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  • When do you decide to go multiway?

    Posted by eanderson85 on January 7, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    A LOT of small stakes games have an abundance of multiway pots.
    I always hear that I need to get involved with as many pots as possible with the weaker players at the table. When there are 3 limps before me, isn’t this a pot I want to join?
    I also know that my equity is seriously damaged when the pot goes multiway.
    Since many people are afraid to voice an opinion before checking that opinion with the solver output, and we don’t yet have the computing power to solve these situations to any kind of certainty, there isn’t a lot of good material. We all know that when you can’t use the solver as a crutch then the answer is always “it depends”. Well, what does it depend on?

    You are on the Button 60BB effective. There is a raise and a call in front of you.

    When do you decide to fold?
    When do you decide to call?
    When do you decide to raise?

    How much do you bluff? How often is your bluffing range balanced with your bet size?
    How much weight do you give to player reads and tendencies?
    How much weight do you give to everyone’s position?
    How do bet sizes factor into your decision?
    What if you are in the Big Blind instead of the button?

    Does anyone know of (or would like to create) a study of multiway preflop equities, so we can at least use pot odds as a guide. I started to use Flopzilla, but it was a bit overwhelming trying to nail down the variables.

    If you are pretty sure of going multiway, I think tightening your opening range and raising your opening size is a decent exploit.
    The same if you are the first caller.
    But what makes you be the 3rd (or more) person in the hand? Doesn’t that mean you just nit it up? How many times do you fold ATo and AJs on the Button?

    eanderson85 replied 1 year, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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