buttonko
31 points
A great video and the whole series. It should be mandatory to see not only for every poker player, but for a human. Learned so much, everything makes a lot of sense. Thank you Bradley keep them coming!
P.S I was hesitating a bit with this feedback. I am glad I DID it. :)
Aug. 15, 2017 | 7:31 a.m.
Hi nicolau. Nice video, I like your thinking process, especially building/dissecting villain's range!
At 1:00 AJo- I ageee with most of your explanation, but imo on the river we should be thinking about calling. OTT we capped our range, so I actually like villian's bigger sizings atacking our capped range. I think besides his value if he is decent he may have a few bluffs e.g. T9-KQ of diamonds, so on the river we need to bluffcatch a few and given our range I think AJ without a diamond is on the top of our range and good bluffcatching candidate.
Thanks.
May 8, 2017 | 9:47 a.m.
Yeah exactly. Just do not see why is T6 or T7 are worse bluffcatching candidate than QJ. Like you said we are not blocking his QJ bluffs and blocking his AT value combo. A bit strange what result CREV computed there I played with it in Equilab and T6 or T7 even with spade are better calls than QcJd.
And whether the QJ is with spade or not is slightly relevant, because he won´t have then Qs9s or Js9s in his bluffing range.
April 6, 2017 | 11:05 a.m.
Hands like J3-J5o, Q2-Q4o, which are too weak to flat, but decent 3bet light candidates at this stack depth imo. You prefer those low connectors/gappers as you pointed in your first example or something else at stack depth of 25-35 bbs deep eff?
April 4, 2017 | 8:27 p.m.
Hi a great video again!
I like a lot your hands selection and sizing too. I was just wondering about the apropriate value/bluff ratio in these scenarios. You are saying that 1:1 ratio in these spots is perfectly balanced, but shouldn´t it be more value heavy given the chips already in the pot and pot odds for the villain?
I noticed that from SB against LP oraise you did not have A2s-A5s in your 3-bet light range. Is it fine to use those too or they are better in a flating range from SB?
And what is your 3-bet light range from BB vs MP/LP oraise 25-35 BBs deep? I use some low Qx, Jx offsuit, that are too weak to flat, but have a good blocking value, which is good at this stack sizes. Is it fine?
Thank you
April 4, 2017 | 9:17 a.m.
Hi,
I watched almost all of your videos here on essential thread and cannot thank you enough for the incredible work you have done for us essential members!! Love your analysis, humour and great understanding of theory.
Just one question. At 41:30 what would be your 4bet/folding sizing there and is there still move for us to have a 4betting range?
Thank you!!
March 30, 2017 | 7:58 p.m.
Hi enjoyed this one, GJ!
At 22:35 Why do you think it is a bad 3bet spot? I guess low Axs are better candidates there, but do not mind doing it with this combo either against a wide CO orange. But in theory I guess when we choose also lower Axo combos for 3bet light we will be overfolding to 4bet jams?
At 31:00 I presume you are 3bet/folding AQo there?And calling only BB shove?
March 18, 2017 | 10:15 a.m.
Hi, good stuff there!
A question. Isn´t it better to calculate range advantage/disadvantage on the turn/river by adjusting our and villain´s range after flop action? I think it is somewhat more difficult(estimating the countinuing ranges), but it might be more useful especially when our range after the flop action drastically changes on the turn. Thanks.
March 17, 2017 | 10:12 a.m.
Hi nice video series. I enjoyed it very much. GL in the Elite section!
March 17, 2017 | 9:56 a.m.
Hi, well done.
At 13:10 (K9o), isn´t our default strategy here with decent hands that are good enough to shove, but not good enough to r/c just openshove K9o and pressure villains? Especially when BB seems quite active and maybe defending a lot.
March 15, 2017 | 9:45 a.m.
Hi, great work again!
At 16:30 (99) villain donk shoves the river with rivered full house. It is so obvious and practically most of the villains have only a 5x,2x there so you can exploitatively fold overpairs. In theory how should the river action go? Should villain take the initiative and shove the river with 5x,2x and some Ax given, that he has much more 5x in his range then you, or should he just check to you?
March 13, 2017 | 10:06 a.m.
Hi, a very interesting video!
At 25:00 (AA) what vulnerable range do you shove there as well?
Thanks
March 12, 2017 | 12:15 p.m.
Hi, nice video!
Some spots were imo questionable as guys said before, but overall I think you played decent poker. Keep it going!
22:00 (66) - what PPs are you opening there? 77,88,99+?
Thanks.
March 9, 2017 | 9:54 a.m.
Hi great stuff!!
I was wandering how would it change, if villain was only minraising not 2,3x with 15% opening range. I guess that is a better scenario for us on BB, but can´t get my head around it. We would be able to get it in on less flops (postflop odds 4/13,4) than with him oraising to 2,3x with probably the same average equity. But do not know how to include the preflop better odds into equation. Could you help me out there, please? Thanks.
March 7, 2017 | 10:03 a.m.
Hi, well done!
26:30 QTo, why do we have an easy call? We are getting 3:1 pot odds (needing 25% equity) and have at best 10 outs (around 20% chance of hitting the river). I guess there are some implied odds if we hit a straight and a villain may be bluffing with worse, but isn´t it at least close??
Another question, from BB and SB you were 3betting polarized against weak villains. Do you adjust this against good villains, possibly 3bet depolarized/linear??
Personally I would like to see a theory video about postflop game. Range dividing and its actions (check/bet/call) on different boards...
Thank you.
March 5, 2017 | 9:59 a.m.
Hi, what a great video!
A question about the limping strategy with 15-25bbs effective. Do you ever openlimp also from CO, MP or even EP??
And if you would c/r Q3s (37:00) there and villain would call, would you shove heart,4 or perhaps even 7 on the turn? What would you do when Q hits the turn??
Thanks.
March 4, 2017 | 1:58 p.m.
Hi, nice analysis!
15:30 K8o - you are saying that we should bet more, because we do not want hands with Ac or freerolling hands 8x, Qx with a club to call. But don´t we want those hands to call, when we are big favourites against them and drag value from them??
32:22 QJs - isn´t it too shallow for us (16bbs eff.) to have a flatting range there?
Thanks.
Great video as were the previous ones, thx!
I have a question about the low boards, it seems that CO uses pot size bet even on textures on which BB can flop a straight more often than CO e.g. 654, 653, 764 (on T/J/Q high textures the bet size was capped at 50% on board like T76). Is it because CO cbets these textures in lower frequencies (stronger range?) and therefore gets to go bigger?
Thx.
Dec. 14, 2022 | 2:39 p.m.