Around 44 min : You 3b white's iso raise from the SB w/ A5s and that you plan on shoving sometimes when he 4bets. What's your range for 3b/5b bluff in this spot ?
Is that really necessary to do these plays or do you like to keep aggressive dynamics with everyone ?
Don't wanna go into what my exact ranges are for obvious reasons, but usually if I do decide to 5b bluff I want to have an ace or a king in it so I do have equity in case I get called.
I don't think it's really necessary to do it, but if I think it's a spot where it's more profitable than folding than there's no reason for me not to do it. I also like the added bonus to keep people scared of openraising when I'm still left to act or 4bet bluffing.
9:15, table #1 - You said you would flat call a c/r with top 2p on this wet flop because you felt you wouldnt be doing well against villains c/r and get it in range. I do agree, but what would be your plan on different turns if he c/r's flop and continues betting? For example, on an offsuit 2, an offsuit K, etc?
15:30, table #3 - You checked back the KJhh on 532hxx instead of cbetting. Since you hit a heart on the turn, its an easy call. But are you giving up on blank turn cards if he leads with any reasonable sized bet?
16:30, table #4 - You said this is often a good spot to cold 4bet. What would your sizing be here with 1 limper, an iso raiser, and a 3bettor in the hand?
17:50, table #2 - You opened 98o from CO with 2 tighter players on the BTN and in SB and a short stacked fish in the BB. Is this a standard opening spot for you? Is 98o the weakest of hands that you would open in this spot? And, is isolating even short stacked fish usually profitable? Or is this a profitable play because we also have the opportunity to steal blinds?
41:00 - You commented that you raise donk bets made by weak players close to 100% of the time and that they usually fold. However, based on my experience, a lot of weak players are starting to donk with TP+ or big draws that they are not folding. I dont know if this is a sophisticated play on their part since regs tend to react poorly to donk bets, or whether they just see that they have a hand and think they should bet it. What stakes have you been getting folds at when you raise donk bets?
51:40, table #4 - You iso raised a limper to 6x from SB with 22 and cbet J94r and then gave up. Is this a standard play for you to be isolating with weak hands OOP?
9:15, table #1 - You said you would flat call a c/r with top 2p on this wet flop because you felt you wouldnt be doing well against villains c/r and get it in range. I do agree, but what would be your plan on different turns if he c/r's flop and continues betting? For example, on an offsuit 2, an offsuit K, etc?
Hey dcole,
On those turns you mentioned I would probably call again. Shoving seems allright, but it allows to play almost perfectly against me. Flatting seems like the best plan for my overall game.
15:30, table #3 - You checked back the KJhh on 532hxx instead of cbetting. Since you hit a heart on the turn, its an easy call. But are you giving up on blank turn cards if he leads with any reasonable sized bet?
Yes I'm giving up. Too many players in the pot whose ranges are heavily weighted to pocket pairs or small connecting type of hands.
16:30, table #4 - You said this is often a good spot to cold 4bet. What would your sizing be here with 1 limper, an iso raiser, and a 3bettor in the hand?
In this specific spot I'd make it 26. Usually I don't go larger than 24bb, but this is a squeeze so his 3bet is slightly larger than normal.
17:50, table #2 - You opened 98o from CO with 2 tighter players on the BTN and in SB and a short stacked fish in the BB. Is this a standard opening spot for you? Is 98o the weakest of hands that you would open in this spot? And, is isolating even short stacked fish usually profitable? Or is this a profitable play because we also have the opportunity to steal blinds?
No definitely not a standard open. If the BTN were, for example, someone like white5403, I would not consider opening it. On this table however, both the BTN and the SB are really tight, and the BB is a fish. So it's a great opportunity for me to open up my openingrange. There's only a small chance that someone will play back so it's a great spot to either get the blinds or play a pot against the fish in position. If the fish were shallower (40) 22 is not really on of the hands I like to do it with though, so I would've preferred a flatcall here pre.
7.33 table 3, AJhh on AQ6ss 4o, what is the best hand you would fold there? what kind of range do you think a regish type player is leading the turn with? on the river, what is the worste hand you would value bet?
13.28 table 2, you 3b 55 with the intention of 5b. would you play AQ in the same way as you are oop, will have alot of fold equity, plus decent equity vs villans value range, or do you prefer to flat since you dominate alot of villans iso range?
28.28 table 3, we flat 66, you say if you had 99, and you were like 110-120bbs deep you would 3b/5b as you think villan will 4b more, but less for value since you are deeper. should this not be if we are 150bbs+, as most villans value range doesnt realy change much with 100-140bbs? also do you squash 22 and 33 in this spot?
34.23 table 1, when you check AQhh on 567hh, you say if you bet there is a good chance you are not going to see a turn? do you expect to get c/r or bluff raised alot? as if so, can we not call one, as we have alot of equity?
44.57 table 4, when you flat a 4b oop A4ss, how would you go about calculating if this is +/-ev?
7.33 table 3, AJhh on AQ6ss 4o, what is the best hand you would fold there? what kind of range do you think a regish type player is leading the turn with? on the river, what is the worste hand you would value bet?
Depends on how I interpret his bet... I think it's either something like A4 or a draw, so most of my inbetween hands are of the same handvalue as AJhh. I'd valuebet hands that beat A4 on the river.
13.28 table 2, you 3b 55 with the intention of 5b. would you play AQ in the same way as you are oop, will have alot of fold equity, plus decent equity vs villans value range, or do you prefer to flat since you dominate alot of villans iso range?
I could, but definitely not always. AQ plays fairly in that position just flatcalling. The more fishy the limper is the more likely I'll flat.
28.28 table 3, we flat 66, you say if you had 99, and you were like 110-120bbs deep you would 3b/5b as you think villan will 4b more, but less for value since you are deeper. should this not be if we are 150bbs+, as most villans value range doesnt realy change much with 100-140bbs? also do you squash 22 and 33 in this spot?
Yeah I don't think his valuerange will change too much, but his bluffingfrequencies are probably higher. I wouldn't be doing this with 22/33 to control my frequencies in this spot.
34.23 table 1, when you check AQhh on 567hh, you say if you bet there is a good chance you are not going to see a turn? do you expect to get c/r or bluff raised alot? as if so, can we not call one, as we have alot of equity?
I don't think I'll get c/r bluffed, but with all the people in the pot it's just too likely someone has a really big hand. I can't really call a c/r cause I'm only drawing to my flush which is very obvious and will not get paid off.
2:10, table 3 w/JTdd, you discuss isoing a fish oop- can we open our range from the early positions if a fish is gonna call from the CO or BTN? Kinda unrelated question I know, but it’s sth I’m really uncertain about.. basically setting up our hand to play a pot oop against a fish, as long as there are no squeeze happy regs at the table, +ev?
More on topic, in this hand a flop cbet is std when the brd reads AK3ss, do not think a lot of his range is Ax and Kx so a cbet may be bad? If we had 89dd here, do you still cbet?
4:10, table 2, you click auto-fold 82o from SB when utg open limps, do you not think if like, CO and BTN both limp behind then completing with this hand is ok? What hands do you actully complete with here from SB?
11:00 table 1, 87hh we cbet 876cc, you say our options on the 9turn are to bet and ckbk river or ckbk turn call river, won’t a lot of the hands that he c/ced flop with have SDV so he won’t be betting the river? If that's the case are you gonna vbet? Or do you think he’ll usually turn his hand into a bluff?
14:00, table 2, we 3b a reg’s BTN open from SB w/55, we’re doing it for value, have to be sure we’re inducing a 4b, does this mean the most profit will come from this hand when he folds to our ship? If so, isn’t it really as a bluff?
19:30, table 1, we defend our BTN when a 24/14 opens from MP w/ATo, why not fold here?
23:00ish, table 3, we squeeze from BB agaisnt SB w/K5s, you mention stack sizes as being slightly better, why is this with this hand? When stacks are deeper is becomes better for him to call, as opposed to if we were only 100bb deep we won’t expect him to flat hardly ever, I would have expected a hand like 78s or sth to be better when stacks are deeper coz he’ll call more often and then we can flop better. Same situation again on table 4, 43:30 mins w/A5ss.
27:00, table 4, you consider 3betting a competent reg’s CO iso from the BTN w/67o, that means your 3betting range in this spot is super wide, correct? Can this be a problem?
39:00, table 4, we iso an utg limp, then he donks Q65r, we call, wat do you do on 2x turns when he checks? Did we flat flop coz we have some SDV or are we trying to take it down on later streets? If you had Khi here would you rasie flop?
2:10, table 3 w/JTdd, you discuss isoing a fish oop- can we open our range from the early positions if a fish is gonna call from the CO or BTN? Kinda unrelated question I know, but it’s sth I’m really uncertain about.. basically setting up our hand to play a pot oop against a fish, as long as there are no squeeze happy regs at the table, +ev?
More on topic, in this hand a flop cbet is std when the brd reads AK3ss, do not think a lot of his range is Ax and Kx so a cbet may be bad? If we had 89dd here, do you still cbet?
Depends on how stupid the fish is basically. In general, I'd say you should loosen up a lot when they are in the blinds and not too much when you are UTG and they on the button. The difference with isoing OOP from the SB is that there's only 1 'reg' left in the BB who is a lot less likely to 3bet now as opposed to squeezing before. Also he is less likely to overflat. And this time the fish already limped so he actually put in a 'dead' BB, whereas otherwise he might just fold to raises without investing anything.
I would've cbet anything. He limps such a wide range that he will have random Q6s so often. Also I thought he might minraise a bunch of Ax hands pre.
4:10, table 2, you click auto-fold 82o from SB when utg open limps, do you not think if like, CO and BTN both limp behind then completing with this hand is ok? What hands do you actully complete with here from SB?
No, I think completing with 82o is pretty much never good. I complete a whole bunch of suited hands, but 82o is just too terrible.
11:00 table 1, 87hh we cbet 876cc, you say our options on the 9turn are to bet and ckbk river or ckbk turn call river, won’t a lot of the hands that he c/ced flop with have SDV so he won’t be betting the river? If that's the case are you gonna vbet? Or do you think he’ll usually turn his hand into a bluff? [/qute]
Yea it could be a fold against some, but I think he is very likely to c/r stronger hands than mine on the flop. Also it's not that likely he has a T in this hand in that spot. The hands I'm most worried about are 98, 99 or Ax that made 2pair. I think he has enough worse clubs or potentially even something like 76 to make a call ok.
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14:00, table 2, we 3b a reg’s BTN open from SB w/55, we’re doing it for value, have to be sure we’re inducing a 4b, does this mean the most profit will come from this hand when he folds to our ship? If so, isn’t it really as a bluff?
Yea, i guess it's a terminology thing ;) we defintely make the most money when he folds, but same goes for when we shove AK pre (unless someone 4bet calls a lot with AQ). So I basically think I have the best hand a lot which is why I call it for value, whereas in fact you do want him to fold.
19:30, table 1, we defend our BTN when a 24/14 opens from MP w/ATo, why not fold here?
I don't know, I just don't fold a lot. I mean AJo seems like an easy defend for most, ATo still looks good enough to me. A9o I'd fold. You gotta draw the line somewhere and mine is a bit lower .
23:00ish, table 3, we squeeze from BB agaisnt SB w/K5s, you mention stack sizes as being slightly better, why is this with this hand? When stacks are deeper is becomes better for him to call, as opposed to if we were only 100bb deep we won’t expect him to flat hardly ever, I would have expected a hand like 78s or sth to be better when stacks are deeper coz he’ll call more often and then we can flop better. Same situation again on table 4, 43:30 mins w/A5ss.
It's not a squeeze, it's a cold 4bet. That's why I like deeper stacks because he usually has the decision to 5bet shove or fold, especially if he 3bets a polarized range. And it is a lot harder for him to bluff 5bet shove 130bb than it is with 100bb. Also his 5bet valuerange is smaller. For squeezing I totally agree that 100bb is better.
27:00, table 4, you consider 3betting a competent reg’s CO iso from the BTN w/67o, that means your 3betting range in this spot is super wide, correct? Can this be a problem?
Well I don't do it every time I get a hand like 67o, just if it feels right. It could be a problem if he adjusts by 4betting more, but that just means we got to readjust! If he chooses flatting a lot more OOP then we can adjust by 3betting other hands that we are happy to have him flat OOP against.
39:00, table 4, we iso an utg limp, then he donks Q65r, we call, wat do you do on 2x turns when he checks? Did we flat flop coz we have some SDV or are we trying to take it down on later streets? If you had Khi here would you rasie flop?
I probably would've bet at some point, because I thought it was likely he had something like 6x that would then fold.If I had Khigh I would've raised the flop. Fish still keep donk/folding a ton in my experience
It's not a squeeze, it's a cold 4bet. That's why I like deeper stacks because he usually has the decision to 5bet shove or fold, especially if he 3bets a polarized range. And it is a lot harder for him to bluff 5bet shove 130bb than it is with 100bb. Also his 5bet valuerange is smaller. For squeezing I totally agree that 100bb is better
So when we have K5s we want to increase his bluffing frequency? Or we want to make it look like we want to increase his bluffing frequency? Or we just don't cold 4b in this spot unless we're deep full stop?
7:30 that AJ hand. I did read you would valuebet hands stronger than A4, but what about a very very small bet? Like 3 dollars. I think he can blockbet hands on the turn, or have a flushdraw + weak pair very often once he checks the river.
