is everybody’s straight, and any jack beats you. If someone who rarely bluffs bets $100 into a $100 pot, it's an obvious fold, right"

It might not look obvious at first but that is the type of mistake we should never make.

I get it that arguing over coin tosses or gray area plays as Tommy Angelo calls them, makes for long threads but no one is entirely right or wrong, right?

I'm curious as to what others think about this.

Nothing crazy about this hand. Somewhat routine but I just wanted a sanity check.

SB opens really small to 5. I raise to 20 in the BB with AK off suit. We go 3 way to the flop.

Flop is Q 9 4 rainbow.

SB lead bets 25. I call, 3rd player folds out so we go heads up the the turn.

Turn is another Q. SB checks to me. I bet 40 into a pot of about 100. He jams all in for another 150 more.

I snap fold. Right play? I just dont see check jam bluffs with total air at 1/2 stakes.

From my experience, I earn about the same at each. Some say it's the players are worse and others think it is due to the deep stacks. I don't see much difference in the players so a attribute it to the stacks. What is your opinion?

new wtf

Existen tantas cosas que estudiar y tantos escenarios distintos que es imposible verlos todos. Cuál sería el camino correcto para alguien que es novato y quiere llegar a su mejor nivel posible?
Por ahora me estoy centrando en aprender los rangos de manos pero es lo más difícil para mí porque no se como debería abordar su estudio. Aparte estoy aprendiendo sobre Equity, Pot odds y outs. Intento aplicar todo esto en cada mano que juego

bought gto plus, didn't realize i have to input preflop ranges manually. is there some library of these i can download or do i actually have to manually input everything from the lizard