betrthanphil;229456 wrote
But again I would love to here an example of a hand you would do that with.
Used it in a few spots today. Was playing a 12 BB stack early midstages in a 20 dollar tournament on betsson. Loose passive guy limped in ep, since I feel like shoving folds out much of his range I made it about 4 BB's and shoved a queen high flop, he pretty much snapfolded and I made an extra 3 BB's...probably
I used it in the sunday 250k donkament on stars once too. had AJ against a loose opener pretty deep into the tournament. He opened and I 3bet about a third of my stack (around 3,8x his open instead of shoving) and he flatted me, flop was Q high and I shipped it in, he snapcalled me with QJ but there's no doubt I got myself into a more +EV spot with this 3bet sizing than I would've been in by shoving pre and folding out the majority of his range
thought you said you only encourage action from bigger hands?
It definitely works better against bad players who don't read stacksizes well but I'm not a big fan of doing it into a full table where noone has put a chip in the pot with a strong but not extremely strong hand
Also, in order to do this without putting yourself in an akward spot post flop you'd need to bet over 6BB's in this case, it's definitely better than folding but I still like to play this pot normally over shoving or overbetting since I feel we have a strong enough hand for it
A sidenote is that in omaha this move reduces the varience A lot and is even more effective than in hold em