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

Are you saying we should never 3bet preflop and on the flop if we have pocket Qs or lower?

I'm saying that we need to be aware of what our opponent is going to continue with before we decide whether or not to 3b any hand. If he's going to call with a whole mess of hands, then we can obviously 3bet QQ for value. However, if he's just going to fold all his worse hands and continue with better ones, then it's usually better to call and keep those weaker hands in.

So how should I play QQ for example,lets say I'm in BTN or CO,and the MP raises PF 3bb,another dude calls and I have position on them,bough player are fairly tight in the range of 20/15,What I'm thinking is that I should 3bet,because I'm going to collect 7,5bb at this point if they fold,however if one of those players shoves on me,I can easily fold,because I invested 13bb to get 7.5.I raise this is amount to narrow their range down,because most of the time KK and AA will shove and most likely I will save money on post flop play.Now lets say they call,that doesn't mean yet that they have AA or KK,and thats a mistake on their part now calling with small pocket pairs,most likely they will fold to cbet.Their are folding to cbet 60-70% and the board is 852 rainbow. Now here where it gets complicated to at least,show I cbet the flop,or check and let them bluff,because they fold all losing hands and I won't get any value of my QQ. Another thing is that turn most likely will be T-A,this might give them a set or TP,so what is the best play here? If I cbet the flop and take it down,I make 14.5bb at this point,should I try to extract more value of my hand?I understand that most of this depends on the range that he is calling. Please explain with various situation pre flop and post flop. This brings me a totally different point of view on my QQ/JJ/TT. Thank you,your videos are very helpful.

another thing where you talk about play at 1:06.I did some math on this and the way I look into this is.BB 3bets my raise to 10bb, I call with 99+,now pot gets 20,5bb,he bets 15bb, I call and pot is 50,5,if he checks,I should be betting 35bb,so at this point I put post flop 50bb into pot,thats half of stack,I don't want to put this much money with 99+,If I raise him on the flop to 35-40bb I save 10bb+ every single time I play the same way! So why should I try to call and then bet? Thank you

That's because it would take a bunch of work to try and prove this mathematically why would someone take the hours to bother. I have played several million hands of full ring NL I am just telling you what I have done that works. The fact is that in these spots I will usually have position as my preflop raising range is very late position heavy. I also will have the betting initiative. The 3 main factors to winning any pot are the combination of hand equity, position, and betting initiative. So I have 2 of these 3 and an at least decent hand equity in a majority of the pots I am raising. So not only do I have my basic cbet to win me money, I have position, initiative, and hand reading ability. This will help me determine when to fire 2 and 3 barrels and when to give up.

If a particular player starts playing back at my cbets often, I will just cbet less often or start bet/3betting them or bet/calling them in position on the flop with a wider equity range, and they are going to lose the battle of adjustments because I am choosing mainly situations where I have a stronger combination of the 3 above mentioned key factors and am better than most of my opponents at poker.

Gonna stop hijacking this thread I hope you got something out of my input

A+ you should also add the board texture,most people just cbet no matter what. Pick your spots,check your opponents stats,check agg fr and you will be able to make money. When you play a player like goldseraph you are going to trap in the corner and it will seem like he's running hot all the time. Nope,its the way you make your moves. If you have ever played chess,you know that you adjust to your opponent moves,so why not to adjust in here? If you want some math,find Threads13,he talks a bit how to calculate EV,do the math,add all the factors,play the scenario 100 times(witch is not possible,because every play in poker is different) and you will have the answer.