JohnnyMcCash

Cash - 5% of winning sessions

Also interested in hearing people's opening and defend ranges.

Hi Tyler, could you clarify something you said. At the start of the video you say when a 40bb'er 3bets you and will fold over 50% to a 4bet you can jam anything with 35% - 40% equity. Is that 35% - 40% equity against his 3bet range or against his range that calls your jam?

Thanks!

That is something I would like to see. thanks.

In the very first hand on Tc4d2c, with Kd8c, you mention 43% being the amount you need villian to fold to a cbet for cbetting to be better than checking. I assume this 43% accounts for your equity when your cbet is called compared with your equity when you check back? How does this 43% number change based on your hands equity? For example, how often must the villian fold for a hand with really bad equity like 69 of spades for a cbet to be better than a check. Likewise, what about a hand with a lot more equity like Ace (clubs) Jack (hearts)?

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Walking and talking at the same time.

I dont think you can rule those hands out given he turned up with 77 which I was never expecting him to turn up with there.

The 68 flush hand in the 4bet pot at 29mins. You said you would fold that river to a shove but cant villian be betting/shoving KQs/QTs/KTs on the river too? All of which you beat.

At 42mins you call a 3bet with TT and donk the 6d9h7h flop. You cite that your range contains a lot more nutted hands (sets) than his and therefore you donk. If your donking your sets and hands like TT and a few bluffs to balance, isn't your c/c range so incredibly weak such that when you check your c/f a huge amount? Do you think this is a problem?

I notice in the first hand (flop 934T) , you have Molswi betting 100% of his gutters/draws etc on the turn giving him almost 2 bluffs to 1 value hand. Do you think he should bet such a huge number of semi-bluffs on the turn? Do you think he should limit it closer to 1:1 or do you think it's fine, given the large number of nasty rivers he can represent?

Secondly, why do you think Molswi isn't value betting K9 or A9 on the turn? Given the huge number of semi bluffs he can bet the turn with, betting K9 or A9 on the turn seems pretty reasonable and good to me.

Ben, your reply to Rubinho is very confusing. I think you may have remembered the board incorrectly, unless I am missunderstanding your post. In A7 hand the board was 23Q6, so I'm not sure how you can be value betting KT+ or bluffing QJ? Apologies if I'm being dumb.

The AQ hand (9mins) where you cbet into 2 players on TJ3r27, after getting called by the button, you decided to c/f the turn, wouldn't a firing a second barrel get him to fold all his Tx, AQ and maybe 89s hands making it a decent spot to fire again? When villian checks back the turn what do think of bluffing the river, again to fold out his Tx hands?

Aside from when you're trying to be unexploitable; when you try to make an exploit call or fold which stats do you like to refer to and how are you interpreting these stats? For example do you put much weight into the WWSF / river cbet / river aggression stats? What do you look for in specific stats? I'm curious if you have a thought process similar to 'this villain has a wwsf of < 47% and a river cbet of < 50% so therefore I'm going to over fold my weaker bluff catchers on the river'?

Enjoyed the video. One question; I'm curious what you might benchmark a good river call efficiency stat as?

But did you like the video?

I got a pretty confused whether you were describing your SB or your BB 3bet range when you pulled up flopzilla. The hand in discussion was in the SB but it sounded like you described your BB 3bet range then briefly described how it would change if you were in the SB. Was that your SB 3bet range you first pulled up flopzilla?  If so, would you mind explaining the reason behind some of the hands in your SB 3bet range? For example, I notice you don't 3bet 78s-9ts but you do 3bet 45s-67s and J8s/T8's etc. I presume your flatting the SB with 78s-9ts then? It would seem illogical if your 3betting T7s but just folding T9s.

Your also not 3betting 22-88 in the SB, is this because you think they play poorly in a 3bet pot? Are you flatting these in the SB? I presume your using the A2-A5s 3bets as your 3bet/5bet bluffs?

For your BB 3betting range are you still 3betting all the QJo ATo k9s, Q9s JTs J8's T8's Ax's etc hands? I would have thought these good but not great hands make alot more sense to be in your flatting range rather than your 3bet range? 

I remember Sean Lefort discussing this in a video and his 3bet range from the BB was far more 'junky' involving 3betting hands like 63s etc.

Some clarification and explanation behind the reasoning for your ranges would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Change to HD 1080p -that should work

fairly standard opening range, maybe 27% or around there.

On the zoom tables you get less time to act, therefore it might be worth considering playing on regular tables when making videos. This may also be the reason why the PLO zoom tables don't run. 

Regarding your response to Privko's J8 question (on the board A749T). I understand why betting J8 smallish makes sense because of the ev gained when villian c/r you. It's also nice to have a few nutty hands in our smaller betsize range because it protects our thinner value bet from c/r's. I'm curious if you agree with my thoughts on how we might play some other parts of our range when we take a bet/check/bet line on this board.

If we had a weak Ax, I assume we should just bet 3/4 pot or so because your hand isn't strong enough to overbet. You'd balance this by throwing in some bluffs that that block his weak Ax hands (probably 12 or so air hands with a 2,3,5, or 6)

If we'd runner runnered 9T (for 2pr) I assume this becomes an ideal overbet candidate? As before, we have a polarised river betting, we are strong enough to overbet, and 9T blocks some of his 2pr hands that could c/r us. It also doesnt block his single pair Ax hands. We could then overbet bluff some more air hands that block his low Ax hands, or even some combos of a hand like 45o which blocks a set/2pr/Ax hands. 

Does what I'm saying seem like a reasonable way to construct our ranges in your opinion? 

In one of the slides you mentioned delay cbetting and then betting the river being an example of when we're usually pretty polarised. Would you mind if I use this example to check that I have understood this video correctly?

When we arrive at the river like this our range is polarised and the villain's range (when he c/c the turn instead of probe betting) is mostly comprised of bluff catchers. Therefore if I understood the concept correctly this is likely a good spot to incorporate an overbetting range on the river. Correct?

Supposing we decide to use a river bet size of 2x pot.  Villain must defend 33% to make us indifferent to bluffing. So when we construct a 2x pot overbetting range it should comprise of value hands that have >51% equity versus villain's 33% calling range and our overall betting range must be made up of 60% value and 40% bluffs

Would a good example of when to implement such a strategy be on a board such as ATx? The reason I think delay cbetting and incorporating a river overbet range here would be a good idea is because a lot of villians probe bet the turn with 90%+ of their Ax when we check back the flop. So when we delay cbet the turn and bet the river villain's range is mostly bluff catchers (Tx type hands) and our range largely polarised between Ax and air. Therefore this is a good spot to create an overbet range with the Ax hands we pot controlled on the flop and air hands. 

Cheers!

Brilliant video.

At 39 mins with Jh9h you triple Q44hhKx5h and overbet the river when you river the flush.

I figure your thinner value hands such as the Kx+ part of your range would rather make a more standard 2/3 - 3/4 pot bet. As they're not strong enough to overbet.
With your air I can see merits to an overbet to fold out his Qx, or a just a smaller bet to fold out all his pp type hands that got a little sticky on the turn. I suspect overbetting bluffs yields a slightly greater
ev. It will also discourage him from c/r bluffing us.
Your flushs i think prefer a 3/4 pot bet to give him more room to c/r bluff you and because I suspect you get significantly more Qx hero calls compared to when you overbet. 
 
So my question is would you use multiple betsizes here? If not how do you assess your range in spots like this and conclude you should overbet your range? Do you have a particular thought 'patturn'
you follow when deciding if to overbet and if so would you mind sharing it?

Thanks!