2 Table $1/$2 Heads Up Zoom NLHE
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hi Nuno,
24:40 65o - how frequently are you leading out on the Ax river with 5x+ as opposed to xr? the A is a better card for your opponent and as you mentioned elsewhere in the video you're not looking to valuebet a hand like Ax yourself. so maybe mix between overbet or xr? how are you determining your frequencies?
36:25 T83mono JTs - can you explain why you're betting 1/3p on a pretty connected, monotone board, as opposed to betting near psb @ 32:50 on T7Xr? you mention being more polarized and scaling up betsizing on these connected boards so the small bet is a bit confusing.
thanks
Hi augballer.
24:40 | 56o - I tend to go for the checkraise for value when I block calling hands on my opponent range so hands like 52s J5 or A5 would be very often into my checking range. With this particular 5x combo I prefer betting since If I check it I'm likely going to be checking way too many 5x hands and gonna be pretty unbalanced towards bluffs when I bet.
I also don't think that the A is a particularly good card for my opponent in this specific spot so I'd be betting a decent amount of Ax myself and that's the reason why I believe that we need to have both an overbet and a normal bet size and this 56o seems to fit very well into my smaller bet sizing here.
36:25 | JTs - This is my standard sizing in most monotone flops. I don't think betting bigger accomplishes that much since it'll unable us to protection bet many different hands that we are interested in betting here with. I think the fact of the board being monotone on clubs makes a big difference with same cards with different suits since opponent should have way more autofold hands such as unpaired hearts, spades and diamond combos.
Hey Nuno, interesting video! I am HU a newb and I was happy to see that I would play a lot of those spots in a very similair fashion.
12:43 - K7o - isn't this hand simply too good on A94o to fold even vs a 2/3 bet? It feels to me like we are folding way too much here. Are we calling worse hands that have better potential on later streets? Like, are we calling K2-K5o over K7? How about hands like T8dd?
18:55 - J8 - I prefer checking over betting. We do have some SD value and have an easy x/call. I think we have plenty of bluffs to choose from like non-spade J, 9x and random undercards with a spade. We just might be overbluffing here, especially since we'd 3-bet pre- a lot of the combos that make up the value range Where am I making a mistake in my reasoning?
Hi Scarmaker, glad to hear that!
12:43 | K7o - I think this hand is a very clear fold against a 2/3 pot bet. If you run this spot in a solver you'll find that calling this hands with very few ability to improve in later streets isn't a good idea and it's always better to call hands with more backdoor potential even if they are weaker hands on the flop. For example Jc8c would be a clear continue in this flop (call/raise mix) while the K7o it's a fold.
18:55 | J8o - I believe you are overestimating the SD value that our hand has here. Js8h doesn't have as much SD value in my opinion and I think it's a very good combo to bet turn since it's going to perform much better than non spade J or 9x hands for example and it also would be a very good bluffing hand in most rivers.
I agree that we'd 3bet many combos that make up the value range here but we still have plenty of medium strength hands in our range such as K4, QTo, KTo, J9o or Kx interested on value betting that we can balance with this bluff combo.
Hey, cool Video!
Min 14:00 is a T with weak kicker always a cbet here? you said it is a mix between small cbet size and big, but you went for 50% pot (small is 30% pot?).
Im not a NL Player but I thought this type of Hand strength will be checked a lot. Guess I was wrong :) What are stronger Hands you would cb on T43s type of board and do we have slowplays like TT here?
Hi Lausbub glad you liked it!
No. As you said, I believe that Tx weak kicker should be a check for the most part but this time I decided to go for the bet.
I think on this flop we should be mixing both small (25-33%) and big bets so I went for this 50% size that I think allows us to play the spot in an easier way without losing that much EV.
Stronger hands that I'd bet are basically overpairs and most two pairs and sets and I believe my only slowplay (and only at a low frequency) is TT as you said as well.
Hey, what is that generate button at the bottom,what does it do?
Hey GrindCore. It's a random number generator. It's just a program that generates a random number between 0 and 100 when I click on it. I basically use it on spots where I wanna do some % of an action and some % of another.
You can download it from this link courtesy of 6Max elite coach teunuss: https://www.dropbox.com/s/krjsks302vh0703/RandomNumberGenerator.exe?dl=0
Hi nuno,
At 11:23, you mentioned that his flop gutters are better hands to bluff the river. What is your reasoning behind it?
I think on a contrary, against a decent sized bet on the river, that is not extremely large, with which we are repping stuff like a9+ to a weak king. I think his flopped pairs with gutshots will be bad bluff catchers as they block most of the bluffs, and using flopped gutters blocks those combos. While with j10, we block hands like 910, 9j which will like always call.
Flop gutters tend to work best because they block the strongest parts of my range. I think your'e wrong when you say 9T and J9 are always calls. Hands like 97 89 work as better bluffcacthers even if they block bluffs because they also block straights as well while 9T and J9 block bluffs but no straights.
Hi nuno,
But straight is a small part of villain's river betting range.( he bets everything better than q9) I feel like he would have a lot more gutshot bluffs than actual straights. I often get confused in these spots while deciding to bluff catch, where we block some valuehands but also bluffs. Then in general, I tend to think which part of his range is more dominant, which we block, in this case, it seems like it should be his gutshot bluffs. Is there anything wrong that I am doing? Like with a 7 you block 4 combos of straights, but also 12 combos of q7, J7 and 107 which can be potential bluffs.
It depends on what he's representing. I recommend you to do some PIO work on this topic so you can get a better general idea of how to approach these spots.
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