Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by BigBadBabar (Micro/Small Stakes)

First! Merging Pachyderm!!!! Is this the episode where you become Darth Vader?

You should give that guy at 3 o'clock a red chip. Clear pwnage in this vid ;-)

I noticed you took notes on each table on hands with KellyRaeIP. Why didn't you differentiate them from 6-max/full?

First! Merging Pachyderm!!!! Is this the episode where you become Darth Vader?

wat?

You should give that guy at 3 o'clock a red chip. Clear pwnage in this vid ;-)

why hello there

I noticed you took notes on each table on hands with KellyRaeIP. Why didn't you differentiate them from 6-max/full?

i don't make this distinction in my note-taking. i tend to assume someone who is lagtaggy, loosepassive, whatever, will be that way either at sh or fr, and will make similar plays at each (openlimps a lot, or is capable of semibluffing, or steals a lot pf, or checkraises flushdraws, or donks top pair, whatever).

and i have HEM set up to filter the stats it shows based on number-of-handedness (7+, 5-6, 3-4, etc). so i'm going to get a reasonable idea of how they play based on that also.

It was a bad Star Wars joke. Don't pay any attention to me!

i like Star Wars too!

Time Link to 00:03:35

I (think) I understand why we flat our entire range in the BB vs good oponents, but against the worst opponents, i.e. total maniacs playing like 80/50 6max, are we just giving up too much value by not 3betting?

I (think) I understand why we flat our entire range in the BB vs good oponents, but against the worst opponents, i.e. total maniacs playing like 80/50 6max, are we just giving up too much value by not 3betting?

vs total psychos 3betting is totally fine, or 4betting HU OOP pf, etc

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I think I like Raise/Folding turn here. A call on this turn looks really strong/showdown bound and I don't think we'll induce a 3rd barrel often. We also just saw him bluff once and check back in a previous hand. We'll want to bluff this turn occasionally with our counterfeits, so I think we can widen our value range here and we should get called down by ace hi and maybe k hi.

As for facing a 3-b, it obviously sucks, but I don't think people bluff 3-b here often at all, the vast majority of our range is never folding, and we're at the bottom of our value range, so I think its a good candidate to fold facing a 3!

Time Link to 01:07:41

I like the turn check back. I don't think we have any fold equity against a better hand and I don't think we have any value in a bet. I think we actually improve our implied odds by checking back the turn as he's now much more likely to overplay any hand he makes on the river.

Given how the hand played out with him checking the turn, I think in the future we should consider raising flops like these with some value hands and semi-bluffs. If we are raising some hands on the flop, I like this hand in our flop semi-bluff range.

I think I like Raise/Folding turn here. A call on this turn looks really strong/showdown bound and I don't think we'll induce a 3rd barrel often. We also just saw him bluff once and check back in a previous hand. We'll want to bluff this turn occasionally with our counterfeits, so I think we can widen our value range here and we should get called down by ace hi and maybe k hi.

As for facing a 3-b, it obviously sucks, but I don't think people bluff 3-b here often at all, the vast majority of our range is never folding, and we're at the bottom of our value range, so I think its a good candidate to fold facing a 3!

i like a raise, but as nutty as he'd been playing in this session i wouldn't want to fold to a 3bet. i agree i missed some value somewhere in the hand though

I like the turn check back. I don't think we have any fold equity against a better hand and I don't think we have any value in a bet. I think we actually improve our implied odds by checking back the turn as he's now much more likely to overplay any hand he makes on the river.

Given how the hand played out with him checking the turn, I think in the future we should consider raising flops like these with some value hands and semi-bluffs. If we are raising some hands on the flop, I like this hand in our flop semi-bluff range.

yeah this was my thinking as well. i think on some brick-seeming rivers that make my hand he might even bet-call some weak stuff like ace high. i think given that he'd been playing very spewily that a flop raise is good for sure. i flopped a big ole piece and would be happy to get some bets in on the flop. if he bet/folds some goofy thing that had some equity then that'd be fine too. i think if i could go back and play this session again i would have responded to his aggression with more aggression on my part, instead of playing the very kind of passive pot-controlly stuff that i was doing