Randy

I just uploaded another video from my buddy Jon.

You can find it here: High Stakes Videos

If you have any questions or comments, post them here and Jon will chime in. Also, I will have some more videos and replays posted later in the week.

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NeXtToNoTHiNG

The King's fold was fine, it's more likely he has trips or limp called with a pocket pair and flopped a full. I make tilt calls here though.

I almost always call with the 55 instead of squeezing because it's a pretty good situation being 3 way to the flop with a small pair in those light Button v Blind battles because it becomes much harder for people to fold any Ace/top pair hands. The pot is already inflated anyway from the numbers involved so it's not the same as flatting with it against a single Button raiser. I prefer squeezing with something like 78s there, but 55 is obviously much better than KJo unless you're trying to cultivate that kind of variance.

Shoving flush draw is fine, you can't obviously only get it in with sets and stuff, plus he'll be very exploitable if he starts calling lightly against you. You can shove a lot of TPGK against those hero callers.

I agree that a lot of people don't pick up the extra income when they make obvious second best hands (the Q8o straight) against an opponent who is obviously committed to calling all in with whatever hand he has. It's far more worth it to us to lose an extra $74 the few times you're behind to the nuts when compared with saving him the extra everytime he has 2 pairs or something worse. If he had like $140-$150 I'd just call him.

I like your play overall, a bit looser than me usually, but I grind $50 with the rest of the penny pushing degens.

I will check out your site later on, GL getting help with it.

Randy

This video needs some love!!!

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JAMOOL

I do like it, but honestly I'd much rather see a video of a guy who doesn't flop sets with half his pocket pairs or hit pairs with most of his high card hands. That's the area of my game that I could really use some help with. That said, I do like it, he's playing a really nice aggressive game and 3-bets an awful lot with hands like Q9 or KQ. Also, for some reason he never seems to limp from the small blind. Is that standard??

sfustsh

I didn't watch all of it yet.

45 minutes is a long time to set aside, you know.

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johnny350h: that was in his range yes yes

Randy

Well, its not like you have somehting better to do

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JAMOOL

Also, after 28 min the video auto-quits.

Tysun

Yeah that happened to me too.

Tysun

I really like his play for the most part and was really surprised that he was able to just dominate the four tables he was on with shear aggression. It seemed like a very passive bunch of players for $400 NL. In that same train of thought he is more likely to get paid off with his bigger hands because of his looser image which he did when he hit a couple sets.

The kings hand I can see as going either way, but without any history with villain I go with my gut and fold it.

I got to disagree with NT on the pocket 55 hand out of the big blind. The button's and to a lesser extent the small blind's range are very large here, that if you do hit your set in my mind any hand they do have will be very easy to get away from when faced with aggression unless they hit a very strong hand themselves which won't be very often. I can't imagine a good thinking player (which by all accounts may or may not case here, but given the fact we are playing 400NL I will give them the benefit of the doubt) will want to build a big pot with a hand like A,6 when he hits top pair against two opponents. Now if the initial raiser was say UTG or UTG+1 with a late position position caller then yes I would probably call more in this situation than I would raise as they are more likely to have a hand they like which will be harder to get away from when we hit our set. Granted this is just my opinion and everyone has there own personal style by which they play, but I think that hand is a very good hand for discussion. Something not to over look was the information he gained in that hand when he discovered what the button called his 3-bet with when the hand was checked down on the river. But the flip-side also was that the button probably discovered that he was squeezing in that situation.

NeXtToNoTHiNG

Then you can just flatcall and raise them on the right flops. By not 3 betting you've given yourself a chance to outflop them if they do have a big hand, and when they don't you can just steal it postflop for cheaper than squeezing and then c betting. I just think it's the wrong hand to do it with, a SC is better since it's a total bluff. 55 in a blind war can more easily crack an overpair because it's expected that everybody is acting very lightly and so I'd rather see the flop with it. Whereas with 89s, I'd be happy to take it down preflop, and postflop there is a chance you could flop something shoveable.

But many people wanna do different things with certain hands in regards to 3 betting and squeezing, and I've only seen him play for half an hour. There are a few of his 3 bets I don't like that much like the QJo one since it just brings you far too much into contention with the raiser's calling range which will be better even if he's calling lightly. If you flopped 2 pair with QJ and got shoved over your c bet, is that an instacall? I doubt it.

Samoleus RR theory. He ran at 40vpip at his laggiest (6max tables) and was sick postflop.

The 2+2 Forum Archives: QJ suited and mixing up your play

There is another 3 betting thread but it's not stickied so it would take longer to find.