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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by OnTheRail15 (Mid Stakes)

nice vid! Thanks OTR. You always manage to say something that has me stuck scratching my head for a while and you didn't dissapoint this time (e.g. comment near the start about calling down light gets progressively more of a mistake the more we value bet light.. argh).

(EDIT: Oh, and having wrong hand displayed in the replayer.. not so good )

Time Link to 00:49:14

Why bet/3bet? Your kicker is not playing here.
Nice video, btw, ty. I noticed i might barrel too much turns, so a video on those bet flop, x/c turn (HU) situations, would be greati think.

A+

Time Link to 00:37:37

Checking the turn here confuses me quiet a lot, doesn't this give El Fumador licence to value bet you or are you counting on him bluffing at a higher frequency than vbet the river? Checking would appear to define the hand to him quite well. If you put him on a hand that you're ahead of I think that maybe the worst thing about checking the straight up lost value. Thinking about it I probably agree that betting the turn seems the better line.

If you were to take check line say, what other hands are you checking here? Also what advantages would you say there would be in checking this hand in particular? Against a very aggressive opponent I can see inducing bluffs being very effective whilst preserving equity when behind. It's very interesting because I haven't thought about this much until I saw this.

EDIT
Also doesn't checking make a villains play of calling wider on the flop more correct?

Time Link to 00:25:17

I prefer a turnbet because its not that likely that a good player will interpret your check here as a sign of giving up, and we will probably get called by K highs and bad Ax hands that we`re kind of freerolling against. My question is given that we do bet the turn, how to proceed on various rivercards that dont improve our hand?

Checking the turn here confuses me quiet a lot, doesn't this give El Fumador licence to value bet you or are you counting on him bluffing at a higher frequency than vbet the river? Checking would appear to define the hand to him quite well. If you put him on a hand that you're ahead of I think that maybe the worst thing about checking the straight up lost value. Thinking about it I probably agree that betting the turn seems the better line.

If you were to take check line say, what other hands are you checking here? Also what advantages would you say there would be in checking this hand in particular? Against a very aggressive opponent I can see inducing bluffs being very effective whilst preserving equity when behind. It's very interesting because I haven't thought about this much until I saw this.

EDIT
Also doesn't checking make a villains play of calling wider on the flop more correct?

All of this would be true if I was only checking a very narrow and weakish sd range here. But I'd be checking a huge range in this spot since I think this particular board texture fits within his range way better than it does within mine.

Honestly I wouldn't mind a check with any part of my range in this spot.

Why bet/3bet? Your kicker is not playing here.

Right. I didn't notice that. Bet/Call is better anyway given the preflop ranges.

(EDIT: Oh, and having wrong hand displayed in the replayer.. not so good )

Sorry about that.

I prefer a turnbet because its not that likely that a good player will interpret your check here as a sign of giving up, and we will probably get called by K highs and bad Ax hands that we`re kind of freerolling against. My question is given that we do bet the turn, how to proceed on various rivercards that dont improve our hand?

I'd probably c/f here a lot more than you would though so it fits well within my overall strategy.

A+

Thanks man!

Time Link to 00:26:36

the word is congruent.

Nice vid. I still fold to KQ even though its the top of our range. People just don't bluff here.

the word is congruent.

Nice vid. I still fold to KQ even though its the top of our range. People just don't bluff here.

The word IS congruent. Thanks!

also curious as to why you called the turn with 7 hi on the KJTx board. It seems like you are pretty far behind his range.

Time Link to 00:34:20

how did you win this hand? Is this type of thing the secret to your success?