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davidab157 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 05:51 AM

I've been having some difficulties with the minraisng donks at Ongame 100nl recently. I never had this issue at 50nl (or even 100nl on UB for that matter), maybe it's cos I wasn't playing ongame and these guys are just weird.

Anyhoo, in the past I've always been cbetting a ton, like almost anything but obv depending on how the flop texture hits the villains likely range. This doesn't seem to be that effective for me recently as I find myself being floated by a ton of mid-low pairs and A high hands that just don't fold and with so many of them calling down more than one street I don't think double barrelling is a great thing to be doing too much of, especially when the turn bricks.

My plan is to leave cbetting for spots like:

- having a read that they fold often enough (this can be nits or even savvy grinders who will not make spewy calls with anything for no reason)
- having no or very limited showdown value
- excellent hands and hands that figure to be best enough against people who love to call down light.
- draws that give me enough likely equity in the hand to be profitably cbetting.

There's probably more instances but I can't think of them right now. An example would maybe be cbetting a 68s on K52 flop but not cbetting, say, KTs on a 369 flop. I find the amount of check minraising that goes on will either build pots with very marginal hands or push me off hands with decent showdown value.

This is obv very vague so far and highly dependent on the opponent, but what do you guys think of this assuming I'm against "mr minraising passive donkey"?

I suppose a lot of this is I don't really need to be mixing up my play to outplay these opponents, they do it to themselves. Obviously against a capable solid player I will be mixing it up alot to stop myself becoming predictable.