Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by bosoxx34 (Micro/Small Stakes)

Can you discuss the reasons why people opt for the min-raise strat vs regs?

What are the standard adjustments? With there strengths and weaknesses.

Cheers

Digger

Can you discuss the reasons why people opt for the min-raise strat vs regs?

What are the standard adjustments? With there strengths and weaknesses.

Cheers

Digger

good question. i'd like to hear bosoxx's reply to this as well.

i think in one of dogisheads vids he plays a min raiser and says you have to call more speculative hands oop because of the better price you are getting, and make sure you arent giving up easily just because the pots are smaller. he stressed you still have to fight for pots.

isnt one reason ppl min raise is so that they have more positional advantage in 3bet pots and can thus call more 3b's? how should this affect our 3bet strategy? also, how does us calling oop with some weaker hands affect our 3bet/flat calling ranges (ie do we need to flat some stronger hands to strengthen our oop calling range?)

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QJ hand
Don't you think he should bluff the river?

Can you discuss the reasons why people opt for the min-raise strat vs regs?

What are the standard adjustments? With there strengths and weaknesses.

Cheers

Digger

Really tired tonight and this deserves my full attention so I'll get to this tomorrow.

QJ hand
Don't you think he should bluff the river?

I would if I were him, best case scenario for me is I have a bluff catcher with a medium club or 2 pair. However he does have some SD value so I can see his reasoning but it's not my default play.

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what would you do with this kind of opponent in 32:53 if he check raises you here when the 3rd flush card came...! would it be kind of a guessing decision or you think he would not bluff there?!

Thanks...watched almost all your videos and learned alot.!

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Why do you open for 4x here? And what do you think of such a large 3bet after you make a larger than normal open?

Bosoxx34 plays a 2-tabling session of 50NL and gets to compete against a typical 100% min-raising Heads Up regular.

Goddamnit.

For whatever it's worth I usually start out 3xing and then switch depending on the opponent, I was just minraising vs you because having seen the first half or so of Down on the Farm I thought you might be a little too tight to it. I probably would have switched or maybe chopped up my ranges pre if you'd started defending like 55-60 instead of 35 or so.

People opt for the min-raising strat against regs mainly because people don't play nearly as well against it. They'll give up a lot and it's much easier just to min-raise and cbet. Everything is geneerally smaller, you're able to call more 3bets, 4bet bluff cheaper, and typically just grind your opponent down.

The standard adjustments for me are as I showed in this video, donking a fair amount with a fairly balanced range. Draws, made hands, gutshots, etc. My goal is just to be as annoying as possible against these guys since a lot of the times their strategy is pretty much set in stone and anything that they're not used to seems to be +EV.

Fighting for small pots is incredibly critical because those are most of the pots you're going to be playing against these types of opponents.

Basically I stick with a similar 3betting strategy as a 3xer to start and go from there. Depends on how often the person folds to 3bets and how they play in 3bet pots. Sorry that answer is a little vague but I don't change my 3bet strategy too much against these types of players. And I just mix in calling with some stronger hands like KQ, 99, etc to mix things up some of the time.

Why do you open for 4x here? And what do you think of such a large 3bet after you make a larger than normal open?

I opened to 4x here since he limped the button. I don't want to give him 2-1 with a normal 3x raise to see a flop in position. Also I had no idea what to think of his big raise. I just chalked it up to him being a maniac.

I would if I were him, best case scenario for me is I have a bluff catcher with a medium club or 2 pair. However he does have some SD value so I can see his reasoning but it's not my default play.

what would you do with this kind of opponent in 32:53 if he check raises you here when the 3rd flush card came...! would it be kind of a guessing decision or you think he would not bluff there?!

The standard adjustments for me are as I showed in this video, donking a fair amount with a fairly balanced range.

do you donk just to get them out of their comfort zone, or are there other pros to it as well? if they are min-raising and Cbetting a lot, then shouldnt we just let them cbet since they obviously have air a lot? basically, why is donking better than just letting them cbet their air and c/r'ing them or c/c'ing?

do you donk just to get them out of their comfort zone, or are there other pros to it as well? if they are min-raising and Cbetting a lot, then shouldnt we just let them cbet since they obviously have air a lot? basically, why is donking better than just letting them cbet their air and c/r'ing them or c/c'ing?

I like donking just to be annoying and it's probably the thing they've seen the least amount of. My main goal is to have them guessing at what I'm donking with. If I can avoid a showdown with it, great if not I'll keep that in mind the next time I donk.

My guess is they see a fair amount of check raising and check calling from good players. So I'm just trying to get them out of their comfort zone of minraising, cbetting, rinse and repeat.

<3 bosoxx vidz....great content as usual

Why do you fold so many hands out of position preflop ? ex : a9, a8, 35 suited etc...

Why do you fold so many hands out of position preflop ? ex : a9, a8, 35 suited etc...

I used to call with these hands but doing an analysis of my game I found I was losing a bunch with these types of hands so I typically just have a stronger calling range OOP.

do you donk just to get them out of their comfort zone, or are there other pros to it as well? if they are min-raising and Cbetting a lot, then shouldnt we just let them cbet since they obviously have air a lot? basically, why is donking better than just letting them cbet their air and c/r'ing them or c/c'ing?

b/c theyre exploiting their positional advantage so hard by minraise then half pot cbetting you have to take that advantage away from them by donking alot. Sure c/r is normally the best strategy but what happens here is that stacks are still so deep after you c/r that it actually becomes a really bad option to regularly do it even super balanced. The best thing you can do when you're oop is to take the initiative (which is why we 3b things that are <AK, TT+ in the first place) and donking accomplishes just that.