Yes, you're right, it hits his range too much. So I will only cnet with hands that have good barreling opportunities, as I don't expect to have enough immediate fold equity on the flop. But with a hand as good as that, where we have 2 overs, backdoor fd, and a lot of backdoor straight draws as well, and villains range is going to contain a lot of weak-ish 1 pair hands that are gonna have a hard time calling down on some given turns and rivers, we have a profitable cbet.

Thanks! Yeah, probably all A highs, and that's it. KQ/KJ I'm often 3betting pre on BB vs BTN.

Some hands that do well to balance that leading range is 2pair. They are more vulnerable on turns and rivers, so if we x/r, it plays somewhat weird on later streets. So I'll usually x/r straights and sets, lead with some 2p, x/c a lot of 1 pair type hands, and then balance all of those ranges with some semi-bluffs, gutters, backdoor draws, etc..

Hey, thanks.

Yes. Not gonna post it though :)

Hi!

It could be an ok hand to do it. Always use hands with blockers to 4bet bluff, put just be careful  with your frequencies. If I'm opening all the AXo on the CO and then I 4bet A2-A9o, I'm going to be 4bet bluffing way way more than I should.

And I'm usually calling with hands that play well in multiway squeezed pots, like suited broadways, pocket pairs, etc.

Versus the small blind flatting range vs MP, which is usually pretty strong and solid, I think we have to bet/fold nines. I'd continue with some other things, like better over pairs, flush draws, sets, etc.

i completally understand your point but it isn't relevant to mine. to accept someone's play as profitable i need proof that it is statistically sound over a decent sample size. 

This seems like a strange question, considering Felipe makes some of the best vids I have seen on this site or others for that matter. Also, I don't think I am alone in that opinion. He seems to have a good grasp of the theory behind his play and frankly someone doesn't have to be winning to be an excellent teacher/coach. 

Sorry for the rant but I have a pet peeve of people asking about win rates, my philosophy is to worry only about my win rate and if a coach can help improve my win rate I could care less what his is.

Hey Robert,

Yes, I'm a winning player, I play poker for a living right now. Not going to post results though :).

Hi!

You can have different strategies here, you can cbet small and more merged, or big and more polarized. I've been experimenting with the 1/3 merged cbet range. Since this board is much better for my range than his, and with people defending so wide now a days in the bb, he is going to miss the flop so much, that it's really hard to defend vs a small cbet. And then I can kind of cbet my entire range.

If that's not going to be my strategy, and I'm going to split my ranges on the flop, then weak Ax becomes an interesting hand to chef-back and strengthen that range, since it's a hand that can't get 3 streets of value out of worse hands. Then I'd be checking-back with 9x, 6x, some K highs, and pocket pairs as well.

I definitely don't like that kind of generalization. There will be players that you can easily exploit in every stake, and players that you can't. If you can, then go ahead and make the imbalanced exploitative play that is going to show a higher profit then the theoretically balanced approach. If you can't, then a I suggest that you study theory more deeply then just "simply having bluff and value in every spot"

Although this is a board that will connect a lot with villain's range, I definitely disagree our flop fold equity is 0. He still has a lot of things he should be folding on the flop. 

Also, even though he will hit something to float a lot of the time, he rarely has something super strong, and our range is stronger overall, since we can have all the overpairs. So with our Js blocker, two overs, a lot of future bluffing opportunities, and some immediate fold equity, it becomes a very profitable cbet.

Hi,

From MP I usually open something like ATo+, KJo+ Q9s+, K9s+... I think QJo is a little too weak.. but if the button and co aren't very aggressive, it's fine to open.

I don't think he'll value bet Ax though. He is splitting with all Ax (K is the kicker), and there isn't anything worse that could really call in my range, and I still have Qx and flushes in my range a lot. Also his range is pretty capped and mine isn't, so even when he might be ahead, I could turn those weak hands into bluffs with check-raises. So basically it's not an ideal spot for him to thin value bet an ace, and I didn't think he would bluff very often there either, so I just went for the value to get called by Kx or Ax.

Hey, thanks!

No, sorry, I don't have an iPoker account.

1:09, I'm going to both have a check-raising and a leading range... the higher the stakes the less you can just think in a vacuum like this... A good player will defend enough vs check-raises so that I can't auto-profit by bluffing flop... So I got to do it with a well balanced range, and with hands that are going to be profitable to do so... a hand with more equity and more blocker value, like maybe 97, is a hand that I can put in my x/r bluff range, and then the K8s with the backdoor flush draw is a good one to go in my leading range, given it has less equity / capability of making nut hands and winning big pots and less blocker value...

2:35, yeah, w A high + backdoor straight draws on a board dry as this in blind vs blind vs a small cbet you definitely should be continuing in general... play around with a software like flopzila to see how often certain opening ranges are hitting given flops, it's good practice to know how and when to defend yourself vs c-bets and stuff.

I do play around with that lately already quite a bit, but I still have trouble estimating when you can call and when not. Are there any basic rules u can use in the sense of like ''u need 25% equity IP on dry boards vs his betting range''? I know equity is not equal to ev but I still have trouble figuring things like this out.