Hi James, thank you for the video for us plebs essentials members.

#1 : 7:05, top right table. 

--> You mentioned that you should have bluffed the river there. Don't you think check raising the river accomplishes the exact same thing as leading there? Meaning you'll get folds from the same hands. Especially in that case when he bets 1BB on the river. 

#2 : 8:51, bottom left table.

--> When you bet the river assuming that villain missed and has only air in that spot, do you think it would be higher EV to bet less on the river. Like 20-30% pot instead of half of it? Which might induce a check raise of a crying call from a J or a weaker A that didn't bet turn. 

#3 : 12:22, bottom right table.

--> You fold KJo but I think it's a mistake considering the stats of the players. Both the limper and the Big blind have short stacks so we can assume they are recreational players. And both the small blind and Cutoff are really tight players. So raising here would put you in position with the 2 players.

#4 : 20:34, Top left table.

--> Can you explain your reason for the bet size with 3 of a kind there? Mostly throughout the session you seemed to opt for bigger sizing on the flop, maybe 80% pot, now  you seems to bet less when you actually hit a hand. Do you think it makes a difference regarding what range the villain will call you with on a paired board? 

#5 : 34:37, Bottom left table.

--> I don't understand your reasoning behind betting pot on the turn there? Do you expect to get floated? Called by worst hand? I'm not sure.

Thank you

21:30-AKs...was your plan to backraise since you had a read on a player on your left or did you decide not to 3b since EP RFI is 11%?  I guess your just gonna have a flat range vs this tight an open?

#5 : 34:37, Bottom left table.

Not sure about the pot sized bet, care to elaborate on why you are potting here? I find it hard to believe that you would be potting with your non value range

Hi James,

really nice Video!! I have a question : min 20:09 KTs. Whats your 3bettingrange vs. this type of Villain and why?? What are you going to do with TP Hands, and what are you going to do on 985, 664, J53 type of flops??

Greets and ty

Zoty

14:00 9Ts hand
I agree that c/cing is more attractive with FDs than OESD but I still think the best line here is to c/c flop since we really don't want to be raised on this flop with OESD. I'd have a very low cbet % on this flop, maybe only gutshots and bdfd stuff like AdTd that I don't mind folding to a raise and add some TT-JJ combos if I even want to be balanced here. c/c all the good draws and like AA 77 and 55 to balance, (88 has to be a c/r or a cbet because it would be terrible to not give the opportunity to another set to go broke on this flop when we hold 88). c/r 99+ and go broke with it, c/r some AK AQ with contains a heart and obviously have a decent amount of c/f.

Actually the more I think about it the more I'm convinced checking your whole range is the best option on the flop against a tough opponent, I have to admit I'm being guilty of cbetting a non balanced weak range on that flop.

The problem with your line is that against a tough opponent you won't be able to showdown your top pair like ever, it's hard for me to imagine you will c/c river nearly enough for him not to have an auto profit barelling twice his whole range.

also would you c/c 88 on the turn after cbetting it ??? Sounds very bad to me.

79s hand bet/calling turn is the wort option imo, I'd rather c/c and c/c some rivers which makes you put less money in that pot with your marginal hand oop, bet/3bet/fold turn is fine as well because vilain's not gonna slowplay ever that turn if he slowplayed a monster on the flop, shove any river that's not pairing the board, c/c the rivers that pairs the board unless maybe if it's a J.

13:30 When you decide to fold that hand isn't it a good hand to call due to the fact that you have blockers. Im not sure wheather or not he's jamming overpairs TT-QQ, so in my opinion AA = 9T. Do you think your range is strong enough on the river, that you only have to call your sets or do you just fold knowing it's exploitable? I like your videos, thanks :)

@ around 26:50 you 3bet your ATo from the BB vs a BTN open. I haven't finished watching the whole video yet so maybe you get to this later, but in general what percentage of the time would you estimate/ vs which type of villain would you just flat A2o-ATo in this spot rather than 3bet it? I've basically gotten into the habit of flatting A2o-ATo, A2s-A9s in this spot, 3betting every better Ax in order not to iso myself against better Ax hands. Also A2s-A5s flop equity well so they're good candidates for forming a flop c/r'ing range (and also it's sort of a waste if we 3bet our suited wheel hands and get 4bet). I guess the argument could be made that by 3betting A2-A6 or so (suited and unsuited) we can fold out villain's A3o-ATo, which is good for us. I guess the answer to which strategy is more optimal really depends on how wide villain is flatting IP. It's also tougher because I had problems with my HM2 and so I don't play with a HUD anymore, I never have stats to help me make reads.

Hi James, good video. Just wondering how you get your HUD to work for zoom on PT4? I.e. is there any specific necessary steps to take to ensure that the HUD works correctly? Thankyou

JQo VS CO open. You say you rather flat it then 3 bet it because it plays better. I don't get this. What type of hands do you choose for 3-betting? And why isn't JQo a good hand for it? From what I understand so far, we 3-bet the hands that are barely good enough for a call. I saw you call w/ QKo, so wouldn't that make JQo a 3-bet?

You folded 58s on the BTN. What makes you decide not to steal with a hand like this? This makes me believe I might be a bit too loose from the BTN. 

Next time I will make sure to put in a timestamp. I understand the idea of domination with QJ. But maybe I dont understand it well enough. Couldn't domination be an issue with any hand we 3b? Some say Axs is good, but there we get dominated by almost the same type of hands: AJ, AQ, ATs

Same goes for Kxs: QK, JK. 

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Good to know that 58s is a borderline hand to open. I prob need to reconstruct my opening range from the BTN a bit. What would be a reasonable open % from the BTN? Then I construct it myself with Pokerstove.

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Super cool that you answer my questions man. Highly appreciated! 

Sorry to keep this going, I am not sure if approriate. if not, just tell me. My question is: Do we then just 3-bet for value versus unknown opponents at the lower stakes until we know more about their fold to 3b / 4 bet tendencies?

Great video James !

Is this standard for your to open-fold 54s OTCO ?

When villain checks back that flop I don't expect to get raised on the
turn very much at all. If this happened regularly it would certainly
change the way that I play this spot. I think 3 betting the turn has
some merit but villain was an unknown recreational player and at the
time I thought he was likely to be full of it or have top set rather
than being able to show up with a thin value raise.

I dont get the hand with 79s vs unknow fish at minute 17,35.

i usually 3bet this kind of hand oop, but im guessing that calling isn't going to be -EV vs this kind of player.

But what i do not undestand is why u bet the turn? like for value from??

my thinking process vs this kind of guy is that they almost never bluff, and if they do  u will get in few hand, becouse they play randomic.

but after 2 hand if i bet thet turn i istant fold, just becouse i do not have an idea of what my opponent is gonna do.

so i prefered to c/C turn e c/F any river, and see if in future he continues to be aggressive on two street.

minutes 24 top right with AQ flatting 3bet.

what is gonna be our range to be call chek call, how it will changed if he makes 2/3- 3/4???

;)