Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by BigBadBabar (Mid Stakes)

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i would always give up here on the river vs this guy with the T8 on the right table. Your explanation for 3barrelling seems reasonable give a K or A falls , even then i think hes going to be raising and or calling lots when either of those two cards come.

i would always give up here on the river vs this guy with the T8 on the right table. Your explanation for 3barrelling seems reasonable give a K or A falls , even then i think hes going to be raising and or calling lots when either of those two cards come.

agree, i don't like firing twice and just checkfolding bricks too often as a default but this seemed like a good situation for it

Great vid guys, prefer the video review over live play.

What do you guys think about limping hands like 55 and 66 on the left table? Seems like a better option than folding.

Yo BBB,

I am glad our play and commentary is SO expert that no one has any questions or comments on any of the hands in the video. We run this.

Yo BBB,

I am glad our play and commentary is SO expert that no one has any questions or comments on any of the hands in the video. We run this.

confirm. we really are a tour de force of the little and the small.

AQo on left at 6:00.

stoving this now and have stoved this in the past.

When all weak Ax are still in villain's range, I vbet down to AQ. If villain may fold AT/AJ/lowPPs on the river or if he call with any Kx, I would probably bet AJ/AT too.

Q3o btn on left at 7:30 vs. aggro villain.

Do you ever fold this pf verses an aggro villain HUHU? J3o?

K9o on left at 17:20.

I b/f flop. We are not getting the price to peel and we have bad RIO. We cannot turn a good str8 draw and have zero fold equity verses this passive villain.

44 on the right at 50:25.

MP ol, we complete sb w 44, bb checks.

Flop Q57rb.

How would you play 54s on this flop? How about 98s?

Q7o on right at 53:00.

We get x/c,x/r by villain on JJ7,2 turn.

My default line in this situation, with a paired board and turned third flush card below our pair (esp since our kicker is good), is to blindly call down barring clubs. We beat a lot of worse 'value' hands with a kicker.

Q3o btn on left at 7:30 vs. aggro villain.

Do you ever fold this pf verses an aggro villain HUHU? J3o?

I think folding Q high would be giving up too much.

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44 on the right at 50:25.

MP ol, we complete sb w 44, bb checks.

Flop Q57rb.

How would you play 54s on this flop? How about 98s?

Come on - we all know 54 is the same hand in this spot.

98 I'd lead because even though it's a worse hand in an absolute sense I figure to have decent outs/equity and pick up the pot sometimes on a bluff. With 98 villains can fold better. 44/54 that's really not going to be true very often.

Q7o on right at 53:00.

We get x/c,x/r by villain on JJ7,2 turn.

My default line in this situation, with a paired board and turned third flush card below our pair (esp since our kicker is good), is to blindly call down barring clubs. We beat a lot of worse 'value' hands with a kicker.

I know what you're saying and I'll admit there is some value in picking up information on a guy who we have none on. That said, we might just get information that we kind of already had (i.e., dude is tight, has a hand here). I just really feel his semi-bluffing range is going to be substantially closer to non-existent than you think it is here.

Q3o btn on left at 7:30 vs. aggro villain.

Do you ever fold this pf verses an aggro villain HUHU? J3o?

i can fold j2, j3, maybe j4 hu but i don't fold any queens, just for high card value really

K9o on left at 17:20.

I b/f flop. We are not getting the price to peel and we have bad RIO. We cannot turn a good str8 draw and have zero fold equity verses this passive villain.

yea i tend to agree, get myself into a sticky spot often and i went against my own rule which is that often if you're going to fold a blank turn anyway then it can't be terrible to fold the flop right away

I know what you're saying and I'll admit there is some value in picking up information on a guy who we have none on. That said, we might just get information that we kind of already had (i.e., dude is tight, has a hand here). I just really feel his semi-bluffing range is going to be substantially closer to non-existent than you think it is here.

if I recall, this guy was completely unknown (we don't know he's tight), and I don't think he's "semi-bluffing" w/o a pair often, it's just that we beat a lot of those pairs and can easily fold club rivers.

I would semi-bluff using his line on that board.

Come on - we all know 54 is the same hand in this spot.

ol, we complete sb, bb checks...

So we are x/f'ing pairs here? I'd fold more baby pairs and suited connectors pf in this spot if this is our flop plan, imo. or raise pf.

if I recall, this guy was completely unknown (we don't know he's tight), and I don't think he's "semi-bluffing" w/o a pair often, it's just that we beat a lot of those pairs and can easily fold club rivers.

I would semi-bluff using his line on that board.

In 19 hands he hadn't clicked the button on the right once yet pre or post flop. I would consider that sufficient information to guide some of my decisions. I'm not really worried about whether or not we beat pairs - I'm worried that we lose to trips and flushes.

ol, we complete sb, bb checks...

So we are x/f'ing pairs here? I'd fold more baby pairs and suited connectors pf in this spot if this is our flop plan, imo. or raise pf.

I think x/f-ing some pairs is part of a robust strategy for these weird limped blind spots. This one seems fine to me. We have the bottom of our range (that has any interest in continuing), both in an absolute sense and equity wise, the pot is small, we have the worst possible position and it can never improve in the hand, we hate a ton of turn cards, even when the turn is a blank the river often scares us, we have RIO even if the board bricks out, etc.

We aren't getting set odds, have the worst position at the table, and will not get excessive postflop action from these passive villains. If we should just be c/f these hands on this board, as you say, then I would rather fold pf.

Baby pairs get weaker in my mind the more I study LHE.