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

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

Well were not putting in any more action if villain 5-bets anyways (I assume), so I don't think it should matter in this case.

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.

I agree that overall river C/R's aren't bluffs enough to call down. I guess my point is that from my experiences 80-90% of villains C/R bluff like <5%, but the other 10-20% C/R bluff at a very high unbalanced frequency where a call down is super profitable. I'm just thinking that against an unknown it might be worth it to call down this first time to try and develop a better read (which in this case we do).

I mean you've played 5 hands against this opponent at this point, so I think the read you've mentioned isn't worth much/if anything yet given we haven't seen anything significant (that I can remember).

Well were not putting in any more action if villain 5-bets anyways (I assume), so I don't think it should matter in this case.

i agree, it does remove some need for balancing in re: the cap structure though. for example i want to be able to 9bet the turn with the nuts on merge, but that doesn't mean i have to balance it. dumb example but you see what i mean i hope. on stars or in other capped structures for example sometimes you want to slow down on one street to pop another one.

in this specific hand i still prefer 4betting turn to slowing down and raising river. the latter line is always quite strong, whereas the former can have a wider range (still strong obv but containing some semibluffs or non-nutty value hands) which forces him to call down lighter or might encourage more spew

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What was that sound just then? Did someone step on a duck?

What was that sound just then? Did someone step on a duck?

lol, awesome. my guess is a muffled burp, since i stopped talking for a few seconds too.