$1,000 HUNL: More Whacky Players Join the Pool
Posted by Kevin Rabichow
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do you think the small leads on top card pairing add a lot of ev to ur strat? i.e. timestamp around 22 min w 86 on KQ6K
it's pretty valuable specifically with hands like this, but i don't think it's going to make a large difference at equilibrium whether you have this in your game or not. i would suspect that against my average opponent it's better than checking, though, since it's unlikely to get raised at the proper frequency and i get valuable protection vs 1-2 overcards to my 6.
another excellent video Krab!
At 50:04, how will you choose your bluffs on the rivers? It feels impossible to find correct blockers in this spot, as most of your turn bluffs will be have bad removal for bluffing river.
I think smaller hearts, or just bare Jx, are going to make fine bluffs here - I'm not a fan of having both the big heart and a jack though. We can't always have perfect blockers so I'm inclined to just use smaller cards in general (allowing more A/K high turn floats).
~27 min -- Doesn't it make sense to not bluff AQ on the KKJJJ board given it block chops (Qx and Ax that peels flop)? I don't know how often we check Kx on the river to induce (we probably need to at least a little) but if we are doing that at any frequency, I'd imagine villain should pull 2x pot bluffs from somewhere else in his range.
This is a good practical argument, but it is a bit dangerous in theory to start choosing bluffs based on what we think we can get folds from. My logic for considering AQ as a bluff is that a large number of my hands that beat the board include an ace or queen, so we can make it tougher for OOP to bluffcatch profitably if we card match to those value bets.
The way this spot plays out in pio appears very sensitive to bet sizing - when I restricted to smaller near-pot bet sizes for both players on the river, OOP value bets anything that beats the board and then x/c its entire range (as not enough pressure exists to generate folds, even when vbetting anything that beats the board). In that scenario, bluff blockers don't matter and it just evenly distributes across all combos. When I allowed 2x potting for both players, only quads will lead from OOP, and we will x/c only Kx and fold everything else. In that scenario, unblocking A and Q high when bluffing is extremely important and AQ will never bluff. Just have to figure out which sim you're playing in reality :)
9 minute AKx fd - how many check you feel like need to be putting when you have 2 sizes? (overbet and small one. And as far as I know, If BB isn't raising your small size(because you small size is somewhat capped) enough you strategy will perform extremely well.
And next hand where you have A9 is kinda of example that you can't x/R happily for value vs small size if that's his only size.
I will still check quite often on these boards (50-60% i'd guess), since there are so many Kx/Ax in OOP range and this makes cbetting something like Q high, Kx, 88-QQ relatively unattractive. There's likely not a big benefit to cbetting these hands regardless of which size we choose, so I'm more focused on getting in some good bluffs on flop with the small size and also maximizing the earning of really strong hands with the big size.
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