Izanagi

Hey Lautie, first of all I would love if you did more HU videos because there's not many good ones out there. Really enjoyed these.

Also, I have some questions about a few hands.

2:23 What sort of hands would you run multi street bluffs with?

20:19 What are your reasons for wanting to go for a pot sized bet?
So basically you're betting big when you have more bluffs in your range? And is it the case for this spot?

I'm just curious why on certain boards like at 19:05 on the right table, you cbet very small.

At 15:00 on the left table when you had the missed draw, would you consider betting maybe a bit smaller like 3/4 pot so that you can rep AJ or maybe A9? Doesn't betting bigger narrow your range more to 35 and make him more likely to call?

Hey I'm just curious why you decided to c/c flop in the hand at time 31:56 but in the hand at 41:20 you decided to c/f flop.

can you do hands where you're in really tough spots and maybe you find yourself in a spot where your range is capped and facing pressure.

Shouldn't you be betting the maximum on the river when he's capped so you can include more bluff combos in your range while staying optimal?

Hey, in the last hand what does your range look like when you get to this river? I feel like QJ would not be high enough in my range for me to call so maybe my turn calling range is too tight. I'm probably folding a lot of mid pairs on the turn which could be incorrect.

At 15:50 you said you would cbet QQ if you were against BB so i assume you're cbetting all your weak Ax hands on the flop. So what does your flop check back range look like? if you're betting hands as weak as QQ on the flop i feel like your flop check range becomes very weak and exploitable so players can just barrel off and overbet.

At 8:26 you cbet the T84 flop but isn't that a flop where it smacKs the fish's range? i can see cbetting being fine solely due to having two overs and the BDFD but would this normally be a flop where you would cbet liberally?

I think this spot is a fold given that it's unlikely he's value betting weaker like KJ and your perceived range is never less than Kx so he's rarely going to be bluffing.

Even from a game theory perspective, KQs should be in the bottom portion of your range considering you have 33 and 77 and you're probably not flatting KQo.

Oh it's not an actual hand, but you said that you would bet 77 on the T98r.

In the last hand I really think 77 should be a c/c instead of a bet. I think we have too much showdown value to turn it into a bluff in a spot that doesn't necessarily warrant it. We have an OESD so we can continue on a good amount of turns where we either hit a straight or a set. Also we can protect our range on a 6 turn where the only straight we would have otherwise is QJs which is betting flop at least half the time.

This. Please do more of these.

Hey james, at 12:42 on the right table you opt to not 3b the KQo and wanted to know why you wouldn't just 3b there as a bluff? Is it because you wouldn't know how to play it post flop without knowing if they are a fish or a reg?

If that's the case are you not bluffing in that spot at all when you're against a complete unknown (without knowing if they are a fish or reg)? Or do you still have a default 3bet bluffing range which include hands like A2s?

For the first hand I would just bet because like I said our hand will be tough to play OOP on such a wet board. We can get value from AK, ATs, KJs, JTs, TT, T9s, and QTs so it's not like I would bet here purely to make the decision easier. Also I think there are better hands we can include in our c/c range like JTs, AsJx, KsJx, TT, T9s, and sometimes QQ and KsQx, which give us protection on various turn cards.

In the second hand I would check back because the board is fairly dry besides the FD which makes it less likely that the board would run out badly and we have position. There's not much value in betting imo because we block a lot of gut shots with two kings in our hand like KQ and KJ which are always calling a flop bet. So we're hoping to get value from Tx (we block some KT) and flush draws which might c/r us off our hand. So I think our hand just plays better by checking back flop to induce bluffs on the turn.

In the third scenario, I think I would still c/c the flop since the board is fairly dry compared to the first hand and I think betting the flop kind of turns our hand into a bluff since I'm not sure if we can c/c a blank turn (maybe you could correct me on this). I'd rather not bloat the pot OOP with a marginal hand that has only 2 outs to improve and no back door equity.

If in both of those hands you were against a standard TAG reg what would you do differently?

Also in the second hand if you were OOP against a reg (in CO against button) would you still c/c without a club or are you just betting? Betting makes the hand a lot easier to play but I think it might be a bit too thin to bet for value. At the same time c/c seems like the right play but it makes the hand harder to play without a club in my hand. I know it depends on the villains post flop tendencies but as a general game plan what would you do?

Hey james, at 7:45 you c/c AJdd on QJ9ss and I was wondering why you wouldn't just bet there because it would make your hand very difficult to play on later streets based on the board texture. You normally advocate having some sort of protection for various turns such as a ten or the ace of spades before taking such a face up line.

Like at 26:30 you just bet there with KK because you didn't have a club in your hand so why wouldn't you do the same for the above hand? Is the sole difference that in the latter situation you can actually get a good amount of value from the fish? Or am I missing some other variables that I should be considering? Also would you still bet if the guy in the KK hand was a standard reg?

Thing is you're hardly ever getting him to fold a better hand by betting turn so are you following through on brick rivers?