How to play scrap hands

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 matched broadway hands like KJs, KTs, K9s, QJs, QTs and the Ax hands like A9s and A8s (The other Ax is perhaps worth). As bluffs go, these are really great hands. They are simple to play post flop, making one set is normally great 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 due to the fact that the SB is broader and we get to close the action. What do

you observe about the bluffs? They are primarily 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 must 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. The majority of people comprehend this.

What some battle with is why we do not select 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 dazzling 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 reasonably 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 stay a bit longer.

Your bluffs need to constantly be the bottom of your variety. When varieties are large, that indicates your bluffs will be outright scrap. When varieties are broad 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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