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When should you fold good hands on the flop? There are definitely situations to find that hero fold and today Jonathan discusses the factors you should consider before making that fold!
Jonathan hates folding good hands on the flop but there are certain situations that you should do it depending on your opponent’s strategies at the poker table.
Most people do not play Game Theory Optimal (GTO) especially in multiway pots. Always consider this as some players will over value their hand in situations where they should be tighter than normal. Most players are relatively honest with their raises so you have to determine which opponents are out to get after it.
Folding early will save you a lot of trouble and probably a lot of money in the long run! If your opponents will play straightforwardly on the turn then calling the flop potentially becomes better if their flop raising range is somewhat wider than most poker players.
It is not really ideal to call flop, turn and then deciding to fold on the river.
In multiway pots the odds that someone will flop a premium hand increases drastically. Remember that if it is not you, then it probably is one of your opponents. You should look to be for value/protection with your best hands but you should be quick to find when you face aggression against your straightforward opponents.
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0:00 – Intro
0:40 – It Depends On Their Strategies!
3:08 – Do NOT Stick Around For Too Long
5:58 – Multiway CHANGES Things!
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It’s easiest to make big lay downs on the flop when you’re running relatively well and your chips/money are moving in the right direction for your session/tournament. Not so easy when your average holding for the past 10 orbits has been 82 off. When you are that card dead and you finally get dealt premium cards and flop a big hand, it’s nowhere near as easy to say “well, I’ve been card dead and getting blinded/ante’d off for the past couple hours and now that I finally have AK and flop an ace on a very safe looking board for top pair, I’m just going to assume that I’m set up to lose again because a nit raised me and fold again when I’m desperately looking for any traction to get my session/tournament back on track.”
It was level 3 of a $400 bounty tourney. UTG2, raised 2.5 BB AcTs off 27K stack. MP1, Button call. As8s6d flop. I check MP1 bets 50%, Button calls, i call. Flop Jh, checked to MP1, he again bets 50%, Button calls, i fold. River blank, check-check. MP1 had 8s4s, Button 5s2s 🙁 Gave em too much credit, felt like a super NIT guy!
Maybe make a video best/Value way to satellite into main event . Now that sit n go satellites are RIP
There are a subset of tight regs who are quite bad at any theoretical aspect of poker, and their entire win rate comes from entering the pot with face-up ranges, seeing the flop, and getting an opponent to over-value exactly top pair holding AK or AQ. These guys will raise big with JJ+ AK, raise medium with hands weaker than that, and then limp-call small pairs, suited wheel aces, offsuit broadways, and suited connectors.
Then their strategy is to pile it postflop as soon as they make the nuts and play passively when they don't have the nuts.
This strategy makes them money, and I have seen it making money over and over in my $2/$5 game, because the churn is very high at these cap-stack $300 cap $3/$5 tables. So, there are a subset of new or transient players who simply don't realize they have to fold KQs to this guy's 6x open because that represents a range of hands that are all dominating KQs. And they don't realize that when the guy limp-calls and then wants to continue in basically any form on a board such as A357, an ace is never, ever good.
Even among the regs who play routinely against these guys, many of them don't pay attention! Or they aren't willing and able (or they're not in the right table position) to relentlessly 3-bet this guy's "weak" opens, or they don't have the discipline to fold to his "strong" opens, or they pay off his limp-calling set-mining because they simply aren't paying attention to preflop and add all these hands back into his range that they can beat that he doesn't have. Then, of the ones who DO pay attention and DO make these extreme adjustments AND haven't moved up to higher stakes yet, some of THOSE simply don't want to be rude or stick out by auto-raising or auto-folding to these bets, and/or they allow the tight reg to bore them into not doing that when he simply whines or tanks forever before folding or acts weird or aggressive when facing the correct counter-adjustment. So you too can be a nit and make money using this face-up strategy up to the $3/$5, it's socially acceptable and profitable!
My win rate has improved a ton when I fold early. Also heads up I’ve started implementing smallish (30%-40%) river value bet as a bet/fold spot. If they call, then I usually win. If they raise I fold because the general population in my game doesn’t have many river bluffs. Great video!
On A-8-5, open ended straight draw has 35% (67), AK is 65%
Did something similar the other night and had a losing session because of 1 hand. I was BB with 10 – 5 os. Single raise, 3 callers. Flop is K 5 5. I raised a guys bet, he simply called me down to the river then shoved. I didn't stop to think he could have a better 5, I simply thought it was my pot. The guy had been playing tight all night long, so there's no way he would have called my turn bet if he didn't have a good hand. He had A 5.
Going to take some time to actually think about peoples ranges instead of just barrel going forward. It didn't help that it was the end of the night and I was up nearly $5k at the time (ended up only $1k after losing $4k on that hand).
except….I don't think I've EVER seen any big money players on youtube fold AK on a flop with an A. If you know such a video, please give a link.
Was that flop continuation bet not too small in the AK hand, kind of inviting a raise with speculative hands from an IP player trying to get to river cheaply. Whereas if we cbet 66-75% pot then we could respect the raise more
I think this is especially valid multiway on A high boards since at low stakes people play way too many Axo hands, so they can have the rag Ax two pair more often than the preflop action might suggest.