Nice video. Good to see a purely explotitive video based on your pool reads from all of your experience. Thanks!
33:17 aq hand makes sense to just call flop raise as opponent doesn't have much worse to call if we jam but 36:09 aa hand I think jamming turn has more merit as opponent will call worse hands and we get it in before a straight or flush card hits river.
45:50 I think ak should be jammed pre. It seems too hard to play post if we miss unless you are stacking off post no matter what.
The last time you made a video along these lines, it helped my game a lot..basically I started stacking more whales and fish. I had been letting them off the hook by raising their spewy bets on the turn in spots where I thought there was no way they'd fold..and too often they surprised me by folding.
Now, how a video about times you made good or tough folds?
I'll start tagging some spots where I make exploitable folds for a potential video in the future. In the meantime here are some tips for those spots.
1) My perceived range - If my range is perceived to have a lot of good hands in it then I will make some big folds. The reason for that is psychological. People hate to bluff into a strong range (for good reason!) and people generally want their bluffs to work, so if I am perceived to have a lot of good hands to call with, then I think they won't go for many bluffs. Very opponent specific! If they are a fish who cannot perceive ranges then that goes out the door, also if they are very good / theoretical and not scared to bluff in all situations. You often find players who only like to bluff when it is a "good spot" aka a better spot for their range vs yours. Those types will often way under bluff when its perceived to be a better spot for your range.
2) If they are shoving for their tournament life deep in a big tournament relative to their average buy-in - a lot of players are fine to bluff jam for your last 20bbs but not for their 20bb tournament life (so pay attention to stack sizes / tournament dynamics). In some high ICM situations or big final tables some people will not be capable of bluffing in a big spot, those spots you should play very exploitative.
3) More general reads like if they are a nit or not. Timing tells, did they snap jam in a spot where it is hard to have intuitive bluffs etc. If its a PSKO and they are covered, very hard to want to bluff alliin when your opponent gets to win your bounty when calling.
Lots of things like that go into my thought process when making big folds. The problem with big folds as a video is that you sort of just have to take my word for it that it was a good fold (since we will not see a showdown) - Where as these spots their showdowns often prove the logic correct.
Cannot thank you enough for your exploitative videos. Made a lot of chips already applying these concepts as a mid/low stakes player. I would suggest for future videos to show exploitative stuff vs low stakes regs, for example where it's going to be worth it to have a check back range as PFA, a leading range as PFC, spots to overbluff, overfold, overcall. Like I've noticed lately sometimes I fire an underbluffed spot and get snapcalled by hands that are pure folds by regs which is kind of puzzling. Sizing tells, etc.
Cheers!
Great video, I def learned something from this.
Giving weak players room to spazz out or make bad calls pre by raising to half your stack rather then shoving a 22bb stack for example.
Also the QTs (or whatever it was) hand where you 2.5x it from the sb with just 10bb effective.
I like it, would love to see a similar video in the future.
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Haha what a spew fest...
What platform are you playing . I mean this looks like from good old times
Pokerstars.com! If you don't run into opponents like this often then you should evaluate your game selection.
Nice video. Good to see a purely explotitive video based on your pool reads from all of your experience. Thanks!
33:17 aq hand makes sense to just call flop raise as opponent doesn't have much worse to call if we jam but 36:09 aa hand I think jamming turn has more merit as opponent will call worse hands and we get it in before a straight or flush card hits river.
45:50 I think ak should be jammed pre. It seems too hard to play post if we miss unless you are stacking off post no matter what.
The last time you made a video along these lines, it helped my game a lot..basically I started stacking more whales and fish. I had been letting them off the hook by raising their spewy bets on the turn in spots where I thought there was no way they'd fold..and too often they surprised me by folding.
Now, how a video about times you made good or tough folds?
I'll start tagging some spots where I make exploitable folds for a potential video in the future. In the meantime here are some tips for those spots.
1) My perceived range - If my range is perceived to have a lot of good hands in it then I will make some big folds. The reason for that is psychological. People hate to bluff into a strong range (for good reason!) and people generally want their bluffs to work, so if I am perceived to have a lot of good hands to call with, then I think they won't go for many bluffs. Very opponent specific! If they are a fish who cannot perceive ranges then that goes out the door, also if they are very good / theoretical and not scared to bluff in all situations. You often find players who only like to bluff when it is a "good spot" aka a better spot for their range vs yours. Those types will often way under bluff when its perceived to be a better spot for your range.
2) If they are shoving for their tournament life deep in a big tournament relative to their average buy-in - a lot of players are fine to bluff jam for your last 20bbs but not for their 20bb tournament life (so pay attention to stack sizes / tournament dynamics). In some high ICM situations or big final tables some people will not be capable of bluffing in a big spot, those spots you should play very exploitative.
3) More general reads like if they are a nit or not. Timing tells, did they snap jam in a spot where it is hard to have intuitive bluffs etc. If its a PSKO and they are covered, very hard to want to bluff alliin when your opponent gets to win your bounty when calling.
Lots of things like that go into my thought process when making big folds. The problem with big folds as a video is that you sort of just have to take my word for it that it was a good fold (since we will not see a showdown) - Where as these spots their showdowns often prove the logic correct.
Cannot thank you enough for your exploitative videos. Made a lot of chips already applying these concepts as a mid/low stakes player. I would suggest for future videos to show exploitative stuff vs low stakes regs, for example where it's going to be worth it to have a check back range as PFA, a leading range as PFC, spots to overbluff, overfold, overcall. Like I've noticed lately sometimes I fire an underbluffed spot and get snapcalled by hands that are pure folds by regs which is kind of puzzling. Sizing tells, etc.
Cheers!
That is awesome to hear!
Great video. Please do more of these.
Great video, I def learned something from this.
Giving weak players room to spazz out or make bad calls pre by raising to half your stack rather then shoving a 22bb stack for example.
Also the QTs (or whatever it was) hand where you 2.5x it from the sb with just 10bb effective.
I like it, would love to see a similar video in the future.
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