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

is that A on the turn that good of a bluff card for them considering you can be checking back a lot of A highs on that board?

it's not a bad bluff card. it's true that I'm checking back a lot of A high but I'm also checking back a lot of hands that will fold to 1 barrel and some others that will fold to 2. it's not a board that gets cbet a ton of the time (fold equity vs. a loose guy from the blinds is usually nihil) so I still have Qx and Kx in my checking back range frequently.

are they going to fire all the hands you get value from themsevles, like Qx (esp weaker Qx like QJ/QT), 7x, that often (or as often as they will call if you bet)? also, won't you be missing value from/giving free cards to weak flush draws (like 89hh, T9hh) and straight draws like JTs. given that when you check you usually have a medium strength made hand that isnt planing on check/folding, won't those hands be checking back and taking free cards a lot, and wont he be less likely to bluff with air?

this spot can go both ways dependent on your opponent. first thing is that if they have a 2nd pair hand like Qx you're rarely getting 3 streets of value anyway so there's less concern if we miss a street. against a passive player betting 3x is a better strategy than checking usually, and against an aggressive reg that will bluff you with missed sets or semi-bluff draws it really puts you in a tough spot and checking makes it look like you have a Q or are giving up, so you'll catch some guys tossing more barrels at you than they should. I expect most people to bet flush draws when checked to here, even weaker players usually do. but again if we thought they were passive enough to not fire, we'd just bet ourselves. as for your last question it depends on the intensity of the opponent. is he a guy that will fire 3 at you when you check to get you to fold that showdown hand? or is he a guy that will just fire 1 and give up? does he raise a lot of flops? or just hero call down? cater to the player's tendencies. answer some of those questions then ask yourself if you like a bet or a check better.

what do you mean by that "someguys decide to pop you on the turn because they are afraid of it"?

I just rambled that out but what I mean is some guys will raise their better than 1 pair value hands on the turn because they're afraid of losing action or getting outdrawn themselves. obviously if he has a boat here he's not worried about that, I just meant in other situations where the board isn't paired but it is drawy or say he had trip 5's here.

Nice one, again.

When we are going to see whole serie from You ?

You will sometime! When you do it will hopefully be worth it

Hi Fender!

Left table. What would be your play with AcQs? I guess you'd just call, because we block a lot of his possible draws with A of clubs? With a king of clubs it's just a fold, isn't it?
With A of clubs how would you extract the most value if a club hits on a turn?

calling is only good if we are getting a good price or if we have good implied odds. so your 2nd question should be addressed before deciding whether or not to call or do something else. just going quickly through these atm I'll hop back in and elaborate later don't forget you can shove or 3b as well, you don't have to just call. depends on how wide you think his range is, how many bluffs or semi-bluffs exist if any.

Hi Fender!

Left table. What would be your play with AcQs? I guess you'd just call, because we block a lot of his possible draws with A of clubs? With a king of clubs it's just a fold, isn't it?
With A of clubs how would you extract the most value if a club hits on a turn?

oh and yeah Kc is only slightly better than Qc but meh. what would make either of those clubs stronger?

What is your default 3bet size in this spot (i.e. 200bb deep)? I guess you might make it bigger for value against fish, but what about regs?

my standard is pot OOP but you can crank it up some if you want. making it slightly too big is way less of an issue than making it slightly too small

I think you missed my questions FJ , also add into them do you flat his 4bet w/AA in that spot.

yeah I'll get to them. like I said I've been sick and I'm just up and around today

this spot can go both ways dependent on your opponent. first thing is that if they have a 2nd pair hand like Qx you're rarely getting 3 streets of value anyway so there's less concern if we miss a street. against a passive player betting 3x is a better strategy than checking usually, and against an aggressive reg that will bluff you with missed sets or semi-bluff draws it really puts you in a tough spot and checking makes it look like you have a Q or are giving up, so you'll catch some guys tossing more barrels at you than they should. I expect most people to bet flush draws when checked to here, even weaker players usually do. but again if we thought they were passive enough to not fire, we'd just bet ourselves. as for your last question it depends on the intensity of the opponent. is he a guy that will fire 3 at you when you check to get you to fold that showdown hand? or is he a guy that will just fire 1 and give up? does he raise a lot of flops? or just hero call down? cater to the player's tendencies. answer some of those questions then ask yourself if you like a bet or a check better.

thanks the great reply. one thing: if an aggressive reg will bluff you with missed sets or semi-bluff draws, how tough of a spot is that really? if you know hes bluff happy, it doesnt seem that tough. i.e. cant you just bet/call or bet/3bet?

i don't know how you do that time link stuff. so 37:10.
what would you do with JJ hand on the flop if the opponent ck/raises?

On the JJ flat pre w/ fish in blinds, the preflop raiser checked oop and you value-bet the fish on the Q high dry flop and 1/2 potted the turn for value due to his super wide range (47% of hands peflop).

If he calls the turn do you assume he has the Q and c/f or do you like 1/3 pot the river for value (assuming he's not "I bluff every river checked to loose fish guy" in which case its a c/c)?

depends on the guy, with no history I may check/fold terrible board runouts, and I may bet 1/3 to full pot or even overbet for value, depending on how I feel he's going to respond with his range (say that his weak range improves to a lot of 2nd or midpairs but we still beat him, I may bet bigger, but if he's likely to just have A high or some garbage pair, I may go 1/3 or even 1/4 pot). my bet sizing changes all the time in these situations. the more info you have the more you can take advantage. THEME!

(also I would only assume he had the Q *meaning a stronger range* if I had a read that he folded a lot to turn bets after peeling really wide, but suddenly called this turn bet. it would be a picked up draw at the min, or more likely to be Qx+)

Solid vid.

RE the Q4 on the left table. What turns are you barrelling, giving up on etc after donking here? I always checkfold in these spots because it's hard to get your hand to showdown, we end up valuecutting ourselves etc. is this bad?

thanks!

barreling any turn that 1. improves our hand 2. improves our equity 3. is a scare card for a wide range or a card that lets me barrel the turn and river and get a lot of his range to fold (since it's so wide). so lots of cards I'd be giving up on cards that complete his likely draws.

there's nothing wrong with check/folding those marginal spots, it's not a mistake, I just think with an overcard and a pair on a drawy board vs. a guy this loose we're not doing so bad, and I'm willing to get into some sketchy spots because loose/passives aren't making it hard to keep control of the hand OOP.

Why do you think its good for the villain to lead the turn ? A good amount of your checking range on this flop is A-high which isnt folding to turn and river 2-barrel anyway.

hey thorrrr how's that hammer? answered this question above

Hey...
Probably ask many times, but how do you install the dark skin. I like to install it myself, cause from time to time i just miss that there is one more player in the pot than i thought.\

Can i download it somewhere?

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