$1/$2 6-Max Zoom (Part 4)
Posted by Phil Galfond
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Awesome content for an essential video! Pretty much worth the membership by itself.
8:11 T852 in the big blind: if we do decide to bet this turn would choosing a size around 1/3pot be appropriate?
I think 1/3 pot would be a good betsize if we chose to bet, but I still dislike a bet in general. I believe check-calling works out much better.
37:00 table 2: you say you bet this board quite frequently, presumably with somewhat of a merged range, but you bet 90% pot. Isn't a smaller bet on the flop usually more effective when you are betting with a range advantage at a high frequency? Why do you choose such a large size here?
This is an excellent question and brings up an interesting point. Namely, that there are different types of range advantages.
On boards like these, we don't necessarily have an equity advantage. We may, but without running #s, I don't believe we have a decisive one. What we have is an advantage in is 2pr+ hands.
In a 3-bet pot, on a board of T55dd, the 3-bettor will often have a sizable advantage in equity but not one in nutted hands (though it's often close).
When your range advantage comes in the form of equity (but most equity coming from non-nut hands), if you choose to bet near 100%, you should probably be betting smaller.
When your range advantage comes in the form of nutted hands, you should often bet larger (often multiple times) to put maximum pressure on a capped range that can very rarely raise.
This is something I've been thinking about in-game and struggling with (the seemingly incongruous ideas of a) betting large with a more nutted range and b) betting small with a high frequency and range advantage), this helps, thank you!
I really like the tangents, it gives insight into your thought processes which is what I want from these videos.
Prefer the slow format with a deeper dive into concepts. Great video.
Thanks, guys! Glad you enjoyed it.
pace is fine and good thx.
Thanks Phil. I'm actually coming from a very high level limit holdem background and I think the pace here is perfect. I get to see the preflop decisions and evaluate them before they vanish (any random connected junk looks good to LHE players) and then I get detailed thought processes on flop texture, hand range, and actual holding which is huge for the range vs range GTO standard in the LHE environment. A lot of your higher level zoom videos I can get the postflop concepts but find myself missing completely in the preflop level and sometimes the ranges become very ambiguous for me.
So yeah, preflop! Yay! Postflop: absolute gold!
Hey Phil awesome videos as always, quick question at 26:00 what would you have done with villains hand in that spot (Q9A3) with top two pair and no redraws on the Q95 board where you made top set, is it possible to fold that spot and give one of your opponents credit for a set instead of jamming all in with what turned out to be no equity in the hand? Would your answer change if the cut off had folded instead of called?
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