2 Table $0.50/$1 Heads Up vs C-webb93 (part 2)
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Awesome that essential sub have got a solid HU coach! It would be nice if you could make videos against weaker regs in the future and show how you exploit them. Most RIO HU videos are against pretty good regs.
@1:50 You call turn probe with NFD and face a 1.7x pot river barrel on JJ65K. What is the bottom of your raising range there? Would you shove if you only had a pot sized raise left?
@9:00 After you XR 97 with BD FD on 853Jds the pot is 30 OTT and there is 90 left. How do you play your bluffing range there to avoid bet/folding high eq hands if you get shoved on. Do you bet your weaker draws that are clear folds and really strong like JhXh that can bet call? Then check your stronger that can check call or check/shove or do you not expect to get shoved on often here?
@15:30 You get XR with Q6 no BD on JT9t. Do you think you need a diamond or two spades to call here with Kx and Qx or do you float with other hands?
@16 C-webb checked to the river and bet with Q5 on 962Qt3. Do you think this was an adjustment after you probed river with air earlier got called and have been leading most 2nd and 3 pair hands? Would you change any frequencies after that play by opponents?
@ 16:40 You say you lead your entire range on K72t2 after C-Webb makes a 1/2 pot CB OTF. Do you think this is a good play when villain bets more merged with 1/2 too? Because he shoved up with 75o can we assume he will have A2-J2 often too?
@19:40 On 973hhKh8h you bet 80% pot when checked to IP with Ah. What is the bottom of your value range here? I have seen that flop solvers use massive over bets with NF in these spots on turns and rivers because you can't bet many worse hands and rarely get XR with NF blocking his value range. Did you use small bet because you have few bluffs or want to bet weaker value hands as well?
Thanks for the comment Kalupso, I also think that videos against weaker regs could be interesting so I´ll try to make some of those after this series.
@1:50 - At the moment I perceived that his overbetting range in this spots was super polarized so that´s the main reason why I didn´t jam with my nut flush there. If I perceive that my opponent is overbetting for value here trips too I think that the bluffing part of my raising range should be some of my Adx hands (Ad5x would be a great one) and that would also allow me to shove my nut flush hands.
@9:00 - Exactly, in this spot I usually bet/fold my weaker draws and bet/call my stronger ones. 97s is somewhat close because it still has a lot of equity but I´m not sure about if it has enough to be a bet/call so I decided to put it on my check/shoving range.
@15:30 - Yes, I think that floating with Qx without any backdoor equity is kinda close mainly because most of his flop raising rage is going to continue betting on the turn.
@16 - Can u please reformulate this question?
@16:40 - I think that he just take advantage of that flop being super dry to bet his 7x for value because he expects more calls from A/Q high hands than usual but I wouldn´t assume that he is going to bet 2x that often there.
@19:40 - My bottom range here should be something like JxTh or 6xTh, and yes, I use smaller sizing here just because I think he is usually capped when he check the river and I want to be able to bluff more often in this spots.
Thank your for the answers!
@16min question: This question was more about gameflow and adjustments. He checked back turned top pair bad kicker after checking flop. Is this standard or likely to be and adjustment to your high river aggression in checked down pots in the last 60 hands?
Thank you too for the great questions!
@16 - Yes, I think this was a good adjustment that he made in this session against me because I was betting a lot of rivers when check down as you said.
Thanks! Great video. I'm just getting back into poker after a 8 year hiatus from a pretty successful 3 year HU career.
Could you please explain your comment at 13:42 and following when you say "he had KJ, which I blocked"
Thanks David, I´m glad you enjoyed it and I hope that my videos can help you in any way to get back to your HU career.
When I say that he had KJ, which I blocked I mean that he ended up having a hand that is unlikely to have because I´m holding a K on my hand and that reduces by 4 the amount of combinations of KJ that he can have on his range.
KTo and A6o both appear to me as clear folds to a 13-14% 3-betting range.
@ 23:48:
how often do you c/r dry type of flops like this one with a hand like this one with barely no equity? I stopped doing so almost completely vs fish due to lack of success. but vs. this reg it might be +EV?
@ 44:00:
you say it's a standard call with your flush. can you elaborate why it is not standard to raise?
might it be because I am mainly bumhunting that i would raise here as a standard and expect to get called by whatever fish-holding?
Hi OMGDadania
I feel that KTo and A6o are hands that we have to defend against a polarized 3betting range, just because we are IP and we´re getting pretty good odds to call.
@23:48 - I think that creating a check/raising range against good regs in this type of situations isn´t a great idea just because we don´t have almost any value hands that want to raise in this super dry boards, so I guess that check/calling and delaying our raising hands to the turn should be a better idea.
@44:00 - Yes, I think that against a weaker player we have an easy raise in order to be able to jam the river with our T high flush, but against a good reg I prefer to be more polarized here and mantain this type of hands on my check/calling range.
on an unrelated note:
there is a 6-max hand which is bothering my mind for the last couple days:
new table, i open co with A5o, get 3-betted from unknown reg out of blinds. I 4-bet bluff, he calls, but folds postflop after 2 small barrels.
immediate next hand:
i open button with A4o, get insta-3bet from same reg.
i regard him as on tilt, thus assign to him a specific 3-betting range of around 25% in this spot. is this assumption totally off?
i have the perfect hand to 4-bet bluff again. but afraid of him tilt-shoving. should I 4-bet-shove myself? i remember a van der Keen hu-vid on this site where he says A5 can be profitably shoved over a 25% 3-betting range in hu.
or should I call his 3-bet? because A4o has simply too much equity to fold vs the tilty 3-bet range i assign to him?
or fold? i fold too much equity im afraid.
anyway, i ended up folding, but I think all options (fold, call, 4-bet, 4-bet-shove) are quite close in this spot?
I don´t even know the effective stack in this particular hand so I can´t give you any advice about playing your A4o.
Anyway I´m planning on doing a video after this series talking about defence ranges and explaining why you can´t fold too many to 3bets on HU against a polarized range as I said to you in the last comment, so that may also help you to play this type of spots especially on HU games.
on another unrelated note:
do you guys realize how high variance is?
when doing coin-flips with a real coin, it often takes only a couple dozen of flips to have 5 or 10 plus more faces than numbers or numbers than faces.
1 time i got over 100 (!) more of the one side !
2 times i got over 50 plus of the one side.
a 13%-14% 3-betting range is nitty and basically value only.
i can never imagine a guy like Phil Galfond calling A6o vs that 3-betting range. would love to hear his opinion on this.
13/14% can be top or polarized. Good regs have a polarized 3betting range and that's the reason why you can call 3bets even with weak hands as A6o. Anyway this hand is the bottom of my calling range.
14:20 I believe you should be betting with 85s on the river after he checks to you. He had been leading rivers a lot so your 5 is really likely to be best when he checks to you.
Also sorry to hear that heads up cash on pokerstars died :(
I think it´s pretty close but I agree that I could have value bet that river.
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