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In this hh review, we pay rake in some of the pots. xD


About the loosest I'd open vs unknown but seems fine.



Open J4o but not Q3o? Bit weird if you ask me.


I don't mind a lead in a good spot though wouldn't do it this early.
1) It's great info to see how he plays limped pots since he'll likely do it again... Like does he stab 1bb or 2bb, does he check back non-hit hands, etc.
2) If we c/f couple of times and lead other boards he'll think we just play fit/fold quite easily.


He doesn't seem to defend too light OOP so far so open a ton if you ask me. Small sample, etc, I know, but we have to work with what we got.



Just open, really. Your openingrange seems to be totally random so far. Care to explain a bit or something?


Agree that this is a fold though.


Looks std, no need to get fancy, nh.








I'd lead a bunch of hands here on turn after he checks back flop but not 66, just doesn't have equity at all. =)


Cbetting here looks REALLY close. He doesn't seem to defend too light so there's only so many hands we'll let him fold by cbetting. Ax mainly, 22-55/77-88 and that's about it really on this type of board. I don't mind it as much with the Ad since we have some (barreling) equity but I probably just give up on this and check back. Might cbet like AQ with a diamond or something but looks to me like the fold equity you have is pretty minimal and chance of improving not that great either.


Why are you 3betting this? He seems pretty TAG-ish so far and I don't think there's gonna be too many dominated hands in his callingrange. Seems like you're wasting your easy to play/strong hand by turning it into a bluff really. Wouldn't mind a 3bet with K2o for example against this opponent (who I think will fold a decent amoun), but KT is just a waste imo.


Why are you calling flop here, really? You think he's full of **** that much? This is your equity against a RANDOM hand (which includes like 32o etc):

Board: Ah As 8h
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 53.184% 50.76% 02.42% 543240 25926.00 { 4h4s }
Hand 1: 46.816% 44.39% 02.42% 475098 25926.00 { random }

Not doing too great right? Just think about the fact that you're gonna end up with playing the board 12% of the time alone or something. If you really think he's fos that much, 3bet flop to 380 or something small and that's it, calling is just never an option really (that being said I would just fold here and move on, esp since he c/f'ed the J96dd flop it's a bit less likely he will go out of line).

Also, if he has a flushdraw, he has you beat equitywise.

+ You're gonna hate life on every turn (except 4x obv), even if he doesn't bet, what's the plan if he checks on 9s turn or smth?


Like it a lot, betsizing looks fine. Nh, well played.










I defend here, he probably doesn't spazz that much. Lead a bunch of flops/turns vs this guy though, he'll play pretty fit/fold if you ask me.


This really must be your favorite hand.



Looks fine. Wouldn't mind a lead flop here either because I expect most villains to peel at least one then fold turn unimproved. I'd expect a lot of people to even call a 2nd barrel with any Ax hands on this turn and check back river as well fwiw.






He folded to your first 3bet so again I don't see the value in 3betting a hand like this. Especially suited, plays soooo easy postflop really and we want to keep dominated hands in.

Why on earth are you raising here? All hands that continu here have like 35% equity against you or more (naked flushdraw), other hands have us crushed (better Tx or Kx) and we're flipping against QJ. Those hands will stay in the pot if we raise, on a board like this, all other hands have like 10% (two undercards i'm talking about) and that's it. Just flat and see a turn.


Raise preflop seems fine for obvious reason, so does cbet. Turn I like a check, just give up really. No chance we bluff him off Tx or Ax, and trying to get value against 5x looks thin because he can fold those so we don't really beat his callingrange if you ask me.

River is 100% check/fold once you decide to check though! KJ/KQ check back for showdown value, QJ might do the same, 432 pick two either rivered a pair or a straight and straights bet. Tx will bet if you check, so does Ax, 5x won't.

However, given that he called in that ridic spot with K9-high, I feel that a small bet is by far best play here. 150-200 would do the trick and you'll get called by KQ/KJ/43/42/5x and maybe QJ or some small pocket pairs.


Fwiw, I'd love a float here 1000x more than the 44 on AA8hh really. Villain seems stationy enough that our overcards will have some implied odds, we got a backdoor 2card flushdraw as well which adds another 4% equity. We're getting over 3-1 on the checkraise so I think peeling is pretty close to being ev+. Hard to do the math here really and - as said before - slightly better to peel here with KQcc for example but still I'd definitly consider it vs this guy.

Not saying I'd do it as a standard, definitly would consider vs villain though.




Probably defend here and donk a bunch of flops/turns again.

I don't hate a checkback that much since he seems really checkraise happy so far (well, to some extent), though I think he won't be doing it as a bluff TOO much anymore (if he ever had a bluff before) and most people play straightforward on a flop like this (they just fold 2 cards between 3 and 9 really, or low pocket pairs).

Rest of hand seems fine as played, like your river sizing since he will bluffcatch a lot.






I definitly defend this.



Looks fine, well played, river is close though. I can definitly see him valuebet less (we still beat 2 Kx hands, not much but still), a strong Tx or QQ-JJ here. Backdoor hearts also missed etc, blabla, std hand, well played.



Again, I'd defend here vs minraise.


Looks fine, just give up once a flop like that hits, turncard isn't too good either. River looks really thin, even though he's stationy, he'll have 9x or 7x or a pocket pair a bunch of the time that still beats us so just check and hope to take it down.

Wouldn't mind a 3bet pre either since he folded to all 3bets pre and if he does call, we can still flop a set or cbet/give up certain textures.

Looks fine, given that an 8 can give us the 2nd best hand some of the time, just fold. Might check back flop though and call a lot of turn barrels from him. Or float vs the checkraise with like AThh some %.


I like it, well played. Flop is pretty horrible to cbet and we're gonna be able to take it away on at least some turns/rivers if he checks to us.


I wouldn't mind a floplead on this board fwiw, he'll play really straightforward if you ask me and fold a bunch of hands that have no equity on this texture anyway.


I really don't like the flop raise here fwiw. We don't have any incentive to think that he'll spazz out like he did (although you did raise 1/1 donkbets, but that's been a while ago).

Also, notice how he didn't donkbet his QJ on JT2tt but lead/folded a KT3tt board and checkraised a ton before (or check/folded or check/called) so if you ask me, his leads are just fos all the time and his checkraises are valuehands (and sometimes (semi-)bluffs maybe, no showdown from that so far). Would be really valuable if you could get some rematches against this guy fwiw because that's a pretty big tell we got here that's easy to exploit.

Just call the floplead and let him fire most turns here. =)

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Find a site with a lower rake cap. t15 is too much for HU.

HHs not getting enough :-\

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always great to read these, kudos

Really good Spamz as usual. The thoroughness with which you deal with seemingly basic spots and small pots is particularly helpful and emphasizes the need to stay vigilant throughout a match.

you must like giving away money because this post is solid gold!

Thank you for all the great reviews. Helped me tremendously.


Q3 is less connected obv.

Why are we defending with 84s/Q2s/K6o (with 40-45bb) vs a minraise oop?

+1, great thanks. liked the reasoning for flatting the flop on that last hand

FWIW my normal stakes are 20s/23s and this was a 20s regular who offered to play me lower for this review. He posts here as dhg86.

I never open J4o but have a weird superstition of always opening my first button. Its probably stupid but that probably explains the rest of the random openings.

I normally 3bet broadway/suited broadways early on and have actually started doing it a bit more than usual as I'm getting coaching and my coach has said to practice more 3betting so I'm comfortable in 3bet pots.

I agree the first raise of his lead was stupid and it was just a reaction to his first donk bet. As for the second one when playing regulars I always raise donk bets on paired flops if I connect hard as it looks the most bluffy.

I agree with pretty much everything else.

I pwned the 2nd game fwiw .

Making me look bad!

Also, plugged a bit of these leaks over the past week. Good to see them being pointed out though, thanks spamz

Thanks, good review!

ty will read later.
spamz0r, will you ever make a detail post about threebet pots? I would highly appreciate as I think I suck in calling threebets because i don't know whether to bluffraise flop or float or should have 4bet/min4bet (?!!?). like in what scenarios you underbet turn, why do you advise checkraising AK All-In on 487 vs aggressive opponents etc. That would be totally awesome.

tyvm - mmd !!

While reading this i scrolled down each HH trying to find spots that i would have taken a different line and only one spot really stood out. Can you tell me where my thought process is wrong in this hand.Question mark key on my keyboard is broken so sorry in advance.

Hand #22


BB: t1720 M = 57.33
Hero (BTN/SB): t1280 M = 42.67

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 8 K
Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40

Flop: (t120) 5 2 T (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t80, BB calls t80

Turn: (t280) 4 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (t280) 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t160, BB calls t160

Final Pot: t600
BB mucks 9 K
Hero shows 8 K (a pair of Eights)
Hero wins t600

Although its only 20 hands, villian has played very tight oop calling twice and 3 betting once. And since all his moves have been either folding or attacking the pot it should be easy to guesstimate a solid range for him.
My defending range for villian
22-88
A2o-AJo
A2s-ATs
Suited and offsuit broadway KJ,KT,QJ,JT and T9s
I think he 3bets the higher part of his range

Although the flop is very dry Tens along with overcards make up a huge portion of villians range so why do we cbet here. We have air but we do have a backdoor draw and an overcard so even against a good Ten we have decent equity on future streets. Add to that tight players do checkraise dry boards so we will be forced to fold a good portion of the time. Also wondering if since we do cbet this board, is this a good spot to lower our cbet size closer to half pot since villian is tight a may be playing fit or fold.

On the turn the four changes nothing so i agree with checking back. Is there ever a reason where we should double barrel this turn against a tight player. He has check called the flop and checked the turn to us so Tens should no longer be a big part of his range. Spades are also less likely since if he has them they would be a nut draw or two big spades and we should have heard about it by now. So will a 23rds bet get two overs or 77 to fold.


On the river the bet is just over half pot. I would usually think this bet get value from only 77 and A high since we checked the turn would a larger bet work better. Since we would need to get looked up less often to profit.

Thanks for doing these they were very interesting

noooo please dont stop that

is this bc we hit the A and lose to 2 pair more often than if we hit the K or Q? i presume so, since our KQ will still be the best (no-pair) hand about as often as AQ since he's doubtfully check/raising a dry A

^^

Not only that he could be check/raising Ax twopairs, but also he will stop bluffing a lot of the times when the A falls since he expects Ax floats more often than a Kx float, right?

Why is folding this hand fine? This seems like an excellent spot to play back at someone that has a high check-raise frequency. His calling range is not that wide, so there's not much that hits this flop. He's been 3-betting reasonably frequently which would suggest most higher pocket pairs (certainly 99+, maybe 77+) as well as AJ+ are rarely in his range. That leaves a far wider range of missed overs that value hands in his range.

Read all of the reviews, and found them very helpful! Please make more

solid review.

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