zegota

Hi,

I thought this was a really interesting first video. I like ones focused more on theory rather than live sweats and I thought this one struck a good balance between getting the important points across without being too dry or math intensive.

I don't know what your future plans are or if this is going to be a series, but I would really like to see some hands worked out start to finish. I understand you start at river situations because they're the easiest to visualize and apply these theories to if you have a range of pure air and pure nuts, and then I understand why you go to a common flop situation that we all get into all the time. What I'd really like to see is a continuation of this flop example, so we call with our range on the K72r board and get some kind of turn and face another bet. At this point we'll probably want to check raise with some sets, two pairs, and maybe some back door straight and flush draws. How do we construct that range, as well as our range for calling? Then we find ourselves at the river after check/calling twice. What do we need to call with the third time? Can we have a river check/raising range that includes bluffs? Then maybe do it all again with a wetter board :) I think this would really help me from playing every street in a vacuum.

You decided to make AJ a bluff catcher in the 2nd hand on a bad turn for your range. Given that it checked through, if the river was a safe card (2-5), would you have bet it? I realize this is villain specific, and judging by his play, it seems bluff catching is still the way to go, but do you think it's better to try to squeeze out a little more value against the average villain who might have a lot of Jx or T9 type hands in their range that will give you more money but are likely to just take it to showdown when checked to?

Also, while his line does look really suspicious, do you think this would have been a good spot for him to overbet jam the river given that this board is better for his range and you have very few nutted hands, especially after you check the turn and river?

The reason live poker is so much easier than online is not because live pokers are inherently worse than online poker players. It's that no matter how good you are, you can only play one table. So, if only like 20% of players at a casino on a given day are any good, that means on average, only 1 or 2 people at your table will be any good. Online, it still may be that only 20% of the people online at any given time are any good. But those 20% are probably taking up like 70% of the seats because all the people who are any good are multi tabling and most of the people who are just playing for fun are only sitting in one or two games.
Bovada is probably trying to strike a balance between keeping multi tablers happy and keeping the games fishy enough that it a. keeps the multi tablers happy and b. keeps the casual guys from getting blown away too quickly so that hopefully they'll have some fun and redeposit when they inevitably go busto. We think removing the caps would be good for us and them, but would it? Games would definitely get tougher and might dry up. I'm ok with how it is now, and I just use the rest of my screen real estate on some other site.
All that said, their software is so crappy it wouldn't surprise me if it is some kind of limitation. Although that wouldn't really make sense, cuz as far as I know there's no cap on tournaments and I know I can load up at least a few tournaments while I'm still 4 tabling cash.