Niman's TomJetland Review (4)

I thought about the reason for me playing so many good draws so passively, and i came to the conclusion that it is the same reason for me calling with speculative hands preflop as you suggest, rather than 3bet/fold them as is common in high stakes games these days.

Namely, i want to call as much as i can profitably, and 3bet and check-raise more polarized, so that i can play more hands profitably in total. I understand that i sacrifice a bunch of fold equity when playing draws not as semibluffs but as "semifloats", but you do and advise the same with preflop calling hands, both ip and oop. I don't get the intrinsic difference.

The only connection i can see is to call many speculative hands preflop to play them aggressively postflop, which leads to a very bluffheavy raising and barreling range postflop.

This is a very important topic for me (in terms of poker) and i hope you get the time to answer to that thought.

Tom

(double post)