11:33 - I'm referring to an old Entity thread, Fastplaying is the New Slowplaying.

27:27 - Since Rob and I had this conversation the topic of cool completing has come up in the a Beginner LHE forum thread, and an article Rob wrote. For more, also see King Yao's Weighing the Odds in Hold 'Em Poker, page 280:
Chapter: Common Mistakes in Short Handed Play
Mistake #11: Frequently Calling Raises in the Small Blind.

~50 - I didn't articulate this very well at the time of our session, but what I was trying to say was:

Situation A: Villain limps, Hero iso-raises, both Blinds fold, Villain calls. Hero has some amount of equity in a 5.5 SB pot. Let's say it comes out to x small bets.

Situation B: Villain limps, Hero calls, CO calls, BTN calls, SB completes, BB checks. In this case Hero has some equity in a 6 SB pot, which, let's say comes out to y small bets.

If x > y then raising was the better play.

Although the pot may be bigger (due to more players) in Situation B, this does not sufficiently compensate the Hero for all the equity those additional players are taking away from him.

While I was babbling in the video what I was trying to say was something like, 'As more players are added the Hero's equity is dropping more quickly than the pot size is growing.'

Excellent video Entity!!

In SB vs BB battles. is a good default to raise from SB with the same hands you would steal from btn, around 45%, and to limp with some portion of the rest of hands?

if we do limp some portion of the time like say vs a LP BB, must we always call a raise?

hi entity,

thank you for this informative video. your comment to cc from the sb with pairs 44-77 after another player cc's has made me notice that i don't have a default strategy in that particular area and have never come across any suggestions in the literature.

i tried to put together a good range to cc from the sb with
1) a raiser and a cc'er
2) a raiser and two cc'ers

i came up with the following hand ranges, assumming previous cc (or cc's)and the bb are slightly on the loose passive side:

1) CC: 44-88, QJs, QTs, JTs
3-bet: 99+, ATs+, KJs+, AJo+, KQo

2) CC: 44-88, ATs, KJs, QJs, QTs, JTs, T9s, J9s
3-bet: 99+, AJs+, KQs, AQo+

i would very much like to hear your thoughts and comments about the ranges above, and which ranges you use in similar scenarios.

kind regards,
beyazkus

1) CC: 44-88, QJs, QTs, JTs
3-bet: 99+, ATs+, KJs+, AJo+, KQo

2) CC: 44-88, ATs, KJs, QJs, QTs, JTs, T9s, J9s
3-bet: 99+, AJs+, KQs, AQo+

1) CC: 44-99, JTs+, KJs, KQs.
3-bet: TT+, AJs (sometimes), AQs+, AQo+

I fold KQo sometimes, depending on the player who raised and the relative position (raiser, coldcaller is different than limper, raiser). This is in both spots but I'm more likely to call with KQo in #2.

2) CC: 22-99, T9s+, ATs-AJs, KTs+, KQo.
3-bet: TT+, AQs+, AQo (sometimes), AKo

I tend to think that way too many people bloat the pot too much from the small blind in these spots and overvalue preflop edge while diminishing the value of preserving implied odds and not committing yourself to flops/turns that aren't necessarily great for your range vs. the field.

Rob

two episodes into the series and already my game has changed:

before: 23.5/15.8
since: 26.2/18.6

surprisingly enough, my winrate is nearly double over the latter stretch. huh.
thanks guys. can't wait to catch up to where you are now. and after this series, i am looking forward to 'shouldn't fold'.

later.