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

Time Link to 00:01:09

Hey BBB,

Could you please tell me a bit about your seat selection decision on the right hand table? With this knowledge you have, I'd probably sit on the left of the unknown player, is that a mistake?

Thanks.

Hey BBB,

Could you please tell me a bit about your seat selection decision on the right hand table? With this knowledge you have, I'd probably sit on the left of the unknown player, is that a mistake?

Thanks.

no, you're right, i should have taken direct position on him, in case the table starts to fill up later (which it did). i just missed it.

Time Link to 00:06:39

So do you always default to a balanced/un-exploitable strategy or do you vary your play against non-thinking opponents who can't figure out whats going on. For instance, would you be more apt in a live game to 3bet this hand on the flop and just peel with your weaker hands?

So do you always default to a balanced/un-exploitable strategy or do you vary your play against non-thinking opponents who can't figure out whats going on. For instance, would you be more apt in a live game to 3bet this hand on the flop and just peel with your weaker hands?

online, against someone taggy or competent-seeming i will default to balance and then adjust from there if need be. live, even the taggy or competent-seeming guys (or the competent ones actually) will just free card or cheap showdown raise you, so i will jam OOP when strong

Time Link to 00:07:37

I think I like a call 3-bet, raise river line instead of a turn cap. I don't think we're ever semi-bluff capping this turn, so we should probably protect our semi-bluffs that have to see a river with some hands that can raise a brick river.

Time Link to 00:18:58

I think folding the river on the left getting 17:1 would be pretty bad.

Time Link to 00:33:46

I don't like the fold w KQ. I think we just have too much hand and no real read on what lazay can have here. We've taken a passive line on the turn, so I'm worried lazay can now look at something KT like its ahead and C/R the field. I think folding a hand like QQ/K8 is a better line at this point.

Time Link to 00:47:36

I like a C/R if we think he'll often bet any Ax he can show up with here. I like just leading if we think he'll check back his Ax that he can show up with here.

My gut says C/R may be slightly better against an unknown.

Time Link to 00:53:23

Against a complete unknown, I think we have to call here until we develop a better read. Yes, if this player is sane we're almost never good here, but if this player is the type that can make a spewy bluff post, we're making a pretty big mistake by folding the river.

I think I like a call 3-bet, raise river line instead of a turn cap. I don't think we're ever semi-bluff capping this turn, so we should probably protect our semi-bluffs that have to see a river with some hands that can raise a brick river.

there's no cap hu on merge; does that change your lines any?

I think folding the river on the left getting 17:1 would be pretty bad.

it's an amazing price for sure but i can't remember the last time someone led out into three other people here with a hand that i beat -- the Ts is on board so we're hoping he has the 9s or lower, or like some sort of semicounterfeited set? plus there are two guys left to act behind me. either way it's not a very common spot so it won't have a big effect on our winrate, i'd assume

I don't like the fold w KQ. I think we just have too much hand and no real read on what lazay can have here. We've taken a passive line on the turn, so I'm worried lazay can now look at something KT like its ahead and C/R the field. I think folding a hand like QQ/K8 is a better line at this point.

but...soulread!

although actual soulread wouldn't be folding since i know i'm going to counterfeit him on the river hehe

I like a C/R if we think he'll often bet any Ax he can show up with here. I like just leading if we think he'll check back his Ax that he can show up with here.

My gut says C/R may be slightly better against an unknown.

i think he's betting more often (if checked to) than he is calling (if i lead into him)

Against a complete unknown, I think we have to call here until we develop a better read. Yes, if this player is sane we're almost never good here, but if this player is the type that can make a spewy bluff post, we're making a pretty big mistake by folding the river.

i don't disagree with anything you said.

that being said, nothing we'd seen from this guy so far indicated that he was aggro, frisky, creative, bluffy, whatever. also, the price i'm getting (almost 11:1) -- i don't see river bluffcheckraises nearly that often (at that frequency it'd be like 8, 9% of the time). i keep meaning to look this up in my HEM but i'd guess that river checkraises are bluffs something more like <2% of the time.