Every Time I watch one of your videos, I am awe struck at how easy you make it all look.
And yet I sense you are just not all that happy with your play.

45:24..You did not like your river play.
BUT...this is a great hand, masterfully played.
And I realize thats through my eyes, as you probably look at it as "standard".

and dont be afraid to go past an hour oink,,,I doubt anyone will mind.
THANKS OINK.

Nice vid

I think you played well the hand with A9 on AQT, you are sometimes ahead but you have a lot of cards to dodge (a quick stove a little more than 20%). There is some rio in a donk because someone raises you when you are far behind and you can be ahead of JJ or KK so it is not easy to fold. When I have Kx in this spot I NEVER get a free card, so when I have A9 they will also bet my hand for me. I would consider a donk/fold on a safe turn tough.

I like your fold with bottom pair 65 on the flop with 9 to 1 (2min40), but you didn't talk about it, do you think it is a no brainer ?

Your play in BB with A9o against a sb steal (37 min) is strange, I would raise pf but call is ok and play wa/wb give your pf, do you bet the river UI ?

Hey Psycho

I hope you understand but when you dont tell me the minutes where I played the hands I cant answer your comments. I'd have to go through the entire video to find them and I hope you understand the hazzle :)

But by the sound of it I agree with you on the T8 hand without remembering the specifics

Yeah sry Oink about not putting in the time of the hand, but still. Still if youre getting a good price on the turn you should be drawing dead or very close to it when a solid played bets AQ10 (dont remember what the turn was) twice into two people the best thing you can hope for is really that he has KQ given that he raised UTG, and even that`s stretching it at this point in the hand. So i think this is an easy fold that almost nobody makes, because we have top pair semi-decent kicker and nobody is beeing aggressive and the price is exellent.

I dont remember the time of the 108 hand, i just remember you bet the flop, got called and shut down on the turn and said "this guy has some sort of ace high he isnt folding", and while this was true for this hand (he actually held the nut flushdraw and only called which is poor imo), im glad to hear that you agree that this should be a bet:)

Nice series imo!

Think it was like 15-20 minutes into the video, and it was like UTG raise, two coldcallers and you completed from the SB. Are you really beating enough of the PFR`s range when he continues betting on the turn? I agree very often youll be ahead of the two CC`s as its not very likely they have a good hand, but i still feel like its very possible for the PFR to have us crushed here when he bets this board twice against 3 people in a loose aggressive game which inclines he has no FE. Imo theres not very many hands he should be betting here that we beat, would have to be something in the lines of pairs+gutters+flushdraws, atleast two of the three. I havent stoved it as im not much into that, but i feel strongly about this fold, and i would kinda like DeathDonkey or some of the other instructors to continue this discussion along with you:)

You are getting 10:1 on turn call to draw out, but your draw isn't worth much (stoving says you'll have 25-33% equity on 9 or A river). You are only getting about 5:1 or 6:1 to showdown, since most of the time, river won't be checked around, and you can't fold river for one bet unless river brings K or J, and maybe Q. Stove says your equity is 15-23% on other rivers.

So in 10-15% river brings a K/J and you can't call. Also in ~25% river brings a heart, a queen or ten and somebody sometimes (25%?) rivers and raises and you don't have to call. And sometimes you'll fold to slowplayed nuts as it was the case in video. So total 20-30% of time you don't get to showdown, ~5% (more, but 9h sometimes isn't an out) you river a 9 and you get ~35% equity, other times you have ~20% equity.

After all is said and done, result hugely depends on our estimate of how often are we able to showdown our hand (in other words, we don't lose to slowplays and suckouts from the two players in the middle or really bad river cards). If 75%, we're 1/4 of a bet in green, if 70%, we're 1/10th of a bet in red.

One option would be to only call on rainbow turns to remove all chance of losing to a flush in this already tight spot. It also seems to me that if the pot was 3-way to flop and turn, you couldn't really call as it would be too small and 4th player isn't much of a factor in equity calculations.

-pix

ps. one should read the above as a curious exercise in approximation, not as definite result

Hmm yeah good point

I must admit I havent thought of which hands to balance of this play with. Altho I'd bet/3-bet turned two pair and sets but i doubt thats enough to balance.

Despite the fact my hand looks like what it is I believe I still egt people to make dumb raises in that spot when I donk. But yes I agree that against strong opposition I need to balance it