mattusko: 1. Is it good to 3bet and Cbet most of the flops against player who has 60%+ fold to C-bet in 3bet pots? (This is big for me atm)
For instant profit, yes. As long as your betsize is good. If you cbet 66% of the pot opponent needs to fold over 40% to make it profitable. This is simple poker math a concept that everyone should practise to high level of automation.
mattusko: 2. Is it good to isolate limper(s), with better marginal hands (AQT* ss) etc when there is a big chance that blinds and then also limpers will call my raise anyway?
If you know that it is going to be a multiway pot, you want to have a multiwaypot hand (= nut potential). AQTx with suited Ace is definitely an open as any hand that has potential to dominate opponents. If you hit the nuts or nut draw, usually opponents are just calling postflop. Here is two situation compared, where hero bets 3/4 cbet for 3 streets:
Limped pot, pot size on the flop: 4.
Flop (4): hero bets 3, gets one call.
Turn (10): hero bets 7,5, gets one call.
River (25): hero bets 18, gets one call.
Total value gained postflop: 28,5bb.
Raised pot, pot size on the flop: 12
Flop (12): hero bets 8, gets one call.
Turn (28): hero bets 21, gets one call.
River (70): hero bets 52,5, gets one call.
Total value gained postflop: 81,5bb.
Extreme example, but it shows the difference when hero gets 3 streets of value. When we have a hand that has the potential to hit for 3 streets of value, limping is bad option imo.
mattusko: 3. Is it good to raise fishy openers from blinds with better marginal hands when there is big chance that flop will be 3 way plus?
It depends how they play in 3bet pots, and how likely it will be multiway pot. If it's going to be 3+ way pot, you don't really have a lot of folding equity postflop. So you need to have strong range, and get your edge from range. I would advice that 3bet only strong hands if it is going to be multiway pot.
mattusko: 4. Is it good to 3bet weak offsuit Aces when flop is usually 3way plus anyway?
It depends, just remember that you don't HAVE TO 3bet Aces. When you 3bet, most opponents think their flop situation against Aces, even when they know you have wider 3bet range. So when you actually have crappy Aces they are going to play quite prefectly against you and the value comes from either hitting your side cards, opponents calling incorrectly or folding too much. Of course if you can get SPR 1 or less on the flop, 3betting even crappy Aces is a valid option in 3way pot.
mattusko: 5. Should I call weak or semi weak KK**, QQ**, JJ** hands to 3bet?
No. When you have a pocket pair it reduces your chances to hit the flop hard enough to stack off.
mattusko: 6. Is it good to call KQT* ss, KJT*ss, hands from blinds when pot is going to be multyway?
It depends on opponents. If they give a lot of value with weaker hands, then yes.
mattusko: 7. How should I start learning, what videos to watch, who, where? Are 2-3 years old videos still actual for the game today?
Watch my videos here in Pokervip of course.
PLO from Scratch is nice as it has pretty much all the information you need for good standard play.
I just watched an interview of one PLO player and he said that the difference between him and other players is that most of the players don't do any work outside the tables. I totally agree on this one. I have coached about 200 players and even from those motivated players only few actually do work outside the tables in correct way. Despite most of my students agreement to do it.
Yeah everybody watched videos and read an article every now and then. The problem is that 99% of the players who think they are doing the work doesn't understand how we learn stuff. There are four levels in all of our skills, and for some they are familiar from Tendler's book. When you watch a video and find something new, that skill is at level of conscious incompetence. You know what it is and you know you don't do it yet. Then you might think it a bit and try it at tables, and maybe it works. It becomes to level of conscious competence. You can do it when you focus on it. And this is where most of the players stop.
The thing is that at this level you can use the skill only when you focus to it. So it is in your A-game. It takes a lot of brain resources, which leaves less resources to other decisions. You need to learn it to the highest level, which is unconscious competence. Then the work is done at unconscious level, which is a LOT faster than conscious level. The more you learn your poker skills to this level, the more resources you have for more complicated and new things to learn and to use at the tables.
Here is an example, are facing a scary turn card and opponent bets on us. We have a draw. We have 30sec time bank.
Stupid Simon, who hasn't practised his stuff uses the time bank this way:
0-10sec: Oh shit! That turn is so bad, I knew it. Damn!
10-15sec: Ok, I need to think this.
15-20sec: Can he have a better hand?
20-25sec: Oh shit the timer is going down!
25-30sec: FUUUCK!!!! What do I do?
Smart Suzy, who has practised her skill to higher level:
(she has defined opponent's range on the flop already)
0-5sec: He bets and that card hits his range. He is passive one so it is really likely that he has a better hand, which he is representing.
5-10sec: [counting outs, estimating equity and comparing it to pot odds]
10-12sec: [counting required implied odds]
12-20sec: If I hit my draw, will I get those required implied odds? Are there some rivers that I can bluff?
20-30sec: [makes the action after double checking]
If Suzy keeps practising those things, she might do all of that thinking is just few seconds.
So the bottom line is this: if you don't learn you existing skills to the high level (goal is unconscious competence) you cannot really learn a lot of new skills.As most players don't put any effort outside the tables to really master the basic decisions, most of the new stuff they are learning from videos etc. are not going to be presented in the game often.
Think about athlete. I have never seen a hockey player that uses one hour to practise a slap shot and then says "I know how to do this now, I don't have to practise this ever again". There is a huge difference in learning something and mastering it.
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