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Originally Posted by NeverScurred
Great video, Ryan! Thanks for doing this. I think you explained your thoughts pretty well and the video and audio quality was fine. Fwiw I think 4 tables is the optimal number for a video, so you should stick with that imo.
As for the individual hands, in the hand where you flopped a set with 55 from one of the blinds against an EP limp/caller and an LP PFR, what made you decide to b3b there instead of c/r? I'm not doubting your decision, but I have trouble deciding between those two lines often and would like to hear your thought process for why you chose b3b. If the EP player was the PFR and the LP player was a coldcaller, would you then be more apt to c/r because of your good relative position, or would you still b3b?
As for the KK hand where you flopped an ace, I think checking behind there is pretty standard and I do it most of the time as well. However, I think the drawy nature of the board makes me more likely to bet it, not less. This is because draws are hands that will call you on the flop that you are ahead of and thus are getting value from, whereas on a dry board the only thing that will call you much of the time is Ax, which you're obviously behind.
Edit: Also I want to say that your explanation of the AK hand on the A22 board vs the 60 BB nit was great and gave me a small epiphany. Normally in that spot the looser the player is, the more likely I am to go for 3 streets of value because I figure they'll be more likely to call 3 streets with Ax. However, your reasoning that looser players will have more PPs and other hands in their range that can call the river but probably fold the turn, whereas nits almost always have Ax and have little reason to fold turn/river after calling flop really opened up my eyes a bit. I'll be on the lookout for spots like this in my own games in the future.
I didn't like all the boards you said were bad spots to c-bet, yet you c-bet them anyway. I think most of the time you realized immediately after you made the bet that you shouldn't have, though.
You hit it right on the hand its about our relative posistion and also the texture of the board.
In the hand in the video, I think the board was kind of wet as well? (Don't have acess to the video at the moment haha). But when we are oop in a multiway pot like that the reasons we lead instead of c/r are;
1) We have an oppurtunity to trap the player stuck in the middle for an extra bet. Basically, if the board is wet, they could conceivably call our lead, the original raiser now reraises to protect his hand, and we get a chance now to 3bet and shut out the middle player just like we would if we c/r'd only this way we gained an extra bet from them. Make sense?
2) We don't want to run the risk in multiway pots on wet boards of allowing the PFR to check through. Whether they do this w/ Ahi or whatever else, we just don't want to give them the choice.
3) They might call the donk w/ overs whereas they might have checked through otherwise.
But yea it all depends on the texture of the board, if the pot is multiway or not and various other factors.
Donking into PFR HU when we flop strong is something for another topic and something hopefully will come up and I can touch on in my other videos. But some of the logic behind it is similar to reasons 2 and 3 above, and there are other things to consider that I will go into another time.
Moving on, w/ the cbetting on wet boards that I said was bad for cbetting yet I did it anyways. It's not much that I realize after it was a bad board to cbet, becuase if you notice I say they are bad to cbet before we even cbet ha. But the reasons for cbetting are basically, at these stakes 100 and lower, I think i generally just tend to error on the side of aggression, just because the general player at these limits is just so so passive, and we really never have to worry about getting semi-bluffed or pure bluffed raised off our holdings. So we safely cbet/fold almost all the time even on wet boards if the pot is HU. Multiway though, I'm much more careful.