Trevtrain

You need a Dell dude.

Completely eliminate rake. Make companies pay money to advertise on the site but use that money to eliminate (or greatly reduce) the amount of rake paid by the players. Specifically, rake at lower limits needs to be greatly reduced if you want to keep new players from getting crushed.

15:18 I don't understand why 9 is a "bad" card You still beat him if he has a 10 in his hand as you have the nut straight. His straight would only go to the king if he has the ten. I like the 9. only hand that the 9 completes is j9. Good video as always. Just was confused by that part of the video.

I disagree, I don't know what kind of history you have with him, but you at least have to give him the option to call a raise from you with the nuts

1/2 players are better these days but are still capable of doing incredibly horrendous things I've had many players call a min raise from me on this kind of board with bluff catching two pair hands or sets. I've even gotten calls with very huge overbets on occassion. To just call with the nuts because you don't think he will call with worse is not good practice. He can call with worse and he occassionally will.

27:55 You have the nuts, def not a check call . . .

at 34:40 his only possible combo of a6 suited is a6 diamonds, you gave him credit for having 2 possible combos but with the cards you have and the board cards he can only have a6 of daimonds

At the stakes you are playing, you really shouldn't be worried about developing a 4 bet bluffing strategy. You will make more money concentrating on 4 betting value hands. I doubt there are very many "regs" paying that much attention to your four betting strategy that they have adjusted and are now exploiting you. I think you just had a bad strategy and eventually your bad strategy that initially worked stopped working.

If you do feel you really need to start implementing a 4 bet fold strategy the most important thing to consider is blockers. Hands such as A2s, A3s, A4s, and A5s are good candidates since they have an ace blocker and still have decent equity if you get called. KQs and KQoff are also good candidates as both cards are blockers.

You can check yourself with some sort of tracking software. Holdem Manager or Pokertracker are just two that most people use. Your HUD will display whatever it is configured to display about your play. You will have more hands on your play than anyone else since you are always in a hand with yourself.

Allesandro, thanks for sharing your hand. You've taken an interesting line with this hand and I for one would have probably folded to you on the river. That being said, I question a few points in how you played the hand.

First, I think the preflop call is too loose. I don't think you make money calling here with j10 off. You've got a UTG open and a UTG +1 flat. That alone should be cause for concern as both those ranges are stronger than the call you just made. You don't even know for sure if you will have position in the hand (button calls so you don't) so I think the biggest flaw I had with the whole hand was the call preflop. You said your image was one of a LAG player. This is not a good situation to be in for a LAG player. You are out of position with a marginal hand with little fold equity (I'm assuming the table might adjust to your LAG image and call down lighter versus you) Without significant reads on the UTG player and the UTG+1 guy this is a losing call. Me thinks you should have just folded and waited for a better spot.

I'm a little confused by how you explained the action on the flop but I guess the button acted out of position before you could attempt your "stab" bet at the pot. You then thought the call from the small blind repped weakness and tried to rep either the made straight or a strong flush draw with the check raise. I don't mind how you played this street. You have 3 outs to the nuts and a 10 blocker against the flopped made straight. I like how you played this street. You applied max pressure with a decent hand and gave your opponents a chance to fold better hands while still keeping the pot reasonable in size. Check raising inside straight draws is something I like to do as a semibluff but I usually do it against only a single opponent when I'm fairly confident I have a range advantage on a specific flop. I don't think you really have any range advantage here. This flop nails a lot of the hands they call with on the button and out of the small blind. Sets are real possibilities as is a flopped straight or an open ended straight draw. Flush draws are also squarely in the button and small blind calling ranges. At the end of the day all you have is an inside straight draw that could be counterfeited if its a spade. I'm not sure you should be loading your 3 barrell shot gun just yet.

The turn card significantly changes the board as now any 8 gives your opponent a made straight. You now have to worry about all the previous hands I mentioned and any 8. You pick up some showdown value pairing your ten so I'd probably just check and hope you can get to the river and show down your pair of tens and still hope to spike a non suited 8 for the straight. You can turn your hand into a bluff if the spade comes on the river and I think that is a credible line to take. The amount you bet, you are repping the made straight. He has two blockers to the nut straight so I guess he just has seen you as really a LAG player and decides to call.

Honestly, when you shove on the river, it looks like you have a hand that beats JJ. There are very few hands that get as far as yours did that doesn't beat JJ. He's getting ok odds on the call and at the end of the day I guess your LAG image worked against you. I think it's a losing call by him. I personally against a random would call your river bet with an 8 if I had a flush blocker or any made flush only. Playing overpairs to this board this way seems suicidal. You are Italian though bro, maybe he saw the World Series of Poker and saw this hand and thought you all suck this bad so he had to call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pRsug-fDQk

Please tell me you don't do this when you win a hand . . .

Not for everyone I guess . . .

Excellent video Tom.  Thanks for putting in the hard work to get all those numbers and present them in a user friendly way.  What size do you recommend for c-bets given the stats you've generated.  I usually use a 3/4 pot sized c-bet and have found it to be very profitable at these limits.  Just wondering if I could make more with a different size . . . Keep the vids coming, good stuff! 

I agree with Chael.  I don't know where or why the trolls have showed up but it seems like they are now on this site in full force.  A post like HOTSANDWICH just made has absolutely no place in this awesome community.   Chael, thanks for your posts, I've always found your humor amusing and your poker knowledge impressive.  Off subject question for you, what gym would you recommend in the Oklahoma City area if you were a 35 year old looking to get into MMA?  I don't want to fight professionally or anything, just looking to stay in shape, learn some self defense techniques, and have some fun. 

Felipe, can you explain what that Omaha tourney on the bottom right at the end was all about.  It looked like everyone was all in on every hand.  I'm not really sure where the edge in this format would come from? . . . .

Red and blue lines don't matter all that much.  It's the green one you should strive to increase. It looks like you've found a great way to do that. Can you give a breakdown of what you are doing pre flop to get that red line result?  That is impressive and is the source of most of your profit . . . I'm guessing you 3 bet a lot . . .

What did ICMizer say was the cutoff hand where you are making money by calling?  I'd say I'm getting in AK and QQ+ just off the top of my head.  You guys are just so deep that 88 doesn't play very well versus his massive 4-bet.  I would prefer a call to a 3 bet fold since you are so deep and can set mine effectively.  The dude's jam seems extremely spewy and you were lucky to get it in with such a large equity advantage.  He should have a better hand than that to make that play.  Sorry about the result . . . sucks he gets rewarded for such a craptastic play.

I would have an EXREMELY tough time laying down this hand.  You would need a really great read on your opponent in order to do so.  If he has the AA, QQ, 66, or 99 so be it.  You got coolered and should be happy moving on to the blackjack table to try to win your buyin back.  Hands like AQ, A9, A6, and A3 all could be shoving for value thinking they are ahead.  There also are a few missed inside straight draws and weaker one pair type hands he might try to turn into bluffs.  He also could just be on some weird air bluff where he thinks your bet looked weak on the flop (which it was until you caught your 3rd 3) and he was planning on stealing the pot later if given the chance.  The river was his last chance so he spazz jamms thinking he has enough fold equity to get you to fold. 

I would take a bit before I made my decision but I would almost always call here.  What did he have? 

Phil, excellent video.  I don't think the situation where you talk about not c-betting ever really presented itself in this video.  Can you give a few examples, possibly hands you've played with against  opponents?  I know this is an area of the game I struggle with, especially in Omaha.  I don't really feel like I have an effective flop checking range and would like to work on this area.  I know in the video you mentioned top 2 was a good candidate to do this with but can you explain the concept a bit further? 

I can't watch your video.  It doesn't let me even though I am an "essential" member

I play on Bovada so it's just against numbers, not people . . .

Thanks, this is what I was looking for.  Since I play mostly zoom poker it really takes the reads of individual players out of it.  You are just playing position and ranges.