Cold Calling From MP and the CO
Posted by Nick Johnson
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Hey guys, just wanted to point out if it's not too clear that a lot of these calls and lines were quite exploitative. A couple of the lines were actually bad, which is still shocking to me because I almost always feel like my game is very sound lol, but the main takeaway is when we are considering cold calling, especially in an environment where there are many MW pots, we just need more nuttish potential. Nut suits, big pairs, double suited connected combos like KQJ9ds, etc. We want to avoid some of the combos that look better than what they really are such as QJ98ss or JTT3ds. Better combos that are similar to those last two would be AQJ9ss(nut suit) and JTT8ds or ATT3ss(nut suit). If you are playing really weak players and there isn't a lot of 3 betting, then you may be able to get away with a little more, but in a high rake environment you are better off raising or folding.
Hope that makes sense and as always let me know if there are any questions!
I really enjoyed your video and play. You were very solid. That last land is not as much of a mistake as you thinking- you pushing a lot of equity and even making a case for the button to just flat the nuts and fold turn if you lead. There are always different lines that can be taken; with that said , can you make more videos that include when you think you should continue with hands and how to procede if your hand becomes marginalized. Thanks
I get hard on myself, but yeah I think I can come up with a video like that. Probably won't be out for a little bit as there's about 2-3 videos already produced and ready to go, but I'll work on finding some hands that fit that dynamic and put something together. Thanks for the feedback and suggestion!
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I get this situation and I'm never sure how to play it! I don't r/r half as much as I should I think. Is there any value to calling the bet and jamming turns at all? I find a lot of these players bet quite a lot of value hands so you don't get too many folds and I'm not a fan of just flipping a lot - run bad mind set haha! Or do you think flop jam is better because its not often they will call a turn jam - I suppose they can check a lot and you don't get to force your equity.
Thanks - loving all your videos, top value!
I like raising on the flop here (especially vs weaker populations who make more mistakes in the form of calling/commitment) because Q86s is generally not a texture that our opponent will have a lot of sets on and we block those pretty hard anyways. We generally get it in in good shape and we prevent ourselves from not realizing our equity in the most efficient manner due to a lot of action killing runouts.
If we didn't have the gutter+BDFD+heart blocker I may opt to just call with dry top two due to a lack of playability on the turn, but if I have any sort of redraws here I'm usually taking the more aggressive route (we could perhaps flat a few Q8 combos with gutters and no FD/no BDFD). If the SPR were quite low (say ~4 or less), then I may actually just flat with Q8+FD due to how strong it is in that spot and I will shove dry top two for protection.
If you're ever in doubt, just consider your playability, EQ and SPR. Having a good grip on those 3 things will help you a lot in spots like this. Essentially, come up with logical reasons for why you take the line that you do and more often than not you will make +EV plays.
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