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

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Time Link to 00:44:48

So if you are 4b calling 22 why not just increase your FE and 4b jam?

If you 4b and he thinks you might be doing it light he has a non 0 chance of 5bing something like 22-77.

Compaired to if we 4b jam he is likely to fold those hands.

Im sure you know the benefits/problems w/ 4b jamming small pp there. But can you give a little more insight as why you would rather 4b/call a 5b than 4b jam.

I understand the fact that we want to balance. But cant we just exploit him by 4b jamming hands like that until he see's us 4b jamming 22 here and then make the adjustment to balance our 4b jamming range by now doing it w/ AJs type hands as well (since he might think we have a small pp and call w/ KQ type hands).

Sorry I mainly play HU so 4b jamming AJs to balance the fact he has seen me do it w/ 22 is a real thing I do (assuming we have a good 4 & 5b dynamic). Not so sure how it corrilates to 6m.

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yes.

So if you are 4b calling 22 why not just increase your FE and 4b jam?

If you 4b and he thinks you might be doing it light he has a non 0 chance of 5bing something like 22-77.

Compaired to if we 4b jam he is likely to fold those hands.

Im sure you know the benefits/problems w/ 4b jamming small pp there. But can you give a little more insight as why you would rather 4b/call a 5b than 4b jam.

I understand the fact that we want to balance. But cant we just exploit him by 4b jamming hands like that until he see's us 4b jamming 22 here and then make the adjustment to balance our 4b jamming range by now doing it w/ AJs type hands as well (since he might think we have a small pp and call w/ KQ type hands).

Sorry I mainly play HU so 4b jamming AJs to balance the fact he has seen me do it w/ 22 is a real thing I do (assuming we have a good 4 & 5b dynamic). Not so sure how it corrilates to 6m.

yes.

So you like 4b shoving better than 4b/calling it off?

Time Link to 00:57:55

How can we automatically assume that a light 3bettor is also a light 5bettor?

It seems to me that calling a shove with AJ at 100NL when the only read you have on someone is that they are 3betting light is probably a bad idea. This is especially true if we have never 4bet someone before which Kristy didn't do to that SeaGhost guy that Andrew first thought was the 3bettor here. I think most SSNL players are not at the level where they can 5bet light but I could be wrong.

IMO the only time you could start calling 5bet shoves against SeaGhost in this spot is if you noticed that his 5bet shoving frequency was very high like it was when FoxwoodsFiend was 5betting Andrew and/or you saw a showdown where the guy 5bet shoved a light hand. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.

Time Link to 00:57:55

see above post

Time Link to 01:02:54

What factors would make you want to raise the flop with 88 here? And if you do decide that raising is best, what factors do you consider about your opponent when determing whether to call a shove or to fold to a shove?

Awesome vid BTW, I learned a ton Keep'em coming.

damn. I fired up this vid at the library thinking to myself... I'll watch a couple of minutes while I wait to get settled into studying. 1:05 later I'm done watching the movie vid
Nice video series, I hope I can find time to watch the whole thing, and very nice coaching baluga.

Time Link to 00:32:36

This is the second time in a row on the bottom left table where the villain has raised a 1/2 pot cbet bvb(we folded the 1st time)...so I would definitely weight his range more toward bluffs (esp since he made it $11 this time instead of $12 - saving money on his bluffs??).

If that's the case...wouldn't a c/r river line possibly be the best way to play the hand? Would a small inducing raise on the flop possibly be good/better if we think that he's just going to give up on pretty much any turn/river other than a club?

I have a question on the end of this vid where you said if we call IP with 88 and flop is T65ss we should raise the cbet.

Could you go into this a bit more?

If we hit a flop of 267 should we bet raising/getting-it-in as a standard?
What should we be looking for if we need more information on make this decision?

I have a question on the end of this vid where you said if we call IP with 88 and flop is T65ss we should raise the cbet.

Could you go into this a bit more?

If we hit a flop of 267 should we bet raising/getting-it-in as a standard?
What should we be looking for if we need more information on make this decision?

great question.

basically, we want to be raising into equity in general. So, if we have 88, our opponent has AK, he still has significant equity (unlike when we have a set, where our opponent has like no equity). So, the real questions I'd ask would be:
1) how wide was his range preflop (if it was super tight and i was looking to flop a set, well, I didn't, so i'm just going to fold)
2) How often does he c-bet air on the flop? (if the answer is "often", I should never be folding provided the answer to #1 was "wide")
3)what will he do with air to a raise on the flop? (if i think he shoves somewhat often, easy raise/call)
4) what will he do on the turn with zero-to-some equity? (if he barrels a lot, then calling flop and shoving over his turn bet seems best).

However, if the answers are
1) wide
2) often
3) fold
4) give up often

then we should raise/fold the flop

heyo

wow that explained a lot of the underlying concepts that I was unsure/unaware of amazingly clearly. thank you.


would you say that this is a similar case in single raised pots?
eg we are on btn and call co open with 87s and flop 843-fd
a. would you raise there for the same reasons?
b. how about with 77 (similar but we have only 2 outs to improve if called)?
c. would you also do that oop with 87? 77?



sry one last thing -
for original question .. say he 3bets to 11 and we call
flop is 22bb .. he cbets 14 ... how much do you raise to with a low overpair there?

wow that explained a lot of the underlying concepts that I was unsure/unaware of amazingly clearly. thank you.


would you say that this is a similar case in single raised pots?
eg we are on btn and call co open with 87s and flop 843-fd
a. would you raise there for the same reasons?
b. how about with 77 (similar but we have only 2 outs to improve if called)?
c. would you also do that oop with 87? 77?



sry one last thing -
for original question .. say he 3bets to 11 and we call
flop is 22bb .. he cbets 14 ... how much do you raise to with a low overpair there?

minraise is the only raise size.

Andrew

assuming we do it in single raised pot also for same reasons (only not min raise) - right?