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Poker Video: Stud/Stud 8 by Joe Tall (High Stakes)

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Time Link to 00:08:57

When you see an aggressive opponent limp behind with a high card like an A what are they most commonly doing this with?

I feel like they are often doing this with a solid hand afraid to waste it with you folding to the completion. I usually proceed with the idea that they are likely trapping and don't really get too involved without a solid holding. Is this correct?

-Would you recommend working on one's HU game by sitting at specific HU tables or by being the first to sit at an empty fullring table hoping for weaker opponents?

You'll definitely get more action, more often, initially, when you sit at a full table, but it will fill up, and you'll have to adjust accordingly which can be tough.

-What is the lowest limit you feel is actually beatable over the longrun taking the rake into factor?

I assume you will be playing on FTP where the HU rake is the same, (.50c max) for all limits. So I would think 2/4 might be OK w/rakeback.

-I know that fullring Stud hi is considered one of the highest variance forms of limit poker. Is HU similar?

Yes.

-Any bankroll suggestions for HU Stud?

1000bb should be good.

-I know that the player pool for HU Stud is not particularly large. Is there much action for a winning HU Stud player? I ask this because I heard a HU Stud reg today begging for action from the players at a fullring table. I told him to play one of the other guys sitting at a HU table and he said they won't play him.

You will have to be very very patient to specialize in HU stud.

When you see an aggressive opponent limp behind with a high card like an A what are they most commonly doing this with?

I feel like they are often doing this with a solid hand afraid to waste it with you folding to the completion. I usually proceed with the idea that they are likely trapping and don't really get too involved without a solid holding. Is this correct?

Mosters under the bed, they just have no idea what to do with a naked Ace.

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Have you watched the series, "It's a Tall World After All"?

You will have to be very very patient to specialize in HU stud.

My original thoughts were to add this to my toolbox and not make it the whole toolbox. It sounds like this is what you would recommend?

Have you watched the series, "It's a Tall World After All"?

I had not previously because I am kind of trying to keep myself from wandering into too many different games as my current goal is simply to build my bankroll where I am already fairly solid. I can see from the description that it sounds like a good series for my HU ambitions though, so I will watch it now and thanks for the suggestion!

Time Link to 00:22:41

This spot imo is a perfect checkraise against a weak loose agressive player. Many times, (especially against wild chinese players raising a very big range of hands like 3flushes, small pairs and even sometimes hands like 789), this is the sort of HU play I apply. I might add that they do the same against you in similar situations.

This 4th street board is a great spot to checkraise. 93 with no 4flush possibillity is a totally uncordinated board and could not have helped him much. So if CeeGee would have checkraised this spot and then when he got that 3rd big card shown on board on 5th street, it would have been much easier to barrel the rest of the streets with probability. I can´t say that this loose player would have folded 5th street or 7th street, there is no way he would have folded 6th street anyway, if he decided to continue calling on 5th street. But the point is that you show so much strength on 4th street checkraising and betting 5th street that the call on 7th street will be very hard to make for him, even with a pair of 9s.

Time Link to 00:30:04

This is actually the same spot, hate to get picky but he would have gotten him off the hand easily this time with a checkraise on 4th street and then a continuation fire on 5th street.