\u201cMultiway pots are death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have said this phrase no less than 10,000\ntimes to my students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason I say it so often is because, in their low-to-mid stakes games, there are loose openers who are begging to be threebet. They flat large reraises out of position<\/a> with weak hands and have no idea what to do postflop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a hand you can reasonably\nexpect to be the best hand versus a particular raising player, you should take\nit to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notice how I said, \u201cversus a particular raising player.\u201d Not \u201ca good hand in general.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes one of my students will see a player open UTG<\/a>. It will fold around to them on the button with K-Jo. They\u2019ll fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat the f*** are you doing?\u201d I\u2019ll yell at them. \u201cWe watched him open J-7s from that spot 20 minutes ago in the hand history. Were you not paying attention this deep in the tournament?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was multitabling<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo click on his Raise First In poker stat<\/a> and let Notecaddy remember for you. Come on! You\u2019re better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Should you three-bet K-Jo versus a UTG open? 95% of the time, the answer is no, but when you have a sitting duck of a player who doesn\u2019t know how to four-bet preflop or check-raise\/donk lead postflop, then you should endeavor to play big pots in position versus them with superior hands. ANY poker player of ANY moderate skill level could win given those parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, we don\u2019t always want to seek out\nheads-up pots. I\u2019ll give you an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was recently playing WPT Maryland. This was a fun tournament because there were some extremely talented pros sitting right next to psycho gamblers who couldn\u2019t read boards. The action was amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some people were complaining about this, but that seems an ungrateful way to look at the situation. Texas Hold\u2019em<\/a> is fun because it\u2019s so messy. You have to be a little sick to play this game. You have to love the challenges and walking on the edge. Additionally, I guess I\u2019m just at that age now where I want my work to be interesting, and holy hell, was this particular day unique?<\/p>\n\n\n\n One example of this was when I was sitting\nat my second or third table. Four players to my right was an extremely talented\nWSOP bracelet winner. He opened damn near anything he wanted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, logically, we should be threebetting\nhim right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n