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In your 25nl part 1 video you have QQ (13 mins into the vid) and three bet a min UTG raiser who calls. The flop is A67 and you check. I like your reasoning behind a check but was wondering what you'd do if the villain bet the flop and what you'd do on the turn if you decided to call? Also, if the player was a regular they may try and bluff you off the best hand by representing the Ace after putting you on KK/QQ/JJ/TT - if you had AK/AQ would you check an A67 flop? Would you cbet against a regular or play it similarly to how you played it against the passive fish?
1) people generally dont call 3bets out of position and then lead on Axx flops. if they wanted to make a play at it then they would do so by trying to check-raise.
2) typically, players arent going to be getting too tricky in 3bet pots. mostly they will be playing fit or fold. even though when i check back the flop my hand looks a lot like QQ, unless he wants to bluff by betting the turn and river (i would definitally call if he bet the turn after flop checked through), then he isnt going to be winning the pot. bluffing 2 streets in a 3bet pot is an expensive option, and most people just arent going to be doing it.
i would bet all my Ax hands on this flop, and id be planning to get the stacks in when i had top pair. i would also bet this flop when i had nothing, because i can represent a hand like AK/ AQ quite well and get him to fold.
while it sounds contradictory, basically he wont have a hand that can continue all the time, so a bluff should work a lot. if he does have a hand that can continue then i get value with top pair, and if he folds then it doesnt matter because i pick up the pot anyway.
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I think you've touched on it a little bit previously but if you have time could you discuss how to cope with tilt?
the only way to cope with tilt is by quitting the tables and taking a break.
in fact, what seperates most players as you move up is their ability to cope with tilt. if you tilt off 1 buy in every 10k hands, i think it works out to affect your winrate by 0.5bb/100. obviously if you tilt off 1 buyin every 5k hands, or every 2k hands, its going to affect your winrate by a lot more than that