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Poker Video: Pot-Limit Omaha by DJ Sensei (Micro/Small Stakes)

Audio is a few seconds ahead of the action for me?

Audio is a few seconds ahead of the action for me?

Thats probably my fault on the production side. Hopefully it doesn't affect your viewing pleasure too much!

Downloading now, if the audio is off just open it twice with vlc/mpc, mute one and sync the sound from one with the audio of the other.

Really like the series so far.

Time Link to 00:11:56

Here we have AAT9 in a 3bet pot 3 ways on a K52 rainbow board. You comment that if we get any action we just have to go with it...

Both of our opponents look to be fairly passive, and with the lack of any draw for them to have, isnt their range almost entirely comprised of sets?

Against a more aggro regular i could see sticking it in so that they can't try to blow us off hands and because they can show up with Kxxx. but in this situation, at this level, against passive opponents, the range of hands that c/r you in a 3bet pot is so largely a set that calling off here is probably -ev.

Time Link to 00:42:20

Here we 3bet AKQQss after a limper and HJ opener. How do we feel about 3betting smaller than pot. to like... 6 or soemthing, which makes his potential 4bet a lot less menacing?

obviously we would have tro do that with our AAxx hands against this villain from now on (if we think he even notices) but i think it gives us a lot more playability with this type of hand and our rundowns.

I think in general i can go either wayi with this hand and either cold call or 3bet.

Here we have AAT9 in a 3bet pot 3 ways on a K52 rainbow board. You comment that if we get any action we just have to go with it...

Both of our opponents look to be fairly passive, and with the lack of any draw for them to have, isnt their range almost entirely comprised of sets?

Against a more aggro regular i could see sticking it in so that they can't try to blow us off hands and because they can show up with Kxxx. but in this situation, at this level, against passive opponents, the range of hands that c/r you in a 3bet pot is so largely a set that calling off here is probably -ev.

Well, it depends how passive they are. Obviously there are opponents against whom we should snapfold, but I think those are rare. Also, 55 and 22 are among the least likely hands for them to have in their ranges. I think some random 2 pair is more likely than a set, though of course that isn't good for us either. I think the biggest concern is stack sizes here, we may just be putting too much at risk if we stack off here (but with half these stacks its an easy get-it-in)

Here we 3bet AKQQss after a limper and HJ opener. How do we feel about 3betting smaller than pot. to like... 6 or soemthing, which makes his potential 4bet a lot less menacing?

obviously we would have tro do that with our AAxx hands against this villain from now on (if we think he even notices) but i think it gives us a lot more playability with this type of hand and our rundowns.

I think in general i can go either wayi with this hand and either cold call or 3bet.

I prefer flatting, as I said in the video. I'm not sure how I feel about smaller 3bets. If we think he's 4betting us often enough to be concerned about it, we shouldn't be 3betting this hand in the first place. If he's not, then we don't have to worry too much about it and can boost it up to the full pot.

I'm not sure how I feel about smaller 3bets.

in general or in this situation?

I've been 3betting less than pot with almost my full range in and out of position. with my really good rundown (and my mediocre rundowns) it makes calling a 4bet really easy becase they can only get like 35% of stacks in preflop, which gives us more options on the flop as to whether we want to stack off or not. We're mostly going to if we flop any piece, but in those occasions where we have 6789ds and the flop comes KKA, we can muck =)

I'm also being really exploitable with this strategy against players who i've never played with or who are huge fish.. and full potting the deeper we are and also with my premium KK or AA type hands to make my stack offs easier with those hands.

Well in higher stakes games, balance/exploitability is a very real concern. Maybe not so much in lower stakes games but you should still be aware of it at least against good regular opponents. I don't mind smaller 3bets with your run-type hands if your opponents aren't capable of realizing what your betsizing means.