Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by FoxwoodsFiend (High Stakes)

I love it, a lot of great content! Thx

I have a question about balancing bet sizes on those dry boards where you bet half pot. I m just wondering how you play big hands when you half pot because it will be hard to get stacks in by the river that way. So lets say you half pot A9 on 962 ..but what if you have 66? Would be nice to bet big so you can stack the guy.

hey, ariel. Really loving this series. Gonna watch this Vid when i get home from today.
I heard that Frederik (Fisheye/observer84) was interested in playing u for the series? is that true? Would love to see you both battle each other

Yeah I saw that too in the **** thread, would be a pretty sick final matchup!

Great video Ariel, I think these Headhunter videos are your best and most intense yet. The thing that sets your videos apart is that you take a couple of steps backwards and look at almost every play from a more wholistic gameplan perspective, never stop doing that.

/nuthugging

hey, ariel. Really loving this series. Gonna watch this Vid when i get home from today.
I heard that Frederik (Fisheye/observer84) was interested in playing u for the series? is that true? Would love to see you both battle each other

hey guys, I don't plan on playing frederik for the series because we play each other a fair amount (but not as often as he would like, I'm sure) and giving my reads/game plan against a specific opponent I play often would be disastrous

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not sure what u guys think here but I don't really like 5b jamming a9 it just seems that were risking too much especially now being almost 150bb deep were basically jamming 130bb to win about 20bb

I would prefer 5betting 700-800 just for leverage reasons

u could also make an argument for calling, he seems to be pretty straight foward in 4bet pots so far if we recall the j2 hand

I have a question about balancing bet sizes on those dry boards where you bet half pot. I m just wondering how you play big hands when you half pot because it will be hard to get stacks in by the river that way. So lets say you half pot A9 on 962 ..but what if you have 66? Would be nice to bet big so you can stack the guy.

well you don't get monsters that much and you cbet hands that don't want to play for stacks quote often, so for balancing sake you want to not reveal the strength of your hand based on bet size. the profit gained by saving money in bluffs is way more important than the profit foregone by not stacking people with your monsters

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not sure what u guys think here but I don't really like 5b jamming a9 it just seems that were risking too much especially now being almost 150bb deep were basically jamming 130bb to win about 20bb

I would prefer 5betting 700-800 just for leverage reasons

u could also make an argument for calling, he seems to be pretty straight foward in 4bet pots so far if we recall the j2 hand

give me a calling range and I'll tell you what % he needs to be bluffing. Then we figure out if that seems close to his actual bluff %. But I don't think the J2 hand shows he's in line: he had showdown value so he checked it down. If flop were 368 he'd have bet

Ariel, I know you couldnt get the HUD stats working but if theres any way you can show the mad00house video I REALLY want to see it. I also played mad00house but didnt have any problems with him and thought he was a weak player (in the 200 hands I played him). I guess I was wrong! Anyway I really want to see what he did that was so successful against you.

Edit: By the way, this is the best series from you yet. More headhunter!

I think your vids are the best, at least instruction wise. Anywho, do you still think "Vick is God" lol

Great vid.

You mention that you like to 4B bluff with hands that can play well post flop since lots of people call 4-bets nowadays.

Could you give an example range of such hands? And are there any that you'd normally exclude for the purposes of flatting an aggressive 3-bettor? (Maybe like KJ you'd rather flat because it's too strong and you don't want to have to 4-bet/fold if he 5-bet jams, etc.)

Also, what is your opinion on 4-bet/calling or 4-bet/jamming smaller pairs (22-66) vs a very aggressive 3-bettor (say 25% 3B or more)? Adding 88/77 to your 4-bet/calling range seems pretty standard, but I hate folding these very small pairs preflop even though it seems correct to do so at 100ish BB stacks.

Thanks and keep up the good work, this series has been incredible.

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Nice vid, i like your adjustments on his quite creative plays. One question about the 4/5 betting. You say on this point that you are 3betting KJ, with the intention to call one of his small 4bet, because u like to play that hand post flop against him. I would think that his 4betting range seems pretty polarized (the J2 in the beginning of the vid, and the many 4bet/folds./we haven't seen many monsters). Therefor I would think that KJ plays bad postflop, because you are probably behind when u get it in on a flop, and he seems not to loose a lot when he misses. So my choice would have been to fold most of the time/ shove if he's really getting out of line. Your thoughts on this?

give me a calling range and I'll tell you what % he needs to be bluffing. Then we figure out if that seems close to his actual bluff %. But I don't think the J2 hand shows he's in line: he had showdown value so he checked it down. If flop were 368 he'd have bet

OK, what if I give him something close to a 10% calling range and about a 12% shoving range, assuming he's willing to flat 5bets with monsters.

and for the j2 hand yes I understand it doesn't really mean much but a pair of 2's is just as vulnerable as A high. When he doesn't bet for 3 streets like that you have so much equity to just pick up a pair and take the pot down

if flop were 368 and he had a hand like j10 I agree he would bet but now we know he would also check back with hands that have showdown value which is a small thing to consider knowing that it's not a good part of his range but if he were to check back on a 923r board in a 5b pot then we could break down his range between slowplayed monsters or hands with showdown value which is more likely and we could bet turn bet river hoping to take it down there... if this works we can get a lot of bluff value on the turn

but this is all assuming he calls 5bets, depending on how good of pot odds we give him. If he is 4betting hands like j2 I'm pretty sure there's a good % that he's going to fold whatever he has, if he doesn't he's probably shoving... so if I still give him a calling range of 10% we still don't know how often he calls the 5bet, he may be shoving or folding 100% of the time, or maybe 90% or even 80% but still there I think were rarely going to be playing a 5bet pot oop

Ariel, I know you couldnt get the HUD stats working but if theres any way you can show the mad00house video I REALLY want to see it. I also played mad00house but didnt have any problems with him and thought he was a weak player (in the 200 hands I played him). I guess I was wrong! Anyway I really want to see what he did that was so successful against you.

Edit: By the way, this is the best series from you yet. More headhunter!

don't want to post my play if it doesn't have much educational usefulness. I don't think he was super tough, I just lost every pot. But to describe him as weak is obviously incorrect, he's very good