Vipassana

Agree with Hayden

I agree that playing A7o OOP is asking for though spots, i would 3bet pre to end the hand right away.

As played i like your line vs a tight player. Vs an agro i would just call the turn to let him jam his blufs on the river.

If you are raise calling KQs from the HJ vs BB shove with 20bb you need some infromation on the bb. Have you seen him jamming alot, did you make it 4k or 6k, was there another pay jump?

I dont he is ever 4betting you light here with 30bb vs a MP tag and you 3bet a utg player, no reason for him to think you are 3betting light. With the bubble coming and no shove stacks behind it seems like an ok spot. I dont mind a fold either.

Now that i think about it again, maybe he could have some blufs in his range like 67s, J9s, JQs, diamonds/overcards, vs his value range: Tx, 88, 55 KK AA. But then again is he calling a 2/3 pot bet on the turn with just an open ender? Nah he prob had you beat...

Call flop, fold turn if its bigger then half pot

Hmm though spot, i sometimes think people like to play back at me on flops like this and then decide to not cbet but cbetten is obv better.

His turn bet is really small, we only have a bluf catcher here because he is not playing A8 like this, So he has Acx as blufs and maybe 67, his value hands are flushes and 88/55/22. I think if he was bluffing he would bet the turn bigger? So i think i would fold the river.... Also after you called the turn bet he must have you on at least and overpair and i dont think he would bluff this blankest river ever to get you off that.

I dont think its close at all, even loose players get good hands in EP and we have 3 players behind us. 22bb is way to much to risk in this spot imo, if we have 15bb i can maybe agree on shoving but still im not liking a spot where we have een utg opener and 3 players behind. Dev fold imo.

1. You have 120bb facing a 3bet and 60bb shove from a tight player, call or fold are both fine imo but if the field is kinda soft i would fold here.
2. 77-99 are always trouble hands, you have 30bb, shoving pre seems to big, im ok with your line
3. Seems +EV but high variance and i think KTo is not strong enough imo, i wait for a better spot. If i had QJs or TJs i would be more inclined to shove because these hands have better equity imo.

If you wanna play an EPT then Barcelona is one of the best to play because its the biggest and softest field of the tour. Spanish players are often emotional players who dont like to fold. Then again, as said above, its still an EPT and its nothing like the wsop.

23:00 A8s in sb, i dont think we ever getting a call here from 66 like you say on the river on 4Q892? Are you sure this is a valuebet? I dont see any hands that we beat that can call here because its 3 way?

26:40 A5o - how bad is a check behind here on the river? I dont see us getting called and we give him the chance to check raise the river.

34:00 AJo i think we should raise/limp call here to exploid bad players in a 8 dollar mtt. We dont need to balance our shoving range because they dont know what a good calling range is, so they will fold way to many hands on our shove imo.

44:00 you shove 33 utg with 11bb in the big 109, im always struggling with these situations from EP, i think my EP shoving range with 10-13bb is 66+ AJ+ maybe KQo is that too tight? I was wondering how likely it is there are 2 or more pairs on a 9 handed table. With how many bb are you folding 33 utg?

Thanks for another great video!

5:40 TT in the bb, utg raises from 25bb stack with 4 shoving stacks on the table, i think his range is pretty thight here so i pref flatting because of this. Is that an option too?

13:40 A9o how bad is it to just fold preflop, i hate OOP guessing games. I dont like your riversizing, would you ever bet this size with a J? I like a 1/2 pot or even allittle bigger bet so we fold out 5x, 6x and maybe Tx, dont you think a bigger bet is better too?

17:00 KJo you learning us to 3bet then call a cold 4bet with KJo for 1/4 of our stack? I understand some of your reasoning/tells but if i bust like this in a big tournament i will feel pretty stupid...

34:00 AA on the button. You correctly saying you are never 3betting light here so i think a flat is way better because he will be folding all his non premiums, also when we flat we give the SB and BB a perfect resteal spot.

I seem to disagree alot with the pro, still like your video's tho ;-)

I like a raise on the flop too, i think villain is mostly willing to stack off here so why not get the money in on the flop with QQ on 467 before the turn kills the action

35:40 i often check back this AJx flop with A3s to induce a bluf on the turn, are you doing this sometimes and in what spots?

32:00 QTo the turn is a K and a good barrel card, let say the river is a blank are you 3 barreling?

23:44 what do you think about the way all 3 players played their hand?

89o shoving flop is to risky?
KQs checks turn behind, would you do that aswell? He can not bluf the river right?
T8s i guess he couldnt played it any different?

I think villains has a pretty accurate betsize tell here if he did bet 1550 which is more the 3 times your open. (Tight) players often flat 55-JJ and AK/AQ vs an EP raise and raise KK/AA smaller, so i wouldnt be surpriced to see QQ/KK here and maybe AK. I dont aspect a tight player to 3bet you light here with QTs/89s.

On the flop we have the best hand or the best draw so x/c is the best option imo, i would check every turn and let him bluf again or potcontrol. If you make your flush i would bet river for value because i think a tight player isnt going to bluf enough but still may call some hands.

JJ i would shove insta so it looks like AK and we make it easier for villain to look us up with 77-TT. WIth 17bb and no pay jumps soon its an easy shove. But lets say we have 25bb? Then i would flat and hope someone shoves, anyone disagree?

Insta fold 66, 99 is prob a shove with 17bb but no fistpump at all. We always think we HAVE to play a hand we getting dealt. If you dont feel like shoving 99 vs a EP raiser because you can find way better spots with this great structure, just fold!

I think villains calling range on flop is 22-AA and 9x mostly and maybe some overs like AQ/AJ/ATs which also beats us. I think calling turn is std. On a blank river we are losing to 9x, AQ, 22,99,QQ+ and ahead of QJ, TJ and some floats/ missed flushdraws, i prob end up calling if i think he blufs enough in this spot.

Bet 12bb and calling shove. Bet to protect and expect to see 89 or a flush draws when he ships.

I think he is folding al his draws on the turn and i dont see him jamming JJ for value, so this would be a x/f for me.

I dont think an edge is going to help you alot with 13bb, im shoving 99's but im totaly ok if everyone folds, raise 2,2 is a big mistake imo because you dont want to get flatted.

I think 77/88 is pretty close here icm wize, because i dont see people calling as easy with 66 as to 88.

Easy shove

I think 3betting QQ from the bb vs an utg raise 10 handed with 150bb deep is a big mistake, especially because of utg's sizing.

UTG raises 3,5x which is a huge betsize tell especially from EP. People dont have 78s here or AJ/AQ, they mosty have mid pairs and sometimes AK. I would just call preflop and have no prob folding my QQ on a Axx of Kxx flop. Maybe QQ is close but JJ/TT is def a flat pre.

I think by 3betting here youre most of the time winning a small pot or lose a big pot.

I dont think a c/r will work enough here on this flop when villain cbet vs 2 players as any Ax and overpair is pealing. I think his turn call is mostly a made hand because of your big sizing and because he's tight. The question is: is he folding overpairs on a river shove, i think your range is full of draws (which all missed) rather than made hands so i dont think its a good spot to bluf the river.

I think i would prefer a x/c flop because semibluffing is not going to work enough of the times and after a x/c flop he may be inclined to check back alot of turncards for potcontrol as he is a tight player and afraid you outflopped him with something like a straight, 2 pair or set.

I dont like to play hands OOP so i would just fold prelfop and safe myself alot of though spots.

As played i think villains range has alot of medium PP after flatting the IR and suited connectors like QJs 78s, seems like we are crushed against that range.

You have 30bb here? I would def shove preflop here and pick up the 100k free money as villain 1 is opening wide en villain 2 range is wide to flatting the button, QJs is the perfect squeeze hand.

Thanks for you quick answer John, Especially the KJs hand gave me new insight thanks!