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

DD..thanks for the replys,
I have two more follow up questions on this,

1)52:11...and this part of the match in general. starting at 43:16 in my notes.

You didn't comment on my read of, villain thought he had FE on you.

I did not want to show down this hand to win.
Although I do think you win this hand some of the time with K high.
To me, metagame considerations plus the value of our hand is worth a call here.

Is my read just flat wrong? or bad? am I worrying about something that doesnt matter?

2) I feel his 3 betting you constantly to stop you from raising every btn was effective.
Although he may have choosen select spots instead of every time.
I also thought going to a flat call all buttons on our part is overdoing the counter-strategy.
I think in HU we need to fight for every inch, you did start raising PF again late in whats on the video. I am guessing in the part of the match we did not see, you also started raising again PF.
I have a feeling you disagree. But I am asking to learn. why or explain?

I really enjoy these Videos, DD does a fantastic job explaing the concepts behind HU LHE.

I was a bit surprised at Ali's play, i've sat with him a good deal at 8/16 and 10/20 HORSE and he didn't play very laggy there, more like solid, if a bit weak-tight.

lol @ the chat shot in the end. Like he wasn't running good against you.

But it's true.. playing against hyper aggressive opponents is really hard. You really can't bluff them because they are willing to showdown lightly and also they can cap flop and/or turn for value with bottom/third pair. I guess it comes to patience and picking your spots. Another unbelievably annoying opponent type is the fit or fold guy who is running like lava

DD, I know you recorded this video over a year ago, but perhaps you remember it. Towards the latter 1/3 of the video, it seemed he was check/raising the flop quite a bit and you were folding a lot on the next street. I kept hoping you'd play back at him with a turn bluff raise or flop bluff 3-bet as I suspected he didn't have anything a good bit of the time. The problem is you gave up on the hands on the turn so we rarely saw a showdown and since you never tested him with a bluff raise we didn't see if he'd fold if you played back at him. Look at the very last hand for an example of this where you had K3o and paired your 3 on the flop.

Now admittedly, I am a losing player over 3100 hands of 3/6 HU, and you are Death Donkey so I may not know what I'm talking about, but it seemed pretty apparent to me that he was putting moves on you and you never really caught on.

Early in the video you mention the importance of fighting harder over these bloated pots, yet you never really did in this video. Or would you not consider the pot "bloated" because you were limping a lot of buttons and seeing the flop in a 4SB pot, even though once he check/raised and you called, the pot was now twice that size?

Can you comment on this?

Well, obviously when someone is playing aggressively and running well its difficult to separate whether they are just hitting hands, or bluffing you left and right. The variance in heads up is pretty heavy, and I've seen some crazy stretches where a guy just flops a pair or draw about every hand while you have 'nothing'. Its impossible to say for sure what was going on at the point in the match you mention without knowing his cards.

I think the limping strategy does tend to keep the pot from reaching 'bloated' status to some extent. I also just think you need at least a little ammunition to fight for the pots. I feel like we just have a different expectation of the variance involved in playing a player like this one. I don't really mind if I lose 20 or 30 bets when I basically haven't made many quality hands and have a bad image and bad metagame factors at work. I think people have a tendency to overcompensate and can easily turn that 20 BB into a 50 BB loss spewing with no hand

I'm so results oriented that I was tilting watching DD's stack go down.

But I did feel better with the little afterward!

Time Link to 01:05:21

lol, gotta love the chat tilting. Of course Tommy Angelo wouldn't approve of the"you work for them, tell howard to un doomswitch you."