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Raphael Cerpedes

POSTED Oct 20, 2013

Raphael reviews a session he played recently at 500NL Zoom.

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megatr0n 11 years, 5 months ago

Hey Raphael, 

I like your way of commenting and being honest with yourself keep up the work! I'm sure you're taking the criticism in a positive way to improve the educational content :)

salutations from Quebec

megatr0n 11 years, 5 months ago

on the AJ hand at 2:02 is there an argument to raise on the flop?


Raphael Cerpedes 11 years, 5 months ago
It's not a bad hand to raise with, but you have to be careful with your frequencies because if you start raising many combos of such hands you will end up having too many bluffs on flop. Calling flop is not terrible either.


halvadron1 11 years, 5 months ago

min. 13:30 w A7s:
My standard reaction vs a C/R would be to B/C cause on this High_low_Low boards we have lots of combos of TPs/OPs which usually only wanna B/C and hence I would play here with my range which wanna continue vs a C/R more of a B/Call-gameplan instead of a 3betting-gameplan OTF.


Nice 2nd Vid btw so far:)

Raphael Cerpedes 11 years, 5 months ago

Not having a 3-betting range on flop may be fine but still I do prefer to have one on most board textures so I think playing some sort of mixed strategy here with NFD is probably correct. On that board opponent is probably x/raising lots of dominated draws so after sets the NFD looks like the best candidate to be 3-betting and calling it off on the flop.

MossBoss 11 years, 5 months ago

Thanks very much for both videos so far Raphael, I think they've both been extremely informative and I like your willingness to discuss all small spots because I agree that these are where a large amount of your edge is built.

m_zeal 11 years, 5 months ago

Hey Raphael, 

Enjoyed the video.

Had a question about the hand you play ~ 36 minutes in defending 86s vs Kaindeads btn 3b. 

After he checks you point out that he has a 90% c-bet stat, and that you expect him to defend in this spot on a 1098 flop.  What kind of assumptions are you making about his checking range that leads you to this conclusion.  My standard line of thinking would be that he would be betting with any sort of equity to get to such a high c-bet, leading to a weak checking range and presumably a lot of give ups.

As a follow up, does his range really matter here or is this always a check through?


Raphael Cerpedes 11 years, 5 months ago

When I see somebody c-betting 90% it could very well be that they give up on bottom 10% but in my experience its more often than not somebody that c-bets all his air and is not x/folding this 10% part that didnt bet flop.

'standard' flop play is to check back 86s on that board anyways, but obviously just bet it vs people that x/f tons on connected drawy boards.

errrrahhhh 11 years, 5 months ago

On the Nut flush draw hand, if check raised vs. tight check raiser I definitely agree I don't like shoving over his raise.  I even check the flop in that situation sometimes.  If he's really tight I can see a good reason to consider folding turn if unimproved if calling the flop checkraise...

Getready2rokk 11 years, 4 months ago

Nice vid once again!

@27:20 w AQ vs weaker player on 648r 3b pot, would you ever consider c/c flop or does that not make any sense ?

@28:00 w AK 3b pot J36r vs shorstackplayer, do you plan to call a c/r once you bet this small ? and if so whats the plan if he continues barreling ?
Also what do you think about checkback and calling turn stabs ?

Raphael Cerpedes 11 years, 4 months ago

@27.20 x/c is a fine option too, especially vs weaker players who will bet 1/4th pot with air and bet big when they have something good.

@28.00 if he x/shoves am folding but i dont expect it happen very often at all, plus am betting the same size with Jx+ so random x/shoving KT or such in his shoes doesnt look too attractive. If he x/minraise I'm calling. Checking back and calling turns is possible too but on that board I think we take it down so often with a small bet that its a better play overall.

samothraki 11 years, 3 months ago

hi raphael both videos were really good, i would like to ask you 2 question: 1. you say that your are really sticky and dont fold generally, could you tell me what's your fold to F, fold to T and fold to R stats to understand what  very sticky means? 2. when someone has a really high cbet % and we have kt on a tt2r board isnt it better in general to just call ip? since his betting range is air mostly shouldn't let him continue bluffing turn and river or let him catch up something?(34 min) thank you

Raphael Cerpedes 11 years, 3 months ago

1.Very roughly you should try to defend, in HU pots, over 60% of your range on any postflop street vs "standard" 2/3rd 3/4th type of betsizes. Also preflop you should try to defend about half of your opening ranges vs 3-bets. Obviously those are just approximations and rules of thumb.

2. That is not how I approach situations. The guy has a very high c-bet and the board is TT2r, thats a spot I want to attack a lot, so I will bluffraise a lot but I also need to be raising lots of Tx and 22 combos there. I definitely dont want to be bluffraising tons but only calling with strong hands.


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