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

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The sound cuts off here, maybe because of the loud noise in the background, it looks like we may have missed a word or two.

The sound cuts off here, maybe because of the loud noise in the background, it looks like we may have missed a word or two.

Yeah, there were a few spots where Phil disconnected his mic to deal with loud background noise.

Rob

Yes I'm sorry about that. It did get loud for a minute when the wife got home. I didn't realize it would cut in and out as it did. My fault but consider it part of my learning curve! Next vid will be even technically superior.

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The sound cuts off here, maybe because of the loud noise in the background, it looks like we may have missed a word or two.

Sound cuts out here also.

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What do you do if you wait for the turn, a Jack comes off, and Villain bets?

Wow - nice game selection with the game on the left. That lineup looks more like a .25/.50 game!

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On the left, you say this villian's range doesn't include flush draws and overcards as semi-bluffs that much, as we haven't seen him get out of line a few times.

If this player were LAGier, would it be standard to go ahead and call down here? E.g., are there other villians here who would raise with strong aces, particularly AK and AQ and take a free showdown?

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Calling down with A9 seems a little awkward/pessimistic here for me. I think he definitely has enough worse made hands (Ax, some stronger 8x) along with the obvious semibluffs that we could put in one more bet for value here, either on the flop or on the turn. Would you do the same thing with AJ? AK?

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Nitpick - You fall under 12BB on this hand, and don't reload for a number of hands - this is a significant error at LHE, right?

I found this video very interesting, it reminds that even in limit holdem its corect to fold a pair sometimes!

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JJ - would you b3b this flop with AT-JT instead of waiting to the turn?

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you seem to run like me at 5/T. I think one of the big things to take away from the video is that it's always best to run bad and play our best rather than run bad and compound things by playing badly too.

What do you do if you wait for the turn, a Jack comes off, and Villain bets?

Going in order of questions asked:

I would probably raise. He doesn't necessarily have to have a straight to bet that card, since all we've done is open the button and cbet/call the flop. When he does have a straight we still have decent equity and of course if he doesn't have a straight we have him pretty much crushed. I would probably not be calling the river unimproved, since no one is going to 3bet worse than a straight after that turn action on that board.

Wabisabi (1) - Yes, it would be a pretty standard call down. For one, I beat some small part of his value range (smaller pocket pairs). It's also a paired board and he easily might think I'm FOS and/or could easily FSDR (so yes there are definitely people who will do that). Against lagier players I could consider folding diamond rivers, but even that is close since lagier players can easily have nothing as well.

Campi - I agree it's a very borderline raise spot. I think the big point is how passive that player looks to be, we haven't seen him do any light value betting nor raise lightly at all really and his stats indicate he is tending towards passivity. I take this to mean that he often won't have a lot of worse hands except draws. IE I'm not even sure he c/r weak Ax hands and I definitely didn't expect him to have an 8x hand (sick read huh?).

I would like to address your thoughts on getting value from semibluffs. This is something I go over with students a lot. If he has a draw, we don't gain any extra value by raising turn, since he just folds the river. We get 2 big bets. If we call the turn, he will usually bluff river, we also get 2 bets. That's putting it very simply and there are obviously other things going on, but I don't think we lose very much value from draws by not raising the turn.

Nitpick - You fall under 12BB on this hand, and don't reload for a number of hands - this is a significant error at LHE, right?

I'm not sure its a significant error. It's definitely an error and I think I mentioned I would never try to do that.

Campi (2) - I don't think I'd ever 3 bet the flop with AT, I would wait for a good turn card and raise (combination of our equity changing drastically and having a decently strong hand on lots of turn cards). JT I would probably 3 bet the flop. I tend to 3 bet here with pairs/draws and call/wait for the turn with stronger hands (TPTK+). I think it both gives us a lot of value in both spots and keeps our range relatively balanced when we peel with Ace high or just a gutshot type hand.