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At ~32:00, what is the bottom of your 4-bet for value range? Obv you have the top with AA here but Im wondering what the worst hand your cold 4 bet/calling with is here. What do you do with AJ/AQ or 99 here? 

i know hes not a pro for run it once but seeing a video by shaun on this same match to be able to compare strategies and how both players adjust would be awesome. maybe an idea for a future series. 

If you just want comments on the river play then yea I think just calling is fine but it would be helpful to know what he has behind. In general these overbets are polarized and either means he has a boat or air so raising seems to have less value. In this same spot if he bets like 1/3 pot and is similarly deep then I think Im actually raising for value against smaller flushes. He rarely has boats and seems to only have 44 or 22 that beat you in his range although since he has just over limped on the button it is really hard to put him on a hand. I really am curious about the open limp though. You are ~100bb deep, seems really bad unless you have some sort of developed open limping range or have some <15bb stacks behind that youre trying to limp call a shove against.

Youre the nuts Dave, the number 1 reason I subscribe. Live sunday vids are awesome please keep them coming, plenty of other people doing HHs on here.

Is the A2dd hand you say he doesnt have a range that you could fold to, is he shoving a lot of j10, kq, kj hands? Just seems like in this spot most are 3-bet folding. Also, in all of your hands when you talk about pot odds you are including your call. In the AJ vs K8 hand the pot is 1400 and he shoves around the same amount making the pot 2800. Youre getting 2-1 but you say something like 4-1 am I missing something?

Oh and checking clubs sounds like a good idea.

Pretty odd line. Does he do this often? Just off no reads I am assuming he bets the other nfd, k10 combos and sets on the flop. He didnt pick up the nfd on the turn and I cant imagine he has no equity so I feel like he has a hand similar to ours in strength. j764 a245 maybe some gutter + fd. A lot of hands that have us pipped but wont call a3 bet. Also since our hands misses a lot we need to be able to lead rivers. I would opt to raise small and barrel on most rivers, hearts would maybe slow me down as I think he has some low flush draws in his range.

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A lot of this decision would be based on odds and I cant tell how much youd have to call. I think your original reasoning is fine though.You should be against the nfd in this spot a lot which basically kills your hand.

Hey Phil, curious what hands you would be 4-betting here if any. If we are 200 bb deep does that change anythng? Also if we are out of position does that change anything? Against a better player do you do something differently? Surely we are never folding.

Brick is another word for "blank". Just a card that doesn't help you or change the nuts.

I just want to add that 4 betting here is a play I will make this deep in position with this sort of hand. I like to balance my preflop range and this seems like a perfect time to do it.

In regards to your original question about your turn spot, this is a weird spot and I think it comes down to your read. It's a good spot to be in position against aces but I always hate the reasoning that just because someone put in a big raise preflop it means they have AAxx, especially at PLO 500. Good players should be balancing their ranges. If you know that's what he has it doesn't really matter what your cards are and a heart on the turn could be the worst card for you. It seems like an ok spot to float and see what he does on the turn because of how many bad turns come for aces but you dont really lose any equity by just folding. This is just not how I would play AA out of position unless I have the nut flush draw. Seems like an easy spot to check with dry aces. Other than that if you do put him on aces this is a pretty easy fold preflop IMO , uour hand plays terribly against aces.

Folding on this flop means we are missing out on a lot of equity. I think the math is right to do so. Might be an argument for checking this flop though. Maybe bet it in position or if we don't have nut flush draw. Just a side note. I hate his line here on the flop but the way you played it gave him max value and his dry nut straight should be either hoping to chop or be slightly ahead when he gets in all in.

I think it all depends on stacks and pot size. Generally speaking in either 6 max or HU pots with only one raise preflop the pot will be small in comparison to stacks. In this case a pot size bet is my go to bet. I don't like to bet any other size as I don't want to give anything away and the bet size I usually reasonable anyways. This changes a lot in 3 or 4 bet pots where I think you need to balance your range. In these type of spots I usually like a 1/2 pot bet with a large % of my range.

Not a good spot for us. His range seems like 89+ meaning we can only beat a bluff. Its a tough spot because we are getting 3-1 on a call and he could be raising with a lot of air on this river. Our leading range isnt very wide here as we should only be leading with hands that have value. He knows we should never have a flush here as AKhh and AQhh should be reraising pre. Unless weve pulled a miracle float with k9 or 89 we can really only have trips a boat or air. A third he beats (air) a third we fold %90 of the time (trips) and a third we win (boat). His line has me worried. He is probably betting all his queens a good percentage of the time on the turn and never raising the river one or AA or KK. He can have easily c bet and check the turn with AK or any hh air. He probably takes this line with all his boats as well. Its a tough spot but I hate calling more than folding.