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

I hope to see many more of these in the future. Excellently done guys.

My bet river is 36% this month and I'm one of the tighter value bettors imo.

My bet river is 36% this month and I'm one of the tighter value bettors imo.

You may value bet tight, but how often do you bluff? 36% is 36% whether you feel you're tight or not. Also, better players can have a larger bet river % and get away with it because they are capable of picking the best spots to bluff in and those spots can arise often. A weaker player will bluff with little regard to whether or not it makes sense.

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vs a typical "pot odds" TAG, what bet size would you use on the river in the A9 hand?

<edit> Maybe I v-bet ligher and bluff rivers more than I think I do. It's all relative I guess but I'm trying to find even more spots to get to where the people are with the upward sloping non-sd winning lines are.

I have just watched this vid and was very impressed how the format was laid out and the content, i think inavacuum did a great job in setting out and presentation i am a big fan of this type of video, also it was great to watch SnappieVouz be put in some tough spots 5 stars for this and please make some more.

Jacob

vs a typical "pot odds" TAG, what bet size would you use on the river in the A9 hand?

$24.

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the QThh hand. If you had AK or KQ are you playing flop and turn the same and shoving river?
I would be surprised to see villain call down with a worse hand considering we were UTG cbet 3way on draw heavy flop and barrel a bad 'barrel' card then shove river when flush card hits. The reason I assume you would play it this way is you comment about villain maybe putting us on a weak K like KT, implying you shove the river w better K's.

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My question is if were happy shipping over his cold 4bet range, it seems we would have been delighted back raise 4betting over his squeeze range. KQs would actually be at the top of our range unless villain thinks we were flatting as a trap because we know how often he squeezes. I think if we flat, he squeezes, button folds and we small 4bet, his range for getting it would be quite wide because he might think we are standing up to his aggression w small PP's or another relatively weak hand, or just 4bet bluffing. I am kinda leaning towards flatting this hand and back-raising if BB squeezes, but maybe im not looking at the whole scope of this hand.

the QThh hand. If you had AK or KQ are you playing flop and turn the same and shoving river?
I would be surprised to see villain call down with a worse hand considering we were UTG cbet 3way on draw heavy flop and barrel a bad 'barrel' card then shove river when flush card hits. The reason I assume you would play it this way is you comment about villain maybe putting us on a weak K like KT, implying you shove the river w better K's.

Given what we know about this villain I'd be happy to c/c most Kx on the river, the strength of our Kx becomes less important when his range is so skewed towards bluffs.

My question is if were happy shipping over his cold 4bet range, it seems we would have been delighted back raise 4betting over his squeeze range. KQs would actually be at the top of our range unless villain thinks we were flatting as a trap because we know how often he squeezes. I think if we flat, he squeezes, button folds and we small 4bet, his range for getting it would be quite wide because he might think we are standing up to his aggression w small PP's or another relatively weak hand, or just 4bet bluffing. I am kinda leaning towards flatting this hand and back-raising if BB squeezes, but maybe im not looking at the whole scope of this hand.

The issue I have is that I think his range for stacking off is lighter when we call and backraise than when we 3bet and shove but I don't actually think his squeezing range and his cold 4betting range in this particular spot vary too much. I don't mind taking the backraise line, it's a line I'd often take with a 99-AA, AQ type hand, though I probably shove rather than small 4bet - as I do expect to get looked up fairly light. Here's an example of a hand played that way vs a villain I view as similar to the villain in the hand in question. The reason I slightly prefer the backraise here is that 99 does somewhat better vs what I percieve his range to be than a hand like KQ and I also expect in this particular instance for the BTN to call any squeeze but not be able to call a shove when he does this, leaving more money in the pot.

Full Tilt Poker $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Bolle Berto (CO): $186.05
NiceCallPre (BTN): $100.00
Hero (SB): $100.00
Fishfood4U (BB): $98.50
Daquinpe (UTG): $276.45
HyperAggrDonk (MP): $101.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with 9 9
2 folds, Bolle Berto raises to $3.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $3, Fishfood4U raises to $14, Bolle Berto calls $10.50, Hero raises to $100, Fishfood4U calls $84.50 all in, 1 fold

Flop: ($211.00) T J 3

Turn: ($211.00) 7

River: ($211.00) K

Final Pot: $211.00
Hero shows 9 9
Fishfood4U shows 6 6
Hero wins $208.00
(Rake: $3.00)

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I have a couple of questions about how this is played.
1> How do we proceed if he flats our reraise?
2> Would you say that flatting Villains raise is stronger than reraising him again. i.e. using your logic that he is never raising here with a QX or 22 then why would we?
3>If we know he is going to stab at this pot what do you think about check raising the flop?

Also which deity is the preferred deity of choice in order to flop quads? Sure Thor has a hammer but Jesus was a carpenter so im sure he knows a few counter hammer manouvers

I have a couple of questions about how this is played.
1> How do we proceed if he flats our reraise?
2> Would you say that flatting Villains raise is stronger than reraising him again. i.e. using your logic that he is never raising here with a QX or 22 then why would we?
3>If we know he is going to stab at this pot what do you think about check raising the flop?

Also which deity is the preferred deity of choice in order to flop quads? Sure Thor has a hammer but Jesus was a carpenter so im sure he knows a few counter hammer manouvers

1. Shut down because I don't believe he'd fold anything often enough.

2. A couple of points on this. A) flatting is dangerous because our hand is so vulnerable. His raising range is almost exclusively air and almost all of that air will be dangerous for our hand. B) the fact that our line makes little sense almost as much as his doesn't matter because he can't do anything about it. He won't reraise us again with air, which is close to 100% of his range. He has the "raise dry flops lol easy money" move in his arsenal but when it doesn't work there is no Plan B. This is not true for everyone, as we saw with the 99 hand, some people WILL ninja reraise us when we rep air (which is a good reason not to do it vs them), but not this guy - he's too limited.

3. CRing will likely produce the same results, but is perhaps a little less credible (which probably doesn't matter at all). If in monetary terms it's roughly the same I'd rather not give him the option to check back with hands that do well equity-wise vs us.

You do know Thor also has a chariot pulled by GOATS, right?

This video kinda sucked.





I mean, everyone knows that Greek mythology pwns Norse. Hopefully Ep 2 won't make the same mistake and I'll be able to focus on the poker.

sorry, if I remember correctly I believe Tim did talk about Thor in the second episode,
i suggest you don't watch it or become open minded about all mythology out there