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

Very good video; thanks for making it! One small suggestion I'd make is to use a 4 color deck in future vids you make.

I don't have any questions or comments because you explained your reasoning pretty well to begin with.

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Wow, folding 910o here seems way too tight specially against TLW.

Very good video; thanks for making it! One small suggestion I'd make is to use a 4 color deck in future vids you make.

I don't have any questions or comments because you explained your reasoning pretty well to begin with.

Gah! I totally meant to use a 4 color deck, sorry folks!

Wow, folding 910o here seems way too tight specially against TLW.

I'm not sure if my logic came across right in the video, but basically a player like TLW is one of the worst to play marginal hands out of position.

1) He raises a wide range UTG, which actually hurts our equity compared to a player who doesn't raise things like JT/J9 type stuff.
2) He makes our life miserable by getting thin value.
3) He makes our life miserable by bluffing a lot.
4) He makes out life miserable because he is showdown bound.

I tend to play fairly tight against a player like TLW, especially when he is raising UTG in a 5-6 handed game, I don't think we are losing too much value.

The times I look to really open up my range are in position and against poor playing players. This situation is pretty much the opposite.

I really disagree with your reasoning, i think hes fairly easy to play against just for those reasons. Sure our semibluffs go down in fold equity, but our implied odds for making hands are huge imo. He also bluffs a ton, which kinda goes both ways in favour of calling, but i have little problems calling down with a somewhat wide range.

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excellent points about late position isolation plays.

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Could you explain your reasoning why KTo would be an open UTG under most table conditions? It seems everything I have learned up to this point it is a standard fold.

Has this been a winning play for you?

Thanks.

Could you explain your reasoning why KTo would be an open UTG under most table conditions? It seems everything I have learned up to this point it is a standard fold.

Has this been a winning play for you?

Thanks.

I'd like to ask the same question. I sometimes open KTo when the blinds are HUGE fishes and everyone is on the tight side behind me. And 3bet KJo vs utg from the HJ? I think it's a -EV move against most regs, especially against a 24/18 guy. I also dislike the resteal from SB with a3o.

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So if this player was a standard TAG type how would you play this hand post flop?

Great video,Thanks

Could you explain your reasoning why KTo would be an open UTG under most table conditions? It seems everything I have learned up to this point it is a standard fold.

Has this been a winning play for you?

Thanks.

My reasoning is that this is a strong enough hand with enough equity when 3 bet/coldcalled/or the blinds play that I open it. I was curious after you asked the question so I looked in my database. You can see the results of opening K9, KT, and KJ offsuit 3 seats off the button for all my hands. Most are 5/10+. The reason VPIP isn't close to 100 is that a lot of my hands are full ring where these would get folded if someone opens before us.

http://yfrog.com/mtktocapturej

I know the sample is small for individual hands, but that's why I included the KJ and K9, so at least we can see if our results make some sense.

I'd like to ask the same question. I sometimes open KTo when the blinds are HUGE fishes and everyone is on the tight side behind me. And 3bet KJo vs utg from the HJ? I think it's a -EV move against most regs, especially against a 24/18 guy. I also dislike the resteal from SB with a3o.

See my post above for KTo opening UTG. I think the 3bet is close. My reasoning at the time was that if this player was actually 24/18, I would fold, but since most players at these levels don't play that tight, I was working on the assumption that he would end up at about 28/22 or so, which makes my open more defensible. Certainly against some regs it is a very easy 3bet, so I don't think I would go so far to say that against most regs it is -EV. In this specific instance maybe, but folding KJo against regs who play 35/27 is probably a mistake.

The A3o hand is probably -EV hot/cold equity wise. But, the stars were pretty much aligned for me at that table to reisolate wide. The button had been playing extremely fit/fold, so my postflop fold equity is high and I don't worry as much about folding the best hand post flop. And, the loose open limper has to worry about the button behind him when he makes flop and turn peels, so will tighten up as well.

So if this player was a standard TAG type how would you play this hand post flop?

Good question. Probably c/r the flop and go from there. He will have strong ace highs and smaller pairs enough to call me down, especially with the presence of the flush draw. If I get raised on the turn I would be calling the turn to protect against a FSD raise (this board is one I see people FSD raise more often than others) and make a decision on the river, sometimes folding and sometimes calling.

My reasoning is that this is a strong enough hand with enough equity when 3 bet/coldcalled/or the blinds play that I open it. I was curious after you asked the question so I looked in my database. You can see the results of opening K9, KT, and KJ offsuit 3 seats off the button for all my hands. Most are 5/10+. The reason VPIP isn't close to 100 is that a lot of my hands are full ring where these would get folded if someone opens before us.

http://yfrog.com/mtktocapturej

I know the sample is small for individual hands, but that's why I included the KJ and K9, so at least we can see if our results make some sense.

NinaWilliams too wonders if it is profitable to open KTo UTG in a 6max game and folds it in his last Ghost vid.

After looking at your stats, I somehow couldn't believe it. 12BB/hand seemed a little too high. So I filtered for myself. I usually don't open KTo UTG, but for the tiny sample when I did (21 times in about 100k hands), I won 0.14BB/hand in soft lowstakes games. With AA I won 3.19BB/hand. My filter reads: "Position = 3 AND Hole Cards: AA, KJo, KTo, K9o AND Raise First In" (in PT3).

So I suspect you either can see holecards or something is with the filter. Or the fullring hands skewed the results. Can you please refilter for raising KTo UTG for 6max only?