Solid video! I tried to come up with some questions but you covered pretty much everything that should be covered.

I like your cbetting range. My own range is probably not that polarized, since I tend to cbet hands like A9/K9 and strong draws most of the time. I will try to polarize my range a bit from now on and see how that goes!

Thanks for the video! :)

What do you regard as low/medium/high stats for Bet Turn CB%?

optimally we want out F cbet% 45-55% and T cbet 45-55% and R cbet% 45-55? that when i dont cbet at a hgher rate my Aggression factor is having a hard time maintaining 3 (i play full ring)

Good video. Facing a check raise on that J95 board, after betting, what part of our range do we 4b (or is it 3b?) bluff with? I thought hands that block his 2 pair or set combos would be best but we don't have any mid or bottom pair in our cbet range.

What do you recommend for optimum CBet OOP in 3B Pot? What about specific CBet% and Check% on the J95r flop? OOP do you suggest Checking a few more combos of TPGK? Any changes in how you'd play air?

Maybe this topic could be a follow on video.

Very good video!! More theory vids like this are needed.

Quick Q:
If someone is cbetting very high like 70-75%, and they do not keep up the aggression on turn and river, do you think we should try and play their tendency and virtually ignore the cards?

For example: Player A cbets 75% but checks very often on turn and river. They also have a low cbet turn percent. Should we try and play as much pots as humanely possible against this villain? Obviously many other factors, but I would think against certain opponents/table dynamics you can play any two cards and still exploit the player's tendency.

Great video!

How do you adjust your CBet flop range if you are against a calling station non-believer who is calling a lot pre-flop and calling a lot of flop CBets? Do you CBet a more linear range or stay with a polarised CBet strategy but double barrel more anticipating a high fold to turn CBet?

Does it applay for 6 max too?

Great video, I love these theory videos!

Brilliant video nicely detailed,i appreciated very much the way u make every concept easy to grasp.
I'd like to know in ur example on the J95r flop if u consider checking behind OC such as AQ is because they have some SDV or because they can block some SD or GS? Why cbetting these hands would be a mistake as we consider them as strong airs?
Thanks a lot!

Thanks again for ur answer,looking forward to seeing ur next videos.GL on tables.

Glad I stumbled on this video, loved it! Excited to watch the rest of your videos.

Awesome video. I was looking to improve my cbetting and this helps with clarity in thought process :)

@22:00 - You said high turn cbets are unlikely for those with low flop cbets. Shouldn't it be the opposite, since, on flops they cbet, they are getting to turn with a stronger range than those who cbet more. ?

Nice little vid. Any plans to follow this up with a turn cbet vid?

This is honestly a lot better than much of the elite content out there.

Can i suggest you do a video on "How to adjust to a high 3bet%". Just as you have done here would be great, examining the diff strats and some hand examples in how you played vs a high or low polar/non polar range.

Great work

Excellent video. My question for you is this: J95 appears to be a board where the OOP player has a range advantage, yet here we are cbetting 59%. Isn't this a bit on the high side considering this board texture? Before watching this video, my default was to check behind way more of the aces and some of the kings, but perhaps I am checking behind too much.

I guess I was thinking more along the lines of him flatting AJ, KJ, QJ, JT,J9, J8o, J7s to our 3bet, and since we rarely have those middle combos (J8o-QJ) then his range would be stronger. I admit I didn't actually do the math out though so maybe you're right.

Whoops, my mistake. Still, wouldn't you agree that a BB flatting range pre flop is weighted more toward Qx, Jx, and 9x? These hands seem to hit this board fairly hard.

It's great Vincent.
Maybe I'm wrong, but in heads up poker we are always in position when we have the possibility to cbet. Am I right?
Because I'm a six max player, and I think in that game OOP/IP cbet strategy is a little bit different.
How can I adjust that your complete strategy for six max?
For example this one:
Balanced c-betting
Cbet polarized, top and bottom of our range
Nuts
TPGK
Weak air/draws
Checking back middle of our range
TPMK, TPWK
2nd / 3rd pairs
Strong air/draws

Thank you so much! T79

Thanks dude, I will check it!

Vincent, thanks a lot for this video! truly great and very revealing especially for a player with MTT background like myself!

One of the themes i'm really struggling to comprehend is is why good HU players seem to clearly de-prioritize things like "equity protection" or "denying opponent hisequity". clearly on 852 flop it's not a bad result to take down the pot with cbet if you hold 65o vs two random overcards (along the lines of " valuebluffing series" by Daniel Dvoress), and it's going to be applicable on majority of flops when you hold 2nd pair type hand. Why are you (and apparently all of other good HU players) much more concerned about things like "not being called down by worst" or "being only called down by better" more than with denying your oponent and equity when you hold 2nd pair and alike?

Thank a lot for response! great video! i wish more elite HU coaches made concept videos just like you :)

Fantastic video. Thanks a ton.

One of the first I watched and I cannot be more grateful.
You broke down those concepts i.e. numbers in such connected, manageable chunks that I am kicking myself for how dumb was I all these years (I am ashamed to admit how long I play) when I didn't see "how beautifully those frequencies are interconnected". You have a natural talent for teaching.

I played one 45 minutes session at 2 heads up tables thinking all the time what does villain's frequencies mean for the strength of his hand.
I feel like I experienced epiphany because I made 157.75 BB/100 after 212 hands just watching a single heads-up video. It is not like I never had a session that good but the confidence with which the result was obtained was incredible.

Irony of the destiny was that I ran into villain (with approx. 200 hands of prior data) who had one of those ridiculous cbet frequencies.
CbetF 75%, CbetT 92%.
What would have been prior frustration of folding turned thanks to your advice into a calldown festival that culminated in winning a 80 BB pot from the BB with KQ vs. his KJs on
9 T 3 7 2 ss board.

Your video alone has paid for essential subscription until 2018.
Cannot wait to watch others.

I know it maybe a little childish to be dishing out praises like this but we live in a world where perfection is assumed and when a hair is out of place then it is all guns blazing in discontent.

So thank you once again.

Now I have one concrete question:
In the last part of the video you have a picture of the c-bet range and of the x-back range.
If we have only 2 options what do 4 colors mean. I find it confusing that you have dark blue, light blue, yellowish and greenish. Could you explain what do those colors mean for a particular hand?

Very good video.

That was a solid video, it's always good to review this stuff. But I think you forgo to mention the size of our cbet, and I think that's a key-point, could you do a video about it?
Thanks and keep it up

i disagree with what your saying at 25:52 so you talk about combating players frequencies post flop when facing a bet. but then go into this gto style of saying your checking back middle pairs and betting out polarized range and then no longer think about players frequencies. IF the guy has a high fold to cb u bet middle pair. U don't have to check it back and not deny equity. They should be punished for folding to much to a cb. Its kind of ridiculous to exploit peoples tendancies when facing a bet but drop all of that when we lead out. You act like when you cb your playing a static player. But when facing a bet you can adjust to tendencies. Your cute chart doesn't explain what kind of opponent your facing so it doesn't work. It works against a opponent that thinks like it does which doesn't happen in poker. Vs different kind of opponents your value bet and check back range will change based on their post flop tendencies. THe J7s through J2s im betting flop turn and river vs a fish who has 50 vpip. Now if its a guy with vpip of 20 then fine all check back. It all depends the opponent.

One thing I noticed is the absence of monster draws.
Is it best to always c-bet monster draws, to check them most of the times, or to have a somewhat 50-50 balance in betting/checking these?

I loved your lesson, Vincent.
May I put a theoratical question? Is there math behind your advices about frequencies of cbet on the flop? For example why do you consider optimal 45%- 55%? These numbers are only for HU games?
And now a more practical question:
How can I increase my cbet on the flop frequency? What kind of board I have to consider first when I start my learning path?

is this only for heads up?

Very useful video. Thanks!

Somebody else asked this same question, but I didn't see an answer yet. Basically I'm thinking Monster Draws need to be called out separately but I'm not 100% sure how to do that. I'd guess that effective stack size is a big factor....if our stack size is such that we could be happy getting it in on the flop, then we bet more often? and if we're really deep we check back more? obviously villain tendencies matter a lot too...

I'm slightly confused; I really like this video that is listed in the MTT Learning Path, but see that part 2 and part 3 of this series are about HU cashgames only. Does that mean this video is also focused on that format? And does the part about balancing your range also fully apply to MTT's?

I guess it's time to throw my ed miller 1% book away. I thought 70% betting on the flop 2/1 value to bluff was a good strategy.

Hello
Thanks for the video.
I have a question, hope it is not ridiculus but here we go :
If we follow the slide about Cbetting which says "polarized cbet" and "check back middle range", aren't we exploitabled since our range is capped when we check ?
In other words, if we only check with middle range, there is a lot of turn that won't help us and will be stab by vilain or check raise or river.
Thanks
Arnaud

Vincent V

really like you're vids Vincent V

very helpful video ive been stabbin too many turns vs low cbetters recently

It would be nice if you put this video in the headsup section or mention it in the video description that this is about HU cbet strategy, also you talk about cbetting frequencies but don't mention anything at all about sizes used in different frequencies.

How shallow is too shallow in an MTT to continue to be calling wider this the intent of checkraising someone that cbets too much?

Watching this for the first time but about 7 min in I have a little confusion as to what the author is explaining. When talking about 70% being to high of a Cbet percentage I think it’s a little misleading saying “70 is to high, just float flops and know that the player will have a weaker range on turns and rivers”. While this is true I do think it is very important to consider the player type the has this high betting frequency. If this is a taggish player, or close to a nit, then they will be starting with a strong range to begin with, so their range will be betting a lot of flops a high percentage of the time. I think the player we are looking for here is a bad aggressive reg, this player will be opening much wider to begin with and then will be cbetting his high frequency and this is the player with the weak ranges on turn and rivers. Just food for thought.

Would like to see more OOP c bet strategies. As this is harder to master then IP. As long as betting some hand more then the nuts and checking back some hands cant go too wrong IP. OOP is alittle different.