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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by blah234 (Micro/Small Stakes)

we need around 43% to make the call, my estimation is we have around 40%

Board: Kd 9d Ts
Dead:

equity
Hand 0: 34.489% { AsKc }
Hand 1: 65.511% { TT-99, AdQd, AdJd, AdTd, Ad9d, Ad8d, Ad7d, Ad6d, Ad5d, Ad4d, Ad3d, Ad2d, KQs, KdJd, KTs-K9s, Kd8d, QJs, QdTd, Q9s, JTs, Jd9d, T9s, 9d8d, 8d7d, 7d6d, AKo, KQo, KTo, QJo }



Call is -EV given the range I assigned him. The call becomes +EV if you add in some random head explosion combos or pair + straight draw or KJo so I still think this spot is fairly close between call or fold. This just to show that even coaches can make -EV plays during the video and not many people can come with with the exatly math during the hands.

Been studying the game over 5 years and I still make mistakes almost every session... poker is indeed a sick beast. I really hope you make alot of these live videos cause if there anything like this one Im gonna be one very happy camper Thanks Blah.

Time Link to 00:27:47

With the QJs hand. How about betting even bigger on turn?

Since he is almost never folding right away there, by betting larger, you blow up the pot and win more with a large bluffbet on the river.

Thoughts?

With the QJs hand. How about betting even bigger on turn?

Since he is almost never folding right away there, by betting larger, you blow up the pot and win more with a large bluffbet on the river.

Thoughts?

reasonable adjustment given your assumptions if you think you will win at the river enough. 1 problem with betting big on any street in a 3 bet pot is that it gives villain good odds to shove with any amount of equity but that particular turn card should of not changed his equity much.

5:23 (KK) - What cards r u barrelling on turn? Then shoving river? (except K obv)
10:14 - Betting turn w/ TT-QQ?
31:00 - If villain called on turn, would u always bet river? Which cards u r checking back otr?

Nice vid

5:23 (KK) - What cards r u barrelling on turn? Then shoving river? (except K obv)
10:14 - Betting turn w/ TT-QQ?
31:00 - If villain called on turn, would u always bet river? Which cards u r checking back otr?

Nice vid

1. nothing without history
2. Not sure which hand you're talking about
3. Betting every river.


next time please use the timestamp from the replayer. Difficult to find the hands you're asking about.

Time Link to 00:13:19

The bottom right table, is this not a good spot to isolate the fish who limps utg? or do you consider your hand to weak?

The bottom right table, is this not a good spot to isolate the fish who limps utg? or do you consider your hand to weak?

Hand is boarder line, you would be making much of a mistake if you raised in that spot.

Time Link to 00:27:48

what would u have done on a river J or Q? would u have checked or bet for value?

Time Link to 00:33:34

Why not just call him here? He could very well be balanced and bluff for half pot as much as he does for value. Raising seems to fold out a lot of stuff he might lead with and cuts down on worse hands that can call doesn't it? If he has air and you call you might get 3 streets of value from pure air if the flush doesn't come in and the board stays relatively benign.

what would u have done on a river J or Q? would u have checked or bet for value?

are you talking about the KK hand? I'd jam the turn no matter what the card is.

Why not just call him here? He could very well be balanced and bluff for half pot as much as he does for value. Raising seems to fold out a lot of stuff he might lead with and cuts down on worse hands that can call doesn't it? If he has air and you call you might get 3 streets of value from pure air if the flush doesn't come in and the board stays relatively benign.

Villain has a bet sizing tell which we seen a few times earlier in the session which contradicts your assumptions.

Great series and i definitely learning a lot from your vids.Just a few doubts:

7’09
Bottom right table KTo hand:When we cbet there into a 3way pot on J55 our plan if called was to barrel on all hearts,Q+ right???

At 20 min
Bottom right table KJo hand on a Ks9s9Q6 board call half pot bets on all 3 streets.Did you call because the fd was present.Without that would you fold to the turn barrel???If yes then are we folding to a 3rd half pot sized bet on river had it been a spade???

At 47 min
Top left table villain in BB calls with KJo.Shouldnt we note that he calls with offsuit broadways in MW pots and thus shouldn’t multi street bluff him in the future on boards that hit broadway cards???Because calling pre there was definitely a mistake imo.

At 50 min
In bottom right table with JTo,our plan after c/c flop was to bluff river if turn goes check-check but the T hits on the river.So why did we bluff when we now have a hand that has showdown value??You said that you wanted to see what he has so you lead but a c/c too does that job.Also you say that you were trying to rep an A hi (so villain would call you lighter imo).However if we indeed had A hi there then we are betting as a bluff there right??If yes then we shouldnt bet there now??

Thanks in advance.

Great series and i definitely learning a lot from your vids.Just a few doubts:

7’09
Bottom right table KTo hand:When we cbet there into a 3way pot on J55 our plan if called was to barrel on all hearts,Q+ right???

probably c/fing unless we have a read that villain peels multiway light

At 20 min
Bottom right table KJo hand on a Ks9s9Q6 board call half pot bets on all 3 streets.Did you call because the fd was present.Without that would you fold to the turn barrel???If yes then are we folding to a 3rd half pot sized bet on river had it been a spade???

yes fold to a spade because villain's value range becomes much wider and KJ moves down from our bluff catching range, we can have a flush as well.

At 47 min
Top left table villain in BB calls with KJo.Shouldnt we note that he calls with offsuit broadways in MW pots and thus shouldn’t multi street bluff him in the future on boards that hit broadway cards???Because calling pre there was definitely a mistake imo.

calling off suit broadway isn't that abnormal. How can we say we should never bluff him on broadway boards? We have no read that says he doesn't call SC or pp so we have no idea how he constructs his calling range after we see this hand. IMO calilng KJ is better than calling like 67s if you've watch episode 4.

At 50 min
In bottom right table with JTo,our plan after c/c flop was to bluff river if turn goes check-check but the T hits on the river.So why did we bluff when we now have a hand that has showdown value??You said that you wanted to see what he has so you lead but a c/c too does that job.Also you say that you were trying to rep an A hi (so villain would call you lighter imo).However if we indeed had A hi there then we are betting as a bluff there right??If yes then we shouldnt bet there now??

Thanks in advance.

we did not bluff we were value betting also I was proving a point about the OOP float. I'm fairly sure I said that in the video. Just because he CAN call with A high doesn't mean he does or will all the time. No better time to find out when we hit a pair.

Time Link to 01:05:56

Love the series, but this hand makes no sense to me, and I don't understand your explanation, so I hope you can elaborate?

As I see it:

We don't know anything about the utg raiser, so we have to go by some default assumption. At this limit I think it's best to go with the assumption, that an utg raise reps a very strong depolarized range.

At best V's range is: TT+ , AJ+

Against this range AQo 42%.

Another default assumption I think we can make about V at this level is, that he dosen't fold to much.

This means:
- We can't raise for value because we have like 42% ev at best.
- We can't raise as a bluf because V isn't going to fold.

So I think calling is the best option, because if we are right about V's range, there's a good chance we can take it away from him post flop.

The only other +ev option is to just fold.

Love the series, but this hand makes no sense to me, and I don't understand your explanation, so I hope you can elaborate?

As I see it:

We don't know anything about the utg raiser, so we have to go by some default assumption. At this limit I think it's best to go with the assumption, that an utg raise reps a very strong depolarized range.

At best V's range is: TT+ , AJ+

Against this range AQo 42%.

Another default assumption I think we can make about V at this level is, that he dosen't fold to much.

This means:
- We can't raise for value because we have like 42% ev at best.
- We can't raise as a bluf because V isn't going to fold.

So I think calling is the best option, because if we are right about V's range, there's a good chance we can take it away from him post flop.

The only other +ev option is to just fold.

Raising for value or as a bluff is not a good reasoning for raising since it does not take into account postflop and positional advantage or the EV of your play.

Assuming villain raises more than 12% which is pretty tight by any standards then if villain folds down to TT and AJ he's folding enough for my 3 bet bluff to show a profit. Sure villain's TT and JJ have slightly over 50% equity assuming he calls, but the person in position have more chances to make the one OOP incorrectly fold their equity share.

AQo is in the top 5% of hands in NLHM and you shouldn't fold it without a very good reason. People's UTG ranges are not that tight, average villain will still open about 15% hands there.