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

Time Link to 00:52:59

My default here is to raise. I ran a quick stove to check our equity and its came in at around 19.5% 5-handed, so somewhere in the 18-21% range I would estimate. Given that raising can allow us to sometimes buy the button, get some dead money in the pot when blinds fold, and probably most importantly, take a free card when we miss and everyone checks to us, I think I still prefer raising even if we don't have a clear equity edge. We also play better than most if not all players in the pot post flop, which will pad our equity some.

Time Link to 00:30:14

I think I still like an iso here w A8o. The UTG player looks loose enough that A8o should have a reasonable equity edge, that coupled with our fold equity when he's just going to be Ch/Folding a lot of flops seems like the benefits outweigh the times the SB 3-bets us. Also, if the SB does have a very wide 3-bet range here, A8o isn't in terrible shape anyways.

My default here is to raise. I ran a quick stove to check our equity and its came in at around 19.5% 5-handed, so somewhere in the 18-21% range I would estimate. Given that raising can allow us to sometimes buy the button, get some dead money in the pot when blinds fold, and probably most importantly, take a free card when we miss and everyone checks to us, I think I still prefer raising even if we don't have a clear equity edge. We also play better than most if not all players in the pot post flop, which will pad our equity some.

It's fine to raise if you can play well postflop, i.e. don't c-bet unless we hit the flop and be willing to give up on our hand when we get action. Unfortunately, I don't recommend doing that to a lot of players because they inflate the pot without much of an equity edge (your stove proves that) and then can't adjust properly postflop. That's why I prefer limping. Give me a suited hand or a pair (something that can hit the flop hard) and it's much better, even if our equity is similar with ATo.

I think I still like an iso here w A8o. The UTG player looks loose enough that A8o should have a reasonable equity edge, that coupled with our fold equity when he's just going to be Ch/Folding a lot of flops seems like the benefits outweigh the times the SB 3-bets us. Also, if the SB does have a very wide 3-bet range here, A8o isn't in terrible shape anyways.

I think that his open limping range is hands that want to play, but dont want to raise. Our equity isn't great against those hands and one of the things I mentioned in the vid is the presence of the SB being laggy sways my decision a decent amount here. If both blinds are nits I raise.