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

Hi Rusty, please re-tag this as micro. Thanks!

Time Link to 00:30:42

AJ hand: Since villain is aggro, do you put him on 55-88 as his range? thus another reason to bet to get him to fold out OTR. If that is in his range, do you think he would bet the turn for thin value?

They are in his range. I think he would bet the turn and bluff some rivers, then almost always fold this river.

Time Link to 00:15:23

You dont really discuss betting by yourself in this spot on river, we thought he is passive, so I dont think he will bet that lot of missed draws on river because he would do that most of time on turn if he was aggressive imo. But you can still get some value from 5x,7x 88-99 on river. So betting > blufcatching imo. I still think both are EV+ with his line obv.

Time Link to 00:46:51

on a Ad or As valueshove river? You rep 88,99 maybe 33, your AJhh,AThh, got TP now, 67hh,TJhh, maybe you raise some KQhh,KJhh,KThh, but I think you will call them most of time on flop. And maybe some Axcc in his eyes.

So your range looks really strong, and I think he will most of time fold his 9x, JJ-KK, but he cant have that much better so it's a ez value shove?


If the turn was a As, it's the same imo, bet turn + value shove non-hearts, non-9 river, because he cant really have Axhh because he would reraise that on flop I think, but can still herocall JJ-KK and 9x. On a As and a hearts river it get;s interesting, because you can let him think that he has fold equity when you check, so maybe it's better to check in this situation to induce? You obviously have enough FE for shoving, but when you check you can induce blufs.

Time Link to 00:27:05

Do you call turn again because you have your equity or because he bluffs turn a lot? that was not really clear to me in this spot. It's obviously nice that you pick up your beackdoorflushdraw + straightdraw. But if that is the only reason you call turn again, I suppose you would fold AJdd on flop cbet?

You dont really discuss betting by yourself in this spot on river, we thought he is passive, so I dont think he will bet that lot of missed draws on river because he would do that most of time on turn if he was aggressive imo. But you can still get some value from 5x,7x 88-99 on river. So betting > blufcatching imo. I still think both are EV+ with his line obv.

I think passive players bluff the river a lot. The fact that they are passive means they're not taking aggressive actions like 3betting pre or raising the flop with a wide range. However, this means they get to the river with many more missed draws than most people and the typical loose/passive missed draw river bluff is just to pot when checked to. If you have a large enough sample just look out for the passive players who also have a bet river % of 36%+ (sthief09 has a video discussing how he came up wit that number, if you're interested, I find it works very well).

on a Ad or As valueshove river? You rep 88,99 maybe 33, your AJhh,AThh, got TP now, 67hh,TJhh, maybe you raise some KQhh,KJhh,KThh, but I think you will call them most of time on flop. And maybe some Axcc in his eyes.

So your range looks really strong, and I think he will most of time fold his 9x, JJ-KK, but he cant have that much better so it's a ez value shove?


If the turn was a As, it's the same imo, bet turn + value shove non-hearts, non-9 river, because he cant really have Axhh because he would reraise that on flop I think, but can still herocall JJ-KK and 9x. On a As and a hearts river it get;s interesting, because you can let him think that he has fold equity when you check, so maybe it's better to check in this situation to induce? You obviously have enough FE for shoving, but when you check you can induce blufs.

Ax rivers are a little troublesome because we have a lot of A high flush draws in our range that theoretically check the river. We are unlikely to have broadway A high flush draws given no 3bet preflop. This should make villain less likely to bluff and should mean we are bluffing more often if we bet Ax rivers. So, I prefer betting with and without and expecting villain to bluffcatch us slightly more often when the river is Ax and we actually choose to bet.

Do you call turn again because you have your equity or because he bluffs turn a lot? that was not really clear to me in this spot. It's obviously nice that you pick up your beackdoorflushdraw + straightdraw. But if that is the only reason you call turn again, I suppose you would fold AJdd on flop cbet?

We call again because we pick up equity, don't have a profitable shove, are still ahead of a good % of his range and can bluff some rivers.