Hey everybody. I’ll start with some background info about myself and my (short) way so far in poker. Given the small size of the group I think it’s mandatory that people will have a clue about each other. I guess some of you guys recognize my SN from 2p2. My name is Yoni (Hillel-Barak is my middle name), I’m a 22 years old software developer from Israel. I live in my own place in Tel-Aviv, which is truly an awesome city. I got introduced to poker through home cash games that I played with friends for small moniez, and I was hooked from the first time. After I finished my obligatory army service in November 2009 I decided to learn more about the game, and in March 2010, after reading some stuff and playing some more causal poker with friends, I made my first (and last) deposit online. I decided to focus on one game format, and husngs looked the most interesting to me because of how personal and opponent-dependent the plays are. Around the same time I found out about 2p2 and about training sites, and started to deeply fall in love with the game. Between March and July I made the way from the 2’s to the 20’s, it took me a little over 1k games (only regspeeds on FTP). Between July and December of 2010 I traveled in South America (Post-Army Trip), during this 5 month period I played here and there when I had time, but it was mostly using crappy internet, a 10 inch notebook and in loud places, sometimes under drug influence (lol). I played around 600 games while traveling (mostly 20’s) and managed to get rolled for 30’s despite pretty mediocre results. In December 2010, my first month back in Israel, I played 700 games 1-tabling 30$ regspeeds. It was actually the most I played in 1 month to date. I know it’s not a ton but I never was (and will never be) a volume machine, because I only enjoy 1tabling and I have a job and a pretty balanced life. I really felt that my game was back track but I ran kinda meh:http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4900/decab.jpg1 week into January this year I decided I’m ready to take a shot @ the 50’s, I played 350 games at the 50’s and it went really well. In February and March I didn’t have too much time to grind. I played only 400 games in this 2 month period because I got accepted to a new job irl and was also very busy looking for my own place in Tel Aviv, which is a really demanding occupation. Once I was done with all the moving arrangements and bought a new poker setup for my new place I was ready to get back on the grind again. I played 450 games last month and it’s pretty much what I consider an ok volume for myself. So far I have a little over 1k games at the 50’s and those are my results ( approximately 65% Regspeeds, 25% Turbos, and 10% Deepstacks):http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1713/29499756.jpg As of today I no longer sit the 50$ regspeeds and deepstacks. I play 55$/88$ Turbos, and 80$/100$ regspeeds and deepstacks. I don’t yet have a meaningful sample at games above the 50$, hopefully this will change by the end of May. My goals for this month are: 1. Play a higher % of turbos and get better at them. 2. Sit the 110$ Turbos and exclude the 55$ turbos, so that by the end of the month I’m officially a 100$ reg. 3. At least 550 games. 4. Make new poker friends from the program. Hit me up on Skype, my username there is yoni-uzan.
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Alright here's my first Strat post. As you'll guys see I'm not gonna post hands from big, match/deciding pots, as I'm way more intrested in the smaller edges, the one that are frequently available throughout the match, and I'm constantly trying to rethink even the most std spots. Second hand in the match against an unknown losing player (250 games awful stats)Do we stab flop given almost no equity vs his calling range? AQ6 shouldn't hit his range if he also got a preflop raising range, but we don't know that yet. As played, after he checks back, is it good to fire a bet? if so, what's our sizing? I guess we give up on all rivers? SBguilliz761515 BBHero1485 Effective Stacks: 50bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players)Hero is BB guilliz76 calls 15, Hero checksFlop (60, 2 players) Hero checks, guilliz76 checksTurn (60, 2 players) Hero ?Same villian, very next hand BBguilliz761585 SBHero1415 Effective Stacks: 47bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 60, guilliz76 calls 30 Flop (120, 2 players) guilliz76 bets 30, Hero raises to 90 Raising the flop vs the mindonk is pretty much my std here. I think the population tendancy is that flop mindonks are weak. If villian calls and checks the turn I'm barreling any 9/T/7 for value and basically any overcard to the 8. I'm not sure about clubs that dont improve us, like Qc, you think it's still good to barrel those? If villian calls and mindonks, say, an offsuit K turn (that happens too), do we flat and see a river, or raise again, trying to force him off what seems to be a weakish hand/draw?
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Remember to click on input format and use Full HTML if you didn't do that here.t40-t45 looks good if you stab with 72. Enough to make Kx fold most of the time. I would give up if called, yeah. Good question with the T9. I think raising the mindonk is good but I'd make it a little bigger. Remember the Qc does give us additional equity as now we have a double gutter. I think I usually flat a second mindonk in both situations. Qc very close in deciding whether to barrel or not.
Do you agree about barreling any offsuit overcard to the 8, and shutting down on any card 6 or lower?
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Yeah, that'd be my general plan.
Villian limps his entire playing range. He's quite fit or fold vs my stabs in limped pots so far, and I stole many of those. He's also very stationy preflop, he called a minraise 11BB deep with 72o and limp/called quite a bit throughout the match. A pretty awful player overall. If I check the flop he checks back almost always. he does openshove the flop from time to time in spots like this, but I didn't get to see with what hands and I'm guessing it's a pretty strong range. What do we do when we flop good equity this short? If I lead I have enough equity to call the jam, so why not just openshove it and get maximum fold equity? How about playing passively and trying to hit vs some1 who's likely to check back a ton? If he cbets we can assume around zero fold equity imo vs this guy.Villian has 690 left going to the flop.Effective Stacks: 5bb Blinds 80/160 Pre-Flop (240, 2 players) Hero is BB guilliz76 calls 80, Hero checks Flop (320, 2 players)
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Hard for it to make too big of a difference here. Jamming seems fine as does bet/calling (I doubt jamming really gives you all that much more fold equity) and checking and stabbing turn given reads.
First hand of the second match vs villian. In the first match he "cbet" 180 into 60 with 9 high on QTx and give up after I called. I stacked him around the 10th hand, which was his first min3bet: he flopped the NFD with ATo on monotone flop vs my flopped fl00sh.what's the perfect sizing here in your opinion? And will we use a diffrent sizing with QQ-AA? What's our value 4betting range here? Effective Stacks: 50bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 60, diogosoares1 raises to 90, Hero ?
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imo, we need to make it bigger with AKs than with QQ-AA. QQ-AA I'm making it 225-270 (my instinct is 240 or so). AKs should be 285-325 or so.Against what we've seen so far, I'm probably...Straight jamming 55-88. He's already shown ridiculous sizings and people like that will make ridiculous calloffs with A4 etc. Plays much better than making a non-allin raise and letting him call with a great deal of equity and play very well against our particular hand postflop.Bigger 3bet with 99-JJ, JJ not needing to be so big, also AQo+ AJs+.Smaller side 3bet with QQ-AA, KQs.Given his ridiculous postflop cbet sizings I think I'm calling and playing the pot in position with KJ kind of stuff and weaker aces.
Villian is a -1% ROI solid fish who puts a lot of volume and plays ok for the most part. He's kinda loose but also has a fold button. I haven't been out of line so far. what do u think about the DB here?Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHarpyie601650 SBHero1350 Effective Stacks: 45bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 60, Harpyie60 calls 30 Flop (120, 2 players) Harpyie60 checks, Hero bets 60, Harpyie60 calls 60 Turn (240, 2 players) Harpyie60 checks, Hero bets 180 I don't think villian calls the flop with 1 card gutter unless he also got a pair. I think a DB here is rly scary for his range. My plan is to give up on all rivers I miss. And in general I would like to know your opinion on barreling a turn that brings the 4th broadway card after cbetting, esp vs regs or villians with a fold button, because in general we'll have much more str8's than villian in this spot.
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Alright so I'm warring it out with a 55$ reg on FTP lately. I don't have much experience in turbos but I think I'm better than him at da pokarz so it's not that bad. Basically I'm playing rly laggy and running him over for the most part. His BB VPIP is only 40% but his 3bet is 20%, I know I should keep opening every hand but the thing is I want to play back at his 3bets as well.At 15/30 he 3bets 5BB, from 60 to 150, and I'm trying to develop a 4bet-to-270 range for that spot bcz I have somewhat of a feeling about when he's light and when he's strong and I want to use that without jamming at the 38-50 BB range. He would 3bet all std value hands obv and then A5o/A2o/T9o stuff that people usually flat. So I 4bet small with 77+ AQ+ and some some speculative hands that are not good enough to call a 3bet. otf I cbet like 190 into 600 and I think he's playing FOF for the most part otf but would prob jam any pair cuz I'm rly aggro and he's sick of me lol.What kind of adjustment would you make after you see this hand? Up until now he folded twice, called once and c/jam flop (I folded). The time he flatted I assume he did 3bet kinda light bcz he'd def jam over anything but QQ-AA that he might flat (some of the time). this is my 4th 4bet. Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBthejokenott1600 SBHero1400 Effective Stacks: 47bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 60, thejokenott raises to 150, Hero raises to 270, thejokenott calls 120 Flop (540, 2 players) thejokenott checks, Hero bets 220, thejokenott goes all-in 1330, Hero goes all-in 910 Turn (3000, 2 players, 2 all-in) River (3000, 2 players, 2 all-in) Final Pot: 3000 thejokenott shows a pair of Fours Hero shows a straight, Seven high Hero wins 2800 ( won +1400 ) thejokenott lost -1400 Alright so obv the 3bet/call pre is horrible on his part. And I'm happy to see A5 cuz its basically tells me I was right 4 out of 4 times about him being light, which is pretty good given he's not 3betting like a monkey. I want to utilize that edge. I rly think that he's the type of player to never come over the top with a 5bet bluff, and that's why I like 4betting him. I think if I got him to a point where he puts his stack so light vs me I already won the war bcz in reality I'm rly not all that spewy as he thinks. Or am I?Cliffs: non-allin-4betbluff range in turbos vs 5bb 3bets early on. Go or no go?
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"His BB VPIP is only 40% but his 3bet is 20%, I know I should keep opening every hand but the thing is I want to play back at his 3bets as well." I don't think this is correct I think it has a lot to do with how he contests pots. If we're opening a wide range its super +ev for him to 3 bet wide. So that 20% range is going to be owning us. If his fold to cbet percentage is higher then 60% its probably okay, but if its lower and he's cring or floating a lot I don't think we should be opening that wide.Opening up a small 4 bet vs a merged range is something I almost never do. Especially with hands like AK, AQ, cause I figure villians who 3 bet a merged range are going to be snap calling most of their Ax hands. 77-99 just play too poorly post vs their flatting range, and again if their calling hands off like A7, A8 we're crushing them. Interested in what mersenneary thinks here. If I'm doing anything with that 106cc hand its flatting, but the bottom of my range would have to be 107s, but prob more like 108s. And I'd only be flatting if he was polarized. Vs a merged range I think 108, 109, etc isn't going to play that well.I'm betting bigger otf there. You've got some ballz to be 4 betting pre often in turbos is all I gotta say !!! :)
If his BB VPIP is 40% its automatically +EV to open every hand and we shouldn't care that we'll have to fold to 3bets a lot.I do think that I can combine opening wide to take advantage of his low bb vpip AND playing back at his 3bet range so its not as +EV for him to 3bet my opening range. I can't ever bet bigger otf bcz it would screw all the other hands in my range, I want to keep my cbets with a size that is good for my cbet/folding range.I would def flat T7s. As I said I'm 4betting strong hands as well as the hands that are right below my 3bet-calling range. A5o is playing terrible vs T6s in a 4bet OOP so I'm happy with him calling the 4bet.
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Another hand vs the same reg. Is this an easy shove vs some1 who 3bet shove wide from around 22BB and under? Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero1045 BBthejokenott1955 Effective Stacks: 17bb Blinds 30/60 Pre-Flop (90, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 120, thejokenott calls 60 Flop (240, 2 players) thejokenott checks, Hero bets 120, thejokenott raises to 260, Hero goes all-in 925
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"If his BB VPIP is 40% its automatically +EV to open every hand and we shouldn't care that we'll have to fold to 3bets a lot."Yeah sorry I read it as being he calls oop 40% for some reason. I'm such a fish.
I'm fine with your T6s 4bet given strong reads over a significant sample that his 3bet range is wide and that he has a fold button. nh.
I also think bigger on the flop is best. We're not interested in advertising fold equity.
I'm fine with the K7 jam although with reads that he won't double barrel much a flat is better.
With more than 2 PSB left behind don't I need to have a cbet/folding range in those 4bet pots? I feel like that cbet/folding range will suffer from a bigger bet here because when I have air on J25r I do want to make it 1/3 pot and force him off his air. Am I overthinking balance? let's assume I'm gonna play this reg 100 games and that he's somewhat thinking.
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I think you are overthinking balance especially if this dude isn't that good. On J25r you can bet less with everything. On this board you can bet less with big hands like AA and bluffs and more with vulnerable overpairs like 88 and draws. You're still pretty balanced.
I've been trying to analyze some of my Holdem Manager Data lately. I found out I win 34BB/100 hands from SB and 5.7BB/100 hands from BB, around 40K hands from each position.When I break down my BB stats I find some intresting stuff.when villian doesn't fold pre I have the following breakdown:~11k are limped pots where I'm OOP. I win ~15BB/100 hands in them.When villian raises, my overall BB VPIP is ~42 %. I 3bet 14.4%, call ~28% and fold ~58%. So:~3k hands are 3bet pots OOP where I make 220BB/100 hands.~5.5K hands are single raised pots where I flat call OOP. I win ~17 BB/100 hands in those. My fold to cbet is 38.6 and it looks really fishy and stationy tbh. I get to showdown in 40% of those hands and win 53.7% of showdowns.overall Is it standard to have a negative bottom line when villian raises preflop? Am I too nitty/loose preflop OOP? Am I even looking at the right stats, do you get something from them about me at all? I'm just starting to explore my database and I'm really excited about it tbh. Are there any stats that you would rate as very important to check early on? Any advice on what to look for when exploring HEM would be great.
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It is definitely standard to have a negative bottom line when villain raises pre. I do think that a 42% BB VPIP is too tight against the vast majority of opponents, though. So let's start there.50bb deep, first hand of a turbo readless, your opponent minraises from the button. What are your ranges?
tbh I opened up my ranges a little bit lately vs minraises after re-watching some of your vids. my flatting range 50bb deep readless is probably something like this:(3bet AJ+ KQ 99+).flat all Ax, all suited kings, K5o+. obv 22-88.Q8o+ Q7s+. J7s+ J8o+. T7o+. 97o+ 96s+. 87o 86s. 67s 45s.
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Yeah, that's closer to playing 50% of hands, which is more reasonable. I do think you should widen it even more, at least to include Q7o, Q4s-Q6s, J5s-J6s, J7o, 95s, 85s, 75s, 64s.I'd also 3bet ATs/KJs readless for sure imo.
Some of those bottom hands can be good to go in your 3bet bluffing range against regs. I wouldn't recommend doing that against the general tendencies of fish though of course.
Say we play a 55$ FTP turbo game.first hand we minraise, villian folds. second hand villian minraises his button. third hand we raise, villian 3bets.1. What in your opinion should be our 4betting range and our defending range, if villian 3bets from 60 to 180, 50BB stacks.2. What should be our folding range vs a 3bet from 60 to 120.
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4-bet jamming range: something like 22+, AJs+, AQo+.Flatting range: A8o-AJo, A2s-ATs, K9o+, K8s+, Q9o+, Q8s+, J9o+, J7s+, T9o, T7s+, 96s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65sSomething like that. Some wiggle room in there for sure. That's for 180.
vs 120, I tend to play pretty cautiously in position taking advantage of our positional edge against this sizing which often can have a lot of premium pairs in it. Something like...4-bet: 77+, AJ+Flat: Most of my opening range except for the trash.Once it becomes clear my opponent likes to do this frequently I'm definitely widening up the 4bet range but readless I'm not sure that's best.
I tried a new line today vs a player who flats wide OOP and bets 100% on the turn if I check back the flop and will also continue a lot vs my cbets.I would check back a dry flop with air and raise his turn bet. I figured that if his turn betting range is wider than his flop c/c range then this line is more effective than a DB and it's also cheaper. Yeah we rep less credibly but I wouldn't think of pulling it too often. Obv vs a loose opponent we need to go to value town etc etc, but we are always going to be bluffing at least some if he's not a complete donkey.Do you have any experience with this line? Do you think it might be useful? Is it spew?
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It's definitely a useful line given that read. I'd balance it by checking back some good stuff too, especially on boards where it's hard for him to have anything and your hand isn't that vulnerable. It can be good for value as well to pick up that extra bet.
What are going to be the most common difficulties for a turbo grinder starting out with ST's? Maybe a few tips that are really valuable to know early on, if that's not too general?
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The turbo jump isn't as big, you're somewhat used to having to get it in with mediocre equity and gamble it up on thin edges.I think the biggest difference is just how important honing is on button behavior (opening range, etc). In turbos it's of course important but you can better get away with being lazy and not making that many decisions based off it. In STs it completely determines a lot of your actions and if you try to just use a "default strategy" it's not good.In case you didn't see, here's some posts I made in the 2+2 thread on the transition to STs: "It depends on your skill sets. For some people it is very difficult, for others it's not that hard of a transition (running good early helps!). Many turbo/reg speed players aren't good enough mentally yet to play STs which can be a big hurdle for them. Especially control freak reg speed players who have to feel like they're getting it in good and that they're not really gambling, they both play worse and can't handle the swings."
Villian is a winning poker player but not really a HUSNG regular. First hand.Effective Stacks: 50bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players)Hero is BB Speil13 raises to 75, Hero calls 45 Flop (150, 2 players) Hero checks, Speil13 bets 75, Hero calls 75Turn (300, 2 players) Hero checks, Speil13 checksRiver (300, 2 players) Hero ??? What hand is the bottom of our value betting range here in your opinion. If we bet 96, how much do we bet?
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Same villian. This is his first 3x pre after 2.5xing up until now. It's our second flop when he's IP, in the first one he cbet and I folded. I think betting a lot of rivers is good here vs A high and 4x, not sure about the 4th heart. Ah is def a big part of his range, as well as Ax with X being a good heart. Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBSpeil131110 BBHero1890 Effective Stacks: 37bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is BB Speil13 raises to 90, Hero calls 60 Flop (180, 2 players) Hero checks, Speil13 checks Turn (180, 2 players) Hero bets 120, Speil13 calls 120 River (420, 2 players) Hero ?
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Same villian as before. We don't have any real image so far. This is pretty early on. No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$55 + $2.50 Heads Up Sit & Go Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBSpeil132105 SBHero895 Effective Stacks: 22bb Blinds 20/40 Pre-Flop (60, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 80, Speil13 calls 40 Flop (160, 2 players) Speil13 checks, Hero bets 80, Speil13 calls 80 Turn (320, 2 players) Speil13 checks, Hero checks River (320, 2 players) Speil13 checks, Hero bets 200I take this line from time to time with nut low hands when a regulars' range on the river is pretty much capped to a high card. I think he bets all Kx Jx Tx on the river because its kind of unlikely for me to bluff in this spot. I think a small sizing is good here because it needs to get folds not very often and it looks a lot more like a vbet against A high, it rly doesn't look like a bluff to some1 who considres me solid. There's also value ofc in moving him off a chop if he has less than J high.
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What do you think about c/calling the flop vs regs with airballz/gutshot/backdoor stuff planning to bet the river if the turn goes check-check?I just think that it's a really credible line in some cases where we can rep a much wider value range compared to c/ring the flop.For example on AT2 the std line for hero with A5 is to c/c flop, say turn is a 7 and goes check-check and river is a Q, hero vbets 60-80% of the pot. I think good regs will vbet rly wide on the river when the hand plays that way, and this goes back to the first hand I posted today with the 96 being 3rd pair no kicker after turn goes check-check. If a good reg is vbetting this wide in this spot it's pretty stupid not to include bluffs in it as well. What do you think about floating OOP in general?
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I'd check the 96. We can have missed flush draws but a lot of those are raising the flop and other than that it's hard for us to have air. I think K9/Q9 would be fine to bet to get value out of worse 9x which pushes it over the edge.With the J9, turn bet looks good. I think I give up on river. A lot of his flop checking turn calling range is going to be Ax/Kx with a heart. If you do bet I think anything bigger than 200 isn't good, 200-300 is a wasteland where you're not folding any more hearts out by adding more chips to your betsize.I think river bluff is fine with 53. We'll fold out Ax/Q8/97/98/87 which should be enough, even though a lot of those hands we chop with and that's not a huge range 22bb deep where he'll be jamming a lot of Ax pre. I expect him to have Tx close to never, usually not take this line with Kx, but I don't think he'll bet Jx on the river and that's the biggest thing to worry about why you bluff. But I think the math will add up to you folding out enough for it to be marginally better than checking.As for c/c and lead river, it's great on boards where you don't competently rep a lot of air, so when you do have one of those few gutshots or w/e, it can make a lot of sense. It also needs to be where you can rep middle pair for value. So something like AT6 with 98 and then turn/river below T we can competently rep Tx very well which gives us enough value range to make this bluff.
Did you ever had a downswing that really changed who you are as a player, in a good way?I really feel like the downswing I'm going through right now is really unique. It drives me to work harder and get better. Instead of whining like I'm used to, I'm now asking myself - Yoni, are you REALLY doing EVERYTHING to be the good at this game? And then I admit that no, I'm way too easy on myself when I run good, which is a natural thing. I didn't work hard enough, I didn't act like someone who wants to be a proffessional. So why the fuck would I have a right to whine now?It's easy to be confident when you run good. It's easy to lose it when you run bad. So I'm actually lucky that downswings exists because otherwise I will always suck at this game and never get good in it. I feel like this downswing a bliss. I want to be awesome, and I don't care if I lose 40 more Buy-Ins, as long as I know that I'm doing EVERYTHING i can.Would like to hear your thoughts on this, as well as your own DS story.
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Definitely.I had a 15k downswing or so last summer while playing superturbos. It forced me to take a hard look at my EV, and I noticed that while I had been running really bad, a good chunk of my prior ST profits were due to luck. After the downswing, it forced me to really evaluate how good I was at the game, but not in a negative way. I never beat myself up about it, I just knew that I had to learn from the people who were crushing the way I wanted to and get a lot better. So I really focused on that and have been really happy with the results.
1. First hand after blind go up to 20-40, villian has 600 chips, he's an aggro donk, I get dealt K3s OTB. We played haven't played at this stack depth yet.2. If villian is aggro vs limps but calls openshoves tighter than nash, we can shove wider than nash @ 12BB and under, no?
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About 14 hands in, villian didn't do anything crazy yet, he limped 5 times and raised 3 times, one time with A7o and the other two didn't get to showdown. Is my line std here, given he very rarely hits a piece here?only value hands I can imagine here are 77-99 that didn't shove pre, maybe A4/A6 suited. No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$50.00+$2.02 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBella43431215 BBHero1785 Effective Stacks: 41bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is BB ella4343 raises to 60, Hero raises to 180, ella4343 calls 120 Flop (360, 2 players) Hero bets 150, ella4343 raises to 300, Hero goes all-in 1605
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First hand vs random opponent, we minraise pre, he calls, flop is 742r, we cbet, villian calls. Turn is a K.1. I think I double barrel here anything with no SDV that have live outs vs 7x given people float here a lot with two overcards. 68, T9o, all that stuff I'm double barreling readless. Good/Bad?Same question on 227 on K turn.
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1. First hand after blind go up to 20-40, villian has 600 chips, he's an aggro donk, I get dealt K3s OTB. We played haven't played at this stack depth yet.I think I would probably limp, but it depends on a bunch of other factors of what we've seen. Limping and minraise/folding are going to be close.2. If villian is aggro vs limps but calls openshoves tighter than nash, we can shove wider than nash @ 12BB and under, no?Correct. It's generally a somewhat rare opponent where this is the case, though.
Yeah, his line is odd on the AK hand. I'm calling a jam. The minraise line represents a bit different of a range, but I think getting it in is fine given that there's not that much behind.I'd say the 742K double barrel is good, I'd often continue on the river. 227K is a bit different, we're really focusing on folding out Ax compared to the wide range of hands (2x/4x/Ax) that we can fold out on the other board. I'm not sure if double barreling as standard is best but I suspect it isn;t.
Villian is a reg. His fold to cbet is 35% over 120 hands with flop c/r of 19%. Std calldown? No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$50.00+$2.02 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBYashiro821970 SBHero1030 Effective Stacks: 26bb Blinds 20/40 Pre-Flop (60, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 80, Yashiro82 calls 40 Flop (160, 2 players) Yashiro82 checks, Hero bets 80, Yashiro82 raises to 200, Hero calls 120 Turn (560, 2 players) Yashiro82 goes all-in 1690, Hero goes all-in 750
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If someone is folding to 3bets a very good amount, say 80%, do you change your value 3betting range, or do you only add bluffs?
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First hand against a random -2% ROI russian player. I think river is a fold, bcz I can't see what his bluffing range is here.No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$50.00+$2.02 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero1500 BBigrok1987231500 Effective Stacks: 75bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 40, igrok198723 calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) igrok198723 checks, Hero bets 40, igrok198723 calls 40 Turn (160, 2 players) igrok198723 bets 80, Hero calls 80 River (320, 2 players) igrok198723 bets 360, Hero?
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This is a spot I find myself in a lot. Villian checks back flop and then bet turn+river. I think I'm a little too stationy vs this line but I'm not sure. Fish love slowplaying on the flop and I think that I run into this too much.This is the same villian from previous hand. He ended up having the goods in hand 1. A few hands later he 3bet and c/c AA7 flop, c/f 3 turn. No other notable stuff so far. No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$50.00+$2.02 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero1350 SBigrok1987231650 Effective Stacks: 45bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is BB igrok198723 raises to 60, Hero calls 30 Flop (120, 2 players) Hero checks, igrok198723 checks Turn (120, 2 players) Hero checks, igrok198723 bets 60, Hero calls 60 River (240, 2 players) Hero checks, igrok198723 bets 180, Hero calls 180 Final Pot: 600 Hero shows two pair, Tens and Nines igrok198723 shows a pair of Tens Hero wins 600 ( won +300 ) igrok198723 lost -300
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I'm fine with calling down with the A7. Any shorter and the flop would be a jam rather than a flat.I include more value 3betting hands as well when my opponent is opening a lot/folding a lot to 3bets. The reason why is that while a hand like KTo plays well OOP, +2bb in expection is pretty damn good getting folds preflop, and it's very valuable to get them and play pretty well when he calls. I'm also 3betting more bluff hands, too, of course.Weird hand on the 76542. If he has worse 10% of the time here, we need a 50% 3x and 40% flush distribution or more favorable for it to be a call. Given that, I think it's really close, and I don't think either decision is going to be much of a leak.I would lead turn with the 79 to get value from draws/king high, but I don't check/call turns when the flop is checked through very often (it's usually lead, check/fold, or check/raise). He really reps Tx only with this river size but given that we've already seen him trap once with the flush, I would probably fold river as played.
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