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I like the pre flop flat, and your reasoning behind it. personally i would be x/raising flop this this kind of hand on this flop pretty often becasue it might be a little to weak to flat and we need a x/raise bluffing range to balance our value... but call is defs good too, better then fold i think. i think we need to raise the turn, i think we are just need to get value here from all A9's k9's Q9's, over pairs maybe, and all hands that are double barrelling becasue they picked up clubs. as played im calling river, i think we are very near the top of our get to the river range and might even be beating some thin value bets 

getting it in seems best if given the opportunity to do so. but i think its important to also play big draws fast on this board so that we are balanced.. AThh, AKhh, AQhh stuff like that

thanks for the replies, i know im mostly just complaining, but still feels good to know others go through the same stuff

i think this play is overly risky, if we forget about everyone else's ranges and just think about our own, i think we are squeezing most of our value hands with a raise and a call in front of us. So in my opinion its dangerous stacking off with a range thats capped at such a low point. I think the top of our range here is like AQ and 88 or 99. 

I may be wrong about your range however, if you have some slowplayed AKs or QQs or something in your range because you know the bb squeezes a lot then this play probably balances out. 

i think its a fine play, although pretty high variance. youl get him to fold all one pair hands and possibly hel even hero fold some 2pairs but i dont see him playing his fd any different then this so i think jamming into a range that has a bunch of flushes in it is kinda scary. you could say that he probably wouldnt bet that sizing on the river with a flush but i dont like to put to much weight into bet sizing against unknown players. 

all in all i think its a ok play and i guess this does allow us to have a bluffing range in this spot which is always nice but i think its possibly too risky 

im probably calling pre unless we have a specific read on villain that hes calling a lot of 3bets light. as played im just calling turn and if the river bricks and he jams im probably calling but i think you do have to be worried about villain having you beat here, if villain is a fishyer player then i dont know how much of a bluff raising range hes gonna have on such a dry flop if any. i dont think this is a weird turn decision at all though i think its a pretty standard just call... i think your river decision is much more interesting.

i think i would flat since were not really scared of any river cards, maybe the board parring but if it does so be it im still not folding, and we should have a perfect stack to pot ratio on the river to either just shove if villain checks or let him jam river. although shoving does allow us to stack some hands that are gonna get away on some rivers. So all in all i think its pretty close and player dependent but id lean a little more towards a flat on the turn.

I think bvb hes not gonna fold any Ah x to a single bet and many people will bet their equity when checked to on the turn so i think he has a bunch of nut flushes in his range on the river. He also probably has all combos of 86 and 89 in his range... doubt he has any kk and 99 seems impossible as played... 66 is a possibility. 

all this being said i think check folding this hand on the river is pretty exploitable seeing as how were probably near the top of our range..... although he has no worse hands in his range for value since i cant imagine anyone is betting the 7h or worse for value on the river. 

all in all pretty gross spot imo, our hand doesnt look very strong since were gonna be betting almost all Ah on the turn.... i think hes gonna have more value then bluffs even given our hand doesnt look all that strong

i think this is a super close spot and i think both call or fold have a lot of merit. i thinkkkk i would have folded river but since its so close i doubt your making much money in this spot in the long run by calling or folding. 

i hope this helped a little even though i was so on the fence.  

hey james, thanks a lot for all your great videos and insight

I was wondering what program or software you use to highlight the outer rim of your active tables? 

let me know... thanks 

I think x/f is fine. Hes probably snap checking AQ, KJ, JJ and unlikely to pay off with any of these hands anyways. I think if he bets the river hes got a set or KQ to often for us to call. 

I like your line. 

posted a reply below if your interested in my thought process a bit

your opponent is obviously a huge fish. limp calling a 3bet is a pretty clear sign of this, oop on top of it. Therefore its kind of hard to analyze this hand because I think its really hard to understand what your opponent is thinking. 

Your decision should of be based on your own read I guess. In general in, in my games im stacking off the flop or snap calling the turn bet, having flatted the flop raise as a trap. 

You can never ever ever fold so dont worry about it. In this case the guy got lucky but just reload and hope the guy stays on the table. Just iso raise this guy with all good top pair hands: A10+, K10+, etc. He will keep calling with garbage and in the long run lose it all. 

you should take notes on these fish players though. like if he limp calls with Q6 and the flop comes Q 10 2, you should note if he just calls your cbet or if he raises. 

hope this helps a little bud

darren2607, in general i would agree just continue betting for value. This play was very player dependent. The opponent was very weak and i knew he would bet the turn with almost all of his range: Ax, all his draws and all his floats. I was looking to build a pot against a weak opponent. I do make this play as bluffs and value bets every now and then even against regs though to mix up my play and not always let my opponents think that when I bet the flop and check the turn Im just giving up or have a weak showdown hand. 

hope this kind of answers your question of what i was doing 

I think this hand is a little misplayed. Your preflop read was that you were ahead and then you flopped well and folded to 2 barrels. I definitely like 4betting KQo as a bluff to a sb to button 3bet given you have blockers to KK, QQ, AK, AQ. 4betting will make you not have to be put into a tough spot post flop like the one you got into. I think if you elect to call pre I think you should definitely call flop and call on that blank turn, I think he has a lot of semi bluffs hes gonna be continuing with on a 2 flush draw board. i think in this situation we should call turn and make our decision on the river if he bets again and depending on what the river is. 

i really like a delayed cbet in this spot. i think by checking you are not capping your range. you could easily still have a lot of AA, KK, JJ, etc. since with these hands were gonna either be way ahead or way behind on the flop. I think the K also makes it more appealing since the K is a much bigger part of our range then it is in his 4bet calling range. We can easily get him off his air hands and his middle pair type hands with a turn and river bet.

overall i like your line in this spot

thanks marrek nice input

I think this decision is super player dependent. I think check/fold is most common. If we are playing a villain who will not turn his Kx and 7X into bluffs then it gets a lot tougher. Our range is pretty obviously a weak showdown hand when we check the river like this: 2pair or maybe a small flush like 2x of hearts or something like that. But I think in general if this player is likely going to check back his Kx then yes check folding is the best option. I guess a good argument could be made for leading and merge betting the river too thought. 

I think his range for betting the river is kind of nutted. I may be wrong but if we look at what his calling the flop with: 5x, Ax, all pocket pairs and some Kx. When he calls down till the river I just cant see him betting his 5x or his pocket pairs and i think all Kx's fold to your turn bet. I dont mind the check on the river now that we caught a piece but i think hes checking back a lot of what we have beat. I actually think another small bet might have worked better and if you get raised probably a reluctant fold. 

to be clear i might be off, im a 6max nl player not a HU

hope my opinion is helpful.

im not very common with how 10nl plays, but in general AK should be a hand that you want to be 4bet getting it in with. obviously with your small sample you can not relay to much on your stats but a 22% 3bet is very high. If you elect to call with AK IP you are kinda going in with a face up range imo of AQ,AK,99,TT. If you are 4bet bluffing some A rags and KQ's to protect your utg raise image you should definitely 4bet AK here to get it in. If you elect to call I think floating the flop or straight up folding is the best play. 

i definitely do 4bet fold KQ on the button as a bluff in this spot a lot. In this particular case i chose to flat for a few reasons: im suited so my hand plays better post flop then offsuit, villain is rather crazy and will barrel a lot of bluffs if i flop well, villains squeeze bb% is very high and i think my hand does very well against a lot of his range. if i was offsuit i definitely 4bet bluff. 

in the second hand i agree with everything you said and had a similar thought process for the whole hand, however i for some reason still called on the worst river their could be. calling on this river is almost certainly a losing play in the long run.

thank you for insight

i agree with both your comments, raising bigger in the second hand to set up river shove is better.

and looking back at both my hands i do think in both cases i shouldnt have called off the river 

31min in, i watched the hand again and i like your check option on the river better anyways, given history with the player

great video parker, huge fan of the live video. im wondering in the hand where you held 69 and the board ran out a straight do you think there is positive value in betting a smaller amount on that river to make it look like a blocker bet and try and induce him to bluff raise?