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

Hey Andrew,

A quick question on what you are saying around 4 minutes into the video about 3betting AQ on smaller stakes cause villains will call us in position with dominated hands. I feel like regulars at the smaller stakes have kinda learned to not flat dominated hands like AT/AJ but will still call way to often with hands like J9s, hands we don't dominate and have ok equity against us. Does this effect our strategy and how will you change your 3betting if atall?

if we check raise the flop and villian shoves is it a snap call?

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I agree that this is a super-+ev and good C/R on the flop for Value vs. Villain`s callingrange.
But what is our plan here vs. a 3bet (without reads that Villain is bluff3betting on flops frequently vs. C/Raises or is going very light broke on flops using a flop3bet)?

if we check raise the flop and villian shoves is it a snap call?

He will most of the time normally 3bet the flop, not C/Raise.
But if he would just jam, i would tend to make a herocall vs. Draws, just b/c without further reads i would weight his monsters down, when he jams.

Hey Andrew,

A quick question on what you are saying around 4 minutes into the video about 3betting AQ on smaller stakes cause villains will call us in position with dominated hands. I feel like regulars at the smaller stakes have kinda learned to not flat dominated hands like AT/AJ but will still call way to often with hands like J9s, hands we don't dominate and have ok equity against us. Does this effect our strategy and how will you change your 3betting if atall?

believe it or not, this is even more of an invitation to 3-bet AQ. J9s isn't really "doing ok" in a 3bet pot vs us.

Andrew

if we check raise the flop and villian shoves is it a snap call?

yup, big happy grin.

Andrew

good point so against a 3bet qhat is our move

He will most of the time normally 3bet the flop, not C/Raise.
But if he would just jam, i would tend to make a herocall vs. Draws, just b/c without further reads i would weight his monsters down, when he jams.

good point so against a 3bet qhat is our move

If he would 3bet, you almost can fold here vs. some reads, which I mentioned.
But I am not so sure here.

good point so against a 3bet qhat is our move

]im ship ship shipping against a 3bet

]im ship ship shipping against a 3bet

rly? vs. which range (when we don`t have a read that he will stack off too loght here per 3bet/Broke)?
Or do you just think that he will anyways bluff3bet often enough to make a C/R/Jam-play +ev, with collecting all the deadmoney?
B/c obv. we should not have without read more than 50% EQ (it should be more in the are of 30%) vs. a 3bet/Broke-range -> so we would not ship for pure value.

rly? vs. which range (when we don`t have a read that he will stack off too loght here per 3bet/Broke)?
Or do you just think that he will anyways bluff3bet often enough to make a C/R/Jam-play +ev, with collecting all the deadmoney?
B/c obv. we should not have without read more than 50% EQ (it should be more in the are of 30%) vs. a 3bet/Broke-range -> so we would not ship for pure value.

i think an enormous part of his reraise range is NFD related (and potentially even worse draws than that, depending on how aggreo he is), and there's definitely a % of time he's just bluffing as well. basically, its hard to have a set or KK+ here relative to other stuff.

Andrew

i think an enormous part of his reraise range is NFD related (and potentially even worse draws than that, depending on how aggreo he is), and there's definitely a % of time he's just bluffing as well. basically, its hard to have a set or KK+ here relative to other stuff.

Andrew

yeah I agree, but even when take in all NutFDs, we have only about 32% EQ vs. something like this:
QQ+, 55, 22, AcKc, AcQc, AcJc, AcTc, Ac9c, Ac8c, Ac7c, Ac6c, Ac4c, Ac3c, KcQc, QcJc, QcTc, Qc9c

But the good thing is that he has "only" to bluff3bet about 30% (depending on bet-/raisesizes) to make it +ev to jam.
for 100BB , he even has to bluff3bet less often of course... + maybe you can make his 3bet_range even a little bit looser sometimes than I made it.

-> so actually it can`t probably be too bad to C/R/Jam here.

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Super interesting comment of the fact that it is an interesting spot o turn weaker hands into a bluff.
I think, it would work out greater, if the river would be a Tc.
What would be then the best hand you would consider to turn into a bluff?
QJ? KQ or is KQ more a C/F or a C/C? (probably the first one)

Furthermore, aren`t you worrying when considering to turn a hand into a bluff that Villain is not capped in this spot (he could have himself a Flush...)?

Super interesting comment of the fact that it is an interesting spot o turn weaker hands into a bluff.
I think, it would work out greater, if the river would be a Tc.
What would be then the best hand you would consider to turn into a bluff?
QJ? KQ or is KQ more a C/F or a C/C? (probably the first one)

Furthermore, aren`t you worrying when considering to turn a hand into a bluff that Villain is not capped in this spot (he could have himself a Flush...)?

he could, and obv that crushes us. But, thats part of what creates our fold equity, and theres a lot of non-flush things that he is thin-v-betting that he mucks (maybe not int his situation, as i said before, because it can be hard for us to run down a flush here, but in other similar situations).

Andrew

he could, and obv that crushes us. But, thats part of what creates our fold equity, and theres a lot of non-flush things that he is thin-v-betting that he mucks (maybe not int his situation, as i said before, because it can be hard for us to run down a flush here, but in other similar situations).

Andrew

all right, thanks^^

Thanks for the analysis Baluga. Totally agree in hindsight that the river is pretty bad. And it really was like you said, it just didn't feel right to c/c 3 streets with this hand and felt like I was missing value.

I can go for the c/r on the flop, that sounds like a good plan. How does the flop plan change if let's say we have the A of clubs, cutting down on his combos of flush draws significantly?

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If you raise the flop and he flats I am assuming that you are bombing the turn for ~ Pot sized bet?

What do you plan on doing if you CR the flop, he flats, and another club hits (except for maybe Ac)??
Would you still bet Pot or would you size it smaller so that you could get away from the hand if he shoves??