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Jen, which source/ website do you use for most accurate or updated lists of rules for each game? (i want to make sure I am scoring correctly)

also, in Progressive Fantasy, during Fantasyland you are dealt 14 cards for 'QQ', 15 for 'KK', and 16 for 'AA' or for 'AA or better' so no more cards for 222, 333, 444 etc?

There are quite a few 99/77 J9s/T8s/97s in both your ranges, what is important here is how villain plays the value portion of his range. Is he prone to raising the turn with most of his value hands mentioned above?

Since you in the CO you have stronger hands to bet for this sizing, so as a default I would use AJ for a smaller sizing with other hands. And AJ is a pretty strong bluff-catcher if villain does begin raising the river aggressively.

Furthermore, the board does allow villain to get to the river with many weaker pair+draw combos, so allowing him the chance for him to call with worse or shove might be more attractive. Do you have some range assumptions to allow us to make a better assessment?

My points are mentioned already but to help give consensus

First ask yourself what purpose are you trying to achieve. What is your intention?

If its: I want to gauge the skill level / experience of the poster so that I can hold his or her opinion in higher regard than others...

Well, I don't think Elite vs Essential will do this accurately. Points indicate activity and effort but then again the QUALITY of the post should also be considered.

Ultimately, honing in the skill of assessing information for its accuracy and importance is crucial in itself and should be practised and trained just like any other skill we working on.

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I'm looking for a poker coach to help me get to $2/$4 $2.5/$5. ideally, someone that has worked through Will Tipton's material as well as has a healthy, positive outlook on life and enjoys similar interests.

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I think so. Without more reads on this limit i'm expecting to see a turn raise as 2P+ all day and in this case likely a set or straight

Yes i see, I got confused

You mean flop c-bet? Because I raised his continuation bet

My chief concern is I'm over-folding this flop because his range is so wide and a ton miss this flop completely. 

UTG+1 folded to the 3-bet after limping. UTG+2 is the 'Cowboy' that continued in the hand

Exactly, I hate my line and it was misplayed. But I ask now how can I play it differently to tell a better story? Can i still raise the flop and bet different turn cards?

With AA-QQ I would call the raise and bet when checked to

Refer to the 'player reads' section.

Right away your river play seems inconsistent with your turn assumptions. 

Flop and turn different lines are available too. 

I've noticed some regulars are playing top pair like its the nuts - regardless of textures, so you may want to decide how many Qx is here versus the gut shot combos and better 8x - i think there are plenty of made hands here for villain.

I think your flop line has merits, your flop play is merged value / protection / occasionally barreling turns.

I like your turn play, maybe without the flush draw you can check-raise to protect versus the JT/J9/T9 - overcards + gut shot, but i'm hesitant for the very reason i still think villain has plenty of made hands.

Your river shove seems unnecessary, but its twice the pot and if villain doesn't have much info on you he may just fold Qx or worse until he builds further reads on you. So its iffy and you may get away with it the first time round. Of course he can still call some 5dd 5hh and the Q8 KQ and 88, some premium hand slowplays? 

Okay, are you ever leading turn or river? on what cards? Do you require villain to check behind on the turn?

Rather don't post results

With no info on villain its tough to give you sound advice so i will keep it general

Villain's half pot cbet here seems like a marginal / medium strength hand, so i don't mind attacking it. Having said that once villain calls you are going to be guessing on a lot of turns as the board is very dynamic. So, if you raise the flop, you can expect a call a lot of the times with quite a few hands that can't stand a big turn barrel. Now, you manage to turn what should be the best hand most of the time and you block some flushes, so i agree with the line thus far. Depending on how wide villain floats/peels/continues the turn you may need to respect the river 7. So i think your line is great - the fact we see villain checks back a small flush is obscure and you should def make a player note

Ffs, i made such a nice table and it formats it to that! The three packets of info above are:

Villain stack Off Range Preflop

AQo Equity versus the above stack off range

The Required Bluffing frequency for +EV

i hope that helps

Given that he elected to squeeze with TT and shove over a back-raise, i would definitely include QQ+ and AK in his cold 4-bet stack off range.

Given dead money:$3.75, and Hero risking $44 to win (3.75+6+14) with eff stacks 100bb, i get:

I apologise for the poor format, even when i try edit the post to make it more reader-friendly it randomly places 'spaces' and forces sentences on different lines - i've tried to re-edit it several times but it still results in an odd format.

Isolating can get out of hand when players limping a stronger range but IP deep-stacked its fine. I see plenty of limps with hands like AQ BWs and so the value of isolating offsuit BW and SCS 1g 2g goes down, the deception and position does work in your favour.

Your flop bet is mindless, villain limp-raises preflop and checks a King high flop, from experience that is AK/KK all day. Take the free card and see what develops.

Well, ...

1. Checking almost concedes the pot. Unless you turn a Ten, you still guessing versus three ranges. I think QQ/JJ might be better checks, slightly fewer turn overcards.

2. Merits for cbetting is simply for protection. Now, you can bet small and simply try thin the field and give up when called OR you can bet big and create an opportunity to fold out KJ or worse by the river.

In these multiway pots if you at least know opponents are playing fit or fold, i find a 2/3rd's pot bet works out often enough to be preferred over simply checking and giving up. Ocassionally i turn TT into a bluff but hopefully i've chosen the right opponent(s)

If you give him credit for folding a straight on a paired board then you can credibly rep the made flush on the river too giving you additional 'bluff' outs. If you shove over all board pairing cards, that is 10 outs. The worst hand you will want to see here is the QQ/TT or a AsJs Js9s where you drawing dead and have less chance of bluffing the river on 'scare' cards.

The real problem here is that you OOP position, so you would have to donk bet or check-raise and both might not allow you to get the implied odds on your hand if you do hit or want to bluff. Villain may check back some of the time and you might just be donk betting into the nuts.

I'm worried i have too few value combos OTT to check-raise here. I would probably be saving my
99/77 some 2x for a river check-raise. Although we do have 2x we don't have as many combos of 2x as we would other ranks when the board pairs.

I
agree with Jonas that this hand would work well as a check-call, we can use
other hands to check-raise here. 

I
think the problem here is we don't have that many value combos, well.. to be
precise our made hands are 99/77/22 97 maybe 92s/72s - not required to defend.
Our value combos would include some strong combo draws. However as our BB v BTN
defend is very wide we have tons of straight draws, flush draws, backdoor
draws, so we can easily get carried away here by having too wide of a
check-raising range OTF. Our ratio of value hands to weak semi-bluff hands can
be quite out of proportion.

And how do you work out a reasonable 3-betting frequency versus a given open? 

Against better players i'm not sure where to lump AJ/KQ? 

If i'm the player OTB the blinds are tough when:

1. they 3-bet frequently yet seem to hold their own versus 4-betting by either calling or shoving.

2. they check-raise or lead postflop when i'm weak. 

From above, to become a better blinds player is to be defending a lot preflop and postflop and attacking weak ranges of your opponent. The hands you mention can serve a dual purpose in this regard. 

Chael, if i give you hand like AJ or KQ BB v BTN and the button has a very narrow 4-bet range are you still 3-betting preflop? Are you folding to the (narrow) 4-bet?

00.20
SB shv 77

What is SB's shoving range here with no FE?

 07:54
3b small 21bb AJs

Is this rather simply a shove to avoid having to put all his chips in preflop as there is a shorter stack still in play?

Thank you Jason for some great content. 

12:20
pasty71 folds KJo vs jurate_PL BTN mr

Given stack sizes - what
might your SB shove range contain? what would BTN's calling range be facing a SB shove?

26:17
veritas0086 88 CO mr

Given stack sizes - what
might a CO shoving range look like in that spot? You felt it was better to shove than minraise to induce light 3-bets / shoves from worse, was there no room at all to make a small 3-bet from BTN (you) or the Big Blind?