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While this may look like a good flop to you, you have to play ur overpair cautiously. All sets are in play and with three callers, there’s a good chance one of them has it. Ok to cbet OTF but I’d go smaller and attempt to keep the pot manageable. Your mistake is really OTT where you are at a loss on what to do. River is easy fold AP.

Agree, pre is way too loose. Just fold. You have better hands to 3b with or call. AP I'd better smaller on the flop. You're essentially trying to give yourself a cheap price to see turn and river.

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Good question and one that I've thought about too. I'm curious to hear what others think. I believe it has to do with work done via solvers.

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Thanks for the comment ZenFish.

Steve, see my comments/follow up questions below. Thanks again for the review and look forward to your responses.

Q1 3:40 (77 on 79AA board)
You commented on the bet-sizing on the turn and noted that if I was going bet then I should go bigger b/c our range for betting is very polarized. I think I understand what you are saying but can you elaborate a little bit? Are you saying that we only have a monster here or nothing when we bet, so our sizing needs to reflect this?

Q2 12:00 (TT, BT vs CO)
You noted that you would have definitely 3b TT there vs CO open. In this particular case, Villain is an aggro reg who 4b frequently (especially against me) as you also noted. In these situations against such a high 4b, I prefer to polarize my range into very nutted hands (JJ+, AK) that I’m willing to stack with and some bluffs to balance with (A2s-A5s). What is your general strategy in terms of initial adjustments against a high 4b? It seems you have a 4b calling range as well and TT seems to be in that calling range.

Q3 34:45 (AQs facing all-in barrel OTT)
Just wanted to clarify here that I called as quickly as I did b/c of my read on this particular Villain. He’s the same 4b happy aggro reg from Q2, and I’ve seen him barrel off like that OTT with a wide range on several occasions before. With that said, I completely agree with you that this can be or should be a fold against another type of Villain who is very value heavy here, especially given this is a 3b multi-way pot, and we have better hands that we can call off here as you indicated.

Q4 39:20 (Q9s)
I was making a note on the Q9s before where I flopped trips and then Villain bet almost 2x pot OTT w/ a FD, and you mentioned that there was nothing wrong with that from Villain. I’m certainly not used to seeing that kind of sizing (at least not on my site or at these stakes), so was a little confused/lost there. Is this kind of sizing possibly more common at higher stakes where you play? Let me know your thoughts on this and why you feel his sizing is fine. Does it potentially have something to do with Q1 about polarizing one’s bet sizing OTT?

Q5 SB vs BB
There were several spots where I folded my SB rather than try to steal the BB. I noticed you kept looking to the BB Fold to SB Open stat, which is something I do as well and I adjust accordingly; however, I also look to the BB’s 3b range vs SB open. If this stat is higher than 10 then I adjust by removing the hands that are at the bottom or at the fringes of my default SB open. Just curious to see what your thoughts are on accounting for BB’s 3b range vs our SB open steal. And more generally speaking, how do you feel about a SB limping strategy?

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Thanks Steve for posting the second part!

Steve, did you get a chance to view my follow questions above? Just curious to see what your thoughts were. Thanks!

Steve, thank you again for taking the time to review my footage. Here are some of my comments/follow up questions:

Q1
3:20 and 19:25 (RFI with 22 and ATo, respectively): I agree that these are not standard opens UTG unless there are fish in the blinds or passive players behind who are unlikely to 3b us, especially the BT. My question is which of these two considerations should weigh more heavily on our decision on whether to open with these marginal hands from early position? Fish in the blinds or players behind? In other words, if BT is aggro 3bettor making our open less attractive but there are fish in the blinds, should we still open?

Q2
12:55 (squeeze with AKo in the BB): You mentioned 4b raising smaller here. I think you reasoning for doing so was that we have very few bluffs here too and so we want to make sure that we are giving ourselves a cheap price on our bluffs. My only concern here with 4b smaller is that we are giving the BT a great price for calling and playing against us in position. Is this a valid concern?

Q3
6:45 and 29:00 (67o and QJs): Thank you for pointing out what appears to be a major leak of mine: Not calling enough in the BB. Below are my default BB vs UTG range and BB vs SB ranges when facing a 3x raise and no callers. How much wider would you go as a default? I'm trying to get a sense for how far off I am.

https://gyazo.com/eec414dbb19e4f1814d4fa573b9a64dd (BB vs UTG)
https://gyazo.com/d3601aa366b0b7f42c6b60f47ab13167 (BB vs SB)

Q4
27:00 (ATo, 4b bluff OTB):
If you are inclined to call this hand, then I assume you prefer AXs type hands for 4b bluffing here OTB vs a blind 3b, correct?
As you suggested, I should’ve taken a small stab here OTF. If he calls then we are done with the hand right?

Q5
32:10 (ATs): You were confused here as to why I was cbetting so small OTT with my nut flush draw. Just wanted to clarify that I did so because his Fold to Turn Cbet was very low (1 out of 9). Normally I’d size even bigger here to maximize on my fold equity, but there wasn’t much to be had here so I decided to price myself into seeing a cheap river card rather than giving him the initiative to do so. Let me know if that makes sense or if that’s faulty line of thinking.

Q6
34:00 (T9o in BB vs SB):
Can we consider raising here OTF since we often face overcards OTT? In other words, for protection and information. If not with this hand, then how about 2nd pair type hands?

Sorry for the lenghty post. Feel free to respond only to those questions you find most important or pertinent.

Way too light. Just give up and move on. You have many better hands that you can call/defend with on the flop. Also, don't think you need to even be thinking much about floating OOP at 5NL.

Btw, I sent you a private PM. Did you get it? Had a question about the review video that Steve Paul did for you.