Thank you very much for the kind words.
My rationale with checking back hands where I have more backdoor outs is simply to exploit players who may get out of line(start barrelling into me) when they perceive a capped range on the flop. One caveat is these players perhaps don't check-raise flops enough. By betting flop with some of these hands, we fold out all worse(which can bluff later), and get all better to call, or even sometimes raise with his top pair type hands. Sometimes, it does make sense to bet with your backdoor hands so you can get a free card or rep a lot of good turns. I don't think there is a right or wrong approach with this; it is simply about being able to play a lot of turn and river cards well. Also, There is a significant difference between A high and K high here. If I had K high with the backdoor spades I'd bet VERY often, because I am actually going to get better hands to fold.

9 handed, pre-ante at 25-50 blinds you could fold these to the hi-jack or cutoff easily. I'd mostly open KTo, QTo, and JTo from middle position regardless of stage of tournament. If the table is full of sickos these hands might be a fold until the cutoff.

Thanks for the thoughts. The JTs hand is closer than I originally made it appear in video. I think it's a clear call if 1. I've been opening a lot, and 2. they are going to shove any pair and/or too loose.

ATs: If we pick up equity on turn we can easily rip over his bet and/or call his turn bet. T or 8 is a good card for us to continue when we check back flop, because we will be checking back some Jx, some draws, some mid pairs. Upon further exploration, I like a line of bet small on flop with this particular hand because we can check back a lot of brick turns or get it in if we pick up equity.
We lost control of the pot by checking and had to play a guessing game, which turned into a folding game based on his bet size.

What is the timestamp of the KQo hand in the video?

Hey Surda,

Yes, calling with 66 pre is going to put him in a tough spot there.
The way the flop/turn/river played out a middle PP made a lot of sense. I don't expect him to have much KQ(blockers), no AK(shoves pre), rarely AA and KK(shove), probably some KJsuited, and a whole bunch of mid-pairs with a diamond.
Folding/shoving/calling are his best options pre-flop in my humble opinion.

A good question would be do we ever raise with the Q of diamonds, given how villain plays. :)

Thanks again!

I think he has a fair amount of Kx diamond. A5, A2,A3, and A4 all with the A of diamonds are certainly playing their hand like this once in a while. Yes villain has some middling diamonds, and I agree with you that a raise could be okay. But if he is folding those middle diamonds to a raise(which he most certainly always is), and only calling with Jd or Ad, then raising doesn't seem to be that great of a play to me. Perhaps I agree that min-raise > calling. Also, upon further consideration, I agree. I don't see many people checking that 3rd diamond with the A of diamonds, especially if we think they have a bottom pair type hand to go with it.

Thanks for your input, very much appreciated.