Hey guys,

So my 1st standalone here. Let me know what you think! I think I play pretty well here and if I don't like my play I let you know fo' sho'.

Cool where i get OOP vs. a lag and use hand reading to pwn him, despite the fact that he gets there a few times.

Also how cool are my card mods?

Also how cool are my card mods?

Where can i get those?

I'm watching this audio off (I will watch this with commentary later) so maybe you have some specific reasons for this play, but it just struck out from the stream:

18 minutes or so, hero has J 4 in SB
btn limps, hero compls, bb raises, both call

flop K 8 5
hero checks, bb bets, button raises, hero calls, bb calls

turn 6
hero c, bb c, btn bet, hero call, bb call

river T
hero checks ??

Why not bet out? Button will call 100% of the time your donk, but won't bet his entire range. I think something like weak King, 8x or 66-77 type of hand is still plausible for the button and he won't probably valuebet those. (Well maybe he doesn't have 8x here anymore, but I'm not sure.) I don't know if he's capable of bet/folding a King here, but hero's hand looks sooo much like a flush here.

jajvrita,

I kick myself in the vid for not betting out. As soon as I check I realize it's wrong.

Cactus,

Lol my bad. I tried to make a HU vid and realized i was talking so fast it was worthless. Will probably put the session in a HH replayer.

I think I did that with 78o, no?

Anyway I talked about it for sure. I definitely think it's a cool topic.

I don't necessarily like raising a hand like 78o because it has no showdown value and i'm building a bit pot.

Folding pf getting 3-1 with implied odds is bad.

If he raises my limp every time then i have to call 1.5 sbs into 2.5 sbs so i'm not getting 3-1 there but that's ok with me. I think my implied odds could be good enough.

The only thing I like about raising is the value it adds to my bigger hands. If he is condsistently 3-betting my pf then I am able to play hands like the Q8s and QJs the way I did, profitably and out of position.

So is that something I want to sacrifice?

I think it's an interesting topic and I'm not 100% on where i stand. Curious what you guys thing.

As of where I'm at now im my game, I'll keep raising.

Cactus,

Lol my bad. I tried to make a HU vid and realized i was talking so fast it was worthless. Will probably put the session in a HH replayer.

I've been thinking about that, too. Many times in a session, there are hands that lend themselves to deep analysis. Unfortunately, when recording a session, the next hand comes and goes before we've finished talking about the previous hand. Sixth street can last a long time (extra credit for catching the reference).

I'd like to see more videos where hands in session are replayed in the hand replayer. Why not record the session, and intersperse the session with replayed hands with analysis in post-production. This would be a lot of work, I realize, but would make a fascinating and very instructive video.

Overall, if I could figure out a way to easily slow it down and understand everything you were saying, it's one of the best videos I've seen yet. Nice job, man.

CJ

I like the videos with live commentating a lot better than session reviewing in hand replayer, because I've witnessed every read and feel like I'm more into the situation. I hope you continue making the videos just like this.

My five cents anyways.

Chuck,

Verrrrry nice! I like yewwww! You flat pwned that guy to your left. The read that Q high was good cuz that guy wouldn't check A high on the turn was SICK!!!! Also, although you pointed out the FTP "pro" played a couple hands really well at the end, man did he do some fishtastic things earlier in the video.

Obviously everyone will have an opinion, but I don't want you to slow down your comments. I think you're doing an awesome job. I also like that your videos are entertaining and educational, and your stream of consciousness is a big part of why (Gomer's Robot, ftw). Plus, when I misunderstand something, I can always either rewind, watch again, or post here. I find going back and watching stuff again is always necessary, anyway, because players tend to slip into bad or lazy habits as time goes by. I bet even if I make it to 15/30 or something, I'd still at that level need to review the Price is Right for a checkup once in awhile.

I think he had calmed down @ that point no?

Well fwiw running stove vs. a 3-betting range I know for sure he has when he is lagging it up me equity with K8o is just under 50%.

I have some implied odds when he 3-bets me as well because of the volume of bets he puts in bad in that spot.

I also don't want him to slow down. At all. Sure, i'm OOP but he was playing very poorly post flop vs. me so I don't mind the spot too much at all.

And I think there is a little bit more merit to someone slowing down than you give credit for. Just simply folding a hand OTB shows me that a mega-lag has slowed down for a bit. Folding SBs to BBs (after he was 3-betting me pf with hands as bad as J3o).

TBH, with a guy like that on my left, I want to stay in his face because once there he is going to spew it all back to me and a slightly -ev spot with K8o is fine considering the pot is going to be HU a ton in that spot and my equity vs. his loose 3-bet isn't THAT bad, and it's certainly good enough given my edge vs. him post flop.

However, folding is fine. Nothing is wrong with folding. I'm not saying that folding is incorrect, I'm just saying with my play style and how I wanted to approach the situation I think I was better of raising there.