![]() James Sweeney is a noted poker coach, and author of the book Dynamic Full Ring Poker: Beyond the Basics, published by Daily Variance. ![]() So, get to work, run some filters, and start improving your 3-bet game! These filters should help you find hands that influence your win-rate and highlight leak areas in your game. For instance, review hands where you squeezed air, hands where you re-stole and then didn’t see showdown, hands where you 3-bet and saw an over-card on the flop, etc. Use these filters as a starting point and then modify them as you need to. Tools like PokerTracker 4 are great for running filters and analysing your play, but ultimately you will need to review your hands and results to get the most from this software. See if you left value on the table by checking against the wrong opponents, or if you took a single pair too far against a nit. Look at the lines you choose and really consider the validity of the original 3-bet, your continuation-bets, and any future bets/calls made in the hand. For smaller databases (fewer than 50K hands), you probably won’t find a tremendous amount of hands here, and in that case I would suggest reviewing pretty much all of the possible hands, but if you have a large enough database you may want to remove these premium hands in the filter to review only non-premium starting hands. Yet again, this should be a positive filter, but it does include A-A/K-K. To do this, we want to erase all filters except for “Raised Preflop Any 3Bet” and then go to “Actions and Opportunities” > “Actions and Opportunities – River” to turn “Saw Showdown” on. The last filter I want to show you is how to review 3-bet pots that go to showdown. Are you re-stealing against the wrong player types? Are you leaking post-flop after the pre-flop re-steal attempt gets called? What is creating the loss and should you adjust your re-stealing strategy? These are all good questions to ask yourself as you review your play. If not, then check the hands in the report to try to determine why. If you have a positive win-rate when re-stealing with junk hands, check the hands in the report to make sure they were all theoretically good re-steal spots and consider looking for more re-steal spots in your game. To see how you perform when re-stealing with junky or “air” hands, go back and include a hand-range filter that only includes the worst of your possible 3-bet range. This should also be positive, once again because the range is heavy with A-A/K-K and other premium hands. Don’t forget to add to add and save the filter to see your results. ![]() To do this, we will remove Q-Q, J-J, A-K from the existing filter, then click “Add Filter” > “Actions and Opportunities” > “Actions and Opportunities – Preflop” > “Preflop Opportunities” > “Faced Steal Attempt”. Are there any bad pre-flop all-ins? Are we bluff continuation-betting too often when we 3-bet with A-K, get called, and the flop comes low? How is our play with Q-Q when villain calls the 3-bet and we see an A-x-x or K-x-x flop? These filters show us basic results but are really useful in that they find us the exact hands that we need for analysing and re-checking our decisions in the hand.Īnother excellent filter will show how we are performing when 3-betting a steal attempt pre-flop, aka re-stealing. To do this, we double-click the small blind column to add an additional filter that will restrict the position to the small blind. I am performing well but I still want to drill-down and see if there are any leaks. The report shows that I am losing less than a buy-in from both the big blind and small blind. I chose to view my results in US dollars because the games I play in use this currency, but you can easily switch to BPS or EUR and have the application convert the currency in the background. In this situation, if I look at my own 100NL database by position, you see that I am losing slightly from the small blind in 3-bet pots. Once again, your results should be positive if you are a winning player over a large sample size.
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