Hey! Yeah, it's possible. I might do it for my next video :)

I think it mostly depends on the villain. Most regs never raise AJ there. He is in a squeezed pot vs strong ranges where there was a flop bet and a call. And like we said, he doesn't have much semi-bluffs to balance that out. So he really shouldn't raise with that there, in which case it doesn't make a difference between queens and KJ.

But if we know villain to be the type to overplay top pairs in that kind of spot we should definitely get it in with queens.

Hi,

I don't see much point in raising, villain could still have some 7x and is too likely to fold everything worse. He might bet ace high like he did, but he's very unlikely going to call a raise.

very true, thanks for pointing that out I forgot to consider that in my analysis

We need to call 1.50 into a pot of 4.00. The math is: 1.50 / (4 + 1.5) = 27,2%. You are probably doing 1.5 / 4, but you need to add your 1.50 to the pot. 

About your question, it depends on all the factors I mentioned (if you're talking about pre-flop play). There are cases in which you will realize more than 100% of your equity, in which case our equity can be lower than the needed pot odds to call. If we're in position vs a wide range with a hand that has high playability, we're probably going to realize more than 100% of our equity (which basically means that we're gonna win more than if it went check check [if betting pos-flop was not allowed for example], because of our positional advantage).

Hi,

Like you said, I'm usually flatting pre-flop. But as played, check-calling is a good option to protect our checking range. And bet-folding is ok too (and sometimes stack-off as well), it depends on villain's tendencies, it's hard to say in such general terms.

Yes, you're right, thanks! His 29 vpip includes his calling raises %, so my assumption isn't totally accurate.

But what we do know is that he is rasing with close to 9% of hands. This type of player usually doesn't have much positional awareness, so their PFR are usually pretty close to their actual raising range from most positions. So we do know he probably doesn't have the top 9% of hands, which is enough, combining with the somewhat wide VPIP, to raise K9o on the button.

after your edit:

@AJo, yeah, you pretty much answered it already. And about his play with QJ I don't like it, I'm usually not 3betting it vs the CO, and vs our flop raise he should definitely just call, he's got a bluff catcher, there's no reason to reraise.

@JJ, I think it depends on the player, against people that call a lot of 4bets we should go bigger pre-flop. But there are players who are 5bet-or-fold types, so against them we should definitely use a smaller sizing, even OOP. But yes, on general without those reads I make it around 19 there, and I think 22 is definitely too big.

Yes for sure totally agree on that! we should iso K9o for sure there and bit lighter too if the blinds allow it imo.

Hi!

Yes, I concluded (sorry if it wasn't explicit in the video) that the K2s would be good enough to call (although a little close). We have 41% equity, instead of the 37% that K2o has, and it will realize it's equity more for having more playability with the suitedness. If we realize 70% of our equity with K2s - which seems pretty reasonable - it's a slightly +ev call (41 * 0.7 = 28,7). 

If you think it's too close and might be bad, it becomes a great candidate for 3bet bluffing, so I would never fold it on that particular situation vs that range, I would either call if I think it's good enough, or 3bet if I didn't.

Hey, thanks!

I think we can call again. There is a few problems, like reverse implied odds when we hit a 4 and he's got 89, but I think that the implied odds for when we hit a 9 is probably going to make up for all of that, so I think calling turn might be fine.