Poker Video: No Limit Hold 'Em by bosoxx34 (Micro/Small Stakes)

We 3b 33 here.

What range of hands are we looking to 3b vs flat. I realize you said you prefer 3b 67o early on to build an image and see how our opponent reacts in 3b pots. And obv 67o is too weak to flat oop. I'm interested in finding out what hands are good enough to flat oop, but not good enough to 4b?

Thanks and great vid! (now I'll know how to react the next time you 4b T2o against my AA )

I personally mix it up between flatting here and 3betting against most opponents. Early on this guy was giving our 3bets quite a bit of respect so I don't mind it at all. Against a lot of 100nl regs you're able to 3bet this and take it down with a flop cbet if called.

Obviously I'm not 3betting small pocket pairs every time, but it is good to mix it up and a lot of the time you'll take down the pot PF or on the flop instead of having to play pretty fit or fold on the flop.

As far as the second part of your question, I'm assuming you mean 3b? If not please correct me. Personally I don't like to assign an action to a hand. Against some opponents who fold to 3bets a lot I'll 3bet hands such as T9o and against others who don't fold to 3bets or flop cbets I'll flat it the majority of the time. Basically I'm more concerned with exploiting their ranges and tendencies than anything else.

As far as what hands are good enough to call PF but not 3b, that's tough since it's so opponent dependent. One thing that many SSNL players do is have one action designed for one hand. For example, they 3bet AJ every single time vs any opponent. From playing you it certainly seemed that you mixed it up, so I'd just keep analyzing and improving.

Also, against most regs you don't have to worry about merging your range at this level, they're not going to make life tough enough for you. It's important to think about but usually when you find a weakness you can exploit it even after showing down a few hands. It's when you face the good thinking opponents that you have to worry about mixing it up (obvious statement).

Oh and next time avoid a 223 flop ;-)

Oh, and yes I meant 3b I'm relatively new to HU so while I do adjust my ranges depending upon the opponent, I'm still figuring out which hands I can actually play OOP in a single-raised pot. Stuff like J9s seems like a good enough hand w/ some high card value, as well as straight and flush draw opportunities. If he's folding to 3bs or 3b/cb, then sure, 3b J9s. If not, I think we can flat and play some post-flop poker (oh no! post-flop! hehe). If he cbets too much, we exploit that, if he doesn't cbet enough, we exploit that, yadda yadda yadda. I don't know. Sometimes I feel too loose by flatting certain hands oop, and other times I'm like "F it, I'm not playing OOP."

prob great vid, but how bout some hu midstakes+ series soon?

I'm currently doing the math on the 55 hand. His 3b, cb, 2b and shove over a raise range is pretty tight imo. Something like KK+,77-66,AKs,KJs+,AKo,KQo? I just don't see him shoving AQ or 98 here. I think if he chooses to continue with those hands he'd be looking to flat and hit or fold if he missed. As stated, he shouldn't think he has any FE so shoving a draw here would be pretty bad imo. What do you think of this range I've given him?

Obv if we think this is his actual range we don't really need to do the math since we're crushed, but I'm currently in the middle of WOT's math series so I got all excited to do some math haha.

Given that range we only have 3.5% equity.

Pot is $111.50 and we have $38.50 behind. If villian shoves, he'll put (60 + 38.5 - 20) 78.5 more into the pot bringing the total pot to $190. 3.5% of 190 is 6.65. 6.65 - 38.5 (amount we risk) = -31.85.

So with that range, we lose $31.85 every time we call his shove in this spot. Granted, this is a very tight range, but it would seem to me that his range should be pretty tight if he shoves here.

You know what looking that hand over again, I think your range is right. He's never gonna shove over this range as a bluff and he seemed to be the type of player that would fold AQhh or 98hh. So it would be a fold if he shoved. I am curious as to what he had.

I'll reply to this one first since it's the easiest. I'm never folding J9s PF HU to a 3x raise. It has too much value and I obviously mix up 3betting and flatting. However where a lot of beginners get into trouble is with the 45, 67, etc. Part of the reason is those holdings have very little top pair value. A lot of the time you'll see a QT6 flop when you have 67 and can't really do much with that. Basically you want to stay away from those marginal PF holdings that are going to make your life very difficult postflop.

Makes sense. Thanks for responding!

Note to self - fold small cards, play big cards, count monies

I'd make a post in the video series imagination thread. I know the EPs take a lot of their series from straight out of that thread.

Also, want to say that the intro is outstanding, whoever came up with that, great job.

tyvm!

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He has been 5betting more than once, is it still a good adjustment to 4bet bluff? Or is it better to 4bet for value and get it in with pockets pairs and stuff?

Hope its ok to bump...