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JamesMa · #11 (**permalink**) 03-11-2010, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by hobiejuan1

James, I like all of your videos, but am I the only one that has trouble watching the black blackground? It's just too dark for me. The blue background is much easier to follow the action. Thanks

Sorry man I use the black but my background is blue so you can see glimpses of that

JamesMa · #12 (**permalink**) 03-11-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by IcarusJam

in the AJ hand i like a blocking bet on the river, and i think i call the river as played, he's value betting worse imo like you stated.

thoughts?

Im guessin you are talking about the hand vs raiden?

Blocking bets are terrible vs good players as it gives away the strength of your hand a lot more than checking (unless u start to block bet with ur nutty hands which kinda sucks) and ur probably going to get raised by worse Jx as a bluff sometimes to move you off a Kx type of hand. Vs Raiden maybe its ok cuz i dont kno how good he is but I just try to keep my game tight and he seemed kinda passive so I dont expect him to bluff much.

I'd probably be checkcalling there once in a while if his betting frequency gets higher so I'm not worried about being exploited by checking that river.

JamesMa · #13 (**permalink**) 03-11-2010, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ssells73

icarus, what do you expect him to value bet worse on that riv ever?

i don't remember but i don't think james said that he thought he'd vb worse

Right I dont think he's value betting a Jx, so it'd be a twopair, flush, trips hand I imagine when he bets

JamesMa · #14 (**permalink**) 03-11-2010, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Fabsch

I disagree with your KK c/c on the AJx board in the 4bet pot at 42:30. If he has weak sd-value he'll often check since you could be trapping and the pot is already pretty large, I'd even rather bet/fold because its going to be so hard to play turn/river
how did he fold thats so weird
I would have c/f the flop, bad?
thoughts?

i dont really even feel that great bet/folding vs a guy I dont really know. With AJ I assume he'd slowplay a good amount and with AQ/JJ he may jam sometimes and call sometimes but thats about it for his raising range when I bet and I just have no idea what he's calling my 4bet In position with.

Checkfolding flop would be really bad. I tend to put myself into hard spots and feel fairly comfortable in my decision making. I think at that point I just wasnt really feeling like letting my hand go vs that particular player since hes so loose so I was thinking how to extract most value and thats by checking

I put him on a KQ type hand probably that was peeling pf, maybe even a hand like KJ going for stupid value

JamesMa · #15 (**permalink**) 03-11-2010, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Fabsch

bottom left table 51:00 you wanted to 3ball a KT558 board with a ton of possible draws, can you explain that? I don't think he ever folds a King there so I'd twobarrel if anything but unless I know he peels 99 there probably not even that. I mean his range is probably broadways and pps and he should fold his pps on the flop so I don't understand your plan to 3barrel

Yeah I mean there was just a bunch of draws so if I caught a nice brick on the river I could def barrel I think and he'll fold his busted stuff (where as when I check turn he pretty much wins 100% on river). He's also peeling with any Tx on the flop for sure and proly the turn as well. And I assume we can move him off some K8,K9s type of hands.

The after-result of the hand further cements my theory in that he could be peeling lightly with 22-99 stuff, gutshots with like AJ,AQ,J9 stuff

I dont think I fired cuz at the time I didnt have a strong enough read so decided to not unload but I still think its a good play to blast 3 times