99 hand. you were utg raiser and the lag was in CO, with a loose guy on the button. doesn't that change things abit regarding his 3betting range?

love your thought process and detailed explanations

99 hand. you were utg raiser and the lag was in CO, with a loose guy on the button. doesn't that change things abit regarding his 3betting range?

just a little. LAGs aren't exactly shy in regards to reraising other laggy UTG raisers and the loose button doesn't matter too much because it's not like he's cold-calling the reraise too often.

"bifurcated"

lol

great vid

now you got me all self-conscious because i don't remember saying that. i didn't misuse it did i?

I've watched every vid in your series so far. I'm definitely enjoying them and learning a bit. A couple general questions though:

Open-minraising on the button - I know if you do this, you should be doing it the majority of the time for metagame/balancing. However, is this raise amount ever dependent on the players in the BB? I would think that for 2 thinking TAG's in the blinds, this should be fine. One, because they're more willing to play back at you and this allows you to call resteals more liberally since you're effectively deeper now in position. And two, minraising as opposed to a 3.5x raise allows them to fold about the same range of hands.
However, with opponents who defend too liberally/are stations/don't play back much/generally suck at poker, aren't you happy to raise more and build a bigger pot in position against them? I know this is rarely the case at higher stakes, but opening to 3.5x or 4x would seem optimal vs. say a weak-tight-nitty SB and a loose-passive-fish BB.

Game Selection - You've mentioned a couple times about using "Avg. Pot Size" as the main criteria to game select for a level. For me, I've always seemed to look primarily at "Avg. Players to Flop". I mean at 1/2 and lower, you can probably always sit at a table with this number at least over 30%. However at 2/4 and higher, this seems almost impossible to do. Can you explain your experiences with your game selection metric as opposed to mine with regards to the various stakes?

Sry, one more thing. Regardless of your openraise sizing for the CO or button, what becomes your 4-bet range now? I know it will be very dependent on the player who 3-bets, whether he's a blind or OTB, etc. But compare if you raised in the HJ and the BB 3-bets, as opposed to if you open OTB and the same BB 3-bets. I seem to almost always be flat-calling my entire range I want to continue with in these steal/resteal spots but don't particularly like it since I feel I should be 4-betting here but am not very confident which hands to do it. For example, I've experimented with smooth-calling AK here like 100% of the time lately.

I guess that's all for now. :-)

point me to the time stamp of the hand and i'll take a look at it

The hand begins at 37:50. You flop the nuts.

I've watched every vid in your series so far. I'm definitely enjoying them and learning a bit. A couple general questions though:

Open-minraising on the button - I know if you do this, you should be doing it the majority of the time for metagame/balancing. However, is this raise amount ever dependent on the players in the BB? I would think that for 2 thinking TAG's in the blinds, this should be fine. One, because they're more willing to play back at you and this allows you to call resteals more liberally since you're effectively deeper now in position. And two, minraising as opposed to a 3.5x raise allows them to fold about the same range of hands.
However, with opponents who defend too liberally/are stations/don't play back much/generally suck at poker, aren't you happy to raise more and build a bigger pot in position against them? I know this is rarely the case at higher stakes, but opening to 3.5x or 4x would seem optimal vs. say a weak-tight-nitty SB and a loose-passive-fish BB.

Game Selection - You've mentioned a couple times about using "Avg. Pot Size" as the main criteria to game select for a level. For me, I've always seemed to look primarily at "Avg. Players to Flop". I mean at 1/2 and lower, you can probably always sit at a table with this number at least over 30%. However at 2/4 and higher, this seems almost impossible to do. Can you explain your experiences with your game selection metric as opposed to mine with regards to the various stakes?

Sry, one more thing. Regardless of your openraise sizing for the CO or button, what becomes your 4-bet range now? I know it will be very dependent on the player who 3-bets, whether he's a blind or OTB, etc. But compare if you raised in the HJ and the BB 3-bets, as opposed to if you open OTB and the same BB 3-bets. I seem to almost always be flat-calling my entire range I want to continue with in these steal/resteal spots but don't particularly like it since I feel I should be 4-betting here but am not very confident which hands to do it. For example, I've experimented with smooth-calling AK here like 100% of the time lately.

I guess that's all for now. :-)

re: minaising on the button, i'm comfortable doing it to just about anybody. i'm willing to forgo building big pots in position because a) i like having deep-stacks which gives me more room to maneuver in the marginal non-nut situations i often find myself in and b) because my range is weaker otb i'm more ften than not going to have bajunky garbage so i would rather be able to steal as cheaply as possible in such situations even if it makes it harder to stack my opponents in the rare situations i actually flop top pair or better.

Finally got around to watching this one - one of the best on the site, awesome stuff.