Brags. Beats. Battlestar Galactica.

Only had the chance to watch the first 10 mins. Cannot wait to get back and watch the rest! Much better pace imo.

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20 minutes in and great vid so far. Love the chat about checking back medium flushes against non bluffy players which I think I do way too often.

Is your standard vs. all villains to bet near pot like that on all streets? The guy at the end, for example, was snap folding so much and being super fit-or-fold that we could get away with smaller bets.

Excellent video overall. I thought you kept a great commentary throughout the whole video, not just the first half. I'm just getting into HU and took a ton of great stuff from it. I really like how you instantly start developing assumptions and game plans based on the first few opponent actions, but quickly re-adjust and say why when villain starts playing differently.

Cool, thanks for your comments.

For betting pot a lot, it's something I've just made part of my game. You are actually allowed to bluff more if you bet bigger, because you're giving your opponents a worse price to call. Usually opponents will play all their strong hands aggressively anyway, so when there's an opportunity for me to bet as a bluff or as value their range is mostly consistent of marginal made hands, so I can put max pressure on them with the biggest bet possible.

I also genuinely think it annoys your opponent more and makes you harder to play against than when you introduce more 1/2 pot value bets etc on the river. I generally don't like to vary my bet sizes due to hand strength at all, I think bad players can exploit it quite well. Instead I do stuff like thin value bet full pot which confuses people because they think pot bets are nuts or air. (see my post: http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/schweig/45321-Thin-value-betting)

Did you ever see Isildur play HUNL? He overbet the river a ton in position when his opponent was weak and it's very hard to play against. It's the same concept here except pot limit doesn't allow you to overbet, but you would still like to bet the max a lot. Generally the opponents who have the same 'big bet sizing' ideas as me are harder to play against than the ones who bet smaller.

That makes sense, never really considered it. I am putting myself in your opponent's shoes and it would be super annoying. You can't really peel cheaply and bluffs are much more expensive when you get pot in the face every street, as well as the implied threat of more pot bets if you continue. Is it common for your 50 and 100 opponents to adjust well to that or are those players rare at these stakes?

It's not that common no that they adjust well no.

To adjust, you really have to change the whole way you play your entire range on several streets. Firstly, you have to overall be trickier, playing strong hands in certain ways, bluffing more, to put the pressure back on your opponent so that he doesn't have an easy time owning you. However, taking a line like check call twice with the nuts is very hard to do in this game OOP, because of how much the board change, and most players will rarely do that on certain boards.

Probably the best adjustment you can make versus a player who is playing very aggressively in position is simply to fold a lot more, which people hate doing HU. They hate folding any piece of the board even though it's very hard to play OOP on later streets. They get themselves into spots where they will later make a huge mistake on the river. I mean it's impossible to be one check calling down with weak hands, guessing whether your opponent is bluff heavy or not at any stage.

Usually, they do the opposite and me being so aggressive encourages them to peel wider, which usually turns into big mistakes because I can still slow down, or make big hands, or just continue to bluff a lot, and they won't really know which and have to play a guessing game more often.

That should read, "fold a lot more early when the pot is small." Reverse implied odds are killer in this game, and because the pot builds exponentially, a bad call or fold later on in the hand is much more costly than a bad fold early on.

Nice, thanks. So I guess, in a way, the last guy was playing better than most against you when OOP as he was folding the flop so much if he didn't fold pre. He obviously folded buttons way too much, but the take home point is it's never really a massive mistake to be too tight OOP against a tough player. Those must usually make for a more frustrating grind-them-down type match instead of a maniac or station. Going to check the other vid today.