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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by chipchucker5 (Mid Stakes)

Table 3.

R u betting small w TT, JJ? What abt AK?

Yeah def. I think in a vacuum checking TT/JJ can be good there vs this player tho fwiw.

Time Link to 00:07:37

I know this is a really general question but what is your 3 bet calling range IPO 100bb deep? 78s on the bottom right is definetley not in my calling range but what are your reasons for calling here? Do you need history with an opponent before calling with this sort of range?

Time Link to 00:08:06

I like seeing this bluff raise spot because I have been trying to work on having a bluff raising range when IPO in 3 bet pots. Here your value range is pretty much sets and slowplayed overpairs so I always assume that I am going to get played back at in these spots. What sort of board texture do you like making these type of plays on? Would you make the same raise size with all your value hands in this spot?

Time Link to 00:00:00

Sorry im bombarding you with questions but do you always just Pot your squeeze size when squeezing from the blinds? I usually just 4x it because It gives me a better price when I have weaker hands and I think has the same amount of fold equity

with AA?

Yes. Would u often just flat here? How often?

No, im def not doing this w/ KQ or something. Also not doing it w/ legit draws like FDs or OESDs..that would be pretty terrible given that we're getting an awesome price IP and he's totally polarized to nuts/air here.

Oh and I'm not really planning on shipping any rivers since I really don't expect him to have any medium strength type hands that will continue vs my 3b.

So, if some of ur opponents read this/saw video they can easily exploit u in similar spots?
Maybe I should deposit on merge

I know this is a really general question but what is your 3 bet calling range IPO 100bb deep? 78s on the bottom right is definetley not in my calling range but what are your reasons for calling here? Do you need history with an opponent before calling with this sort of range?

i mean that's def the bottom of my range there and im not always defending it. but when im minraising and he makes it 8x, im defending a good amt unless i think he's a tough player.

I like seeing this bluff raise spot because I have been trying to work on having a bluff raising range when IPO in 3 bet pots. Here your value range is pretty much sets and slowplayed overpairs so I always assume that I am going to get played back at in these spots. What sort of board texture do you like making these type of plays on? Would you make the same raise size with all your value hands in this spot?

yeah my value range also contains some 4xdd, A2dd/A5dd, 65dd. yeah i mean esp w/out history people just don't go too crazy on you on these types of boards imo. i just look for spots where his range is fairly wide and not much of it hit the board..it's also nice to be able to rep some draws that can be raise/getting it in cause then he can't just CiB on you cause you'll shove it in his face.

Sorry im bombarding you with questions but do you always just Pot your squeeze size when squeezing from the blinds? I usually just 4x it because It gives me a better price when I have weaker hands and I think has the same amount of fold equity

yeah you might be right that that sizing is better. people are just always suspicious of me because of my image so i try to make it a bit more expensive for them to mess around w/ me.

Yes. Would u often just flat here? How often?

yeah i honestly don't know..i might flat like half the time or so.

So, if some of ur opponents read this/saw video they can easily exploit u in similar spots?
Maybe I should deposit on merge

haha i suppose so. ur welcome in my games anytime

Nice video, but maybe a video without god run would be nice


And about the A7s hand.. I call the turn as well. There are like no sets/2ps in his range. JJ 4b a lot.. 22/33 fold.. you have 7 blocker so.. But I guess u should make a note of it Are you thinking about checking hand like AJ+ in the future against him?

just started watching videos for the first time since black friday. seeing you play on merge makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. thanks for this, solid video/series.

Time Link to 00:39:38

I know the obvious first impression here is that he never does this with a jack, but there are a few really key factors at play here (first off let me admit that something like KQhh is in his range):

First of all, you would never ever stop betting any jack (top pair) or better on the turn given what the board is (and with your image, but even without that, you'd still bet) .... and I think this is very obvious to even a player thats not great at reading hands. I guess maybe sometimes you check a set but lets be realistic, sets are a small part of your range, and you probably don't do that often. So he can assume you don't ever have a jack beat with a very high level of confidence. Second, he saw you make that big shove with A6s and can see you 3betting like crazy (your stats are high on all of the tables I think, not sure if you realized that). Shoving in the A6s hand earlier might be normal for you given your opponents high 4bet%, but I assure you that more often than not players will A) not notice that your opponent had a high 4bet% (they might not even have the stats on the guy that you do) and B) may think you are prone to making big plays and calls cause they can't see *themselves* ever doing that.

A third consideration (something I was thinking about while I was pseudo tanking) is that he could be thinking that his stack size is awkward and if he chooses to bet anything he is forced to go with it and might as well just ship instead. If thats going through his mind then we need more info about him to know whether he'd just ship a hand like KQhh or take a free card. So we still have to include some of the pretty good draws ....... but the thing is even with a decent amount of those in his range we're nowhere near getting the right odds to call since this is an overbet... if he has just a few value hands he's crushing us miserably, and if he has a good draw he could have quite good equity.

I guess the reason in the end that I think this is a jack really often is just because of what I've seen throughout my own experience, especially against players that have demonstrated they're capable of making big / hero plays. I'm not so much ruling out the possibility of draws as I am increasing the weight of possible Jx hands, if that makes more sense. You probably don't have to include very many Jx combos at all before it becomes a fold with our poor pot odds.

Time Link to 00:46:54

on top left i thought this was the type of spot u advocated floating with two overs that he's likely to barrel and a bdfd, is the check fold player dependent because of his nitty stats altho over a small sample..therefore do u think it was still a call pre?