colosk1

35:38, you state that villain may have A6 or A8 here. Do you really think that Villain checks flop, turn and river with those hands rather than leading at least the river after Hero has checked flop and turn?

OMG 16:20 I started laughing out loud listening to you and looking at your reaction. I think we have all been guilty of that at some point.

The first hand in the video, K2 and you recommend betting on the river. What are you repping?
You are repping 55 for value and the rest of your range is all bluffs? If I was villain in this hand and you bet the river I would snap you off with Ax because you have nothing here always with the exception of maybe 55. 68 bets the flop, so does your air. So does Jx and 7x or if they check the flop, (Jx, 7x) they bet turn always.

Also if I was hero in this hand and up against a reg I would be suspicious there was no flop cbet on this board texture so if we are betting the turn are we almost always following thru with a turn bet and river bet?

Good Video, but perhaps you are to worried about balance at the anon tables?
For example 44:38 where you make trip Q's on the river and bet pot for balance purposes because you would be betting that size with your bluffs

Do you think this is really necessary at the anon tables, simply because your opponent won't have enough hands on you for you to be worried about balance?

Wouldn't betting smaller be better even if it is more exploitative and not "balanced" to get picked off by 9x, 5x 8 type hands? I don't know the exact threshold where betting bigger becomes better but your smaller bets will be picked off more, which is what you want in the end, isn't it?

8:53 Q7s Ctf vs BB, is this a standard fold vs a 2.2x raise? Would you defend this vs a 2x open? What if the Cutoff used the same sizing but had 100bb? What if he was on the Btn instead?

T9s Hand, Why are you 3 betting in the Sb and forcing the whale out of a potential 500bb  pot? Playing a 500bb pot vs a whale has more value than 3 betting someone who you know very little about and are not even sure if he is a reg or not, does it not?

First hand:Do you not feel that due to the fact that he left exactly a pot size bet behind on the turn that he is jamming the turn 100% therefore you don't need to take your stop-n-go line? It might work better if he had not left exactly a pot sized bet behind on turn?

Do you still play regularily on Stars? I haven't seen you there in ages

The problem with your logic is all the hands you mention do not bet the river, they take SD value given positions. Check folding the River with AA is correct here given positions, run out and the action on the flop: Whale donks, Hero raises 3.5x with another player to act behind & the Reg cold calls a bet which is essentially an overbet of 1.8x pot. 

The Regs cold calling range here is going to be heavily weighted to sets or overpairs to not force the fish out of the pot. The fact that a reg showed up here with the hand that he did means you can probably change the reg to "regfish" His cold call on the flop is just terrible. 

If you make a hero call here with AA vs a reg by check-calling the river  or shove the river, you are going to be bleeding money, and lots of it. You may be correct here 1 time in 15, but you will have ended up losing 14 stacks in the process for every 1 time you are right. Change the reg to a fish and it's a very different story.

I think I read somewhere that you are trying to make the transition from live to online and you are playing 1-2 and 2-5. I do believe you will  be in for a surprise. The break even reg playing 25nl and 50nl online has the skills to crush the stakes you play live.

The skill gap between live and online is gigantic, enormous, colossal, monstrous, momentous, massive, titanic,

^^ yes it really is that big of a difference

A3s hand, if this hand was vs a reg are you calling the turn lead? 

At what point with the RFI stat  does 3 betting hands like AK, QQ become more standard than calling with them vs UTG open's? Assuming you have no other reason from deviating from a vacum play.

18:19 76hh you jam river on a river card that changes nothing and you talk about him having AQ KQ type of hands. 

1) You beat all his draws such as AK, AQ, KQ so jamming river makes no sense here unless you feel that villain will fold a hand better than yours such as KJ. Given how the board ran out, how often do you think the typical reg will fold better  hands than yours  on the river to your jam?  How often do you think villain would jam all his missed flush draws and hands like KQ if you checked river and turned your hand into a bluff catcher?

Not even close, currently there is 126 entries. looks like it is about 60 people total playing up to 4 tables each give or take. I have seen it over 250 entries but that's about it

22:47 you fold 88 in BB vs an EP open Why? what is your calling range here?

34:30 you X-fold 99 on A55 vs an UTG1 cold call and assign him a very tight range. Reg vs Reg this is a pretty easy X-fold but villain is 27/16 and you have him tagged as a fish

IS QTo not a defend Btn vs BB for you? vs a reg or somewhat fishy player?

25:20 Bottom Right you fold QTo to a btn stl in the BB, but earlier you called Q9o to a  3.5x. Is this a mistake or based on player type?

2:50 AKo, Why are your 3 bets so small? You made it 6x OOP with AK in SB and 6x IP with ATo in the previous hand

Last hand in the video, whats the worst flush you X-raise jam here? Are you X-raise jamming 9c8c? 

I'm not tobe but the answer would be yes. The  backraise is more effective the higher you play simply because the games get more aggressive and there is a lot more squeezing going on compared to 25nl for example

I was asking because I thought it was way to tight of a fold. 300 hands isn't a big enough sample to get an accurate button steal % IMO as he was playing 21/15 or something like that so it's an obvious sample size issue. Also after posting the question I saw  later on in the video, the exact same hand vs the exact sample player in the exact same spot with the exact same 2.5x open sizing comes up and you say it's a mandatory call (47:23)

I guess I'm confused on your opinion on the hand since you did a complete reversal, at first I thought it was a misclick and now I'm even more confused as your verbal thoughts at 47:23 conflict with your written ones in this thread.

Good first video! looking forward to more;)

3:18, Folding KTo to a 2.5x button Steal?

24:44 89h hand. I see people doing this all the time and I don't quite understand it. If we calculate a range that villain wants to get it in with vs us on the flop we have about 41% equity vs that range. (AA-JJ, 77, 44, QJ+ QJs+, KhTh, QhTh, KhQh and all Ax heart draws)  I understand that we have fold equity and thats what makes this play +EV but when you compare the higher variance option of getting it all in as a  dog vs check calling with very good equity and putting money in when we make our hand or taking it away on rivers when villain checks the turn behind, isn't the latter option better? 

I also agree with the above poster that callign with 89s here in the sb vs a 50bb stack is kinda spewy/-EV play

AK hand @ 21:21 when you check back an AT5 Rainbow flop. Your capping your range her so how do you react vs an opponent who decided to CR you on the turn and then jam the river if you don't improve?

KT vs K9 hand, do you think the shove by the reg on the river is good? Or is Checking behind better as he never gets called by worse after Mayo takes the turn X-raise line

88 hand if villain jams river are you folding?

I don't understand if we are perceived to have almost all value in our donking range, doesn't that make it less likely that we are getting bluff raised by the regular?

AQo hand where SMB donks. You start talking about how good regs will raise your donk lead in this spot because it puts a ton of pressure on us. I would have to disagree here with that statement. When we lead directly into the fish it's because of the reasons you state in the video. We don't want to lose value vs the fish and we want to start building a pot vs the fish. Leads in this spot where we lead directly into a fish with the reg still to act are virtually always value (sets ,top pairs, overpairs) and when they are not sheer value they are strong draws or combo draws that we are happy to build a pot with vs the wide ranges of both the fish and the regular. I would expect any decent reg is not going to raise you here as a bluff simply because your never perceived to be  donking and then folding in this spot when you lead into a fish.  When you get raised you are either going to bet/call or bet/raise virtually always due to how wide ranges are.

I noticed in a lot of your videos you have a tendency to not bet a lot of flops without some sort of good turn cards to barrell especially Btn vs blinds where ranges are really wide. There seems to be a lot of flops that just don't hit villain that hard  (ie 73s on 842 Btn vs blinds) where I would normally fire because the flop is so dry and villain can't have all that much. Can you explain your thought process more on that?

Doesn't checking back the flop and betting the turn just look like your full of it a lot of the time? Just because you would bet that flop with all your gutshots, straight draws and pairs on that board because of how vulnerable they are. So what are you reping on the turn? or is it just a spot where villain can't have much anyways except for A high and the double check means he's given up. if villain check called this turn and you missed, what are you doing?