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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by DeathDonkey (High Stakes)

Great vid guys. Nice to see the stats of Ariel's overall play -- actually I think this was my favorite vid yet.

Rob

Loved this series!

So, Ariel, have you gained an appreciation of LHE, or is it still the inferior game to NL?

Ok, seriously, how do you compare the two games?

CJ

This video was awesome, and this series helped me a ton. I would have definitely called down with those 9s and lost an extra 2 BB.

Only one complaint: we need more of Ariel &*%&ing with people in chat like in previous episodes.

Just before 7:00 min, you have AQo in the SB, a LAGTAG opened from the CO with a 28/20 on the button. In the actual hand, the button folded. How do you play the hand preflop if the button 3-bets? I can really see arguments for call/raise/fold.

I can definitely see arguments for raising or folding, I hate hate hate calling 3 with AQo there, you're hand / range is close to face up and you never give yourself the chance to drive CO out for 2 more bets. Some players will fold there for 2 more and getting that dead money in the pot would be huge. Given the CO opened, I would cap if the button 3 bet, but if the button 3 bet an EP raiser I'd fold.

-DeathDonkey

At about 10 mins from the end they discuss the 99 hand. Can someone but the number of combinations of pairs compared to hands with a 10 in, in the video they conclude there are more pairs than hands with a ten which doesn't seem correct.

This was awhile ago but off the top of my head there are 24 combos of JJ-AA , 12 combos of AT, and 3 combos each of KTs, QTs, JTs, so unless he 3 bet us with KTo there are more pairs.

-DeathDonkey

This was awhile ago but off the top of my head there are 24 combos of JJ-AA , 12 combos of AT, and 3 combos each of KTs, QTs, JTs, so unless he 3 bet us with KTo there are more pairs.

-DeathDonkey

Ariels calculating the number of low pairs as he would have capped pre-flop with JJ and higher still if you take 55 to 1010 there are more pairs if we are only taking suited Ts above a J (makes sense as we are under the gun). I think he probably got some of the numbers wrong in the vid (easy enough to do, it sounds like you try to correct him at one point) but got the overall answer right. Cheers

Thanks, yeah we were definitely trying to approximate it on the fly and I think FWF would agree neither of us are what I'd call super strong "math-based" players

-DeathDonkey

Just watched the video and thought there were several situations where you passed up favorable pot odds situations. The most notorious one was then you had 63o in the BB against a 43 VPIP SB open raiser. I think that it an obvious call getting 3-1 direct in position with implied odds. Also, the player went to SD less than 40% so you have future bluff equity.

Additionally, I know that Bluffman is a good player, but giving him a walk with some of the hands you did seems wrong, particularly since he seemed to be playing rather tight this session. Tightening up against him out of respect also allows him to narrow your range and play more optimally against you.

Do these thoughts seem ridiculous to you?