putting the snapler on him?

The rest of that video is ... solid gold baby.

i could have a small amount of fold equity, I mentioned we don't know exactly what range of hands he bets half pot with there... but even if he has a ten i increase the size of the pot i win the 35% of the time i get there.

i agree the turn raise is debatable, and in-game if i know he has a set of fives, of course i don't raise, but by and large you can get away with making these smallish raises to bloat the pot against a guy who pays off too much on the river... and sometimes to maximize the likelihood he pays off with a 1pair hand, you have to set up the stacks such that he's going to feel committed and often getting him near a pot sized bet will do that... where as if i just flat and the turn the pot is $24 and there's 154 left in stacks, pretty much going to be impossible to get the $ in unless he happens to have one of the few monster combos.

like i said in the video though, if there's a real threat of him coming over the top w/ a sizable range of hands on the turn then flatting is much better as i don't want to get blown off my equity.

WoT

On the 7hJh hand where you decide to raise the turn, isn't this counter-productive against the loose-passive player type? Except for using it as a pot-builder when we hit our draw, aren't loose passives a.) not going to bet without a decent 9 or 10 or better and b.) going to call a raise almost always? It seems like the people with very low AF's (I'm guessing his bet turn is low) wouldn't be taking stabs here nearly as often as a TAG/LAG who bets his whole range when you show weakness. In general I feel we should just take the good price on the turn/not re-open the betting with our draw against this player type.. especially since we're never bluff-raising or betting the river when we miss our 12 outer or whatever (since he's never folding).. I guess I'm thinking it would just suck if he shoves or makes a real raise on the turn with our draw. My thinking is probably flawed, good thing I'm watching the series :D

oops didn't read the previous posts, ty

mattie, essentially what it boils down to is how well you think you can play against him postflop. If you feel like your postflop skills, compared to his, are excellent, then be inclined to open a very wide range of hands against a guy who doesn't 3bet much preflop. it's ok to bloat pots with marginal holdings when you have position and you feel like you can outplay the guy constantly... and by outplay, i dont mean steal tons of pots per se, i mostly mean make more correct calls/folds/bluffs than he will postflop. Having position helps, but the same can apply when you're oop and these loose passive guys limp. I'm a big proponent of raising a fairly wide range of hands when loose/passives limp my button in heads up because I feel like I can read board texture/bet size/hand read/value bet so much better than they can, that it's worth it for me.

The less comfortable you are playing postflop (2 barreling, bluff raising, reading board texture, hand reading in general) the less inclined you should be to open lots of speculative hands, even in position, against loose passive players. There are many ways to skin these cats, and certainly a viable option is simply waiting for strong hands and value bet them to death!

right, basically we're making bigger pots where on average we'll make better decisions in bigger pots than our loose/passive/donk opponents, so even if we make a slightly -EV raise preflop it allows us to potentially exploit a hugely +EV situation postflop (which could be as simple as flopping middle pair when a guy never folds anything).

I think the key thing to remember is that plays like this aren't as simple as 2 barreling an A on the turn, where when you do it against just about anyone you will auto profit. This pf concept of raising marginal holdings oop and building pots is one that takes a lot of finesse to pull off against guys who won't fold much. Against some people, it won't be +EV... it really depends on how you quantify "won't fold much" and is one of those player/game flow dependent things that's tough to talk about in a vaccuum in a forum post... however if you are good at reading board texture and bet sizing and overall handreading, I feel you can grind them down, tilt them, and prepare them to stack off even lighter once you do finally hit top pair+.

hope that helps
Aaron

My wife said the same thing.