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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by DosXX (High Stakes)

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our opponent can also have sets.

Time Link to 00:10:13

nvm i see u have that already in his range

Dos,

I love these formats, I never make it through a full video in one sitting and probably don't soak up as much info as I would if most/all videos were like this.

Anyway, how much weight do you assign to the villains overall ability? It looks like you want about ~30% hot and cold equity to continue vs a regular opponent, but how high or low will you go when your opponents deviate in the good/bad direction?

Dos,

I love these formats, I never make it through a full video in one sitting and probably don't soak up as much info as I would if most/all videos were like this.

Anyway, how much weight do you assign to the villains overall ability? It looks like you want about ~30% hot and cold equity to continue vs a regular opponent, but how high or low will you go when your opponents deviate in the good/bad direction?

I assign some weight, though it's more accurate to say that I tweak my ranges based on the type of postflop player I am dealing with. If they are passive not that showdown bound, I can successfully play more hands in position and plan to bluff more often. If they are a good/solid player, I would lop off some of the worst hands from my range, but don't go too crazy, maybe bottom 5-10% or so. If they are a very poor player in general, I would probably expand my range to any two cards, since we are going to be making a lot of money postflop against them.

Nice video, and a cool topic to talk about. I certainly would have been folding too much before having seen this. What do you think about the related situation where we post a big blind in the CO (say we are new to the game), there's an EP raise, and it folds to us? Let's say at 40/80 for example. Guy makes it 80, and there's 20 + 40 out in the blinds already, plus our 40. now we're getting 4.5 to 1 assuming I did the math correctly - should we be calling any two? Against good players should we be calling blind for meta?

The small blind on the button thing has always confused me btw

Nice video, and a cool topic to talk about. I certainly would have been folding too much before having seen this. What do you think about the related situation where we post a big blind in the CO (say we are new to the game), there's an EP raise, and it folds to us? Let's say at 40/80 for example. Guy makes it 80, and there's 20 + 40 out in the blinds already, plus our 40. now we're getting 4.5 to 1 assuming I did the math correctly - should we be calling any two? Against good players should we be calling blind for meta?

The small blind on the button thing has always confused me btw

I think the fact that we only need something like 22% equity to continue vs the face that we have one more player to act behind us probably evens out the results such that they become very similar to the situation I described in the video. Meaning, the tension between getting better odds but having poorer position probably balances to mean we should be playing a similar amount of hands (80-85%). I only fold some hands now because there is more of a chance of a 3bet/4bet situation and we also don't have the absolute best position at the table.

...The small blind on the button thing has always confused me btw

How it works for our casino is when the player who should be the button gets up, the sb now is the button and there are two big blinds. Only reason for this remedy I can think of is that if this isn't done, one player (the person now in the CO) would get an extra hand as the button and possibly someone gets to skip a blind.

My connection isn't good enough today to quote from the timeline, but a couple of points:

From villain's perspective, I wonder about bet/folding over-pairs on the river, giving the opportunity to bet/3bet bigger flushes.

Its obviously player dependent, and it seems to me this guy probably isn't great given his bet/call/lose on the river on that board - are these guys really raising the likes of KTo from early position in this spot? I have played very little live but when I did I found they didn't adjust to situations so well and probably wouldn't open so wide here.

Loved it. You covered pretty much all angles. Thx.

You mentioned you wouldn't necessarily 3bet all of your suited connectors to keep your ranges balanced. What if your opponents are not very observant most of the time? I always feel range balancing in live is over rated, at least in my games. Opponents don't have databases of your previous hands to analyse either. How much weight do you give to balancing your range live, and at what levels would you start to take it seriously?

Since the blinds are live, you need to include them when running preflop hot-cold equity. For example, 76o goes down to less than 19% once you include random hands from SB/BB.

Agree and like the discussion on villain's river action.

I don't typically see tight players in this position raising KTo or ATo. I don't play these. I usually muck KJo as well, am I playing too tight. This is at 8-16 and 20-40. Does playing at the higher stakes make a difference in your range. Obviously the rake is higher at the lower stakes.