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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by RapidEvolution (Micro/Small Stakes)

Time Link to 00:12:33

It's mostly academic to be sure, but there are a bunch of scenarios heads-up where you don't have 16% equity... AA v. A6o = 6.4%.... Tossing in ANY number of random hands for the other opponents' holdings only decreases its equity... But finding yourself in a multiway limped pot with AA out there and A6o is rare enough. (FWIW, 72o is only 11.8% HU vs AA, and about the same vs. KK down to 88...)

When you make the comment on the sb limping in with 5 to 1 odds, it is true that there aren't any hands you should fold to those odds if you are going to see the turn and river. The odds become smaller if you just see the flop

Time Link to 00:37:48

Can you go over what happened here with the AKo? Why did you open for 5x instead of 4x? He basically limp, clicked it back with a 60bb stack.

I think not folding AK preflop may be one of my FR leaks, so maybe you can go over some other situations where you fold AK preflop?

Time Link to 00:46:42

Hmmm. Is the min-raise iso OTB ever really strong? Isn't he often trying to see a 4 card flop with a speculative hand?

Why not 3-bet to 6bb and fold to a shove? If he flats, it's pretty easy to play postflop with a SPR of 2.5

Time Link to 00:48:44

Would all your over-bets be for value at these stakes? It seems like it should be as exploitable as that sounds.

The AK fold looks iffy. While a limp3b is generally the nuts for a fullstacker, we have blockers to AA/KK, and semishort stacks can show up with Axs in that spot. Should be an easy shove imo.

Hi R.E.
I noticed that you played very tight in this video. I was surprised to see you fold AKo and KQo while in position to the bettor. Also, I did not see you going after any Ax-suited hands.

Just curious whether you played tight...just for this video series...or if that is how you normally play these type of hands.
Thanks.

When you make the comment on the sb limping in with 5 to 1 odds, it is true that there aren't any hands you should fold to those odds if you are going to see the turn and river. The odds become smaller if you just see the flop

It's going to depend a ton on how well you can hand-read postflop and how prone you are to stacking off with good, but not great hands. The issue with 100BB play is that the RISK: amount of $$ that we have to lose (our remaining stack) is quite large compared to the REWARD: amount we can win (the pot). If we find ourselves in spots where we're limping in because we're getting fantastic odds, but we're stacking off with hands like bottom 2 or TPTK on a regular basis, your winrate will take a huge nosedive.

Would all your over-bets be for value at these stakes? It seems like it should be as exploitable as that sounds.

At the micro stakes, without reads, I would say that the VAST majority of my bets will be value bets, until I'm shown that villains are capable of being bluffed. The kind of player that's going to be able to adjust to my bet-size AND exploit it is either going to have moved up fairly quickly or will be playing too many tables to really notice. To be honest, you could play pretty straight-forward at these stakes (maybe bluffing 5% of the time) and show excellent profit.

Hi R.E.
I noticed that you played very tight in this video. I was surprised to see you fold AKo and KQo while in position to the bettor. Also, I did not see you going after any Ax-suited hands.

Just curious whether you played tight...just for this video series...or if that is how you normally play these type of hands.
Thanks.

My general strategy and the strategy I advise to newer players is pretty different for a few reasons.

1) At these stakes, unknowns are a lot more likely to be loose-passive.

2) At these stakes, I have no real reads on people. One of the reasons I've been fairly successful at small stakes is that my game is highly adaptive to the players around me. Barring good reads, I tend to default to a tighter style, aiming primarily for value and pot control.

3) I think it's much more likely for thinner plays to be misapplied (especially with bluffs at the micros) so the style I'll play here (or anywhere where I'm readless) will be tight, for the most part.

If you guys have specific hands to discuss, please post timestamps! Issues like stack size, players behind, and table dynamic play a part in these decisions and I don't always have the opportunity to voice everything that goes into a decision. Also, I might just make a mistake, in which case I'd like to go over why I think (in retrospect) that I didn't like a particular play I made and discuss a better alternative.

I generally tend to isolate larger to start building the pot...especially if I have a hand that (I think) dominates my opponent's limp/calling range. Some other reasons for betting larger (either in this situation or others)

a) Our opponent has a wide calling range (that we beat) and we're betting for value

b) Our opponent has a tendency to call on this particular street, but fold later in the hand. (For example, if someone is limp/calling with 40% of their hands preflop and then folding to cbet 90% of the time on the flop, I might just iso them to 6-7 bb just so that when he folds the flop, we win a bigger pot)

c) Something we didn't really cover (because of lack of reads) is that if we're aiming to bluff and we think that our bet size will drastically affect his calling range, then we should bet larger. (For example, we think our opponent will call a 1/2 pot bet with any overs or piece of a J 5 2 rainbow board, but only call a pot-sized bet with TP. Given the range of hands we get to fold with the psb, we should definitely opt for that size) However, as with any bluff, we need to know our opponent knows where the fold button is.

defenestrate, please give a link to the HH? In general, I'm going to avocate avoiding really thin spots like this without reads because there are lots of better spots to get our money in.

Clambake, you're definitely right on this one.

I really appreciate the time you guys take to watch, read and comment here! Thank you so much!!

defenestrate, please give a link to the HH?

My post had a link. I also asked a few more questions about AKo preflop.

Can you also talk about the 99 hand, which I feel you may have misplayed. Or maybe I'm just FPSing.

RE thought the vid was good, lots of new students looking for FR material alot of the stuff here is outdated.

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