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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by danzasmack (Micro/Small Stakes)

Time Link to 00:06:28

I mean villain's call seems totally fine to me? His hand is an auto triple barrel there and on the end you are repping absolutely nothing besides the case two fours, he got kinda cold decked there I'd say

Time Link to 00:08:32

I definitely like CRing this flop, just for good general play reasons and also for momentum reasons vs this guy, seems like if there is a time where he is gonna go into a shell its after getting shown the nuts a hand or two ago. He may be LAG and highly showdown bound but he just has a million combos of air on this board

Time Link to 00:13:17

did you fold 74o on button?!

Time Link to 00:13:55

You called in BB with 33 and the 44 earlier, I think these hands are better played as reraises pre and bet most boards all streets since he is just super stubborn and won't fold ace high on any texture? There are some disadvantages too but my first thought is we should punish this guy by reraising more with hands with showdown value, so like normally I'd just call A9o in BB but vs this guy I think 3 betting gains value, does that make sense?

Time Link to 00:14:52

So you open 62s but fold 74o? I think you should consider some flop check backs against this guy, seems like you are going to throw away small bets too much since he is never folding this flop and he is raising it with pretty high frequency. It seems weak to check back and fold turn but 1) you can balance it and get some fun value / mess with him later, 2) better to be weak and save a small bet in a spot you will always get punished.

Time Link to 00:17:26

re: the AK discussion, meh I think you are kinda over thinking it, I don't ever want to get to a point where I'm not reraising AK for value unless I'm not reraising at all, but I just don't think that's right for heads up, no matter how spazzy villain is. As I said in earlier comment I like reraising vs this guy *more* frequently for value than my default, not less. I think you can basically goad him into a jammy type game where you are simply playing better cards than him in the bloated pots and you will come out ahead with any luck

Time Link to 00:19:06

I guess I'm just not agreeing with Rob today but I don't see it is "now I have to call down with this" - you have to call down with it no matter how you play preflop. On river I think its a super easy CR since he may not have anything and he will probably bet nearly 100% of time either for thin value vs your "obvious" Ace high, or as a triple barrel.

Time Link to 00:24:04

Seems obvious to me if you are reraising 75s and AK that AJ is also worth a value 3 bet pre, you didn't seem like you settled on a preflop strategy?

Time Link to 00:24:38

re: Rob's comment: him having singleton spades makes raising turn on a spade better in my mind? Since now when we fire the last barrel he has a lot of hands that will put in 2 turn bets and fold river (assuming like Queen high and worse). Also you mention wanting to bluff him by floating and having him c/f river except he seems to never check once he starts betting, so that simply isn't going to occur often enough in my mind.

edit to add: I don't think you need to raise a King turn if you raise every spade turn and every OESD on turn that's plenty

Time Link to 00:26:46

I peel that J6 on 852 there. I would have reraised the A6s pre /shrug

Time Link to 00:34:04

Maybe I'm just feeling friendly but it doesn't seem like the guy's strategy is that bad? I imagine he is a big winner at this limit, hardly anyone at $2/4 is going to make the adjustments you made and/or handle his aggression correctly. Most times they are way too passive, way too foldy, and pick crappy spots to bluff. He might just be a huge monkey and I"m wrong but my instinct is that his strategy works great against both loose passive small stakes fish and tight passive TAGs that aren't comfortable dealing with a LAG.

I mean villain's call seems totally fine to me? His hand is an auto triple barrel there and on the end you are repping absolutely nothing besides the case two fours, he got kinda cold decked there I'd say

people don't really checkraise bluff the river though. so what does he beat?

nice video again guys and fun to watch. you make a good point about how sometimes when we are winning in a session (or look afterward and see that we won) we neglect to review our own play as closely as we do in a session where we get beat up

Maybe I'm just feeling friendly but it doesn't seem like the guy's strategy is that bad? I imagine he is a big winner at this limit, hardly anyone at $2/4 is going to make the adjustments you made and/or handle his aggression correctly. Most times they are way too passive, way too foldy, and pick crappy spots to bluff. He might just be a huge monkey and I"m wrong but my instinct is that his strategy works great against both loose passive small stakes fish and tight passive TAGs that aren't comfortable dealing with a LAG.

i don't think anybody is a big winner pre-rb at 2/4 on merge because of the nasty rake. if this guy plays all comers hu (which seems likely given that he didn't quit chuck) then i imagine a lot of reasonable players/tagfish would quit him, meaning he might end up playing a lot of his overall hands vs either weak opposition or thinking tags who see an edge. i think at 2/4 a lot of reasonable tags will be able to realize that this guy is a total monkey, and just start mashing the call button against him for 2/100. they might not go to rob and chuck's level of c/c c/r everything or attacking a lot of turns.

one thing that could be a pain for a lot of tags vs this guy is they will probably think 'okay this guy is a nutball' and start 3betting him a ton pre, and then they'll likely get into a lot of gross spots vs flop raise+barrels, or vs turn raises. or they'll think 'okay this guy is super wide' and start retaking the initiative by checkraising too many flops.

I mean villain's call seems totally fine to me? His hand is an auto triple barrel there and on the end you are repping absolutely nothing besides the case two fours, he got kinda cold decked there I'd say

I think in a standard 2/4 game it's a bit too loose, especially without much of a dynamic to suggest that we're capable of river c/r bluffing. I could be wrong, but that's just such an uncommon play, that I'm guessing he just said "well, I have a pair and I don't know what he has. " I understand what you're thinking, but I think it's a pretty loose payoff.

Rob

re: the AK discussion, meh I think you are kinda over thinking it, I don't ever want to get to a point where I'm not reraising AK for value unless I'm not reraising at all, but I just don't think that's right for heads up, no matter how spazzy villain is. As I said in earlier comment I like reraising vs this guy *more* frequently for value than my default, not less. I think you can basically goad him into a jammy type game where you are simply playing better cards than him in the bloated pots and you will come out ahead with any luck

Looking at this opponnet, he's so exploitable in smaller pots that my strategy is to capitalize on maximum turn/river value, where our equity is much higher than it is by capitalizing on preflop equity. I don't think there's anything wrong with 3-betting, but I think that this opponent responds in such a way preflop when we call that we should be calling with a ton and continuing to play c/r flop and c/c c/r very freuqently to induce bad turn raises, etc.

Maybe I'm just feeling friendly but it doesn't seem like the guy's strategy is that bad? I imagine he is a big winner at this limit, hardly anyone at $2/4 is going to make the adjustments you made and/or handle his aggression correctly. Most times they are way too passive, way too foldy, and pick crappy spots to bluff. He might just be a huge monkey and I"m wrong but my instinct is that his strategy works great against both loose passive small stakes fish and tight passive TAGs that aren't comfortable dealing with a LAG.

I wouldn't doubt that this guy is a winner at $2/4. That's what made the video fun though. I probably was a bit uncharitable with some of his plays, and I don't think he's a huge monkey, but I think he just puts his head down and plays "his strategy." Hope I didn't come across as too harsh or insulting because I definitely don't want that, but some of his payoffs and barrels were crystal-clear bad to me, and I probably voiced those pretty heavily.

Rob

I guess I'm just not agreeing with Rob today but I don't see it is "now I have to call down with this" - you have to call down with it no matter how you play preflop. On river I think its a super easy CR since he may not have anything and he will probably bet nearly 100% of time either for thin value vs your "obvious" Ace high, or as a triple barrel.

"now I have to call down with thi" =~ "you have to call down more than would normally be profitable because you've bloated the pot preflop." Just my way of saying that if/when you choose to bloat pots preflop, you tie yourself to that pot, and against this sort of opponent that's ok with a hand with showdown equity, but given how many bets he'll spew postflop and how infrequently he'll give up, I prefer a strategy of keeping pots smaller. This does two things, specifically vs this opponent:

1) Makes his light peels, bluffs and rebluffs WAY less correct. He's risking way too much to win way too little in general.

2) Seems to induce him to barrel too frequently.

FWIW I bet this river because he's missed some easy thin value bets previously in the video, but I can easily be convinced that it's better to c/r.

Rob

re: Rob's comment: him having singleton spades makes raising turn on a spade better in my mind? Since now when we fire the last barrel he has a lot of hands that will put in 2 turn bets and fold river (assuming like Queen high and worse). Also you mention wanting to bluff him by floating and having him c/f river except he seems to never check once he starts betting, so that simply isn't going to occur often enough in my mind.

edit to add: I don't think you need to raise a King turn if you raise every spade turn and every OESD on turn that's plenty

I could be getting this confused with a different opponent, but vs. what I remember about this guy I'd be a bit concerned about his tendency to rebluff if we c/r all spades on the turn. I like your thoughts though - I had considered playing something like the 5 more defensively but there's a lot of his air that will either fold to a turn c/r or river barrel. Will think about how to add that to my game some.

Rob