Coaching Kristy Episode 3

• It is not a big deal to get bluffed off the best hand, but it is a big deal to pay off with a worse hand. This changes as you move up in stakes where people bluff much more often. 
• At the low stakes, even the most aggressive of players rarely bluff often enough to merit adjusting our strategy.
• When a good aggressive player starts to 3-bet us a lot. We should adjust by 3-bet/5-bet'ing with a range like AJ+, any pp and call with all the hands we don't want to stack off pre-flop.
• Against a 4-bet range of JJ+/AK and junk, TT and 33 are the same. If someone 4-bets you with a wide range but only stacks off to 5-bet with JJ+/AK, you can 5-bet shove 33. 
• Being OOP is a huge disadvantage. In spots where our equity range vs range is 50/50, positional advantage can tip the scale towards the player in position. A 50/50 situation can suddenly turn into a 60/40 or even a 70/30 in favor of the player in position. Similar theory can be used for skill advantage, but position is often more valuable.
• So even if someone is opening ATC on the button, it doesn't mean you can defend wide from the blinds. His positional advantage can and will tip even a 60/40 situation in his favor. That's why 3-betting is often better than calling when OOP, because it reduces the positional advantage by lowering the SPR and giving you the initiative.
• If a good aggressive player or bad aggressive player is 3-betting you with a unbalanced polarized range weighted toward bluffs, start calling them OOP with very strong hands and 4-bet more trash hands. Our card advantage will be so significant that his positional advantage cannot make up for it. We can do this until we get deep because then positional and skill advantage becomes more important.
• An extreme example is if we know someone 3-bets a hand like 72o, we should call with AA instead of 4-bet. Our card advantage is so great that we are not concerned about being outplayed. (This was not discussed in the video, but as soon as your opponent sees that you are flatting very strong hands, you need to re-adjust your strategy because your 4-bet range will become too weak.)
• Calling OOP with strong hands is also very dependent on exactly what type of hands they are 3-betting and if they will stack off light post-flop.