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Magazine Articles by Jonathan Little

  • 07/01/2021Being a Bully
  • 08/12/2020Short Stacked Mistake from a Poker Final Table
  • 30/10/2020Stop Slowplaying
  • 16/10/2020Learn to Bluff
  • 17/09/2020Stop Limping So Often
  • 20/08/2020Do Not Call Too Often at the Poker Table
  • 16/01/2020Stop Playing Junk
  • 09/01/2020Betting too Large
  • 19/12/2019Your Bet Size Matters
  • 05/12/2019Power Poker from Daniel Negreanu
  • 21/11/2019Playing a Big Pot with the Near Nuts
  • 08/11/2019Go for value or check behind?
  • 30/10/2019Do not be a calling station
  • 17/10/2019Aggressively Reraising before the Flop
  • 04/10/2019Where does your profit come from?
  • 12/09/2019Poorly Played Underpair
  • 14/08/2019Bullying a Bully
  • 15/07/2019Exploiting Aggression
  • 20/06/2019Don’t be Afraid to Go for Full Value
  • 06/06/2019Facing an Overbet on the Flop
  • 23/05/2019Let the maniac bluff
  • 25/04/2019Conserving my Stack in the WSOP Main Event
  • 11/04/2019Learning to Fold
  • 28/03/2019Pot committed ?
  • 21/03/2019Stay Active
  • 28/02/2019Strong Non-Nut Hand on the River
  • 03/02/2019Made Hand in to Bluff
  • 18/01/2019When Should You Become a Professional Poker Player?
  • 10/01/2019Five concepts to keep in mind in 2019
  • 20/12/2018You do not have to win every pot
  • 18/10/2018A Common Spot Where I Fold Where You Probably Do Not
  • 04/10/2018Three Tips for Success in Poker Tournaments
  • 25/09/2018Getting thin value on the turn
  • 30/08/2018Short Stacked Blunder
  • 09/08/2018Marginal Hand Made with a Draw
  • 26/07/2018Interesting Bluff at $1/$2
  • 05/07/2018A common preflop error
  • 07/06/2018Folding an Overpair
  • 24/05/2018Extracting Full Value
  • 10/05/2018Do Not Overvalue!
  • 26/04/2018Slow Playing Gone Wrong
  • 12/04/2018The Wrong Way to Play Trips
  • 29/03/2018Overplaying a marginal pair
  • 15/03/2018Poker Tells 101
  • 06/03/2018Rivering Trips!| Byron Jacobs & Jonathan Little 009
  • 01/03/2018Avoiding a Cooler with Pocket Jacks
  • 27/02/2018Playing a vulnerable top pair with a decent kicker| Byron & Jonathan 8
  • 20/02/2018Calling off with a marginal over pair| Byron & Jonathan 7
  • 18/02/2018Blockers - Mastering Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em Excerpt
  • 15/02/2018Slow Playing is Risky
  • 13/02/2018Calling an over-bet with middle pair| Byron & Jonathan 6
  • 10/02/2018Good spot to make a thin value bet?
  • 06/02/2018Playing a marginal made hand that rivers the nuts| Byron & Jonathan 5
  • 03/02/2018Don't Be a Calling Station
  • 30/01/2018Barreling off when the draws arrive| Byron & Jonathan 4
  • 28/01/2018Pre-flop Raise Sizing - Mastering Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em Excerpt
  • 27/01/2018Messing Up on the River
  • 23/01/2018Playing a flush draw that turned middle pair| Byron & Jonathan
  • 26/12/2017Should you get all-in with Q-Q before the flop?| Byron & Jonathan 2
  • 26/12/2017A Butchered Tournament Hand
  • 26/12/2017Understanding Implied Odds - Mastering Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em Excerpt
  • 28/11/2017How to play middle pair facing a river bet| Byron & Jonathan 1
  • 28/11/2017Two Blunders in One Hand

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I recently had to deal with multiple cold four-bets in a tough $10,000 buy-in tournament. My table was fairly aggressive, so I was doing a decent amount of three-betting (re-raising) when I was in position while playing a somewhat tight strategy from out of position.

When you are playing a large buy-in event, you need to make a point to take advantage of your position as much as possible, while also making sure you don’t get too abused when you are out of position.

A hand came up where a strong, loose aggressive opponent raised from the hijack seat to 4,000 out of his 100,000 stack at 800-1,600. I three-bet to 11,000 with 9 7 from the button and then another strong loose aggressive player four-bet to 28,000 from the big blind. I didn’t think much of this hand and quickly folded.

An orbit later, the same initial raiser raised from the button to 4,000 and I made it 12,800 out of my 90,000 stack from the small blind with A J. Calling in this situation is also a viable play because if you get four-bet, you will be in a tricky spot. That said, because I was three-betting so often, I was fairly confident I could profitably get all-in for 90,000 against this opponent if he decided to four-bet. I know that may seem loose to some readers, but that was the dynamic we had.

To my surprise, a strong, fairly tight aggressive player in the big blind four-bet to 26,000. Given that this four-bettor plays at a world-class level, I thought he could easily realize the initial raiser was raising the button a ton and that I would combat this with a ton of three-bets.

I was getting around 2.5:1 pot odds, so calling should always be considered. The problem is that I would be out of position and would face a lot of difficult post-flop situations, especially when I fail to connect with the board. Folding would certainly be fine if I assume he is never or rarely bluffing, as A J has around 32 percent equity against a range of 10-10+ and A-Q+.

I imagine his calling range if I decided to go all-in would be 10-10 or better and A-Q or better. If I thought he was four-betting with something like 7-7+, A-9+, K-Q, K-J suited+, and various suited connectors, he will fold to my all-in with around 66 percent of the hands he is four-betting.

It should be noted that all players will four-bet bluff with different ranges. For simplicity though, this range will suffice. Knowing that, I can use the following equation to figure out my equity.

  • Profit = (percent both players fold)(pot I win) + (percent four-bettor calls)(equity in pot – amount put in pot) + (percent four-better folds and initial raiser calls)(equity in pot – amount in pot)

For simplicity, let’s assume the initial raiser will only call around 8 percent of the time. Let’s also ignore the rare times they both call. I know my equity in the pot because I roughly know his calling range and how well A J does against it.

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So, I have…

  • .61(46,800) + (.33)(60,160-90,000) – .08(68,480 – 90,000) = 28,548 – 9,847 – 1,721 = 16,980

This means I will win 16,980 every time I five-bet all-in, assuming all the assumptions I made are correct. This is a huge amount of profit, especially since I am only playing 800-1,600.

If the four-bettor is playing with a tighter range, the equation would look much different, as I will no longer have much fold equity:

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  • .2(46,800) + .71(60,160 – 90,000) – .08(68,480 – 90,000) = 9,360 – 21,186 – 1,721 = -13,547

This means when he is rarely four-bet bluffing, I am in bad shape. All I have to do now is guess how often he is four-betting with a wide range and how often he is four-betting with a tight range. If I think he will have a wide range around 25 percent of the time and a tight range 75 percent of the time, I end up with:

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  • .25(16,980) + .75(-13,547) = 4,245 – 10,160 = -5,915

If instead I thought he had a wide range more often, the four-bet would be profitable. There is a lot of guesswork involved in poker. In this spot, I need to guess what his four-betting range is and then guess how often he will have each potential range. This is why it is so important to know your opponent’s strategy. If you think he will only four-bet with the nuts, you have an easy fold. If you think he will bluff often, you have an easy all-in.

All of this being said, I decided to go all-in. He called with A-Q and I was out. After looking at the math, I think I should have folded and waited for a better spot.

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Jonathan Little is a professional poker player with over $7 million in live tournament earnings, best-selling author of 15 educational poker books, and 2019 GPI Poker Personality of the Year. If you want to increase your poker skills and learn to crush the games, check out his training site PokerCoaching.com. Click here to try PokerCoaching.com for free.

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