Rachiid

For the KJhh hand @33:30, I'd say not, because the range that bet flop and check back turn contain a lot of flopped pair (+oe, GS etc) that will always check back the river, and can call a bet. His check-call range contain some AQ/AJ type hand (with the naked Ah for example).

Your content is excellent, you are one of the reason i keep suscribing to elite.
Format is perfect for me; good balance between in-depth thinkings on certain spots and live game, very educationnal in a lot of standards spots, which is particularly important in hu.

At 27min, the QT, what do you think about betting smallish, assuring a call by Kx and a raise of Jx/bluff?
I think that line maximises your value against Kx (which he has a lot) and accomplish the same thing against Jx. The debate is on our ev against his bluffs.

We could be looking for this size with Ax too (but it will be harder to deal with his raise then).

AA is a non-negligible part of your bluffcatching range turn and river, and the random small stakes reg knows it. That, plus the fact that he might just 4-bet to get in with his kings make me think that your range is almost always a pure bluffcatcher.

Given the perceived range u gave us, he doesn't have enough bluff to make it a call on the river.

Absolute bottom of your range, and you still have some nutty combos against a capped range, like 99/TT, Ace of diamond.

Jam is an option.

Your range 8x, 45s (ad 57s?), some 3x, 4x or low pps type of hands turned into bluff.

You could value KK+ if you slowplayed them pre for some reasons.

At 33:47, I guess he didn't see that he had the aces up (I didn't see the 4 at first too).

8:40 with ATT7hhss, I think that i prefer a check given that at this SPR, you'll not make him fold any Jx+. By check/shoving you might induce some stabs. If not, your hand doesnt really need protection as you cover pretty well the board.

Interested to read your thoughts on my point, and sorry for the bad english :).

In live games, a lot of players raise for informations.

Here by calling, you keep your perceived range wider that only nutted hand.

There is no needing for protection, as AAxx will probably call you off here, if he ever played it that way.

I think that he has more chances of calling your river shove/shoving himself river than calling your shove turn with 2nd or 3rd flush.

PS : The board is Ah2h7x, you can't have a flush on Ah7h2

With this SPR and being oop, i think it's a fold.

He is very often freerolling you, his redraw is hidden, you have no bloker against them and your odds are ugly.

Just fold it.

He could have a hand like second set, with a double paired hand (rainbow or single suited, as i expect him to raise more than not a double suited one).

Maybe a hand like 99TT, 99JJ, etc.

The 9 isn't a diamond, that increase this possibility as he might choose to fold an unimproved second set on the turn.

Still a marginal part of his range, but you should count it if you want to do rigorous math.

Hey Phil.

Could you explain a little bit why you particularly like to 3-bet with the TT98 type of hand at 100bb deep?

Don't you think that this is the type of hand that hate a 4-bet? (separate question, as I know that this is not the only factor to take into account for the 3-bet-or-not decision making).

Thanks, and keep up the good work :)

Very nice first vid Mister Jennings. I think that we are the same type of player.

You made an interesting point on the AK that you flat UTG+1, against UTG. You said that you don't have that much of a 3-betting range on this spot, and if you had too you would only take AA/KK and AKs.

I don't understand why you need to incorporate AKs in this range. I view AKs as a worst candidate than AKo here, principally for better playability postflop (you'll have much more postflop decisions by flatting),  better implieds (flush-overflush value against other players that would flat, especially BB that can now complete with a bunch of SCs and semi-SCs) and much more multiway-happy than AKo. I think that those factors outweigh heavily the ~3% equity edge you are gaining in a stack off preflop.

I'm really interested on your thoughts about this.

And apologies for my poor english ;)

Hi parker,

About the QJs hand at 34 min, do you mind raise-folding the flop or do you think you would give up too much equity ?

His 3-bet on the flop looks really strong with a lot of made hands that crush yours and even when he is semi-bluffing with like J9s, KQs, KJs etc... He not only has a lot of equity but in addition, he will shove many blank turn that you can't bluff catch when he has a semi-bluff and sometimes get your stack on a 8s/Ks turn when he hits the flush because these are not clean outs for you. I think you just play too little cards to call with just a pot-size bet on the turn.

Hi,

Nice Vid as usual.

About the A9 hand at 19 min, i don't really get your overbet instead of a classic 2/3 pot.

I guess the main goal of the river bet is to get called by any AsX that doesn't want to be pushed around from a chop, and his range consists mainly of AsX and some missed broadways like K10/KJ/J10.

So, by overbetting you represent a narrow range of hands that you actually very often have like A5s/AQ/A9/99 (not really balanced enough by your bluffs i think) so Vilain might get suspicious and fold any Ace that we want him to call with. In addition, he won't go crazy with some C/R bluff. 

I feel like in this hand, villain made terrible decisions that led to a nice profit for you, but overall do you really feel it's the best play or it's just result oriented ?

NIce 1st vid. Good work :)

Problem with the shove here : I feel our opponent will exactly fold the hands we doesn't want him to fold, meaning KKxxcc, 8xxxcc etc.
Maybe betting very small (I would say less than 1/2 pot) has a higher merit.

DIrtyD, here we doesn't shove for value (we are behind the vilains's calling range), not for bluff ( he can fold some better hands like dry bottom 2 pairs but its marginal) but for the huge amount of dead money in the middle. the shove doesn't let our opponent to dry for free with certain hands, etc.

Again, sorry for my english !

I don't think jamming the turn is a viable :
- We are very probably behind the villains potting range.
- We could save some money on terrible river cards like Jc, etc.

And, it's still good to have a hand that can call turn / call a lot of rivers with less than 1/3 pot left. That protect us from being bluffed too often on these spot when we have a significant part of our range with non showdown value when river blanks.

So, I feel that our hand is a perfect candidate for a turn flat.
I call this river, Isildur is probably betting a vaste majority of his bluffs here, given your perceived range (as i said earlier) and especially with that recent dynamic (increased agressivity, potting all streets etc...).

Guess he had 64ss :)

At ~14:50, you folded A4cc97 hijack. Missread of your hands or your standard ?
Nice vidz btw.

Forgot to add the the fact its a limped pot, increase the part of Ace blocker in his range.
If this was a raised, or a 3-bet pot, you would have to be more concerned about being beat a lot.

Interesting hand.
I think your bluff is ambitious with these stacks sizes.
Using your hand as a bluffcatcher >> using your hand as a bluff, unless you have some sick reads, that you doesn't seem to have.

Sorry for my english.