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

Time Link to 00:28:58

Hand on the left hand table, villain calls your turn raise and then donks the river with KK.

I wonder whether villain did not 3-bet the turn because he was waiting to see if a 4th flush card would fall on the river ?

However if that was his reason, I was surprised that he chose to donk as opposed to check raise the river, after a "safe" card for him fell.

Hand on the left hand table, villain calls your turn raise and then donks the river with KK.

I wonder whether villain did not 3-bet the turn because he was waiting to see if a 4th flush card would fall on the river ?

However if that was his reason, I was surprised that he chose to donk as opposed to check raise the river, after a "safe" card for him fell.

Yeah, there are a lot of tortuous thought processes and lines that people take. It should be interesting to see if this series just ends up with me value cutting myself against all of them

Yeah, there are a lot of tortuous thought processes and lines that people take. It should be interesting to see if this series just ends up with me value cutting myself against all of them

LOL. I doubt very much that that will happen, because I am sure that you will make adjustments against their play if you need to.

By the way, I really liked your explanation about the reasons for balancing your play in one of the hand histories at the end of the video. I also liked the format of this video.

One thing, I was wondering about was whether you would also isolate a limper with small offsuit aces (A6 - A2) in a higher stakes game, or whether you were only doing this at micro stakes.

Do you remember which hand - or where the limper was? In general I'd guess that yes, I would've done it at higher stakes too. A rough general rule I use is that I'll usually iso with whatever range I would've opened from that position to begin with.

There are lots of smaller factors that go into it too, like the postflop tendencies of the limper (as well as how good/bad he is), how good/bad are the blinds, is anyone to my left likely to 3bet me a ton, is anyone to my left likely to coldcall me, what's my image, etc. My best guess is that all of these things roughly cancel out (at micros vs higher stakes) and so I'd be isoing about the same ranges in both.

Time Link to 00:14:03

Thankyou for your detailed response, from which I can see there are as usual a lot of factors which can be considered when deciding whether to iso raise preflop.

This is the first iso raise which you made with A3o on the button, and described as a bit of a thin raise at the time.

Time Link to 00:25:01

Here you consider that you might iso raise with A2o from the small blind if there was just one limper from the CO.

Time Link to 00:32:42

Here you consider iso raising a limper from the highjack with A4o on the button, provided that the CO folds.

Time Link to 00:34:15

Here you do iso raise a limper from the highjack with A6o in the small blind.

Time Link to 00:39:06

Ok this hand is suited, but the kicker is lowest possible so I included it amongst small Ax hands that you consider iso raising with.

You iso raise a limper on the highjack with A2s on the button.

I must admit that you iso raised (or considered iso raising) with small Aces in this video more than I had realised in my first watching !

Did your video help me discover a leak of mine ? If so, many thanks !

My default for iso raising a limper (in 6 max) from any position really was no lower than A7o. Perhaps that was a bit too nitty, and I will now consider iso raising with the smaller Aces from late position provided the blinds seem tight.

Thankyou for your detailed response, from which I can see there are as usual a lot of factors which can be considered when deciding whether to iso raise preflop.

This is the first iso raise which you made with A3o on the button, and described as a bit of a thin raise at the time.

I'm in the CO on this one - the reason I said it's a bit thin is because A3o is not always an auto-open for me in the CO. Advantages: isolating the limper, knocking out the button and buying the button for the hand, and the blinds weren't very good or likely to 3bet me. Disadvantages: my hand is not super strong, the blinds are somewhat loose, so the pot is likely to go off 3-4 ways. This isn't a huge disadvantage because I'm doing okay vs their ranges and am likely to be in position.

Something I forgot to mention in an earlier post is that when we're not on the BTN, a pf iso can buy us the button for the hand -- and position is very useful and often worth making a thin or somewhat questionable play preflop imo.

Here you consider that you might iso raise with A2o from the small blind if there was just one limper from the CO.

Yeah, this would basically be for value vs their ranges preflop (which outweighs my positional disadvantage). If it goes HU, that's fine, and if it goes 3way, that's fine.

Here you consider iso raising a limper from the highjack with A4o on the button, provided that the CO folds.

Looks like I'm in the CO for this one. This one seems pretty similar to the A3o of earlier. This table was playing very loose though and so a preflop raise is going to create a multiway pot where I'm not likely to end up in position or with a real equity edge.