Online poker has gone 3 bet mad presently, and what I am finding is a whole lot of loose players will start to call a great deal of your 3bets once they will be in position. So how do you play against these type of players once they will not fold to a continuation bet on the flop.

Firstly, you need some type of poker tracking software with a heads up display which can inform you of their stats in 3 bet pots. This really is most likely not as important if you’re playing less than 4 tables as you should be able to spot their tendencies through simple observations and note taking. However when you go over 4 tables I definitely recommend using Holdem Manager to help you spot the habitually 3 bet callers. It is also good to track your own 3 bet stats when you could be 3 betting a bit too frequently and therefore giving your opponent ample reason to start playing back at you either through flat calling or 4 betting light.

So if you have notes or stats on your opponent that he is calling 3 bets light and rarely folding to any aggression on the next streets, this simple means you need to tighten your 3 betting range to value hands only. Check out his 4 bet stats. If his 4 bet stats are 2% or lower we can safely state that when he only calls he is doing so with hands like AQ, AJ, maybe ATss and 22-JJ, 87ss+. He will 4 bet QQ+, AK virtually all times which accounts for the 2% 4 bet range.

Therefore if we can narrow his calling range to this we can begin to 3 bet value hands from KJ+,JJ+ up as when he calls we are going to nearly often be in front of his range. If he is calling with pocket pairs, we’re going to at least have 2 overcards once we 3 bet Broadway cards and when we do hit top pair we can safely get everything in even as we will be more than likely going to have our opponent dominated.

Also keep an eye out for bet sizing tells. One of my regulars has a fairly bad bet sizing tell. He only raises preflop to 2 big blinds with small pocket pairs and suited connectors and raises 3.5 big blinds with big Broadway cards when he plays from the Cut off or perhaps the Button. He folds to all 3bets when I 3 bet his bigger pre – flop raise but he 4 bet shoves AKss, KK+. He always calls when I 3 bet his smaller preflop raise and will min – reraise when he connects with the flop, and when he connects he connects hard as its either a set, a flopped straight or an open ended straight & flush draw. This really is a good tell to have upon an opponent and I urge all of you to keep track of weird bet sizing as people get into a habit and you may take advantage of it.

However getting back to the original issue, of a player who shall also not fold to post flop aggression. You should determine your perceived strength brought on by the flop texture prior to deciding to decide your plan for post flop whenever you actually miss the flop. Should the flop comes dry with one high card, then you must at least double barrel. There is no point just continuation bet the flop then check fold the turn as that’s how he wants you to play and he will exploit this until the cows come home. If the flop is low and wet then it sometimes is within your best interest to just check the flop and hope for a cheap showdown and fold to his steal. By doing this guy every once in a while, it will also add a lot more weight to your continuation bets in later encounters.

The main piece of advice to take from this article is to plan your hand before you play it determined by your opponents tendencies. The better you do this the greater natural it’s going to become and before you know it you will be swiftly moving up the stakes within the online poker world.