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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by Ansky (Mid Stakes)

I have questions about a couple hands:

1. Around 43:00, A8o in the CO on bottom-left. After you turn the ace you say on that you are going to check/call turn and river. This seems like a good plan for the turn and for most rivers, but I'm not sure about the Qs. After villain sees you c/c the ace on the turn, AND after the flush gets in, do you really expect villain to be bluffing here very often?

2. Around 48:00, QJs on BTN on top-right. You say the ace is a bad card to barrel, but it seems to me like a really good card to barrel. After villain 3-bets and then check-calls flop, I expect most of his range to be 55-99 and T8s, T9, JT, QT, maybe KT. Sure he might have SOME AJ-AK, but a) you have a Q and J blocker, and b) he might be likely to either cbet and barrel with those hands or just c/f flop, removing even more combos. So basically I think you can easily rep an ace by betting, plus you now have more equity with the gutshot, so it seems like a clear barrel spot to me. Your thoughts?

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As for the hands, A8 is probably close on a Qs river, but I still think I'd call. There aren't many better hands to bluff catch with. I also think c/r might be good.

The 2nd hand, you make some good points, I think he definitely has a lot of non ace hands. I think barreling there is a good option, (though certainly not a 100% thing).

8 mins vs me when i raise 22 on 653ss BTN-CO you have KK and call, ch/ch on 6x, you lead Qx

Do you ever check the river in your shoes or always bet ? I mean, its pretty likely i have nothing when i dont bet turn and when you said you were betting for value without hesitation i was sort of suprised, what sort of stuff are you expecting me to call ? Or does the fact that i rarely have much not matter since you expect me to rarely bluff when you check, leading you to bet in hope i make some retarded hero calls.

ty.

8 mins vs me when i raise 22 on 653ss BTN-CO you have KK and call, ch/ch on 6x, you lead Qx

Do you ever check the river in your shoes or always bet ? I mean, its pretty likely i have nothing when i dont bet turn and when you said you were betting for value without hesitation i was sort of suprised, what sort of stuff are you expecting me to call ? Or does the fact that i rarely have much not matter since you expect me to rarely bluff when you check, leading you to bet in hope i make some retarded hero calls.

ty.

Feel like I'd literally always bet if I had nothing, and this should be pretty obvious to you, so I'd expect sometimes to get hero called. I didn't really expect you to go bet/check/bet here on a bluff very often at all, so I decided to just bet.