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Really enjoyed this video. Got all 12 right the first time just like you said, and the smile on my face grew with each passing number as I realized it was working.

Congrats on the new contract, I always look forward to your videos and am happy we will get so many more. Are there CFPs that work with part-time players and allow for less monthly volume? Your points about vision and knowledge are excellent. I think a lot of part-time players have a vision that includes poker success and advancement, even if the end goal is not to ultimately quit their regular job. These players take the time to study and strive to achieve expertise, but it sounds like without a CFP this is borderline impossible to achieve. Private coaching is obviously an option for part-time players, but that lacks a lot of the benefits you discuss that a CFP comes with in terms of allowing for moving up in stakes quickly.

Love the excel tip, have already started putting it in action!

Lots of great stuff in here! I would love a video going over turn donk spots in 3bet pots more generally. That seems like a spot without much content available that would be really helpful to understand better. I am also curious about sizings in that spot and whether they vary on different boards. Thanks!

Hey man, nice video, I enjoy this style from you. One thing I would like to see in the future is for you to talk more about what the cutoff numbers you are considering are when you make a decision based on the rng you roll. As an example, at around 28 min you check back AQ on turn after betting flop in a 3bet pot bc of the low number, I'm wondering how often overall you are checking back there, and when you do bet, what size are you using? I dont think doing this for flop spots is as necessary or useful, but for turn and river frequencies I think it would be.

Thanks!

Enjoyed what you did with the database on donk bets. Other ideas could be flop check raise frequencies/ranges and turn barrel frequencies/ranges. The point you make about the 50/3 player is super valuable and is not something I ever really put together before. Thanks!

+1, loved the info in the video, but from a public speaking perspective, don't be so afraid of a dead second or 2.

Just vomit and hit the fold button

he could for sure have AJ or QQ and he probably thinks you have AK or AQ.  it comes down to your history with him and whether he thinks you will fold AK or AQ in this spot to better determine what how much air is in his range.  If he is a good aggressive reg, he knows that his image allows him to value bet light here and get hero called by AK even sometimes.

given how close it is i think your read about his timing and how it felt in game makes it a call.  He has 3 bet you before and doesn't seem to be a nit.  

Definitely agree with the benefit of feeling like you are "booking wins" to get your confidence back.

He could also have something like KJcc, QJcc, TJcc.  I think if you do check, you usually have to call the bet since you may have induced from missed hearts, but I think bet-folding is the better option.  If he was calling you down light and not with a heart draw he will likely continue to call on the river.  Since he bet so big (almost 75% pot) I expect him to have you beat here more often than not, unless you have some other bet sizing info about this player.

obv he would bet sets too, not just two pairs.

Was this the start of the spewing or had it already been happening with this player at the table?  If this player has seen you spewing he likely wont give you much credit when you raise this river, or he will at least be more likely to think you are completely up to it.  Without that, I don't think it is awful, I guess you could play KJhh that way, but he probably thinks you raise that hand earlier at some point.  You do have a hand with some showdown value and all of his draws missed except KJ.  Unless he had AQ or AThh idk if he would bet river for value without the straight.  Was there something else that made you think this player was never barreling worse than your hand and that you could not call and be good? 

Without a dynamic or knowing what this player is capable of I think you have to call.  In addition to draws, some donks may do this with JJ or TT that they think they are protecting against AK (you did check the flop, a lot of people will read you for AK).  If he has a Q so be it, absent a dynamic or knowledge of the opponent, that is a terrible way to play a Q, he will just think he is the greatest for a little while and inevitably lose it all.

There are few ways to handle this, depending on the player:  

If Villain is a player who has a wide range when they open pre, but when they are 3bet, they fold just about everything, call with AK, QQ, sometimes JJ, and 4bet only AA and KK, I like to  just flat in position with QQ when it will most likely be a heads up pot.  I want to keep my perceived range wide when their opening range is wide, so I can get more value later from something like AJ on Jxx or other top pair hands he may flop.   If I am not in position then I will 3 bet the QQ and just lay it down if Villain 4bets.

If Villain is a player with a tight preflop range to begin with, something like 88+, AQo+, AQss+, who calls most 3bets and only 4bets AA and KK, then I would raise the QQ for value regardless of position and lay it down to a 4 bet.  People at these stakes aren't flipping for >100bb with AKo enough to get it in, even if they sometimes do it with AKs.

In sum, unless it is a player you know is capable or wide enough to be getting in with at least a range of TT+, AKo, AKs, you should not get it in preflop with QQ.  Your assumption until proven otherwise should be that they aren't wide enough for it to be profitable.

You have to go for thin value after he calls your over bet on the turn.  This is a clear bet/fold river given the action, the question is whether the sizing should be smaller. 

A smaller value bet would be better to ensure calls from all 2 pair hands and weirdly played 1 pair hands that just think you are bluffing (i feel like some people must respond like this to turn over bets.  If he is not a reg or if he does not know you are, he may just think you are completely up to it with that turn bet, it is BvB, and call deciding to call most non A or K rivers).  

I also think there is an argument for sizing it just the way CS did here and maybe a little bigger even, depending on your image and the dynamic between Hero and Villain.  If this player recognizes that if he doesn't have a J he is bluff catching when he calls, then he is probably going to call regardless of sizing (assuming it is within the realm of standard) the times that he calls.  

I do not think the turn over bet is terrible, I think its very interesting and creates a good dynamic against a player you have position on, though idk if I you should be doing it with that hand on this board.  Obviously you have to balance it, but when you do over bet the turn and get there on the river I think you certainly have to go for value, but I like a smaller value bet on the river, closer to 20 given that we don't know anything about this player.

Thanks for all the responses, as played i shipped river and he had A7 spades, so flopped pair that went runner runner, which definitely makes sense given the action and how small i bet the flop and turn.  I still like my check on the river more than I would have liked a bet, but i should have just went with a check call.  The bet sizing on the flop and turn is part of the hand that I hadnt really considered, since I was only thinking about the decision on the river.  Guess I learned even more than I expected.  Next time I'll put it through the converter, apologies, was my first post and didn't know that was a thing you are supposed to do.

I checked the river because I thought he had a lot of diamonds and bluffs in his range.  it was not to turn my hand into a bluff catcher, i just thought most of the time he doesnt have a value hand or a hand that will call a bet since those hands should have raised the turn on such a wet board.  I also thought that close to all the times he had nothing on the river he would bluff at it.  when he bets the river after i check to him I know he has nothing that can call a raise the vast majority of the time, but for the times where i did have him set over set and he was slow playing or if he rivered 2 pair I wonder if value shipping over his bet is worth it or not.  The runner runner flush came in, so the real question is whether he gets to the river with two spades enough to make going for thin value bad.   Now that I think about it more deeply I'm leaning toward yes it is bad, because he would have raised most hands on the turn that I am looking to get value from with a raise here on the river, so maybe his range when he bets the river was more made up of air that wasn't going to call a raise and spades that got there.