Making his first video for HUSNG.com, veteran video author and solid mid stakes regular faarcyde takes on a recreational player in what is the first in a set of videos on playing against both recreational and regular opponents. Player profiling is faarcyde's focus with these vids in $100 turbos on PokerStars, but he also touches on a number of other topics of interest.
Like it very much. Tks.
-10min KTo definitely would cbet this flop, and probably go for 3 streets(depending on the runout) with 1/2 pot bets, we saw that he doesnt get aggresive with draws so if he raises us we can just fold knowing for sure that he have TP+, and as you said he called flop a lot.
-11min QQ Same situation even better cause we have position.
13.20 Q9 i would isolate.
15min i dont understand why we are checking K turn, this guy is not gonna bluff CR us, and there is plenty of value from Fd, str draws worse J, 5's. Also if he floated with thrash as we have seen him do before, i don't think he bets river much- based on previous action.
20min T6s 14.5BB i think i either ship it or limp. Against this guy i guess limp is better cause he never isolates and is passive post.
last hand what do you think checking vs betting this flop, by checking we give him a chance to catch something on turn if he has something like KQ,KJ and we still can get stacks in on turn and river.
Cheers, waiting for your input:)
This is a weak vid. One of the most important aspects of HUSNG is gameflow. And this video fails to capture that. I don't doubt you're a great player. But too many coaches think they can just post a replayer video and show a few hands.
We need more Greenbast videos. Thats how its done.
Hi,
Could you give a few examples where you believe the flow of the game would cause you to make a difference decision than what faarcyde did in the video? It would be helpful not only to faarcyde, but to other players in the community.
Lol.
This is a weak criticism. I don't doubt you're a great student. But too many students think they can just watch a free video and crush the games using their sick gameflow skills.
Free video dude. Any value you get from it is +EV.
Really like this vid. As Ganjabond said i think u should bet in situations with QQ / J9 = 2nd pair to extract value from draws and weaker pairs. In the hand 46 when u flopped 2 pairs i think good option is bet flop for value because he is very passive / board texture is a little bit wet / on the turn villain raise, imo best option is shove - you cant fold that hand and there arent many rivers that improve you.
I really like your thought process in hand 53.
GL and please continue what you started. It really helps!
agree with all of this.
Also think an adjustment to a player with a high vpip oop as well as a low fold to cbet is to start limping more buttons as stacks get shallower. It keeps S2P ratio much deeper, and isnt as high variance as just 3 barreling him off a weak range he may not even fold. This type of villian should be the MOST profitable type to play against. Havnt seen one of these at 100+ in ages.
@Nunovaz: Tx.
@Gangabond: On the KTo OOP...yeah I could go either way honestly. The big thought going through my head here is keeping pots small against this guy especially OOP because he is of such poor quality basically every hand is +EV for me. With the QQ, yeah same argument applies (not that I am necessarily disagreeing wholeheartedly). With Q9o, not to beat a dead horse but same argument as the previous two. Bad player, no need to increase the pot OOP. The thing is too is that all these plays you advocated are certainly +EV. It is a matter of philosophy of grinding him down in an extremely low variance fashion. With the J9 king turn, I could advocate that (in fact I said sometimes I would in the vid) but he had shown at this point he would float with ace high or random stuff then bluff the river so I think this is the perfect spot for it. With T6s, I have to strongly disagree, based on his tendencies and his complete lack of three betting to that point I think we can continue to raise everything with position and essentially making the pot the exact size we want due to his complete lack of aggression. With the last hand, any option here would be okay. Based on previous actions I actually think it is rather unlikely he had Kj/KQ type hands especially with the minreraise, hence why I decided to bet all three streets.
@Gjacksong19: Not sure exactly what you mean, I think a replayer does illustrate gameflow pretty well? Of course live replays are great option, and they happen to be my favorite format so look forward to that ^_^ Haven't seen a greenbast video, will have to check him out.
@Borell and Mattraq: To expound on my first response, I look at it like this: versus this weak of an opponent, I'm not going to go three streets with these types of medium strength hands because he plays so passively, as often as he has third pair he has a lot of top pair and even overpairs in his range. So I like choosing the two streets of value I am definitely getting to be the flop and river because then I allow him to bluff or value town himself with whatever his flop calling range happens to be. In a sense I think we splitting hairs here because I imagine the net EV result is close to the same anyhow. And Mattraq1 I would have started limping buttons if his 3b frequency or aggression increased postflop but just didn't see it that way.
Tx for all the feedback ~