Limping high cards against low cards in Stud8 HU
Join Date: Apr 2019
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I wanted the long HU match in which Jungleman won his 2nd Poker Players Championship in a row in 2022. I noticed he was limping his whole range with high cards against a low bringin. He even limped J(Jx) and checked 4th against 2 low cards.
Is this a good approach? Should the bringin respond by sometimes or always open completing low cards against high cards?
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Was he only doing this when it got down to HU?
The benefit to doing it would be that the other player doesn't have the chance to raise. He then may start bringing it in for the full bet, giving away the strength of his hand. Is that how his opponent reacted? It would be something the other player likely hadn't had much experience with.
Join Date: Apr 2019
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He was limping every hand and the opponent just brought in, didn't complete. By limping, he got to see another card with J(T4) or whatever, as well as not getting raised. You could just complete with real hands and like K(22) and K(A4).
Join Date: Apr 2019
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The final round of Stud8, the other guy started sometimes open completing low upcards against high.
It is a pretty spectacular video of the 2022 9-game high roller. I watched all 12 hours. I think you need pokergo. 8 hours of it is HU. I don't know how it lasted so long with each of them having so few big bets. The other guy is Yuri Dz___ from Brazil.
One key hand HU was NLHE where the flop is JJx and Jungleman has QJo and Yuri has a flush draw. Yuri 3-barreled allin. Jungleman probably thought Yuri might be pure bluffing or value betting worse, so just called and let Yuri draw.
The other key hand toward the end was 27TD. Jungle raised after 2nd draw with a T6, Yuri broke a 98 and made a T8.
I assume Jungle has played the Big mixed game at Bellagio with Doyle, Ivey, etc. and picked up some things.