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Theres no need as we´re shoving any turn anyway

To be honest I was just purely trying to exploit the fact that in my experience so far, people overfold to overbets. As for value bets - I think he would probably expect me to do this with T9s/98s, TT, ATs and potentially AK.

Would play it the same way.

Is 5% his sb 3b or overall? Think pre Id call AQs and fold AQo, although its quite close.
Id bet the flop as well, but I think after he calls Id probably just show the hand down. Vs his range (which I think is something like JJ+ and maybe KQo/AQ, think he´d flat TT and KQs/QJs and possibly QTs) we dont really have to worry about being outdrawn and its a flop Id expect a nitty player to check for pot control with AA/KK all the time.

Hi, nice video! One thing that Im curious about is why do you 3x from all positions and then 2x from the button? Wouldnt it make more sense to go down with your sizing in each position, so for example 3x utg and sb, 2,75x mp, 2,4x co and 2x btn?

Ha, Im also an mtt player who moved to cash (just recently) and who studies to become a teacher. Great video, looking forward to moar!

@themightyjim to be totally honest I didnt think anyone would be offended by whats clearly a joke, but if anyone did get offended then I apologize. 

Haha, you clearly misunderstand what it meant. Why I said it was to create a joke, by saying that I think he is good looking, and adding "no homo" as in "Im no homo". Not that Im homofobic or anything, I just think its funny. For more info: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-homo

I actually think what Colman is doing for poker is great. When he won the One Drop, he could have done two things - give a standard interview or refuse to speak. Guess which one attracts more mainstream attention? 

People who are different to the norm get the most attention. Thats why the most popular poker players are the vocal and jovial guys like Negreanu and Esfandiari and then Ivey, who is the exact opposite of the two as far as personalities go. I have an analogy with sports - one of the most popular F1 drivers in history is Kimi Raikkonen. A quiet and an incredibly talented, guy. Doesnt care about the media at all (in fact he openly hates them), gives the most careless interviews ever and never really celebrates his victories, not even on the podium. Always has the "alright lets get this over with" face on. And yet, the fans love him.

And what does it have to do with Colman? Since Ivey started taking media more seriously, realized how good giving interviews is for his training site and is no longer an enigma, his "spot" in the poker community is now vacant. And I think Colman is exactly what we need - an aloof young good looking (no homo) guy, who´s insanely good at poker and has had some massive success both live and online. 

Just btw - I was having a beer with my best friend the other day, with whom I almost never speak about poker (besides the usual "how is it going" and the occasional bad beat story from his xbox poker). All of a sudden, he started talking about this young kid he saw on TV who won millions and looked sad and refused to speak to anybody. He was genuinely interested in who this guy was, why did he react the way he did and wanted to know more about his life/career. I kinda doubt he would get this much attention from a basically non-poker person as my friend if he just said "I feel great, its a dream come true. Thank you mom."

Thank you guys, much appreciated! :)

Yeah I agree, also when you call pre with it and it comes A43 you should be putting at least some more chips in the pot since its one of few decent flops for your hand.

Unless this hand took place in the 90s Im never folding

If he´s really aggro I wouldnt mind openlimping the button, but I would fold as played. I dont really like the 4x idea, in my eyes it looks too much like "Im just gonna raise huge to discourage a shove" with hands like ace-rag or small pairs. Would your intention be 4x/fold or 4x/call?

4:30 - Actually check/calling and with the intention of leading a diamond turn would probably be my standard here. Check/raising is kinda cool too but I would be afraid that he would check back a diamond turn too often and basicly never fold anything on the river if its a brick. It also sucks when you get shoved on and have to fold a nut fd+gutty.

Overall I dont lead in HU pots at all because I find it hard to come up with an at least remotely balanced strategy. I feel like when I try to implement leading to my game I end up with just a super polarized range of the nuts and gutters. It weird because I lead a ton in multiway pots with quite a ballanced range. I guess people just play way differently vs. leads in hu and in multiway pots.

12:30 - To be honest I play lower stakes than you (highest bi I regularly play is €100 on ps.fr) where people dont play as tough, I guess people would run over my small sizings on higher stakes :)

22 - yeah you´re probably right.. my reasoning behind the play is that if I had air, I would also just lead the river, so for my opponent to call a check/shove I would have to be turning a showdown value hand into a bluff.. which I think is something most people arent capable of, which should make it look a lot stronger. But like I said, it hasnt worked out for me well at all. 

29 - thats true, I guess its just a human nature to say that a shove is the best when it comes ace high. :)

Btw today I was eating a pear, and then an image of you saying "power of the pair" popped into my head. I probably watch your vids too much :D

Hey, great video as always Sam!

Just a few thoughts:

4:30 - Leading is kinda cool here and its something Id almost never do, but I think you should be betting a bit bigger on such a drawy board. Overall I think 200bb deep I want to be betting bigger in general to put some pressure on and to build the pot as well. Also I think I would like the lead better if you had a diamond or AQ of spades so you can confidently barel some turns and rivers. Think without a diamond its better to lead KQ and probably check/call AQ, because you dont have as much showdown value and you have a gutter to the nuts.

12:40 - Dont think 3betting the pot is necessary here, though I do follow the logic behind big 3bets oop, I think its just a bit redundant and 750-800 would do the job just as well since his range is so wide and he will just fold a lot. 

22ish - what would you think of check/shoving the river from his perspective? He has some of the worlds most amazing blockers and he´s still fairly uncapped. I have been experimenting with this quite a lot lately and it hasnt worked out for me very well so far (noone folds pairs anymore), but Id like to hear your thoughts :)

29:30 - maybe Im just a bit results oriented but I would shove pre, I think its a bit too face up when a reg flats an UTG raise of a sub-20bb stack here. You also have two 8bb stacks behind you which makes flatting hands like JTs a lot less appealing imo. :)

Overall I really love your vids and have to say you helped my game a lot, so thank you Sam! 

Yo, great video Sam! One thing I want to ask you about is your AA hand at about 42 minute mark. Why did you check the turn? I think betting here is really important to keep air in our range, while when you check back most people will realize that you dont have T9s, AJ or such like. I feel like if you bet he may hero at least one street with some TT or AJ type hands himself. Also you may get him to spazz out with random gutters and stuff which will probably just give up on the river after you check.

3bet folding TT is a bad idea. Its really tough to say what to do with no stats, readless I think I´d probably flat pre and go from there.

Yea this.

Exact stats would help, but if they are really loose I would probably just jam pre. AKo isnt a great hand for postflop play (esp. multiway), if they are really bad you are getting called by worse a decent amount, plus just picking up the money in the pot isnt bad at all. 

I think btn´s range is more pair heavy than co´s, who can still reshove suited broadways and some Axs, while btn cant. AKo seems like a fold here though, AKs seems awfully close but might still fold being so close to the money. 

Hey Paul, nice video as always, just a few things:

3.17- 55 btn vs sb, I would like a 3bet a lot more than a call here, his button range is pretty wide and we´re not gonna stack him when we flop a set super often, while he´s gonna fold to the 3bet very often and if not we´re gonna win the pot pretty often by cbetting. And also we build a pot in case we flop a set

14 min - 99 from BB; I would also lead the turn, Id say he´s gonna pot control a lot of hands and there are many draws we can rep. Also it looks kinda aggro/bluffy, and from experience I can say it works much better than going for the old check/call flop check/raise turn line.

19 min - KK from SB, I really dont like your sizing against two players 45bb+ deep, think we should be making it 700 at least. Its pretty amazing that they both folded to such a small sizing though. :)

Btw your stats seem not very true, I´ve played with you some on ps.fr and you definitely dont play 19/14 with 5% 3bet.. are those stats somehow filtered or do you just play nittier on microgaming?

Am I the only one who noticed that when the guy won a hand, the percentage shows 200% next to his name?

Oh yeah and awesome vid as always, glad I upgraded my subscription once again!

Great video as always sir! Im wondering - how much do you think being a coach and making all those videos has improved your game or helped in any other way (improved your speech etc)?

You sort of put a bad beat on yourself 

I like this one better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjUJrmGVrY