Ben Grise

I would check back flop to pot control especially only having the king of diamonds, ace of diamonds might be a different story, but even then checking back flop, if you do hit your diamond it's tough for him to put you on it if you ck back flop.

Amazing video! Thanks guys looking forward to more of these. Pure Cash you put him on the broadway gut shot on turn and then folded! Go with your 1st instinct!

The limping of the AA at the 27:20 minute mark made me feel better after seeing you do that. I was deep in a tournament in the exact same situation, and limped AA utg because stack sizes were similar, and it was on Bovada where everyone is a random. The The flop came 732 and we get it in. He had 73. I was beating myself up for limping, but felt like if I had raised it was going to be tough to get action.

What about HH review? Wouldnt that be sufficient?

41:45, why don't you over call with 99 here?  I'm guessing it has more to do with philborts post flop play than it has to do with you being worried about the original raising putting in a 4bet? 

Yes no maybe so?

At 21:47 you defend with T9o from the BB.  At what effective stack sizes do you avoid defending marginal hands from the BB to a late position open?  I see he his roughly 29 bb to start the hand.  Would you fold if he was open min raising 15-20bb deep.  I see more and more players open min raising with smaller effective stacks.  At some point do you see 3b shoving wider on a 15-20bb effective stack becoming the norm?

You are only squeezing there if you think that your opponents are capable of 4b light or the sb is capable of a 4b back raise shove.  In a high stakes tournament I certainly like squeezing, but in a tournament like or in a live tournament with weaker players believe me when I say if you get 4b shoved on from the ep raiser than the only hand you're ahead of a lot of times is AK

I think opening is better than folding, and folding is better than shoving.  You're open there looks so strong.  If you get flatted by a good player then it makes your play easy post flop.  If a fish flats you then you have a little bit of trouble playing the hand out of position.  I like jamming the least because you're almost never ahead when you get called.

Around the 14 minute mark you talk about having to have some play ability to your hand when 4betting due to the nature of how small the 3 bets are and how often people are 3b defending.  However, earlier in this video you mentioned how Timoshenko was chipping up quite easily when 4betting or squeezing.  What are some hands that Timoshenko was doing this with.  Or what types of hands are good to 4bet steal or squeeze steal with?

Great insight James!  Was a pleasure picking your brain and scoring one goal on you in FIFA soccer.  Was refreshing to see Steinberg opening so large in the WSOP Circuit national championship and hearing you reference it and his play at the WSOP. This is something I've been doing for quite some time and the young MTT pros look at me like I'm an alien. I agree that it really makes it tough for players to defend or 3b as you said.  I especially love doing it against a table full of weak limpers.  Many times they will never adapt and just keep limp folding or limp calling out of frustration and then they are playing a larger pot out of position.  

Why are we min raising heads up preflop so deep?  Shouldn't we be raising a little more when we are playing so deep heads up?

At 4:14 any decent player would realize that your flat is super duper strong.  If they don't then they are horrible.  If you flat there and he shoves obviously you can't fold, but don't be surprised to see a premium hand.

43:50 considering how draw heavy the board is and how deep you both are do you really think that his check raise is really that big especially if he's trying to get stacks in?

At 41:52 do you ever just call there as you're not risking losing much, and it's hard for you to get value by shoving or 3betting?  I sometimes like to call there to balance my range and you're almost guaranteed to get a c bet out of him should an Ace or King flop right?

At 33:35 if he's open limping there, we should take note to see if he's capable of open limp inducing.  The only time I like to open limp lp is if the players are super soft post flop and 3 bet super wide pre

At 28:00 you raise fairly small.  I think there is merit to raising larger, almost forcing one of your opponents to commit or fold on the flop.  Reason being, there are not a lot of good turn cards for you to get you more action.  There are a ton that can kill your action, and also based on the way the hand was played preflop, when you raise the flop large you can rep a big draw and it forces an over pair to call.  What do you think?

At 14:37 the opponent min raises.  I was confused to, but then I thought about it and to me it looked like he was trying to price his river call, hoping that you check back the river and he could check behind with what he thinks is showdown value, or he is hoping that you check the river after he raises the turn so that he doesn't have to make a big call on the river.  What do you think?

Not sure min raising so deep preflop is standard.  I love when my opponents min raise early position with such deep effective stacks

Yes, maybe I should have raised pre or on turn etc, but that didn't happen.  As played all results aside is there ever any merit in raising the river.  I'm never hero folding. 

I was never folding and deduced that I wasn't getting called by worse if I raised so I decided to just call instead of raise and he showed a full boat with Q2