results of AQ hand around 23:00? villain folded to river shove?

Great series Josh, I like your videos the best so far. I love the way you teach and play. Great job.

mh works fine until like 35minute mark or so, then jumps back to 0 in the flash version, meh time to dl it.

Yeah, keep up with the 4table format. Great!

Another excellent episode. Really insightful commentary. Keep em coming.

One suggestion - in this format, it would be useful to identify the tables 1,2,3,4 just to make it a bit easier to follow.

A quick question about the 88 hand at table 2 about 42 minutes in. You say "if there aren't many river cards that you are happy to bet again for value, you shouldn't put in a bet on the turn". Could you say another word about this because I don't quite get what you mean? In this hand, it looks to me like there are loads of river cards that make another river vb difficult - any card that completes one of the 2 FDs or completes a weird Str8/2pair or any overcard. None of those would make us overjoyed to vb our 88.

Thanks.

Another excellent episode. Really insightful commentary. Keep em coming.

One suggestion - in this format, it would be useful to identify the tables 1,2,3,4 just to make it a bit easier to follow.

A quick question about the 88 hand at table 2 about 42 minutes in. You say "if there aren't many river cards that you are happy to bet again for value, you shouldn't put in a bet on the turn". Could you say another word about this because I don't quite get what you mean? In this hand, it looks to me like there are loads of river cards that make another river vb difficult - any card that completes one of the 2 FDs or completes a weird Str8/2pair or any overcard. None of those would make us overjoyed to vb our 88.

Thanks.

unfortunately all the videos are made so the 1,2,3,4 thing won't happen. that seems to be a popular critique so it's something I'll 100% do in the future. sorry about the next few thought.

regarding the 88 hand, I was going against my typical rule of not firing the turn for value, if I can't value bet the turn. In that situation I felt that he had so many outs against me that there was value in betting the turn.

but take a more general case. if you bet the turn, you get to protect your hand as well as set yourself up to bet the river. say you have QJ on a Q83 flop against a pretty loose and aggressive opponent. you c-bet and he calls out of position. the turn is a K. you still likely have the best hand, but should you bet? the upside is you can protect your hand from hands like 98 or AJ that have some outs. a minor upside is if the river is a J or Q, you'll be able to make a bigger bet.

but the downside is big. if he's smart, he'll recognize that you're often using the K as a second barrel card and turn something like 99 into a bluff/bluff-stopper by check-raising. since he's loose and aggressive, if you check the turn, he'll often bluff the river with Ax, or be more likely to call a bet with 98 or 66. by betting the turn, and typically chasing those hands away, you forego your opportunity to make money on the river. if we get called on the turn, the pot will be big, and any value bet would be very thin. finally, betting is simply building a big pot with a hand that clearly should not and will not feel comfortable in a big pot.

so this would be a clear turn check. but if we had AK, we'd bet. for one, it's more likely for him to have a Q when we don't, but also it's a hand that we're comfortable firing again on the river after he calls the turn. this is the big difference between the 2 situations. we're still chasing those hands like 98 away most of the time, but occasionally he makes a suspicious calldown and we win 2 more bets from that 98, and the times that he has QJ, we make an extra pretty huge bet.

unfortunately all the videos are made so the 1,2,3,4 thing won't happen. that seems to be a popular critique so it's something I'll 100% do in the future. sorry about the next few thought.

regarding the 88 hand, I was going against my typical rule of not firing the turn for value, if I can't value bet the turn. In that situation I felt that he had so many outs against me that there was value in betting the turn.

but take a more general case. if you bet the turn, you get to protect your hand as well as set yourself up to bet the river. say you have QJ on a Q83 flop against a pretty loose and aggressive opponent. you c-bet and he calls out of position. the turn is a K. you still likely have the best hand, but should you bet? the upside is you can protect your hand from hands like 98 or AJ that have some outs. a minor upside is if the river is a J or Q, you'll be able to make a bigger bet.

but the downside is big. if he's smart, he'll recognize that you're often using the K as a second barrel card and turn something like 99 into a bluff/bluff-stopper by check-raising. since he's loose and aggressive, if you check the turn, he'll often bluff the river with Ax, or be more likely to call a bet with 98 or 66. by betting the turn, and typically chasing those hands away, you forego your opportunity to make money on the river. if we get called on the turn, the pot will be big, and any value bet would be very thin. finally, betting is simply building a big pot with a hand that clearly should not and will not feel comfortable in a big pot.

so this would be a clear turn check. but if we had AK, we'd bet. for one, it's more likely for him to have a Q when we don't, but also it's a hand that we're comfortable firing again on the river after he calls the turn. this is the big difference between the 2 situations. we're still chasing those hands like 98 away most of the time, but occasionally he makes a suspicious calldown and we win 2 more bets from that 98, and the times that he has QJ, we make an extra pretty huge bet.

sorry you also asked what if he raises, and I ran out of time editing the other post.

If he raises, with these stacks I just fold. It's going to make him EXTREMELY likely to fire on the turn, knowing that I'm going to have to seriously consider folding even AK on a board like this, where so many big hands are possible. so I'm going to be folding to a lot of his raises. this is obviously exploitable, and if he starts raising a lot of our c-bets, then we'll adjust by either playing back at him, or possibly leaving since a deep-stacked opponent who uses his position on you is a huge detriment.

Excellent videos. Although, I sometimes have a hard time following the action. Example: You say, "In this hand, this guy check raises me, and ......". Sometimes I'm not sure which hand you're referring to, so I have to rewind the video so see which hand you're talking about. Somtimes you say, "In this hand on the bottom left", it's much easier to follow. Thx. Keep up the good work.