Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by jk3a (Mid Stakes)

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GG great vid!, like to see some more also love the format!
keep it up!
GL,

Very solid vid.

Good, solid vid. Looking forward to the next one.

please hurry up and release another one.

This is excellent stuff, great if your game needs you to step off the gas a little.

Jared is an extremely talented poker mind. It's super great to have him as an addition to our already ballin' DC lineup.

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Very good video. You 'splain you reads and actions very well.

please hurry up and release another one.

This is excellent stuff, great if your game needs you to step off the gas a little.

I agree. This was so against the grain, I really enjoyed it.

nice vid!

I liked your vid lots of intresting c betting talk and im happy to see someone limp sometimes i know im not mad. Cool vid!

Awesome vid man, look forward to more. At the ~43 min mark, I think when the idiot leads $10 into $53, it's a clear call after every single draw missed and getting such a good price with nut no pair. Sick fold w/ the AK after the ch/mr, you play good... nit. :-)

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Good video, my only complaint was the A10s hand. Villain check-raised the flop, i think the flop call is good but when the 2nd deuce spikes the turn. It is a definite bet there. Any hand that you can get value out of the river on is calling the turn bet, not to mention all his FD's get a free pass and their are way more combos of Flush draws than overpairs/sets.

Good video though

Good video, my only complaint was the A10s hand. Villain check-raised the flop, i think the flop call is good but when the 2nd deuce spikes the turn. It is a definite bet there. Any hand that you can get value out of the river on is calling the turn bet, not to mention all his FD's get a free pass and their are way more combos of Flush draws than overpairs/sets.

Good video though

Agree, would prefer to bet the turn and check back river. I wouldn't give the villain credit for semibluff-checkraising twice, so it's a pretty easy fold it he raises on the turn again

Agree, would prefer to bet the turn and check back river. I wouldn't give the villain credit for semibluff-checkraising twice, so it's a pretty easy fold it he raises on the turn again

Some percentage of the time people will be bluff check/raising twice, or spazzing out with a hand like KTo. If you check turn he can't bluff you off your hand, and you might induce river bluffs and there are probably also a few hands that are willing to call a river bet, but not a turn bet because: 1. your hand looks stronger when you bet turn 2. he could be willing to call a river bet and see a showdown, but if he calls turn he think he need to call the river too for a showdown.

Both lines are good imo.

Good video, my only complaint was the A10s hand. Villain check-raised the flop, i think the flop call is good but when the 2nd deuce spikes the turn. It is a definite bet there. Any hand that you can get value out of the river on is calling the turn bet, not to mention all his FD's get a free pass and their are way more combos of Flush draws than overpairs/sets.

Good video though

As I said in the video, both lines have merit and knowing which is best is really dependent on reads we don't have. You'd be surprised how stationy lots of players get when you check the turn and bet the river.

Awesome vid man, look forward to more. At the ~43 min mark, I think when the idiot leads $10 into $53, it's a clear call after every single draw missed and getting such a good price with nut no pair. Sick fold w/ the AK after the ch/mr, you play good... nit. :-)

I'd be much more willing to call something like 1/2 pot as the idiots will def bluff with small bets, but I don't think they'll bluff with that small size hardly ever. That said, calling for small chance of being good + info is certainly fine and I think raising is clearly best in that spot.

Great video, throughly enjoyed it

at 42 min in the hand where u have 44, why are you such a huge fan of his play? His river overbet sux for value(since your calling range narrows ldo) so its more likely to be a bluff without any history.

at 42 min in the hand where u have 44, why are you such a huge fan of his play? His river overbet sux for value(since your calling range narrows ldo) so its more likely to be a bluff without any history.

If you had KQs in that spot would you have called? Even though his bet may not be at all balanced or good as a value bet, it's also very difficult to give an unknown tag credit for an overbet bluff.

Excellent vid. I can identify with a lot of the things you said in regard to something *possibly* being +EV, but passing up on the huge variance and keeping a snug image instead. You're probably going to get the fish's money anyway one way or another, so destroying your image against the thinking players and having all these metagame considerations can make things a lot tougher than it really has to be when mulit-table grinding.

tnx, good stuff!

More please. This was a great video, I really enjoyed all your discussion of flop textures and cbetting. Hopefully you will do another one soon.

Very good, very solid, very non-spewy...what can I say , I picked up a lot of things.

What a fine articulate young man!

Thx,Great vid!

Around the 11:30 mark on the upper left table, your UTG raise gets min-squeezed by the SB. You decide to flat leaving the button with ~1 PSB's left and the SB has ~2 PSB's left going to the flop. You mentioned you're not necessarily "pair mining" postflop and that you can bluff some flops. Which flop textures are you looking to bluff? Like you said, SB has an insanely tight range here, and 3-handed won't just about any flop hit one of these short stacks where they're willing commit themselves?

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Solid & good stuff on flop texture -like you said that hand at the end with j7 eloquently summed up your points.

Agree, would prefer to bet the turn and check back river. I wouldn't give the villain credit for semibluff-checkraising twice, so it's a pretty easy fold it he raises on the turn again

For reals bet-fold turn? What are you betting turn, 55? You would have to call a 100 into 300? I wouldn't fold to turn shove, these guys can talk themself into spazzing out with a flush draw, KT, or 88, thinking your line is strange/fishy/weak. You would really have to put him like on 44 exactly.

But maybe that's just me cause I am a spew monkey.

Around the 11:30 mark on the upper left table, your UTG raise gets min-squeezed by the SB. You decide to flat leaving the button with ~1 PSB's left and the SB has ~2 PSB's left going to the flop. You mentioned you're not necessarily "pair mining" postflop and that you can bluff some flops. Which flop textures are you looking to bluff? Like you said, SB has an insanely tight range here, and 3-handed won't just about any flop hit one of these short stacks where they're willing commit themselves?

good ?, it honestly has more to do with it appearing that both villains are giving up and I end up most of the time bluffing with the best hand.

i like the video...make more please

i like the video...make more please

Seriously! This is one of my favorite Ghost vids on the site. I'd love to see another from Jk3a.

Awesome video, you explained everything very well and made some interesting points.

More jk3a!!

very solid stuff! please make some more!

Awesome video. I agree... more jk3a vids!

This is one of those videos the more you watch the more you pick-up useful stuff - any plans for a new video soon?

Awesome videos, very articulate and hugely helpful -- thanks!

A small quibble however:

AT hand @ 28:00, table 2. You get check-raised on the T42tt flop, check the turn and bet the river in position when the flush gets there. I would definitely not bet here, for the following reasons:

1) The least important is the observation, which you make, that if he has a flush or a full house, you get check-raised, and at a minimum lose the money you put in when you could have checked behind. But that's a really minor point.

2) The most important reason is this: you lose the opportunity to see what he check-raised you with, and don't even win any money besides since he will almost certainly fold all his weak made hands, seeing how the flush got there and you look strong anyway. We often hear coaches (e.g. Grindcore, even yourself elsewhere in this very video!) justifying a call on the river expecting to be beat, but calling nonetheless for information and for making a read. In this hand, you don't even have to call a bet to make the read: all you have to do is check behind! By betting you give him the chance to muck, and as pointed out you're very unlikely to make any money from your bet anyway.

Wow, thanks for watching a vid I made so long ago.

My opinions 3 years later are a bit different than they are now. 1st, I would def bet the turn today. I don't think it's particularly close either. The risk of getting double c/r bluffed/semi-bluffed is so small that it's not enough of a reason to check.

I agree with my old river analysis. The one thing I'd like to add is that his range also includes his flop c/r bluffs like QJ or something. And when he c/f the river I feel pretty confident that he had some kind of weak made hand or a bluff. I don't think knowing exactly what he c/r with is more valuable than a river bet.

Also listening to the AK hand while I'm waiting for the river with AT river, I prefer squeezing now. It would suck to get 4bet, but I think we likely make more money 3betting than calling because of all the times we get folds pf and the money we make postflop when called. I would like calling a bit more if the sb were not a fish or if it were hu with a reg fwiw.

Thanks a lot for replying!

I totally agree with betting the turn. As played I'd still check the river myself, but that's probably because a read in this spot is more valuable to me (I've obviously got much less experience than you and therefore much less of an idea what people might be raising such boards with...)