Apocalypse

If he is solid and never bluffing are you then putting him on a straight? If that is the case it seems best to fold now.

I could give a lot of consideration to checking back this flop, especially if you are just going to fold when raised.

I found it hard to concentrate on all the different tables. I also found the mix game a distraction, though this may be because I sometimes play mix games and was thinking about your play.

Great video. No surprises Chael Sonnen has problems in 3bet pots, he probably does it too much as he's always trying to take it down early.

The Kc7h3c4s hand where we raised on Ts7s3h x 8d was interesting in that it was similar to the old fashioned 'Free SD' plays. I guess this line suits this hand as it really would like to see a SD right now as calling a river bet is unappealing.

Initiative is pretty important to humans, if you play like a machine not so much. 

I raised the hand to 'make it cheaper to play'. I am actually from a limit background originally.

Though this play may be poor from an overall strategy standpoint similar to how the '3b/x' line was viewed in limit it still usually makes money the first time it is implemented. If people's default is to usually just jam here with TP+ and monster draws I felt this was doing well. 

However I will endeavor to put this in my c/c/c range from now on, and use other hands for this play if at all.

It seems that your CREV analysis has found a common leak in the $1/$2 Zoom community's river play.

I was raising to SD cheaply. I figured r/x was cheaper than c/c. I don't like raising the flop.

I have since decided c/c is superior, perhaps folding on a J,8 

One thing I took away from this hand is that I should be slowplaying a little more IP with big hands, or maybe this is too defensive. 

If I have 6x are we c/c too? 

A lot of players struggle with this aspect. You simply need to tolerate the variance better. Also the visualisation of players give a new area of information that you need to make use of.

Managining your own image is also important.

What about if we were xc flop to xr turn as LAG2 is very likely to just throw their short stack in the middle on most turns, this way we whipsaw LAG1 for the maximum.

This is a riskier approach, but we really crush LAG1 when it comes off.

I agree. The interesting thing to consider is how deep do we have to be until 3betting the turn becomes better.

I think suggesting he has sets in his range as the normal seems a bit strong. I think if we check what do we think he will bluff? Will many players at these stakes just check the river down with a pair for showdown?

The hand could definitely play better as a bet. I mean what if we bet in such a way that we'd call that amount and we feel he won't bluffraise us?

I also thought it was a great video, great style. Your rambling is nothing compared to another very notable rambling man however. ;)

I don't think by 4bet/folding we are wasting it. It's just like raising a flush on the river and being jammed on by a nit. We didn't waste our Thi flush.

Having thought about it since I agree with you, especially as he snap jammed. I could have 30x'ed it and then giving myself an option. 

At the time I convinced myself he may also have AKs, but that might be wrong. 

I just wanted to point out that when you play a HU table as one of your tables the vast majority of your hands you discuss are HU which detracts from the 6max nature of the video.

Whichever way it down the important thing to do is remember what he looked like when he made the bet, how he bet and what he showed down.

I agreed with the Hh down and Kd up for potential FL.

I also would like to see more urgency in reaching content, it took five minutes before anything interesting was actually said. You should realise anyone watching this video would be familiar with other variants.

This is really just a question of relative hand strength. This is just like having the second best hand on any other board, only this time you massively overbet and he still jammed on you.

I am not really sure what pocket pair you will be representing by playing like this as your opponent has an A9K showing so you can't be that thrilled with TT-QQ in the hole. That being said, if he folds you are making off with a lot of equity.

I do agree that this is at least an easy call though.

This could just be me but you guys all seem really tight.

I don't really like much of the way this hand was played. If you are going to draw one and are trying to represent a smooth draw I think you should lead first draw. When you 3bet bluff you really need an excellent handle on your villain. 

The sick part is he may draw one and still just call river with Klow as the whole hand looks a little bizarre.

I think as a default I'd draw on the 7432 on the first hand, it figures to improve and you can play for a big pot. As played I think your only getting value from a 98. I mean you really need a handle on what he is raise patting. This game is very read dependent.

In the 2nd hand I'd draw on the 6542 PD, I mean it is just so hard to get any value with 96xxx across multistreets oop. The only way you can play this way is if you have a handle on your opponents that they will just check down and play straight up. As this is not the case give your hand a chance to improve to something that can win big pots.

Yeah but the thing is baseball is played by professionals, if your nephew just started blasting curveballs at your daughter son during your family baseball game you wouldn't think it was that cool.

Reading a player is part of the game, but everyone fearing tells and hiding behind sunglasses, hoodies and a solemn demeanor is bad for it.

I am not such a big fan of xc turn, I think that would be the place to xr, though you we'd have to break down which cards it would be best to do it on.

In the KK hand:

board: 5c6c8sHandEquityWinsTies2sKhJdKd42.67%251,6208,79028%!2%57.33%339,5908,790

You will only get a flop this bad around 12% of the time. I got this by looking at the preflop graph. I think you can xf it. 

In the second hand:board: 9s7c6hHandEquityWinsTiesAsQs4cQc44.43%262,5658,04230%!AA,KK:4%,AKQJ-:xxyy,AKQT-:yyxx55.57%329,3938,042
This again will only occur around 15% of the time.

Though it is important to consider that you won't always realise this equity so I think you can probably just xf, as I assume you are going to xc/xf a non club or spade. This strategy will reduce your realisable equity considerably.I am not an expert at solving hands. 

note: I will get a screen cutting tool so it won't be so messy next time.

Poker has become anti-social enough in the live setting. It does not need another wave of young robots soullessly analysing the recreational players every move.

I heard from a reliable source that Gus broke even at poker last year, so don't worry about him. Though he may lose online, he does just fine live.