4-Bet
4 posts.
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What a 4-Bet Is in Texas Hold'em: The One Number With No Target Band, Because It Measures a Range and Not a Frequency
A 4-bet is a raise made when you are facing exactly two raises. Most players do not 4-bet too rarely — they 4-bet with AA, KK, QQ and AK every single time, and that range looks perfectly normal in the numbers, because it is only 4 combinations away from a healthy one. This post covers what the 38 combinations are made of, why the A5s has to be in there, how an opponent exploits a range made purely of value, and why RushCraft deliberately gives this statistic no target band.
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What Fold to 3-Bet Is in Texas Hold'em: The 65% Ceiling Measures Your Opening Range, Not Your Nerve
Fold to 3-bet is how often you fold after opening and facing a re-raise, with a target of 65% or below and anything past 70% flagged as a serious leak. The reason it runs high is rarely timidity — play RushCraft's default practice ranges and it lands around 85%, and the problem happened back at the open. This post covers how the denominator works, where the 69% arithmetic behind the line comes from, how wide the continuing range has to be, what call 3-bet tells you, and why it is the slowest-converging number in the series.
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The Complete Guide to Preflop Play in Texas Hold'em: Position, Ranges, Six Spots and Seven Numbers
Preflop is the one street every hand passes through, and the only one where the spots repeat often enough to be systematised. This post takes the whole thing apart: how position prices a hand, what range charts are and are not for, which button each of the six preflop spots calls for, the three sizings you need, and the seven statistics that tell you afterwards whether you got it right. The entry point for every preflop post on the site.
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What a 3-Bet Is in Texas Hold'em: The 8-12% Target Band Averages Six Different Spots
3-bet is how often you re-raise when facing exactly one raise, with a target band of 8-12%. But that single number averages away six completely different spots — against an UTG open the value hands worth re-raising are only the top 1.7%; against a button open they are 5.3%. This post covers how the denominator works, what too low and too high each cost you, why 70% is the line on your opponent's fold-to-3-bet, and how large a sample it takes before the number counts.