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$5,000 High Roller: Face-Off with Sam Grafton

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Apoth

POSTED Mar 23, 2018

Apoth finds himself in a bevy of tricky spots while battling fellow RIO pros Sam Grafton aka SamSquid and Sam Greenwood aka Str8$$$Homey in a tough high roller MTT.

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moneyprinters 7 years, 1 month ago

Great video as always Chris.
@12:25: I think its reasonable betting our 8x/Jx here, but usually I struggle with other hands like 7x, flushdraws or 9x gutters and which size to use. Generally I think what part of villain´s chech back range I want to attack/make him fold.
Maybe you could make some video talking about probe turns and how to approach this spot!
Keep the good work man!!

Apoth 7 years, 1 month ago

I agree that something like 8x+ is probably the minimum we need to consider betting. We have to bet careful to not put all our 8x+ into the betting range though (we need to protect our checking range too!)

Ofc all the draws do a variety of things on this texture largely because there's so many of them. These spots are certainly confusing.

I might do a video on this sort of thing however I don't know exactly how to structure it. It's really just a matter of looking through the specific spots yourself and noting what hands do what

Justis 7 years, 1 month ago

Hey Chris, could I ask you about the turn sizing in this spot with Q8s. Would it be fine to bet a smaller amount? I can't imagine we're making the opponent fold anything better, and I presume the hands that are worse shouldn't have a ton of equity against us anyway (I suspect a lot suited spade hands c-bet on the flop, and maybe a decent amount of 9x/7x as well).

Apoth 7 years, 1 month ago

were not bluffing. we aren't trying to get villain to fold better. we're trying to get value/protection.
I think a smaller amount would be fine though.

mishchea 7 years, 1 month ago

Re: the AsJc/QhQc hand, he probably thinks you're usually capped below QQ (including having no flushes) after you check back the turn, and that you're repping A2 or similar for value when you jam the river, so he's only worried about trips and hands that decided to trap. Maybe he thinks that on the turn, you're checking back a lot of AK/AQ combos with a spade in them that want to see a free river, which makes his call maybe a bit worse because he blocks the AQ portion of that range.

Would it make sense to check back the turn with overpairs with a spade, which don't want to get check-jammed on turn and don't need much protection, and strengthen your value jamming range on the river?

Apoth 7 years, 1 month ago

I'm not sure I'm following the importance of the nut flush here. We don't need the nut flush to raise. That said, we can certainly have some flushes on river.

soggybottoms 7 years ago

19 min in with 23bb on button and 55 and dom in bb with 13bb, would you shove pre there sometimes and if so how often?

Cassoulet 7 years ago

Wow , awesome content , its entertaining for a lower stakes player like me to watch top players in action. Sick plays, such a huge gap.

06:15 in the 3bet pot the rejam AJ , I don't feel we get called by worst but interesting hand

25:15 incredible call , I was pretty sure he was valuebetting with some medium JX hands.

Can't wait for next part . You are a beast.

Justis 7 years ago

Regarding the 06:15, I'm guessing it's very opponent dependant. As you mentioned, in the lower stakes, you're just not going to get called here by worse because the competition in general is much weaker and they really like to 'wait for better spots'. But in these high rollers, guys aren't passing on any possible edges they can find, which makes it very possible to get hero called by worse, especially in a pretty capped spot like this. Wizowizo is Ole Schemion, a german crusher, so he could definitely make some 'light' calls in certain spots if he thinks he's ahead enough of the time.

Apoth 7 years ago

I think this spot is quite interesting and I think what I'm going to do is run this in Pio along w/ the 86s super deep flop spot from part 1(?) and turn it into a video that I'll release after the actual review finishes.

S.M.S. 7 years ago

Turn seems a decent card for you (as well as K and A) bc OOP c/f some AJ!s otf.
And interesting fact is flush turn cards doesn`t reduce IP equity/EV at this stack depth (probably bc OOP c/c lower FDs rate otf in 3bet pots).

Don`t like river shove when its based solely on bet size despite the fact his ranges is quite undefined for you and uncapped but I agree he chosen weird sizing w/ QQ what makes your river shove even more questionable.

Cassoulet 7 years ago

Yeah awesome boss ,that's exactly the two particular hands where I was very surprised with your line , but again I am a low stakes player I mostly watch this for the entertainment . ;)

I will write down a comment on the 86s on the 1st part

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