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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by Deepsquat (High Stakes)

Good series, I'm studying here intensively!

In one of the early hands you open KJ and the BB 3-bets you and the flop comes 972 two-tone where you have a couple of backdoor draws and overs and peel. The turn is a king, you raise and he 3-bets. You described the player as nitty but call down anyways.

In my stakes, anywhere from 0.50/1 to 2/4 depending on the current states of bankroll and confidence, I believe I'm laying that down right on the turn vs the 3-bet against most regulars. They are not usually aggressive enough to ever 3-bet KT or AQs w flush draw here imo. Do you think I'm correct here? Is your play still standard even vs. the nittier regs at higher stakes?

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Hi DS. Nice video again.

You spoke about sometimes donking in this video, and then this JJ hand came up where you 3-bet the UTG open in the SB, and UTG then capped pf.

You then chose to donk the 795 two tone flop, which UTG raised, you 3-bet & villain capped. I have a couple of questions.

1. Why did you donk the flop as opposed to check raising in this hand ?
2. Given that UTG should have a narrow opening range and that he capped pf, why did you choose to 3-bet the flop after he raised your flop donk ?

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55 hand on the right table.

In this hand, CO (same villain as above) opens and SB and you call in the BB. SB checks an A92 two-tone flop and you donk bet into the CO.

Did you consider the CO to be opening with a wider range than normal, and that you might have the best hand ? I ask because your hand did not appear to be that strong to me, with the pot being multiway and 2 overcards (one being the Ace) to your smallish pocket pair on the flop.

Also, do you think that donking the flop in this hand is better than attempting to check raise the CO if say the SB folds to a CO c-bet ?

Hey fantam,

Thanks for watching.

In the JJ hand you referred to, UTG actually didnt cap, he just called my pf 3b.

For what its worth, i dont think we should ever really have a donking range in such a narrow range situation such as this. We can rely on UTG to have such a strong range that he should probabaly always cbet in a spot where he caps UTG vs a SB 3b.

It would be a rare situation vs a rare opponent where i would employ a donking strategy here.

I probably wouldnt 3b this flop if he had capped either. I think our hand is good enough to 3bet flop as played

Ill respond to the other questions tomorrow guys, sorry for delay!

Hey Fantam,

In the 55 hand, SB actually 3bet the CO open and then checked, this obviously changes things alot here and we need to bet

Good series, I'm studying here intensively!

In one of the early hands you open KJ and the BB 3-bets you and the flop comes 972 two-tone where you have a couple of backdoor draws and overs and peel. The turn is a king, you raise and he 3-bets. You described the player as nitty but call down anyways.

In my stakes, anywhere from 0.50/1 to 2/4 depending on the current states of bankroll and confidence, I believe I'm laying that down right on the turn vs the 3-bet against most regulars. They are not usually aggressive enough to ever 3-bet KT or AQs w flush draw here imo. Do you think I'm correct here? Is your play still standard even vs. the nittier regs at higher stakes?

Hey mate,

Thanks for watching

Are you able to post a time stamp, i cant find the exact hand.

I vaguely remember it but my position pf and exact board texture are important. I remember it being close.. ty

It's at 0:01:58

It's at 0:01:58

Thanks, couldnt find it

Although we prob arent good that often, there are still enough draws in his range to rebluff. The fact that JT gets there is bad for us,

Tbh, If im playing my absolute A-game and had played hundreds of hands vs him I could maybe make a fold but i think we could prob find worse hands to fold like worse Kx, some Qx draws that semibluff turn

You will occasionally see villains go stupid underapirs like JJ here too.

cliffs- better read could prob fold, its def super close

Thanks!
Maybe just quickly, could you please also specify whether what you said above generally applies to the smaller stakes as it is, say 1/2, or would you expect your hand to be more or less often good at smaller stakes vs a tight reg who we don't have a very exact read against yet?

Well I havent played below $10/$20 for many years but I would expect your average reg at 10/20 to be alot more aggressive than at 1/2 and probably be more likely to semibluff/3bet his draws in general.

I think folding or calling this hand is so close that i wouldnt worry so much about it in your game. However if you have played thousands of hands vs an ABC reg who never gets out of line you are probably never good here

Thanks, couldnt find it

Although we prob arent good that often, there are still enough draws in his range to rebluff. The fact that JT gets there is bad for us,

Tbh, If im playing my absolute A-game and had played hundreds of hands vs him I could maybe make a fold but i think we could prob find worse hands to fold like worse Kx, some Qx draws that semibluff turn

You will occasionally see villains go stupid underapirs like JJ here too.

cliffs- better read could prob fold, its def super close

what about just calling turn? you say he's very nitty and it leaves some reasonably strong hands in our turn calling range. raisefolding and raisecalling down both seem icky to me tbh. he'll probably barrel worse made hands for us, but might fold them if raised, and he'll fold ace high type of stuff on the turn some vs a raise, but will checkcall the river after we call through the turn. we get to show down for the same price as raisefolding, and sometimes will improve on the river and can raise.

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KK - interesting - i would have thought checking the turn (with our whole range) is correct. it seems kind of hard to balance a donking range, and i don't think it gets checked back that much (you described him as tight)

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kjo - i feel like i'd be more likely to checkraise if the turn were a non-diamond ten, since it doesn't look so semibluffy. but at the same time i guess a diamond turn means we have more fake outs on the river...thoughts?

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98hh i like checkcalling the flop given the great price we're getting. i understand that if he always barrels the turn we don't get as good a price to see the river, but at the same time that means his turn betting range is pretty wide (with a bigger pot to fight for) and if we pick up a pair we can call and see a river or probably consider a semibluff on a lot of cards that give us nice draws...given that he always double barrels wouldn't you be delaying your value range til the turn as well?

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65hh pf seems too thin, no?

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62dd what do you think of a check here on the flop, given how strong our hand is, how small the pot is, and how little strength anyone else has shown so far? i think i'd be leading out my air/semibluffs here and checking my strong stuff

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ako i don't understand pf in this one -- you raised q2s in the same spot on the left table earlier in the video vs a tougher player

edit: never mind, you just typed 'misclick pre' in the chat

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K7 bet/folding the turn if raised?

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55 flop/turn this is a neat bluff spot where you are kind of playing the other two guys off against each other. i really like it. and we could have the best hand sometimes!

yuck when we get c/r on the turn though, i think he has ak / set now (flopped or turned) and i would fold

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nice vids! am enjoying watching the series more thoroughly this second time

what about just calling turn? you say he's very nitty and it leaves some reasonably strong hands in our turn calling range. raisefolding and raisecalling down both seem icky to me tbh. he'll probably barrel worse made hands for us, but might fold them if raised, and he'll fold ace high type of stuff on the turn some vs a raise, but will checkcall the river after we call through the turn. we get to show down for the same price as raisefolding, and sometimes will improve on the river and can raise.

Looking back i prob prefer a call actually. I agree with the everything you said

KK - interesting - i would have thought checking the turn (with our whole range) is correct. it seems kind of hard to balance a donking range, and i don't think it gets checked back that much (you described him as tight)

Ya as an overall strategy i think checking the turn and either calling or folding our entire range is probably optimal and then cr some rivers with our flushes. This way we can protect the times we have a big pair/two pair/ or maybe small flush/combo hand that we might want to slow down with.

Its beneficial for our range that we can c/c turn and c/r some rivs so we cant get vtowned when our hand turns to shit on the turn.

I prob felt with this villain that he might not bet alot of turns, idk. Against a good player def check like u said

kjo - i feel like i'd be more likely to checkraise if the turn were a non-diamond ten, since it doesn't look so semibluffy. but at the same time i guess a diamond turn means we have more fake outs on the river...thoughts?

tbh, i dont know what i like to do with this hand. I dont actually hate a flop cr occasionally. We can win the pot on some middling cards and can barrel a club with equity. Just seems like we never win when we cr this turn and dont hit....

Maybe im too pessimistic...

Seeing that he bet the turn with A8o we can prob cr this turn profitably as he would have to fold alot of rivs id imagine

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Hola! Greetings from Spain! Hope I can describe my thought correctly .
Here we open 66 in the CO and get a 3b from BTN, flop c/c and turn was pretended to be a c/c too, standard here. River play, going for a c/r. In the hand we had KJo earlier in the episode vs the same guy he did bet the turn in a drawy board with A8o (3bet pot too), so don't we have to think he would bet Ahi in this turn too? And my guess is that he would have bet Qhi and worse this time. Then i only put him on Khi checking turn (maybe some Qhi? but less likely). If this is ok, isn't better a bet on the river?

Thanks for anticipate, enjoying the series and all the DC content!

Hola! Greetings from Spain! Hope I can describe my thought correctly .
Here we open 66 in the CO and get a 3b from BTN, flop c/c and turn was pretended to be a c/c too, standard here. River play, going for a c/r. In the hand we had KJo earlier in the episode vs the same guy he did bet the turn in a drawy board with A8o (3bet pot too), so don't we have to think he would bet Ahi in this turn too? And my guess is that he would have bet Qhi and worse this time. Then i only put him on Khi checking turn (maybe some Qhi? but less likely). If this is ok, isn't better a bet on the river?

Thanks for anticipate, enjoying the series and all the DC content!

Hi, sorry for the delay in responding, i didnt even notice these messages.

Your analysis is good, and im pretty surprised I didnt bet. I think we should be betting here close to always on this type of board, i dont like this texture for a CR