I only watched part of the video but most of these preflop spots are pretty standard in my oppinion, it would help if you would give more info about how the bottom of your calling range looks like vs dif betsizings and positions, you do this in some cases but it would help to do it more often at least for the type of hand you have, for example you call a mini raise from the button with 109o wich is pretty standard, you could also say what is the bottom of your 10x that you call in this situation. Anyway, the video is a very good one but i think it could even better.
Really enjoyed this style of video. Made me realize how little I am defending. Keep thinking outside of the box in terms of video style and I'm sure your viewership will increase exponentially.
One thing I would like to ask if you could answer. I play on pokerstars.it at the moment and the rake is double compared to pokerstars.com. How much do you think this will affect our calling range from big blind?
I found it interesting that you sometimes coldcall 3bet with hands like 99 and 88, I am not sure how much equity realization you get in that situation but you'd have to know pretty well what you are doing to pull that off properly :)
Also, what do you think about defending low non suited aces against a 3x open from BU?
Hi, Nick
very nice video, I do learned a lot. BB defending seems very hard to balance vs all position open PRF. and In the video you seem defend more wider range than many other players in BB. I just wondering any benefits for BB to defend wider, because in BB little bit tight defending range seems more reasonable? Thank you.
Thanks Nick - this was great. You really did zip through a lot of hands - I had to keep stopping and going back to check the action. I like the way you delay xr the top of your range to get that extra bet on the turn. Gets extra value and makes them reluctant to just double barrel with anything
hi, i understand rising your vpip bb v other positions by flatting, but Acxo (last hand)looks like a perfect hand to be c/calling w, especially when many players from the pool tend to pot control too much w their made hands, and especially when your goal is to increase you bb defense,
i would rather c/r QcTo and by doing so, increasing my vpip on flop
i feel like if you c/r this hand, you are ch/folding too much on this board or c/raising too much
i saw few c/r flush on monotone boards, what would be your bluffs on that board ? don't you think ch/calling flop as a std would protect your ch/calling range (i guess you may overfold turns and river on monotone boards when you get barreled ?)
Ac9 is def strong enough to call, but it also helps our board coverage when we use it as a XR. im fairly certain an optimal solver would plot a lot of different types of hands in the XR range at mixed fqcys.
i have not put any real study into monotone flops since the only occurr 5% of the time so imy advice there is not helpful to you .. i kind of just wing it, semibluff some NFD, sometimes XR some naked gutters ... and then sets+ for value
I would speculate that an optimal strategy for monotone boards would involve flatting the vast majority of a continuing range and raising to large sizing with a polarised range of nuts and nut blockers. Linear/merged raising ranges seem difficult to balance.
I don't see how ATo is the bottom of your calling range against 3x UTG and A9o is the bottom against CO. Shouldn't there be a much larger discrepancy between these 2 ranges given a standard UTG range vs CO is potentially double in VPIP? Either tighter against UTG or looser against CO makes more sense.
around 6.5 minutes in you comment that BBvSB the bottom of your 3x defend range is 86o, J3s, and that you'll sometimes 3bet hands like 87s for board coverage.
I think 3betting a hand like 87s 100bb deep for the sake of board coverage is giving up too much. you can choose weaker hands that will continue on fewer flops to 3bet bluff with and still achieve the same board coverage you're looking for.
87s benefits a lot from both position and high SPR so I think it's a great hand to just call with. it also sucks when you get 4bet - you may be able to continue but you'll still wish you had just called.
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with 88 where you CR the turn for value. What hands would you CR bluff turn with? I dont see myself have a CR range on that turn. Is that a mistake you think?
great video. at 39min, you say you give up with T5s because ppl call twice too much and wud prefer to bet with better blockers. What is a better blocker, a diamond or not? He rarely has flushes, so I feel not having a diamond might be better, because he will have more 1 diamond, + Ace high and 1 diamond + weak pair hands that may call turn and then fold river. Not sure what blockers u were referring to/which are best cuz then again, in his position, I'm not sure if he wants to have a diamond to call (blocking our flushes) cuz it will also be blocking our XdX bluffs as well. this is interesting spot as it comes up a decent amt
yea i dont even know if there are good "blockers" there, at least not relative to other spots. imo these are some of the hardest spots to control your range. you're dealing with a lot of combos and it's really hard to argue that youll have a practical/well balanced strategy when betting river unless you're really well studied across a lot of textures. i would guess i just don't bluff enough here.
Nice video nick, I enjoyed this format and seeing a lot of hands... would like you to just click all the way through each hand though... I think you cut some of them...
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think you can fold KJo to a 3.5x UTG open and not feel too bad about it
also AQo seems like a much better candidate to cold 4bet than cold call
I only watched part of the video but most of these preflop spots are pretty standard in my oppinion, it would help if you would give more info about how the bottom of your calling range looks like vs dif betsizings and positions, you do this in some cases but it would help to do it more often at least for the type of hand you have, for example you call a mini raise from the button with 109o wich is pretty standard, you could also say what is the bottom of your 10x that you call in this situation. Anyway, the video is a very good one but i think it could even better.
Really enjoyed this style of video. Made me realize how little I am defending. Keep thinking outside of the box in terms of video style and I'm sure your viewership will increase exponentially.
This was a great idea, loved the video Nick.
One thing I would like to ask if you could answer. I play on pokerstars.it at the moment and the rake is double compared to pokerstars.com. How much do you think this will affect our calling range from big blind?
I found it interesting that you sometimes coldcall 3bet with hands like 99 and 88, I am not sure how much equity realization you get in that situation but you'd have to know pretty well what you are doing to pull that off properly :)
Also, what do you think about defending low non suited aces against a 3x open from BU?
thats probably a pretty substantial rake shift. maybe changes things a kicker or two in each tier of the range?
Thanks
Hey nice video, what do you think is a good lossrate in Big Blind ? -20bb/100 ? -30bb/100 ? -40bb/100 ?
thanks
-40 in BB and -20 in SB is roughly standard for reasonably good regs I think?
Hi, Nick
very nice video, I do learned a lot. BB defending seems very hard to balance vs all position open PRF. and In the video you seem defend more wider range than many other players in BB. I just wondering any benefits for BB to defend wider, because in BB little bit tight defending range seems more reasonable? Thank you.
basically defending wide makes sense b/c your getting a price and you start profiting on the call as long as you net > -1bb on avg.
Thanks Nick - this was great. You really did zip through a lot of hands - I had to keep stopping and going back to check the action. I like the way you delay xr the top of your range to get that extra bet on the turn. Gets extra value and makes them reluctant to just double barrel with anything
hi, i understand rising your vpip bb v other positions by flatting, but Acxo (last hand)looks like a perfect hand to be c/calling w, especially when many players from the pool tend to pot control too much w their made hands, and especially when your goal is to increase you bb defense,
i would rather c/r QcTo and by doing so, increasing my vpip on flop
i feel like if you c/r this hand, you are ch/folding too much on this board or c/raising too much
i saw few c/r flush on monotone boards, what would be your bluffs on that board ? don't you think ch/calling flop as a std would protect your ch/calling range (i guess you may overfold turns and river on monotone boards when you get barreled ?)
interesting vid,
thanks
Ac9 is def strong enough to call, but it also helps our board coverage when we use it as a XR. im fairly certain an optimal solver would plot a lot of different types of hands in the XR range at mixed fqcys.
i have not put any real study into monotone flops since the only occurr 5% of the time so imy advice there is not helpful to you .. i kind of just wing it, semibluff some NFD, sometimes XR some naked gutters ... and then sets+ for value
I would speculate that an optimal strategy for monotone boards would involve flatting the vast majority of a continuing range and raising to large sizing with a polarised range of nuts and nut blockers. Linear/merged raising ranges seem difficult to balance.
I don't see how ATo is the bottom of your calling range against 3x UTG and A9o is the bottom against CO. Shouldn't there be a much larger discrepancy between these 2 ranges given a standard UTG range vs CO is potentially double in VPIP? Either tighter against UTG or looser against CO makes more sense.
mayb A9 is a call vs MP, not exactly sure. but there is a pretty substantial diff between AT and A9, it's not just a kicker war
around 6.5 minutes in you comment that BBvSB the bottom of your 3x defend range is 86o, J3s, and that you'll sometimes 3bet hands like 87s for board coverage.
I think 3betting a hand like 87s 100bb deep for the sake of board coverage is giving up too much. you can choose weaker hands that will continue on fewer flops to 3bet bluff with and still achieve the same board coverage you're looking for.
87s benefits a lot from both position and high SPR so I think it's a great hand to just call with. it also sucks when you get 4bet - you may be able to continue but you'll still wish you had just called.
Great video, loved it !
Could you share with us what you think a good reg should be losing from the big blind in bb/100 ?
I win 0.08 BB/100 from the big blind.
i think anything better than -40bb/100 is good
What are your thoughts about Pokersnowies preflop advisor? I use it as a standard preflop vs unknowns with very good results.
not familiar with it
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with 88 where you CR the turn for value. What hands would you CR bluff turn with? I dont see myself have a CR range on that turn. Is that a mistake you think?
probably ok to not have a XR range there. pretty sure you would have some gutters in your range if you wanted to though
thanks Nick
great video. at 39min, you say you give up with T5s because ppl call twice too much and wud prefer to bet with better blockers. What is a better blocker, a diamond or not? He rarely has flushes, so I feel not having a diamond might be better, because he will have more 1 diamond, + Ace high and 1 diamond + weak pair hands that may call turn and then fold river. Not sure what blockers u were referring to/which are best cuz then again, in his position, I'm not sure if he wants to have a diamond to call (blocking our flushes) cuz it will also be blocking our XdX bluffs as well. this is interesting spot as it comes up a decent amt
check timestamp again?
33min my bad
yea i dont even know if there are good "blockers" there, at least not relative to other spots. imo these are some of the hardest spots to control your range. you're dealing with a lot of combos and it's really hard to argue that youll have a practical/well balanced strategy when betting river unless you're really well studied across a lot of textures. i would guess i just don't bluff enough here.
Nice video nick, I enjoyed this format and seeing a lot of hands... would like you to just click all the way through each hand though... I think you cut some of them...
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