Tranqville

I enjoy the rambling, it makes the sessions more fun.

I would be so happy to see more of these concept videos!

Good format, quite educational.

Call KJ when you have Kc or Jc, fold KJ with no clubs. Blocking a Jd diamond FD is an additional reason to fold.

You are not at top of your range.

Maybe raising on this board is an option. I feel that SB is extremely
capped on this board and it favors my perceived range heavily. But I
think if I raise him now he will just fold because I have the Ad so he
can't have many draws to call here anyway.

This is just not correct. SB range has more equity and is more nutted/polarized.

http://www.pokerstrategy.com
Board: 8d4d2c
Equity Win Tie
MP2 47.37% 44.37% 3.00% { QQ-99, AdAh, AhAs, AQs-ATs, KQs, QJs, AQo+ }
SB 52.63% 49.63% 3.00% { TT+, AQs+, A5s-A3s, KQs, QJs, JTs, T9s, AQo+ }

Guys who 4b so frequently have typical 4b/calling range of AQo+, AJs+, 99 - and some guys go even wider and add AJo, ATs, 88.

So that's why I feel it is the most balanced play to check/call our
whole range because you have a lot of bluffcatchers that you want to
'protect' by your relatively small % of nutted hands.

It is ok to have a capped check/calling range as far as we have correct defending frequencies. The nuts are "overqualified" to do the bluff-catching job. They generally create higher EV by raising, because we balance nuts with air, those air hands add extra EV.

sweet16, do you understand game-theory terminology? It's akin to saying "exactly what are you optimizing?" when someone speaks about "optimal strategy".

"The maximally exploitative strategy is defined as the strategy that extracts the most value from your opponent, assuming you know exactly how he plays every single hand."

I'm just explaining my thought process during the hand and answering the question people ask: "Why did you raise the flop?". I would not post the hand if i was certain about my play, and I most welcome any suggestions and criticism.

I do have my ranges worked out for most common spots and am quite disciplined in executing them. I have studied ranges and equities for 4b pots like this. On the flop, I was thinking that SB hits this board hard, CO only slightly ahead, roughly 54% equity, and SB has slightly more nutted hands. I over-estimated equity of my range slightly when making my flop decision, I thought we are about 50/50. This is not a polarized situation and c/r, alongside leading, is a theoretical option Compare this to K72r board where CO has 67% equity, and SB has not sets, capped at couple of combos of AA and mostly KQs - c/r makes no sense theoretically.

I think combination of GTO and exploitative play is going to be the most profitable way to play in the long run. I don't like to make exploitative plays that are big theoretical mistakes. Particularly at multiway games at 6-max, we need to make exploitative adjustments, because equilibrium plays may result in losses.

I would normally call the flop. I raised because I check raised him out of 3b pot just minutes ago, and I felt he wanted to play back at me. I also know he can assign a bluffing range to be because of our past history. I thought that raising is more likely to induce rebluff than calling to induce further aggression.

I don't go out of my way to play pots with him, and I think same holds for him. It's just when we do play pots, there is a lot of metagame involved.

This is played fine. You can bet river smaller though, like $43 - AT (possibly unsuited) and A9s are significant part of villains range, AJ and AQ mostly bets the flop, small aces and underpairs have hard time calling three barrels.

I think villain only reps AA and AT for value. I would look at his opening stats from UTG and my history with villain to try to figure out if villain opens ATo UTG - some good regs do, some don't, it's right on the cusp.

The only blluff randomizer I can think of is specifically 76hh. It looks very unlikely that villain is bluffing here. In theory he should turn QQ and KK into a check-raise bluff, and it helps you that you do block KK.

solid vid, thanks!