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

Pretty bad vid quality.
Why?!

Pretty bad vid quality.
Why?!

Might be something that I am doing wrong on my end. I'll have to get with Rusty to see if there is something I should be doing differently from a recording perspective. If it is my fault, I apologize in advance.

Time Link to 00:40:12

I will mix in calls and cold 4bets here. What would you call in this position or would you have no calling range? I would mix in some AA/KK AK calls as well, especially if CO is agro and a little spazz or a fish obviously

Time Link to 00:35:00

I can't see the HUD. But can you talk me through again why this is a good call? Surely we whiff most flops, and a chi/r could be an expensive mistake if he does have a hand?

Hey in that hand with AJc against the guys KK, when you check the turn and he checks in position then on the river you value bet..could you call a shove if the guy decided to turn his hand into a bluff? I guess what I'm asking here is, could the villian in that hand have gotten away with a shove on the river with how it was played. Cause once he checked the turn his hand was pretty much face up but if he jams the river does it look like a bluff there or super strong?

I will mix in calls and cold 4bets here. What would you call in this position or would you have no calling range? I would mix in some AA/KK AK calls as well, especially if CO is agro and a little spazz or a fish obviously

First I'll say that in these games, I don't feel you have to be concerned with balance very much. You're probably not going to be cold 4 betting enough for it to matter, and especially not against the same opponents over and over again. Against players that are active 3 bettors from the blinds, I'll call with pocket pairs around 77 or 88 and higher, and AJs+ and AQo+ or so. You can expect to be able to win the pot more than enough if the 3 bettor is 3 betting often enough to have a wide range, and you expect the original raiser to be calling the 3 bet with a wide range as well since he's getting a really good price. Your cold call is going to look pretty strong, so there are going to be a lot of flops you can expect to take down even when you miss. Hope all of that made sense.

What's annoying about these spots is that when you have a really strong hand, there isn't a good way to represent a wide range. This is why you can get away with calling a bit wider than you normally would. You're going to get credit for a strong hand whether you call or cold 4 bet because games at these stakes aren't usually aggressive enough for players to believe you're cold 4 betting light. All that said, I would probably 4 bet small and hope that SB comes along and makes some mistakes against me postflop.

I can't see the HUD. But can you talk me through again why this is a good call? Surely we whiff most flops, and a chi/r could be an expensive mistake if he does have a hand?

Looks like from the HUD that villain is 3 betting 14% from the BTN, so we can assume that number is going to be slightly higher BTN v CO. We're getting better than 2:1 to call with a pretty strong hand that figures to be dominating some of his 3 betting range here. I especially like it now that we know we can flop an A against a hand like KK and still get very good value on the river when villain plays his hand about as face up as you possibly can.

Even when we whiff, we can check/call a lot of flops as we are ahead a fair amount of the time and have the added bonus of "good barreling cards" actually improving our hand. We don't necessarily need to check/raise the flop to take the pot down. A lot of players will fire the flop and give up when called if they don't have anything.

Hey in that hand with AJc against the guys KK, when you check the turn and he checks in position then on the river you value bet..could you call a shove if the guy decided to turn his hand into a bluff? I guess what I'm asking here is, could the villian in that hand have gotten away with a shove on the river with how it was played. Cause once he checked the turn his hand was pretty much face up but if he jams the river does it look like a bluff there or super strong?

I was actually thinking about this exact situation as I was rewatching the video. I think if villain does take the line that you're describing, it's almost always going to be a slow played monster and your AJ is never good. I'm never going to give a 100NL player credit for being able to turn a hand like KK or QQ into a bluff here and move someone off an A. I wouldn't give most 1000NL players credit for being able to do it either to be honest.

Time Link to 00:08:37

I think if you're going to float QJ on AXX, we should try a raise on the turn when we pick up that club draw if we think that villain barrels a lot. If he's a nit, then folding is probably the best option.

Time Link to 00:13:46

I think a decent reg could flat AK/AQ IP here. Especially if he thinks we will fold to a lot of 3bets, flatting it may be more +ev imo. This is especially true if we haven't built much of a 3betting dynamic with the villain. What do you think?

Time Link to 00:39:36

I think the guy who 3bet had something like 40 bucks in his stack. Do you still think cold 4bet and calling off the rest is ok?

Time Link to 00:40:26

The hand with KK, I think it's hard to get much worse to call you here. I kind of like checking to induce bluffs in this spot.

I think if you're going to float QJ on AXX, we should try a raise on the turn when we pick up that club draw if we think that villain barrels a lot. If he's a nit, then folding is probably the best option.

Yea normally I wouldn't advocate it here. It's a little better when we have a club that we can semi-bluff as you suggested.

I think the guy who 3bet had something like 40 bucks in his stack. Do you still think cold 4bet and calling off the rest is ok?

From the looks of it, his 3bet is pretty high, so I still expect him to fold to the 4 bet a decent amount of the time. Since his stack is short, you can size your 4 bet down a little and still put him in a spot where he's committed. If he does jam over the 4bet, you're probably in a spot where you're getting good enough odds that you have to call it off unless you somehow know he only has AK and QQ+.