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2nd part, please.:) Very good, informative format and A5 hand seems pretty interesting at the end of the video.

No we couldn't raise pre flop because of the size of the shortie's Allin. We were forced to call.
Anyway, yes very good odds OTR, but why would anyone bluff or value bet a marginal made hand for this size? Can't see the point.

I really liked the format too. Very good spots explained very well.

Very good video again.

At the end of the footage, on table 4 (HU). You have 99 on the button and x back on J43r. I usually cbet this board, as I would do with my bluffs as well. Do you think it's too good of a hand to cbet it?

great video Sam! thx

Yeah, xb is the standard move, I just thought what Zdarlight wrote, that he can rarely have any better hand. Would he x AK? And if we have the most likely best hand why not gain value from it. Should he fold any Ax, that is now AJ?

And sure, I would really appreciate if you showed me a CREV simulation, I'm not very good at it. Thanks 

Contrary to others , I think, as played PF, the KK hand is a x/fold on flop, but I can be convinced the other way:) Though I don't like x/calling flop, because we will face a turn bet too frequently IMO.

I have a question for everyone: What are we doing with JJ (middle set) facing 3 barrels from Villain, if the board runs out totally blank, meaning we don't boat up.

Hey,

Good hands, good explanations.

I really like your attitude of not being afraid of showing us the somewhat misplayed hands. It's a good opportunity for us to improve.

In the last hand (KT on T5385) I agree with you that a thin valuebet on the river could be a good play against bb's possible range. What size would you choose that gains value from weaker pair+flushdraw hands, and would represent your missed draw range too? Normal size gets enough calls, or would you go for smallish, under halfpot bet?

Thanks

hi great vid, at 10 mins the aqo- hand you said 3bet against jason would be the play, although I think I would also flat, what is our plan if he 4bet, 5bet gii or pill the 4bet?

I really like your HH videos, good work.

I would like to see a video about bb vs D in 3bet pot. I defend from bb really wide, and it's really hard for me to construct a 3betting range from bb that balances well the obvious monsters.

Thanks

Nice video, good explanations.

AQo around 26 min on Table 1. You folded it from D vs a CO open. What are the reasons for it?

Thx

great vid, and + 1 for hr vid

Im not sure if he can light often enough at this point. Since you have some dinamics, yes his 2nd 3bet shows more strength, you can leveling yourself the he knows you know this etc. that's why this one will be light, but he can expect a lot of defends to his 3 bet from your side, some calls Ip some 4bets, so ye I can imagine some bluffs here, but see more value in his move, I would flat pre, if kjo maybe a small 4bet again as you did before.

Hi,

At the end of the video the aj hand, you would also flat other part of the tourney in that stack dept, or just at some ft situation? I mean in other stage of a tourney I almost all the time 3 bet/call or fold that hand.

UpUpAndAway

Very good, valid points. This is a leak that I need to work on.

My first step will be to memorize your last sentence, it sums up very well how I should approach the game.

Thanks

Exactly, that's what I tried to ask in my comment as well.

First of all, I'm not advocating folding, BigFiszh and Parker made it very clear that Villain doesn't need too many bluff combos to make it a call. Tbh I forgot about the one combo of AJ that I beat and would be a reasonable shove. Just that makes it a call I guess. 

But my question is, and would be very grateful, if someone explained it to me, why it is good to almost potsize shove one pair hands on the river. Tbh, in Villain's shoes, with AK I would x/call. Given that I'm IP my range is much wider than his, I can have all the busted flushdraws etc. So my point is I'm either snapfolding my busted draws to his shove or crushing his one pair hands. IMO my calling range here is AJ+ and AsQs for one pair hands. And because my range contains much more draws that might bluff the river, than valuehands, that call, and are worse than AK, it's a x/call for me with all of his Ax and KK hands. 

Interesting point, but I don't think shoving turn is a good play. What do we represent? Would you shove with flushdraw? I guess no, your equity just dropped significantly, and you're getting good price, for the river. So the only valuehands are basically sets (2 pairs? but I won't have 2pair here) and bluffing seems gross to me, but who knows, he might call with overpair. I still think call/call/call is the only play here.

Btw I really regret that the "snapcall" and the "quit poker" guys didn't show up to answer BigFiszh's question. 

Ok it seems that I'm totally off in this topic. My bad. As I said, in-game I didn't have any doubt about calling, but afterwards it made me think, that maybe it's not that obvious.

And luckily for you I won't quit:) And you're right, with flushdraws it's a good play to shove river, but as I wrote earlier the only flushdraw that makes sense regarding his preflop play made TP on the river, and I'm still not convinced why it is so good to shove with it.

Yes, against the fish, his range isn't that narrow, but against my range that 3bets the utg and will continue vs his 4bet, he shouldn't have a too wide range, so it's burning money with J10s, or something like that. So his range isn't so wide.

Ok his value hands might be AJ/AQ/AK and KK. In his shoes, after 4betting my 3bet vs the (short) utg and my call, would anyone of you barrel the Ax part of your range on the flop and turn OOP? I wouldn't, and I don't think it's +EV. And if so, what would you do on blank river with your A high?? Is it a good strategy in a 300 bb 4bet pot?

And after somehow getting to the river. Is it a good play by his part with his TP hands to almost potsize shove the river? What kind of hands do I have that are worse and will call his shove? In other words, what kind of hands he gets value from? Isn't it more EV to bet smaller with his TP hands or IMO better to x/call, getting value from busted flusdraws for example? And sorry, but turning KK/QQ into bluff on the river doesn't make any sense to me, so I would exclude it out of his river range.  

And you're right that I'm on the top of my range, but my point is, that I couldn't find any Air hand in his range, and his value hands beat me.

Earlier I saw a good video on Bluefire from Niman Kenkre. It's a good one. It's title was "Know when to fold'em" or something like that. I know it's now oldschool, but it tried to show the same concept. He even folded in a very imbalanced way the Nut flush on a nonpaired board, and it made sense.

that's what I wanted to write too

Ok, thanks for the comments guys, especially for the one that explains something. I'm not offended:)

Btw I "fist pump snapcalled", but after the hand, I thought that it isn't that obvious. As I wrote, his range is pretty narrow IMO, basically QQ+, AK+. I don't think he 4bets w/AQ for example. If he doesn't turn QQ,KK into bluff (which I doubt), and we suppose that he won't barrel flop and turn with AK/or Ax if we put it in his range(which I'm pretty sure of), then we have a pure bluffcather, but as I stated before, don't think he has too much Air here.

So IMO, NO, it's not a "Fist pump snapcall". It was on Stars, and I've played there quite a lot lately, and haven't seen too many people that will bluff 150 bb in this 4bet pot with pure air, especially when 83bb get in on the river. If the turn would have been the Ace, then it's an easy call, but I don't think that he got to the river with too many Air combos/A highs. The only exception could be AsKs, but I think most of the people would either x/call or bet halfpot or so the river, which is the right play IMO. 

And lastly why should I raise flop, even if I put him exactly on AA. Tbh I don't understand the connection between the two assumptions.