Hey guys!
I just uploaded a video on YouTube, in which I bluff a bluffer, with some incredible reading skillz (or I'm just a calling station). Also a delayed c-bet adventure.

I have added English subtitles to the video, and tried to make it more fun for you that watch it. You'll also witness the quick hand discussion with my 5 year old son

Please comment regarding the video, and if you liked it, I will prepare more of it.
(It took me an hour to prepare the subtitles for this 4 minute video!)
Thanx for watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APmq..._load_policy=1

How do you blank out your name in the video ?

I love this video. I cannot see clearly plus I don't know if those stats are included - but how often of a percentage does BB/villian protect his blind??? Please post more. Thanks.

pure button clicking at its finest

"if it doesn't work we can always rebuy"

yep

Thanx for the replies guys:

@AliBomaye: I did it with Camtasia 9.

@Dougy: Glad you liked it. The villain was 26/20, with 48% FTS, 60% Fold to Flop C-bet, 10% 3bet total. I got another killer read video ready just need to translate it.

@tiltninja: Thankx for the feedback That was half joke, half truth. However I tried to explain my train of thought for this particular hand before and after it happened live.

I might be wrong but I'd rather take my chances to double up early in a tournament, rather than late, so that pushing on in the later stages would be more of my choice rather than a pure necessity.

Also since it was a rebuy tournament and we were still in the rebuy period, and since I am rolled for the rebuys, what's wrong with losening up and chasing some marginal spots when you can either double up, or rebuy for the same amount and find a better spot?

My questions to you:

1. Do you play the same during and after re-buy periods?

2. Do you play the standard "tight early, looser middle, steal in the bubble, tighten up after the burst, and wait for a better spot at the final table" lines?

at no point did you do any actual hand reading. you didn't attempt to put villain on a range or even a hand

2:45 "... If that 8 had worked for him on the turn he would try to slowplay"

3:05 "... If he had 98 in his hand, he would definitely slowplay and wouldn't lead into us here"

3:45 "... even if we had called on the river instead of shoving, I believe that he had nothing and we could win with Ace high only"

3:56 "somehow if he had a 4 or a 2, more like 4, at least we got him to fold that"

Are you sure we are talking about the same video?
And also, as I stated in the video it was more of a read of the weird betting pattern that led me to follow the path I did.

I'm curious about the replies to my questions above, and would love to hear your thoughts on them. Thanks again

and yet you still haven't put him on a single hand

I think that at least I was able to eliminate the hands he was trying to represent?

FWIW,

pre: A7o is too loose. if BU shoves you have to call. are you happy stacking off here? you said you think you have a nice hand vs BU, and then you weren't happy when he called. nice hand but not nice enough to be called huh?

flop: you flopped very little equity and you certainly shouldn't cbet multiway without equity

turn: easy fold, your assumptions are bad (unless you have specific history), but even if you do, you'd have to realise A7 goes into your folding range otherwise you have no folding range.

river: what's the reason for shoving? heroing here wouldn't be disastrous given the rest of the hand, but shoving has no logic at all

"an 8" isn't a hand. they have 2 cards. also, you assign a range for what someone has, not what someone doesn't have.

Also, assuming people don't have what they are repping is the fastest way to go broke

Sorry, but I didn't see much evidence of hand-reading. I rarely watch training videos, but when I do the coaches often say things like "He's a got some two pair combos here, and maybe some sets, and a lot of straight draws. His most obvious bluffs would be QT/JT etc."
Your video doesn't seem to include anything like that.

Points taken.
Also please note that this wasn't a coaching session and I was Twitching live when it happened. So had to try to explain myself and still play in the tournament at the same time.

Now could you please also check this one out, it should be better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwl..._load_policy=1

If you want people to reply seriously, post a HH, not a video.

oh god the river line...

It was all going well until then. You don't need to overthink clear spots like flop and turn. You make way too many assumptions about how exactly villain plays - we account for that by assigning a wide range for villain. but whatever, you made the right play.

The river is where hand reading ability really comes into play. If you checked, you'd have a really interesting decision between folding and calling if villain bets. And that's where you can assign him a range, look at all his value hands vs possible draws, look at blockers, evaluate his triple barreling frequency, and look at your own range and what your hand falls into. this is hand reading. betting/calling is just... no words

Thanks a lot for the comments, and thank you for your time

What hands did you think he was bluffing river with that you can't beat? It's literally 0 hands. If it's in the video I didn't read it because I hate subtitles.

Which video you mean?