$22 Cubed (part 3)
Posted by Sam Grafton
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34:40 folded a seven, good shove :)
was nitting it up bc of icm and u on the left all ft...dont play so nitty usually :)
as usual great vid overall, looking forward to the next one mate!
Thanks pal. Seemed like you played great in general and that hand correctly as well. Glad you liked the vid.
Ok gonna give you a bit of a hard time about the 83o hand. You say you're 3 betting here with the bottom of your range, to balance the very top of your range, since you do defend so wide, as good as AJ all the way down to say idk 85o (wink wink) or 34o. While I agree with this in theory, there aren't hardly any 2 card combinations worse than 83o. So when you choose to 3bet this, you're basically saying you are not folding any hand? Only peeling heaps and 3 betting some but never folding? (40+bb deep facing button min open) I think you have the right idea, and you can call me a nit but is it really that bad to just pitch say bottom 8% or so?
Thanks
Andy
When we're constructing a 3-betting range in any position the first hands we tend to include in our 'bluff' range are the best hands that aren't good enough t flat. So verse a strong players utg open we may well take a hand as good as AJo and use it purely as blockers.
Here we have sort of the opposite of that situation. We have what i perceive to be a weak player opening a very wide range. As a result there are almost no hands that aren't strong enough to peel. Hands like Q6s, K8o that might be my bluff hands vs a strong opponent are too good to waste in this spot. Hence i play a very exploitative range - 3-betting just absolute trash and very good hands.
Your right to draw attention to the hand though as there a two things i haven't emphasised enough in the video. Firstly that 3-betting this type of hand is not a default strategy but based on both my opponent and the situation. Second, that even this hand shows my assumptions are quite probably wrong about this opponent. He has, after all, peeled pre and peeled the flop. The only opponents you should really be 3-betting with this kind of trash are players who are gonna fold a huge amount pre or play completely fit or fold on the flop. So this may have been a bad three-bet and i will tighten my range accordingly.
positive comment: love the overbet jam on T7xTJ! He can't call with anything!
Thanks for the feedback bro. Really appreciate your engagement with the videos.
thanks for the vid - 2 questions:
1 - on the 34 minute 2x pot overbet shove what, if anything, do you think the difference would be in your opponent's mind if you bet his exact stack rather than an all in shove which obv covered him?
2 - at the 38 minute mark on the 5743 board why don't you consider overbet shoving the river? it seems pretty clear that your opponent doesn't have a 6 or he would have almost always c bet that flop - you on the other hand can have a lot of 6s in your defending range and by betting big on the turn since there is a flush draw I think it is somewhat credible that you have a straight but are betting larger due to the draw - then the river is inconsequential for a straight - the only hand your opponent might have had on the flop and checked which is strong is the 86 but in that case he would almost definitely raise the turn with the flush draw and the need to get more money in. Thoughts?
1. I feel that in this instance it draws further attention to the fact that we've made a disproportionately large bet in relation to the pot. I think in our opponents mind it further polarises our range and inclines him more to look us up. Only a fractional, fractional difference, but prefer a jam.
2. YOU CANT TRUST THEM!!! Only slightly joking. I've identified my opponents range as being very Ax heavy (incorrectly as it turns out) but while from a theory point of view they should be folding an ace on the river, experience tells me it's unlikely.
As i reiterate in my latest video a) people dont like to fold top pair and in general trying to bluff them off it is not a winning strategy b) people hate to fold when they improve on the river. Furthermore we win obv on the ace of spades so this in my mind was one of the three worst rivers, i'm bluffing almost every other river and betting a Jack, Ten or Spade for value, so there is only a tiny part of the deck we surrender on which i think is a fine strategy.
Thanks for the questions. Hope that clarified my thinking.
Pretty nice vid, just a question: on 34:20 when you overbet jam the A2s, is it balanced? U would shove your full houses/Tens instead of betting? Tks!
To be honest i'm not. If it were someone i play with regularly I would bet say 250k with bluffs and value but against someone I don't know I made an exploitable adjustment and went for maximum pressure.
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