4 Table $5/$10 6-Max NLHE
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missed ur videos when cr went down....welcome here man
thanks man, glad to be here!
Great video Brad, you talked about hud and how you talk with students about it(not to take x sample to serious but intead to look for overall playstyle/leaks pre etc ), so i think playing on site with a hud next time and go further into it would be good as well, other then that i really like the clear tought process/hand explanation of ranges what you expect to be called/get value from and event comment hands you are no in play as well as some of the tought spot like squeeze/fold from one of the guys when you had the 77 hand.
Overall really good video man.
Hey Rambi,
Thank you for your very kind words!
Normally I do have a HUD on Ignition but the software has been having all kinds of problems the last couple of weeks and I can't get it to run on any of my devices.
Hopefully it gets resolved soon and I can incorporate it into future videos.
welcome, and nice video
Ty sir!
For some reason I am unable to reply to your other comment ... I'm unsure if he should even have a check/call range here, as if he's calling it off with AQ it would be much better to put the last bet in himself (Same with KK and maybe KQ, the other value hands in his range).
If he puts the last bet in himself then he can get called by worse and he doesn't allow me to play the river perfectly (with my range I am likely to just check back my one pair-type hands and shove my own value).
With that being said if he does have a C/C range on the river AQ is probably a c/f (Doesn't beat enough of my value) whereas KK he could justifiably check/call (He beats a portion of my value range).
Hey Brad, hope everything is fine with you ! Its me 3iourou you might remember me from twitch! Why did you stop streaming? When i heard the voice i was like '' wait i know this guy'' haha!
Yo yo yo, of course I remember you sir! I stopped streaming because honestly it takes a lot out of me to stream for an extended period of time and I had an obligation to stream through a previous contract. Once that contract ended I just haven't really felt like streaming ... I do miss my regulars though, even the trolls (just a little).
Aces is not a coldcall in a anonymous enviroment. Statistics shows it shouldnt even be a cc in regular games.
May I please see the statistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuHZ4BZOK9c
Your welcome! There is other ways of accessing this information if you have HM2/PT you can filter yourself. If you know any players you can ask them to filter. Seems pretty basic to me that you should put more money into the pot when you have a good hand. Even my grandma knows that.
While I respect your opinion, I respectfully disagree.
As Phil Galfond has stated (If I am wrong here then please correct me ... I believe he said this in one of his videos on "pot share") it is virtually impossible to prove the highest expectation decision pre-flop because the decision tree gets so large post-flop.
To make a concrete agreement with yourself and say, "NEVER DO X" is a very limiting belief in your poker game that will cost you a ton of money in the long run.
If you instead create a habit of asking yourself, "When does (X) seem more reasonable than my normal strategy?" and then make a list of viable hypothetical situations, you will be setting yourself up to experience growth in your poker game.
In this specific situation, here are some scenarios where flatting AA vs. aggression (Cold or otherwise) could be superior than just piling the money in:
1) In a live game: We are very deep-stacked (5 buyins+) and three-bet an early position raise from a tight regular who then he 4-bets us.
2) We have a very aggressive regular on our left who 3-bets our CO raise on the button.
3) We button raise and a very aggressive regular 3b's us from the SB.
4) A regular raises UTG and we are UTG+1 ... the 2 players in the blinds are extremely aggressive and one of them is on major tilt. Maybe in this example our image is on the tight side as well, meaning we get lots of credit when we three-bet the UTG and likely lose a ton of action by doing so.
Since you are always re-raising the value in your pre-flop range, how does that affect our 3b flatting range? Does it make it easier or harder for villains to play against us?
My point is that this situation (like most situations in poker) is not cut and dry with a definitive answer.
Unfortunately for your grandma she did not have access to game theory classes, advanced software, training videos from the superstars of the game that give insight directly into their brain, or a community of players with the same goals as her with which she could grow and become the best poker player she was capable of on a daily basis.
For those reasons (And through no fault of her own), I find your grandma's beliefs outdated and misguided and simply do not agree with what she thinks she knows.
ouch curious how grandma is coming back from this...
btw villian had AQo if i remember correctly. what do u think his calling range was vs ur shove ?
Lol +1
Hey Brad, welcome to RIO!
Had a couple of questions for you:
0:23 Top Right - You triple off here with Ad2c after SB raises then check calls twice. These are spots, especially the flop decision, that I tend to have a bit of trouble with when deciding which hands to stab. My thoughts are that we're going to want hands with decent backdoors (like this one) but then my trouble is thinking I'm going to be bluffing too much if I continue when the backdoors don't get there.
I'm going to catch myself before that becomes too ramble-y and try to ask a succinct question! What are the main things you look for in a hand BvB when stabbing the flop (assuming like in this video we have no hud stats)?
I imagine things like board texture, who has a range advantage and general playerpool tendencies are going to be big factors in deciding whether or not to stab with certain hands? So on dryer boards where we have a range advantage we'll be stabbing a lot more liberally compared to the reverse situation? Do these variables play a bigger factor in whether or not to stab non-showdownable hands than the makeup of the hand itself or are we always going to be more inclined to bet hands with good blocker effects?
3:20 Bottom Left - After you raise 99, cbet the flop you decide to check call after turning the 9 saying that you're not gonna have a lot of checkraises on this board. While that makes sense it makes the turn check a bit more confusing as it's going to be a lot harder to get more money in with our very strong hand. Could you explain the thought process behind this line a bit more? Is it just that this is generally going to be a good board for the BB and we're going to check a lot of hands in this spot so this is a good hand to balance our x/c range and we can check raise the river on most runouts?
19:21 Bottom Left - You mention that you're not sure why the 3 seat is 3betting and snap folding vs the suspected loose/fun player. My thoughts were that he is basically trying to isolate and get you to fold out your equity so he can get heads up with Seat 2, not expecting him to shove very often. Is this a good idea with hands like suited broadways or even a couple of hands like T9s/89s or is he better off playing those multiway and not bloating the pot OOP when he's almost always getting called?
Thanks!
Ty Jordy, glad to be a part of the community!
Question 1: Typical villains in my pool (even moreso the recreational type) tend to c-bet quite frequently and do not have a balanced check-call range ... leading me to believe that villain has something like middle pair. Once villain flats the turn my suspicion is pretty much confirmed, as this really (REALLY) caps his range at one pair.
The river completes my straight draws (he doesn't have any bc he would have bet them) and so it's basically me making him man up and call a big bet with what is now 4th pair.
If you would like some qualifications before you barrels off like a crazy person then perhaps it would be that villain starts by capping his range and his perceived hand strength weakens on the turn/river while our range improves.
Question 2: I likely should have just bet the turn with my 99 but because I checked I put myself into a spot where I don't really have a bluff check-raise range. Because villain doesn't have a range that is likely to bet the turn with a super high frequency, when he does bet the turn he's pretty polarized. Maybe he bets his 6x+ (And straights, 2p is very discounted) for value/protection and then he bets a lot of dry jack high gutters and open-enders.
The plan was to induce big bluffs on the river that would have folded to a turn bet ... it's likely his 6x folds to a turn bet as well.
Question 3: Villain just showed down 92, lost a pot, and was likely steaming ... so he's calling that squeeze close to 112% of the time. Why squeeze suited connector or suited aces instead of putting in the minimum pre flop and playing very straight-forward post flop? You aren't guaranteed a ton of fold equity post flop (villain is getting in any pair or any draw) and we can manipulate the sizing to where the money goes in on very favorable situations.
For what it's worth, I would squeeze ATs+, KQ+, 88+ and snap it off in the SB's spot.
Ah ok that makes a lot of sense, so it's more to do with how villain caps their range and the fact we can exploit that. Need to be more aware of this when playing.
Yeah I was thinking that I probably would have just bet again with 99 on the turn but I totally understand the reasoning for not check raising the turn. When the 5 comes on the river and you say it's a better card for our range than his do you ever consider leading there? It could be hard to balance with bluffs and you mentioned that you wanted to induce bluffs on the river sometimes and this obviously reduces the likelihood of that happening.
OK I'm with you, better to keep your preflop investment to a minimum with marginal holdings against the way this player is playing even if we have to play OOP multiway especially as we're expecting to get paid when we hit big. Yeah I think I'd have roughly the same squeeze/call range as you in that spot.
Hey Brad, awesome video. I have a question about you limping SB v BB. At multiple points in this video you limp with strong hands blind v blind( AKs, AQs, AJo). I'm wondering what the point of this is. If villain raises pre is your plan to limp raise AK/AQ? And if so what hands will you be limp raising as bluffs( if you have any in this spot).
Isn't it better to raise these hands pre to deny equity/for value from worse hands? I.E if villian has a hand like 75o and you limp and he checks, you are giving him free equity when he would likely fold pre and you could take it down.
Thank you.
From a population standpoint when this video was made I felt like they were overraising vs. SB limps ... which means most of my range is limping.
A lot of my Ax type hands would be in my bluff L/R range.
Hi, thanks for your video and comments.
At 25:35, we have 3B QQ and flop 234 when we are OOP. Why in the world are we checking flop and then betting a K turn? It seems like backwards poker to me.
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