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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by slowlane123 (Mid Stakes)

asdfawefqwefwds so tilting. Every 4 words you pause your voice for 3 seconds. The whole thing is so disjointed.

Wow, if every post is as good as your very first one we are in for a treat. I like the video myself.

Time Link to 00:11:55

got 3 comments on hands that are going or just went down.

1. why aren't we firing again on the river with AJo? do we ever expect him to check down worse? If we're betting the turn to get AQ and AK to fold we have to bet the rive ras well. I think in general this is a pretty poorly played hand.

2. In the KQs hand is cbetting the flop really the best plan? I guess if you have certain stat reads on villain I can buy an argument for betting the flop, but if either player c/r's here it really sucks as we're giving up a free shot at the nuts with potentially plenty of equity. we can even get bluffed by a worse hand with all of the potential draws. It seems to me that we should check back and try to spike a pair or our gutter because if villain really has air and is going to fold he'll fold it on the turn as easily as the flop.

3. the 88 fold preflop seems really weak. if villain is 3betting wide enough that we can flat AJo OOP I would think we can stack 88 for 30bb preflop.

I guess I'm not a fan of either of those 3 hands but would like to hear your thoughts. back to the vid.

got 3 comments on hands that are going or just went down.

1. why aren't we firing again on the river with AJo? do we ever expect him to check down worse? If we're betting the turn to get AQ and AK to fold we have to bet the rive ras well. I think in general this is a pretty poorly played hand.

2. In the KQs hand is cbetting the flop really the best plan? I guess if you have certain stat reads on villain I can buy an argument for betting the flop, but if either player c/r's here it really sucks as we're giving up a free shot at the nuts with potentially plenty of equity. we can even get bluffed by a worse hand with all of the potential draws. It seems to me that we should check back and try to spike a pair or our gutter because if villain really has air and is going to fold he'll fold it on the turn as easily as the flop.

3. the 88 fold preflop seems really weak. if villain is 3betting wide enough that we can flat AJo OOP I would think we can stack 88 for 30bb preflop.

I guess I'm not a fan of either of those 3 hands but would like to hear your thoughts. back to the vid.

1. The AJ hand you say fire again, but I never fired to begin with? I called the 3b and then hoped to get to showdown as I felt I had SD value vs a decent part of his range (low suited Ax, K9s, KJo etc).

2. I still like cbetting the flop. The weak reg who overlimp/called will play his hand face up here. His hand is pretty transparent as a small or mid pocket pair imo. If he flopped a set he would have donked on this board almost 100%, especially being that he knows I will have iso'd wide and will not cbet vs the fish without some decent equity. The fish is never going to x/r. His AFq is 19 over a decent 200 hand sample so I would say his x/r % would likely be between 0 and 5% (just looked it up, it's 3%). I expect him to x/c almost always and for us to have really good equity against his entire range. Check back would be fine too but I certainly don't think betting will have less EV than checking.

3. You'll notice some small but significant differences between the AJo spot and the 88 spot. Firstly, I opened from MP making my range ALOT tighter, which should in theory mean his CO 3b range is far tighter compared to the AJo hand which was CO vs BTN. Second, we're deeper on the AJo table, giving us better odds to spike an ace or jack or alternatively, more room to try and outplay him on the right boards if we feel we don't have SD value. Thirdly, his 3bet size is 3 x on the 88 hand, making it more expensive for us to call. On the AJo hand it was 2.5 x. Getting 88 in for 30bb isn't really standard for me, though its close and I'm sure other regs who play similar styles my feel differently.

dealing with the hands in order:

1. my bad I saw that bet get lined up and i thought you fired and then started watching the other hands. fwiw I think if you're flatting OOP against a SSer you need to fire that turn and river 100% of the time until he proves to you that he's going to SD with AK and AQ there. His flop check is pretty transparent and if you aren't going to take advantage of that I think it's a pretty easy fold pf.

2. I'm still not convinced that bad reg is never c/r'ing with sets or big combo draws. If you say the guy plays face up and you feel confident that you can bet there without getting blown off your equity than I trust you're right. I think without a solid read (which I certainly didn't have from the info available in the video) I prefer a check back.

3. IMO he's making a standard 3bet size because he plays like a robot, I think the reason it's 3x in this hand is because you opened smaller. If you'd opened to 12 with 88 he'd still have 3bet to 30. I would at least list his 3bet % by position as well as discuss his position awareness before just folding it as a standard, fwiw I think folding this is going to be a pretty big leak for most regs. if you're folding 88 to a 3bet you're only playing 4.2% of hands to a 3bet and most shorties are 3betting somewhere between 6-9% in LP. I think it's at least worth discussing why you think flatting AJo OOP is a more +EV play than 4betting 88 OOP.

I also would like to hear your arguments for why you are pretty much always 3betting strong suited connectors IP and never CC'ing. I can probably guess your reasons for this, but I'd like to hear them from you cause I think that would be more constructive than me trying to make the case for or against it.

fwiw I think your videos have a lot of promise but in general you make a lot of plays that would greatly benefit from further explanation. Especially relating to your ranges in 3bet pots both as the raiser and caller, and your ranges in various positions.

although I can certainly see some reasons for not discussing all of this on the forums because I think rush poker presents a unique opportunity for observant players to exploit their opponents and I can understand why you might be reluctant to give away this info.

dealing with the hands in order:

1. my bad I saw that bet get lined up and i thought you fired and then started watching the other hands. fwiw I think if you're flatting OOP against a SSer you need to fire that turn and river 100% of the time until he proves to you that he's going to SD with AK and AQ there. His flop check is pretty transparent and if you aren't going to take advantage of that I think it's a pretty easy fold pf.

2. I'm still not convinced that bad reg is never c/r'ing with sets or big combo draws. If you say the guy plays face up and you feel confident that you can bet there without getting blown off your equity than I trust you're right. I think without a solid read (which I certainly didn't have from the info available in the video) I prefer a check back.

3. IMO he's making a standard 3bet size because he plays like a robot, I think the reason it's 3x in this hand is because you opened smaller. If you'd opened to 12 with 88 he'd still have 3bet to 30. I would at least list his 3bet % by position as well as discuss his position awareness before just folding it as a standard, fwiw I think folding this is going to be a pretty big leak for most regs. if you're folding 88 to a 3bet you're only playing 4.2% of hands to a 3bet and most shorties are 3betting somewhere between 6-9% in LP. I think it's at least worth discussing why you think flatting AJo OOP is a more +EV play than 4betting 88 OOP.

1. Again, I feel we have showdown value, I don't see any need to turn my hand into a bluff.

2. I wouldn't say he's never x/r flop but on a board like that where I'm going to be checking all my whiffed hands he should be donking like always with the fish in.

3. Some interesting points! Might need to look into my stacking range vs shorties. Thanks.

I also would like to hear your arguments for why you are pretty much always 3betting strong suited connectors IP and never CC'ing. I can probably guess your reasons for this, but I'd like to hear them from you cause I think that would be more constructive than me trying to make the case for or against it.

I used to never 3b suited connectors. I would always CC or fold depending on the players and those behind me. Now I usually only 3b them when deep otherwise I still CC alot.

I thought the edited live play then HH review works really well for full ring and would like to see more videos like this.

Keep up the good work Jake.

Stan

slowlane I hope my comments haven't come across as harsh or rude. these are good videos and I'm enjoying them. I think you've got a lot to offer especially in understanding how to exploit regs I just sometimes want you to elaborate more on your thought process.

Time Link to 00:33:49

i agree that the Q can be perceived as a bad card for a bad hand reader. knowing that I was a little surprised after your commentary that you decided to overbet ship. seems like a smallish half pot bet or less probably has more value over the relatively few times that he heros the overbet.

i agree that the Q can be perceived as a bad card for a bad hand reader. knowing that I was a little surprised after your commentary that you decided to overbet ship. seems like a smallish half pot bet or less probably has more value over the relatively few times that he heros the overbet.

I would often be betting small here but with weirdo stats like his I thought I may aswell go too big instead of too small as he may well be a total station and pay us off with good regularity (with 99-AA, or some weirdly played set).

Your comments haven't come across harsh at all. Enjoying the discussion, thanks for your freedback. Keep it coming in future vids!

This is so tilting - you just make the nuts EVERY hand. If you can coach that, show me where to sign up

This is so tilting - you just make the nuts EVERY hand. If you can coach that, show me where to sign up

lol

These sessions were recorded at random. I don't pick my best session and talk through them. Actually, during this series I specifically didn't use two videos as I ran so well there were no interesting spots.

People tend to run good with my coaching though :-)