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

Great video. I like this series a lot. BBB you made some mistakes, but don't worry, we learn a lot from your mistakes.

Around 20:10 DD says that our passivish play will allow us to make some more succesful semibluff later, and I think even more the opposite is true. The opponent will consider our range to be more polarized towards semibluffs and call us down lighter.

Time Link to 01:06:05

Hes just representing sooooooooo little with this play. Nobody doesnt fastplay 8s/56/J10 which are the only things that got there, if he has A8 or sth god bless him. I just expect to see some random brainfart here and sadface call and see what he has.

Hey this video is such good news for you BBB - seeing so many leaks is a good thing right?
I mean you were b/e small winner even with these things - now some clear things can be cleaned up and who knows where you will stop.

Time Link to 00:00:18

Seriously why is someone's cellphone ringing in the jungle?!?! this tilts me every video.

Hey this video is such good news for you BBB - seeing so many leaks is a good thing right?
I mean you were b/e small winner even with these things - now some clear things can be cleaned up and who knows where you will stop.

bbb kinda crushes even with these things imo

wow i'm still not convinced with the turn checkraise AQ on Q62-7 board 3way. He capped pre, capped flop, and most importantly *leads* turn - 3way i would expect him to freecard a lot here. When he bets in to 2 opponents, is he really barrelling here with A high/K high flush draw? his range looks to me like *maybe* KQ, then KK AA QQ 66.

I see a lot of different between AQ and AA here.

My first inclanation was to lead out to prevent the freecard, but the guy on the button doesnt strike me as someone who will ever use that play, and he has shown that he is willing to bet worse for value and as important he will barrel with draws if he misses. That said i think the check is the better play, like you also mentioned when it goes bet/passive player checkraises, we should strongly consider a fold. When he just calls, its pretty tempting to checkraise since we have him beat always, and will have the button beat a good amount of the time. I dont really think he would 3bet equally strong/a little bit stronger hand than ours, so i think the gain will be greater than the cost. I mean, i dont think 3betting KK here is particularly good without a read. Against BBB im sure its pretty bad.

Hes just representing sooooooooo little with this play. Nobody doesnt fastplay 8s/56/J10 which are the only things that got there, if he has A8 or sth god bless him. I just expect to see some random brainfart here and sadface call and see what he has.

I just realized upon re-watching it that I have two of the fives so there aren't many combos there.

Seriously why is someone's cellphone ringing in the jungle?!?! this tilts me every video.

The whistle/whippoorwill/warble kind of sound?

Hey this video is such good news for you BBB - seeing so many leaks is a good thing right?
I mean you were b/e small winner even with these things - now some clear things can be cleaned up and who knows where you will stop.

Yeah, you can see my pre-series results in the screenshot in episode 1. I beat 5/10 and 8/16 (small sample) and not 10/20 (hopefully that's on the way!). I agree though that this episode was very eye-opening for me. I've responded by instituting more self-review and lowering my number of tables even more until I feel like I'm nailing every decision both during play and during review.

re: Hood and Psychobingo's posts:

I think either way you slice it it's definitely important in that it shows thematically a spot where I might be missing value. ie even if we think this one is pretty close, it's pretty likely that there are other spots in my game where it's cropping up. Perhaps it's even possible that I'm semibluffing the turn a little too much and not making thin value raises or value3bets often enough. It's given me a lot to think about in this regard.

Time Link to 01:00:51

Any merit to just value checking this turn given the range of his limp preflop, or is it too expensive/likely that we'd be giving a free card to hands like 34s, 45s, and 79s?

Time Link to 00:22:51

DD on limping A8 here bc "there's no reason to raise". I guess I need some explanation, b/c this may be a leak of mine. I raise here because I really want the btn and sb to fold any card higher than eight. I also want the button.

What a great video! You guys rock. Reminds me of DD and mike l. series where every hand was dissected to death. This is definitely my favorite format.

BBB's OMG at the end makes me laugh to no end. the series