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

Time Link to 00:03:41

Hi Deepsquat. I notice that you 3-bet the HJ open from the CO with A9o on the right table.

Did you have a read that the CO was opening wide, or was this a standard pf 3-bet for you ?

Time Link to 00:04:31

On the left table, the same player as in the above hand limps in the HJ and you call the BTN's raise with K4o in the BB.

Are you usually defending with any Kx in the BB against a late position open, or calling here because of the increased odds you are receiving with the limper in the hand ?

Time Link to 00:23:11

On the left table, CO opens, SB 3-bets and you call with ATs in the BB.

Your call seems reasonable to me as CO could have a wide range and you are getting ok odds for a good hand with decent playability 3 way.

What would be some of the hands in the bottom part of your calling range in this situation ?

Time Link to 00:42:11

You defend ATo in the BB against the SB on the left table and raise SB's c-bet on an AK5r flop.

You suggest that calling the flop bet with the intention of raising the turn would also be an ok alternative.

Would calling the flop and a safe turn with the intention of raising the river also be a reasonable line to take ?

Time Link to 00:49:16

You 3-bet J7s on the BTN after the CO opens on the left hand table.

This seems like a very wide pf 3-bet to me. So, did you have some kind of read on the CO to be 3-betting here, or is J7s in your standard range for this situation ?

Time Link to 00:56:15

You cold call with the K4s in the BTN on the right table.

Am I correct that you are doing this because the weak player to your right also cold called before you ? I think that this is the 1st time that I have seen you cold call in your videos !

Hi Deepsquat. I notice that you 3-bet the HJ open from the CO with A9o on the right table.

Did you have a read that the CO was opening wide, or was this a standard pf 3-bet for you ?

Hey fantam,

A9o will bet the bottom of my range for 3betting in this spot. I think ATo is an easy 3bet vs probably anyone.

From memory my read at the time was that he was weak/fishy and feel that I can play this hand profitably against his range IP.

I wouldnt blame anyone for folding it but I think it should be a 3b in general

On the left table, the same player as in the above hand limps in the HJ and you call the BTN's raise with K4o in the BB.

Are you usually defending with any Kx in the BB against a late position open, or calling here because of the increased odds you are receiving with the limper in the hand ?

I think we can almost defend any 2 in this spot due to the increased odds we are getting and the weak players in the pot. You should try and find reasons to enter a pot with weak player(s) involved.

On the left table, CO opens, SB 3-bets and you call with ATs in the BB.

Your call seems reasonable to me as CO could have a wide range and you are getting ok odds for a good hand with decent playability 3 way.

What would be some of the hands in the bottom part of your calling range in this situation ?

I this spot i think we can play reasonably loose given the ranges. The important factor to note is that SB 3bet pf, not BTN. This means postflop we can potentially raise the CO out of the pot when SB cbets and we then have position postflop. So in this spot we can probably play more hands profitably seeing as we have a potential opportunity to buy position postflop.

Obviously SB will probably have a tighter pf 3betting range than BTN so its hard to quantify the advantage.

This spot is also dependant on how much we think CO will cap pf. If he caps wide pf i may tighten up, but vs unknowns as a rough guide i prob play

A5s+, ATo+
KJo+ K9s+
22+
98s+
QJo+

Thats a rough guide, its ahrd to nail down an exact range. The worse the players, the more hands we can play imo

You defend ATo in the BB against the SB on the left table and raise SB's c-bet on an AK5r flop.

You suggest that calling the flop bet with the intention of raising the turn would also be an ok alternative.

Would calling the flop and a safe turn with the intention of raising the river also be a reasonable line to take ?

Ya it would be, but probably with a weaker Ax that doesnt want alot of action. Maybe something like A2 but usually id raise.

It can be a good way to protect the weaker part of our calldown range and also we often wont get 3bet by better Ax when we raise the riv, but generally i raise the flop in these spots.

We also get a spazz out factor when we dont 3bet pf and raise Axx flop

You 3-bet J7s on the BTN after the CO opens on the left hand table.

This seems like a very wide pf 3-bet to me. So, did you have some kind of read on the CO to be 3-betting here, or is J7s in your standard range for this situation ?

He was pretty laggy and i think its def bottom of the range.
He actually plays pretty well postflop so vs him u can maybe fold.

I think we can get away with 3betting pretty wide on the button as its very hard to play against, think about how much u hate being on the right of some guy 3betting heaps and playing well post.

The added benefit is that CO tightens up, which allows you to steal more blinds

You cold call with the K4s in the BTN on the right table.

Am I correct that you are doing this because the weak player to your right also cold called before you ? I think that this is the 1st time that I have seen you cold call in your videos !

Yeah i think its a great spot to coldcall with good suited stuff. We dont get a good opportunity to do it very often

We have a massive fish on our right, a weakish player opening and a loose/bad player in SB who is likely to come along, i think its a definate with all your suited Ax hands fwiw

I think most tags are too tight here too in position

Time Link to 00:07:15

You're discussing about having a checkraise range with this board. I certainly don't mind doing it as an exploitive bluff here but I have real hard time figuring out enough value checkraises on this paired board. An Ace in my hand would really hate a 3!, a Ten or better would rather try to 3!. Also people can check back turns here to a donk check as 90%+ of their peel range (i.e anything else but wheel draw and maybe some weird backdoor FDs) has some showdown value (that would often call down 3 barrels).

Any ideas on that?

Hey pasita,

I think AK could be good just off the top of my head. I think its fine to have some good Ax hands in our turn cr range here. Obviously ranges are still wide in BVB so he will have all his pocket pairs that may bet, worse Ax, 4x, garbage etc.

AK is good as it gives him slightly less Kx combos that he may chk back as bluffcatchers on the turn

I think having some Tx hands vs certain opponents is fine too because its not like A3 or something is always raising the turn here, i mean i wouldnt be raising my weak Ax hands too often on the turn once ive called this flop, so we may benefit from cr them on the turn.

Its a board texture we will have to check a huge portion of our range, pretty much any made hands that are worse than Ax and alot of our broadway draws like QJ/KQ etc id be checking. So as a result, i will generally have a slightly wider value cr range as to not always be so weak and be vbet to death

Thoughts?