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

FR not SH! very nice!

nice vid! but please stop talking at the same time, it's really annoying to listen to

Time Link to 00:33:29

Looking at the sizing of the 3bet makes me wanna stick all the money in right away. Why would you raise $9 with two aces? Fold equity and pot eq against KK is more than enough in my opinion. As well as I would not worry about my relative position at all because all the QQ hand of a coldcaller will fold to the shove anyway and if second coldcaller had a hand, he would have squeezed himselelf. Regardless, very nice vid and looking forward to see more full ring talk.

Looking at the sizing of the 3bet makes me wanna stick all the money in right away. Why would you raise $9 with two aces? Fold equity and pot eq against KK is more than enough in my opinion. As well as I would not worry about my relative position at all because all the QQ hand of a coldcaller will fold to the shove anyway and if second coldcaller had a hand, he would have squeezed himselelf. Regardless, very nice vid and looking forward to see more full ring talk.

I didn't read much into the sizing, looks only a little on the big side to me, and I can't draw any conclusions about the size as we have no sample, this could easily be his standard size with his whole range. There is a pot raise and 2 callers, plus the blinds so it's not that huge a squeeze anyway.
If we had any kind of read that BU is a heavy squeezer, particularly a read that he has squeezed EP light and folded, then a jam is mandatory. However, quad had next to no read on this player, and generally non-fish dont sqz a tight UTG player light in rush.

What happened to the iPod compatible videos? I wanna watch this on my iPad

What happened to the iPod compatible videos? I wanna watch this on my iPad

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What happened to the iPod compatible videos? I wanna watch this on my iPad

If you want to watch this on your iPad, I'd recommend downloading GoodReader (http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html) and using the MP4 version, which is full resolution. I haven't tested this personally yet but several DC members have commented that it's a great way to watch videos with more than 1 table.

As Joe said, 1-tabling videos are made into iPod compatible formats, but the rest aren't as 2 and 4 tabling videos don't appear very well on the lower resolution iPod units/formats.

Rob

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BJJ

Time Link to 00:07:34

On the AKs hand: I play 10$ frnl Rush and I find myself in this spot pretty often. I have a pretty high c-bet% and a tight image so I don't love firing out on middling boards since I have big cards/air often and I end up folding to a turn (probe/float) bet which is also a gross situation I have to face, often with relatively strong hands. I can understand checking the flop and folding the turn if the intention of the pf 3-bet was to buy the pot, but does the fact that this is AKs rather than Ax or a small pp make this an auto c-bet on the flop? Is it ever good to check behind on the flop with (unimproved) hands you've 3-bet for value pre?

On the AKs hand: I play 10$ frnl Rush and I find myself in this spot pretty often. I have a pretty high c-bet% and a tight image...

I also play 10NL FR Rush and would've declined to c-bet in that spot for similar reasons. My c-bet % is already 74% with a 45% success rate without betting into such flops.

I would make a delayed c-bet on the turn if villain checks again, and give up if he bets (unless the card improves my hand, obv).

Goldseraph's point about forcing the opponent to define his hand here is not lost on me, but I think maybe it's a difference in the stakes.

In 10NL villains don't seem aggressive enough to bet the turn here without a hand even if hero checks behind on the flop. I find them to generally be checking the turn as well and then folding to my delayed c-bet.

On the AKs hand: I play 10$ frnl Rush and I find myself in this spot pretty often. I have a pretty high c-bet% and a tight image so I don't love firing out on middling boards since I have big cards/air often and I end up folding to a turn (probe/float) bet which is also a gross situation I have to face, often with relatively strong hands. I can understand checking the flop and folding the turn if the intention of the pf 3-bet was to buy the pot, but does the fact that this is AKs rather than Ax or a small pp make this an auto c-bet on the flop? Is it ever good to check behind on the flop with (unimproved) hands you've 3-bet for value pre?

There are several reasons we should cbet this flop. We can fold better hands, or take down the dead money against hands with equity. We also prevent being bluffed/semibluffed on the turn by worse hands due to our not cbetting.
In addition to our fold equity, we have pot equity. We have six outs to top pair as well as a backdoor nut flush draw and backdoor nut straight draw. This will allow us to double barrel some turns, or take a card if we like.

I also play 10NL FR Rush and would've declined to c-bet in that spot for similar reasons. My c-bet % is already 74% with a 45% success rate without betting into such flops.

I would make a delayed c-bet on the turn if villain checks again, and give up if he bets (unless the card improves my hand, obv).

Goldseraph's point about forcing the opponent to define his hand here is not lost on me, but I think maybe it's a difference in the stakes.

In 10NL villains don't seem aggressive enough to bet the turn here without a hand even if hero checks behind on the flop. I find them to generally be checking the turn as well and then folding to my delayed c-bet.

You should use a hud to try and gauge your opponent's tendencies as best as you can, particularly how passive or aggressive they are postflop. Obviously if your opponent is never going to bluff the turn if you check back, then it is better than if they do.
However, I still would bet the flop against such an opponent. The primary reasons are to fold out some better hands (small pps), and to fold out or get value from hands that have equity (QJs JTs A9s and the like).
Also don't forget this key concept - if the opponent has a weak hand like AT 99 perhaps even JJ, we may be able to double or triple barrel them off their hand, particularly if we pick up turn outs. Then cbetting will have created a bigger amount of dead money that further barrels will capitalize upon. And when we hit an A or K and the opponent has a lesser pair, we will have won a bigger pot because they are probably shutting down at that point, so if we check into an A or K on the turn we get less value than if we had cbet.

So, in a 3-bet pot against a utg min-raise, you will usually have AK, AQ (sometimes) or a big pair, therefore a flop c-bet is 100% mandatory since you have over-pairs so often in this spot, not to mention 6 direct outs vs. a pair and some nut-draw turn-barreling cards? That makes a lot of sense, actually. What about when you have an unimproved AK/AQ in a spot where you have a much wider perceived range, like when you open from a later position? What about when you're up against an opponent who never folds to c-bets? In situations where you have low fold equity, do you still look to play an unimproved big Ax aggressively or do you base your line on pot equity at that point?