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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by bellatrix (Micro/Small Stakes)

Right hand table 33 open on the button and the BB 3!'s. Even though this guy is a maniac, can you talk a little more about peeling this flop w/ 33 on A98fd? Seems like so many cards are poor for us if he decides to bet the turn.

Yeah, might have been an optimistic peel, but I must have felt his 3betting range to be so wide to make the call here. In hindsight too optimistic.

Left hand table. Well, I understand you have the 45/0 guy on your right, but I think I'd rather have the maniac "Mr. Spike" on my right and just 3! him constantly.

I still don't know if "Mr. Spike" was actively bad. Personally if I would have to choose between the two and only those two, I'd have the 45/0 to my right instead of Mr Spike. Of course, as I said in the video having him to my left doesn't make me very happy.

Again, the most important things were the immediate seats. The nit to my left and the 45/0 to my right. Everything else would've been bonus (at least for me, this table would've been a dream table at 2/4, so maybe my standards are quite low).

Left table. Iso T8s and get donked into on 765fd. I think you can raise this flop despite not having any bd flush draws. Just thinking about his donking range, I'd imagine your T's and 8's are good a portion of the time, and 9's and 4's are pretty much always good. Yeah getting donk/3! sucks, but you still have outs.

Yeah, I'm still unsure about this one - hemming and hawing (see me going, ummm... uhhh... sighhh...). Ok, I've got one more vote in the other direction. ;-)

I'd be careful talking about image at these stakes. I don't give most players credit for doing any thinking, let alone thinking about my image. If they are thinking about that, it's probably just looking at my HUD stats. Granted here your HUD is reading 18/13...so maybe you're right?

Yeah, that blew right up in my face, didn't it?

Ooo ok I'd like some discussion on the left table xback with A9 on 48Q4. Were you planning on check calling? If so were you check calling down? Is he they type of player to turn worse hands than yours into a bluff?

I realize you have some showdown value, but my thought was he will call you with gut shots and diamonds so I would have bet (but I usually just barrel through too many turns). The pot is pretty small here so I suppose I'm missing something concerning that fact.

I was definitely planning on calling a river bet. The 4 "improved" my hand to showdown value, none of the obvious draws came in. However, I think betting here on the turn for value is a tad optimistic for my taste. Yes, this is for river situations, but in general for valuebetting you have to be good >50% of their calling range, picking off bluffs you need much lower odds. Now, I agree that I really didn't think it through if the guy just will bluff missed draws on the river as this guy was generally passive, but I don't think I have a value bet on the turn and my hand is too good to turn it into a bluff. Yes, I want to clear up outs, but I don't mind getting a free card myself here.

Left table A9whatever. In contrast to the other hand, I don't think I raise this flop. Even though you have a bd flush draw, you have more showdown value if he's donking some draw, you only have one overcard, and you don't have a draw to the nuts (when a 9 would have made your T8 on a 765).

The difference being that I'm heads-up here. In the other hand we were 3-handed and the guy in the middle had already called, so he would've called a raise by me too and I would be bloating the pot with T-high (again, I agree the other hand is close).

Right table A7 on 79Q4J.

I mean the guy's playing 16/11...I think you can fold the river when that card smacks his [possibly nonexistent?] semibluff range. Many 16/11's bluffing with A or K high here?

Yeah, bad call by me. No excuse
Man, and I even commented what bad river card that was. ugh....

Left table KQo on 85335.

You're bluffing...you think he's folding Ace high on a double paired board? Or in general?

Well, it's a sucky situation. I think the odds are much better that I fold out an Ahigh and an odd K-high chop than I snap off a bluff against something like 67. And c/f seems so... weak.
I think I was also so set out to triple barrel here. Since the double paired board came runner runner, it must not have registered in the consequences for A-high on a double paired board as opposed to a normal board here.

I you.