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

Deserves an epic intro, IMO.

Nice video.

I like the question and answer style - a bit like balugaWhale or VanDweller with Veloblank. Can we have more like this - also for small stake tournaments (SNGs)?

Oh, there's demand alright. This format is amazing. Getting a great teacher like you grilling an actual player from the micro stakes really engages me a bit more than some other videos. I found myself really thinking through your questions rather than just listening passively. Also, the concept of illustrating when, and when not, to get fancy is just perfect.

Great video, guys.

+2 to this. I really like the Q&A style.

Hey inavacuum,

enjoyed the video so far, think its very good.

But can you just elaborate a little more on why check shoving the turn in the Q T hand is so bad? When you commented that the button was a habitual floater my first instinct was to check shove the turn. He's going to bet very often when we check to him, and his range is going to be very weak with a lot of floats in it. When we get called we have decent equity against anything but a boat which is very unlikely and the dead money we take down when he folds should make up for our equity disadvantage when we get it in.

The main concern I have with check shoving is that a decent handreader will put us on a lot of draws and may call with some weaker hands but it is quite credible that we want to get AK or KQ in here on the turn given that half the river cards that could come will be bad for a top pair type hand.

Really a great video, the format is just excellent and I hope there will be other episodes of that kind because it's just what we microstakes players need. A grat "Thank you" to invacuum for producing this video and to SnappieVouz for his constructive critic about DC's microstakes content.

Do you think that the play at NL10, NL25 and NL50 is comparable and that one can apply the same strategies? Or is there a large difference between NL10 and NL50, for example?

But can you just elaborate a little more on why check shoving the turn in the Q T hand is so bad? When you commented that the button was a habitual floater my first instinct was to check shove the turn. He's going to bet very often when we check to him, and his range is going to be very weak with a lot of floats in it. When we get called we have decent equity against anything but a boat which is very unlikely and the dead money we take down when he folds should make up for our equity disadvantage when we get it in.

Please leave a time-stamp or better yet, Watch this short video, and leave a time link!

That will be much easier for the coaches to find the hand and answer your questions, thanks.

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I would call here as well. However, this is a spot where the recreational player slash fish shows me A-high all day long. He's simply not thinking there is no point betting A-high.

That sad.. it's still a pretty easy call IMO as there are 5 counterfeited pkt pairs, K highs that we chop with and some other random J/T highs possibly.

I enjoyed this video didn't watch the last 10 min but incase it was in there, don't freak out at me.

One thing I think videos like this needs is 25-35% of spots to be MISTAKES!!! You can show someone how to do something properly a million times but sometimes just showing them what they are doing once can make the difference.

I think you should show hands where taking a non-standard line would be bad and show you loosing the hand.

You should also show hands where a standard hand was bad and you lost the hand OR won very little compared to what you could have if you played it another way.

Some of these replay videos just make it seem like "play like this and you can never lose" and you need to also show mistakes IMO.

Nice video though, keep it up!

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Not sure I agree that shoving the AA > than flatting here for a couple of reasons:

1. There are not that many draws that he can have here - maybe a couple of combos or AJ or AT for a gutshot or JTs that he maybe decides to 3bet (which is essentially a gutshot in any event since you hold AA). Given this, there is not much need to shove for protection here.

2. The chances are that he could do something spazzy with his air which must, given the stakes and your read on his check raise tendencies be greater than zero. If you flat the AA, you give him a chance to realise this "spazz value" (however minimal that is).


nice vid

Time Link to 00:28:35

I know you discussed it with Snappy - but would you mind elaborating why you think "check raising is not an option".

I agree that double barrelling here will be +EV.

However, given your read that he is very floaty, it is reasonable to assume that if you check he is going to bet with a very large percentage of his range. This will include some air (some of which is ahead of you such as Axs), some draws but it will also include made hands (Kx some pocket pairs).

Now let's think about check-shoving. Assuming your most of your outs are clean when called (which I think is reasonable with the K and 9 out and him probably being priced out of calling with most other Ax combos), you have have about 24% equity when called. If this is the case, you only need him to fold 49% of his range for a check-shove to be +EV. Your line looks super strong and I think you are going to fold out way way more than that. He will have a real hard time calling even with KQ I would think and if he would bet a hand like TT-QQ here he will fold those almost always.



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@INAVACUUM:

I can't see how a CR on turn would be "absolutelly ridic."

- When you mention "he will bet when we check, b/c he's a pathological floater "

In my point of view the collection of dead money outweighs the situation when we get it in behind. (still with reasonable equity though).

+ What are You planning to do when the RVR bricks off?

There's 15$ in the pot with 43,7$5 effective. Let's presume, he bets the same ammount: 11$ (which is reasonable IMO)

= 26$ in the pot
If we jam and he folds, we win 26$ right there. With the guy being a /pathological floater/ this should happen well over 50% of the time/ let's put in 50% - for the simplicity sake..

If we jam and he calls, we are almost always behind and likely up against:

Board: 9 8 K 9
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 25.909% 25.78% 00.13% 397 2.00 { QhTh }
Hand 1: 74.091% 73.96% 00.13% 1139 2.00 { 8c8d, 8c8h, 8c8s, KTs+, JcTc, Td9d, Ts9s, 9d8d, 9s8s, KTo+ }

(half the sets would raise the flop etc.)

We need 42,8% equity to get 43,75$ to be equal on the ship.

We get 25,9% equity which represents 26,5$

= we lose 43,75-26,5 = 17,25$ (50% of the time)


If my estimates are correct, we win 26$ and lose 17,25$ every time, we c/r the turn.

EDIT: formating
EDIT2: Very cool video format. Thanks!

Apologies - last post cut off trying to edit.

To sum up - Given you read, equity when called, fold equity and the possibility of getting value of a tonne of hands that will bet-fold that might fold to a double barrel (eg low pps), I prefer check-shoving here.


cheers, PS

Not sure I agree that shoving the AA > than flatting here for a couple of reasons:

1. There are not that many draws that he can have here - maybe a couple of combos or AJ or AT for a gutshot or JTs that he maybe decides to 3bet (which is essentially a gutshot in any event since you hold AA). Given this, there is not much need to shove for protection here.

2. The chances are that he could do something spazzy with his air which must, given the stakes and your read on his check raise tendencies be greater than zero. If you flat the AA, you give him a chance to realise this "spazz value" (however minimal that is).


nice vid

sorry just noticed that you responded to this higher in the thread

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given his passiveness, do you think you could get away with betting a little bigger on the turn (say 11 or so) to set up stacks for river shove?

Some of these replay videos just make it seem like "play like this and you can never lose" and you need to also show mistakes IMO.

Nice video though, keep it up!

This is a fair point. The HH line-up for next episode is more or less solid now, and Hero doesn't win them all, but this is something I'll give more attention to for future videos.