i wanna see this topic discussed in next vid, or next post

villian is 18/13/1 127 hands
Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
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BTN: $47.10
SB: $25.00
BB: $32.95
Hero (UTG): $55.40
MP: $25.00
CO: $25.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG with K A
Hero raises to $0.75, 1 fold, CO calls $0.75, 1 fold, SB calls $0.65, 1 fold

Flop: ($2.50) A 7 2 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.25, CO raises to $4.50, SB folds, Hero folds

villian 15/13/infnt
Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
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BB: $6.60
UTG: $32.90
CO: $49.60
Hero (BTN): $26.25
SB: $25.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BTN with K A
1 fold, CO raises to $1, Hero raises to $3.25, 2 folds, CO calls $2.25

Flop: ($6.85) J A T (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $2.50, CO raises to $10, Hero folds

villian 15/13/2.3
Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 4 players
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SB: $25.00
BB: $52.40
Hero (CO): $28.00
BTN: $26.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with A K
Hero raises to $0.75, BTN calls $0.75, SB calls $0.65, 1 fold

Flop: ($2.50) T 3 K (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.75, BTN raises to $4.75, SB folds, Hero folds


villian 22/18/5.5
Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
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BTN: $50.00
SB: $50.50
BB: $53.00
UTG: $69.30
Hero (MP): $50.00
CO: $53.15

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP with K A
1 fold, Hero raises to $1.50, 1 fold, BTN calls $1.50, 1 fold, BB calls $1

Flop: ($4.75) 4 A T (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $3, BTN raises to $12, BB folds, Hero folds

this spot has pissd me off lately and i thought it was hpnning more often, but when goin through my pt to find them these were all the times this similar situation occured in 18000 hands. these are all good folds right?

that aside, hows the progression throught the stakes been goin? what is your winrate at nl25? whens it time for nl50?

I thought the vid was pretty solid and well done. You didnt get into too many hairy spots or borderline situations, but i guess we dont need to. Tuf to find the rare spots i guess in 1 hour 4 tabln. I thought the little piece you had on a polarized 3 bet range vs value range was a nice touch and things like these really help

Those are all bad folds, IMO. I probably call and see if they barrel the turn.

Nice work jw,more of a mtt sit+go player but some good stuff in here.

Regards.

+1

Finally watched it, it was great. Waiting for pt 2.
If possible i'd like to see you discuss 3betting light ip vs flat-calling ip.
What hands do we 3bet light instead of flatcall (and vice versa) and why, and against which type of opponents? Of course this is quite a broad topic but if you come across some situations where you can shed some light, I would really appreciate it.
Also bottom right hand table, you folded 33 to a btnraise from the sb. Why?

Small pairs don't have implied odds for set mining vs stealing, and you're caught in between the button and the bb, which means your call can/will be squeezed. You're pretty much 3betting or folding those hands in the SB all day vs lose players.

As far as calling vs 3betting in position, you should be calling with any hand that has "flop value" like pocket pairs or suited connectors and 3betting any hand with blockers and/or implied odds like A6o, K9s or maybe 85s (blockers add fold equity and let you pot control)

Hmm, my standard is to flat all pairs <88 from the blinds. Maybe this is a big leak?

Hey Jackwilcox, I'd sure love to hear you opinions on how to beat the different limits.
Did you play ABC tag poker at the lower limits or what?

Downloading video now btw.

Yes. It is.

as others said, i would like blinds covered and light 3betting as well

From the SB, yes. From the BB, depends on post-flop play.

Just watched it, very good advice.

Where about in England are you from, if you don't mind me asking?

hi. first post in this thread for me, but i have been following from the beginning. I think this experiment is a great idea and I have learnt a lot so far. Video is great too. Keep up the good work.

btw, are you at Reading Uni? a friend of mine just finished there, im sure you might know him if you go there.

Hey I just watched the video, really liked it. I made some comments as I watched. I question some of your plays, but I hope you don't mind, because obviously you know the game better than I do and stuff, probably, but I just wrote down whatever I thought at the time. Hopefully the discussion in generates will be helpful to others.

Oh and when he flats 98 to your 4bet, which is horrid, I don't see anything he can do except to stack off the flop as he has decent equity vs your range of AK+ QQ+ trash (sort of). I think shy of making 2pair+ that is the best flop he can hope for.

thanks RO, granted there are some points are taking less variance lines which i should ; i was trying to tailor the video to the majority of beginners who are relatively new players and therefore marginal EV spots can be avoided sometimes.

i personally just think there is not a huge amount of bluffing going on at 25NL (especially multi-street bluffing), so i tend to give credit to people who say they have it (if its -EV to always give credit, its certainly not -EV by much and is a lot less variance then calling down/raising purely to find out).

on the A672Ahhh board, i think that he may well be taking a stab... im not sure he is value betting worse as that is super thin, and he basically pots it... im not sure anyone is really turning 55 into a bluff there, its more likely he is just value betting a flush/ trips or something.

calling min-raises even multi-way is pretty bad with hands like 58o that have no potential. i mean, yea, i might get paid if i flop trips/ 2 pair or whatever, but then when i flop 67 and chase 2 streets to hit a straight.... or make a straight and get stacked by a higher one/ make trips get outkicked etc... theres not much potential to playing it and also some reverse implied odds.

TT hand... yea i should have bet like $1.80 if im being honest that was just laziness on my part as bet slider clicks up to $2 automatically $1.80 would be better though yea

where is KQ hand? only hand i see is where i 3bet btn open and get 4bet.

again, i think some part of cash game play is lowering variance purely from a psychological view, if you make a couple of marginal call downs and lose it can ruin a session. i think theres much more benefit to waiting to pick up reads before trying to be a hero

This is a very good thread Jack, I found it a few days ago. I have a question about that first AK hand in your NL25 video where the villain 3bet you from SB and then called when you 4bet to $5.50. I'm not sure if you've addressed these spots earlier in this thread, at least I can't remember right now. But what's your approach when you miss the flop with AK (ie you have no pair no draw) because I often find those spots difficult. If the villain checks then what is your line on different types of flops that missed you, when do you check and when do you cbet and how much compared to the pot (if we assume both started the hand with 100bb stacks), and if you get check raised after cbetting? And if the villain donk bets the flop then what do you do on different types of flops here?

And also how do you approach 4bet pots with AK when you've totally missed the flop but the villain had flatted your 4bet in position preflop?

yea, i mean i dont do anything crazy, you just gotta play solid. i think most of my edge at small-stakes came in 3bet pots actually because played horribly in them.

am from reading but go to university in swansea.

no, see above ^^^

good question.

if im position having 4bet and the guy would have called, im going to be cbetting basically any flop the same way i did when i hit. is part of the reason i only bet $3.50. like i said, it does a good job when i do hit of extracting value from some hands which dont want to fold, but it also gives me a really good price to fold out hands like 99 or something which was trying to flop a set.
if the flop was something like 235 and i had AK, if i cbet and were check/raised all in id have to call, because id usually have 10 outs (3 A's, 3 K's, 4 4's to make a straight) when i do and the pot is so big. thats something that unlikely to happen however as people dont get crazy in 4bet pots very often.

out of position, i actually the approach of checking my entire range on most flops in 4bet pots when we are 100bb deep. this is because there is usually only just over a pot sized bet left, which is more than enough to get in over 2 streets (i can bet turn and river instead), and by checking the flop i allow my opponent to stab at the pot (which is cool when i have QQ+, not so good when i have AK and miss though but never mind)

wow i was skeptical initially but jack you did a pretty good job itt. nh sir.

i will be linking this to future BQ forum threads that ask about beating uNL and ssNL

good video and had no issues with the quailty, pretty good i thought!!
looking forward to parts 2,3,4......
i like your thinking/reasoning with most hands except that 99 with the board being aaxx, i just couldnt see some1 check the flop and turn then wake up with an ace on river, i dunno! i think i call!
trying to improve post flop hand reading, so would like to see more of your readin the players, putting them on ranges, y u think they bet x- for value/bluff/weak hand etc etc, pretty much the way u made the first one! lol
loved the point regarding instead of $2, make it 1.75 if u think they have a weakish hand and want value..sounds silly coz some would think if they call a $1.75 bet y would they not call a $2 bet-ur losing 1bb, but it is a true, hence shops selling things for £1.99 instead of £2 to make u think its a lot cheaper!
how is ur bankroll at the minute? is it up much?

brilliant thread, keep it up!

Good video. This thread has been very helpful towards my game.

One very simple question I noticed in the video your standard raise is 3x BB which is pretty much the norm. I paid for some coaching over last few months and have always been told to make my STD raise 4BB's- at the micros do you reackon it will make any difference to what people will call with if you raise 3/4BB?

The differences are so small, imo. But I suppose they could become big over time.

The more dead money you make them put into the pot is better the less often that opponents are going after your cbets. Thus, at uNL where villains are weak-tight as hell, you're exploiting them by raising larger. Though, I would argue you could vary this by villain. Raise less vs calling stations... ect.

nice video jack, if you could make the audio just a little bit louder and get 1 or 2 notches higher in res that would be amazing.

Very nice explaining done though for sure.

Surely you should be raising more vs calling stations, as they're the ones that are going to call you down with 2nd pair. If you raise more preflop, you can bet larger on later streets and get more value.

You can raise less against nits who are going to fold anyway, for example I raise 2.5x when in the SB when the BB is an ubernit, because he's folding so much anyway.

Raising less vs the calling stations PF allows you to get out postflop without any true commitment. Against the nits, its a fine line between betting enough to push themout without bleeding a few chips a hand.