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JamesMa · #1 (**permalink**) 01-30-2012, 03:50 PM

James battles with some mid-stakes regs while playing 4 tables of $600 NL 6-Max on Stars in real time. He deals with some cooler situations and talks about people's barreling frequencies.

arturboruc · #2 (**permalink**) 01-30-2012, 05:56 PM

30.30 : "3bet by zBolo here... I don't really know who he is... I'm just going to re-pop him"

I was going to say this was bad analysis... but it isn't even analysis, just nonsense. Never mind the fact that this guy only has 39 big blinds and that you priced yourself into a call - then chose to fold.

Maybe you were tilted by losing over 200bb vs what looks like a passive fish, but that's not an excuse imo.

JamesMa · #3 (**permalink**) 01-30-2012, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by arturboruc

30.30 : "3bet by zBolo here... I don't really know who he is... I'm just going to re-pop him"

I was going to say this was bad analysis... but it isn't even analysis, just nonsense. Never mind the fact that this guy only has 39 big blinds and that you priced yourself into a call - then chose to fold.

Maybe you were tilted by losing over 200bb vs what looks like a passive fish, but that's not an excuse imo.

yeah live commentary was tough. over a small sample he's 3bet 1/6 times from both sb and bb, so seemed pretty active and I dont think he rejams air over the 4bet. Im risking about 57 to pick up the 57 with my 4bet so has to work about half the time to break even. A lot of shorter stacks will lean on ppl w/ their 3bets and I think he's one of those guys. With such a high 3bet sample, I think he folds more than half his range unless he is going to be shipping in 98s type of stuff

Odds are not good enuf to call jam at less than 2:1 unless I do believe he's jamming over 4bets light but I dont think that is the case with our history

arturboruc · #4 (**permalink**) 01-30-2012, 06:22 PM

The range I poker stoved you were 2% away from a call. If you think he is 3bing light so much, do you think a shove with these stack sizes is better?

The 200bb+ hand with AQ hand seems like a fold on the turn all day long for me. I think you got paranoid after your small flop cbet and managed to convince yourself to call down. I'd be interested to see what other players/instructors think about it. Is it possible to post that hand in the forums with more stats/reads on the guy?

Thanks for answering btw.

vinivici9586 · #5 (**permalink**) 01-30-2012, 07:22 PM

can you elaborate a bit why you thought you were good to call turn (and even river) in the KJo hand?

i think most of the hands you lost were coolers, but definitely think your river call w/ set of jacks was really terrible. villain just isn't c/c flop anything he has to turn into a bluff, and its j10/109/108 type hand very very often b/c you can close your eyes and call 2 with them.

JamesMa · #6 (**permalink**) 01-31-2012, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by vinivici9586

can you elaborate a bit why you thought you were good to call turn (and even river) in the KJo hand?

i think most of the hands you lost were coolers, but definitely think your river call w/ set of jacks was really terrible. villain just isn't c/c flop anything he has to turn into a bluff, and its j10/109/108 type hand very very often b/c you can close your eyes and call 2 with them.

Time this occurs in the vid?

JamesMa · #7 (**permalink**) 01-31-2012, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by arturboruc

The range I poker stoved you were 2% away from a call. If you think he is 3bing light so much, do you think a shove with these stack sizes is better?

The 200bb+ hand with AQ hand seems like a fold on the turn all day long for me. I think you got paranoid after your small flop cbet and managed to convince yourself to call down. I'd be interested to see what other players/instructors think about it. Is it possible to post that hand in the forums with more stats/reads on the guy?

Thanks for answering btw.

The range i checked out my hand had around 29% equity vs 77-AA,AJ-AK. I think getting stacks in isnt a big mistake by any means but probly slightly -EV in the long haul. I think straight jamming is a bad plan unless we think he is folding some hands that would have gotten in against us or we believe we are vulnerable to being 4bet bluffed off our hand... but I think any hand he is folding to a jam he is going to fold to a small 4b neway. From my experience its rare for a 30-40bb short stacker to get allin with random SCs that they 3bet.

I'll try to post that hand sure, it was def a tricky spot. My sizing def played a bit of a role, but I also have top of my range pretty much. Almost any hand I have on the turn is bluff catching other than KK, QQ and flushes... the turn was a solid card for him to keep bluffing on and I think he fires turn and river a lot if he's bluff raising the flop. I also felt gameflow wise my range felt wide squeezing there and that he was ready to make a play so went with my instincts although it was off this time.

ShrimpSoup · #8 (**permalink**) 01-31-2012, 06:50 AM

I strongly disagree with you regarding playing the big blind vs a button minraise, one of the necessary adjustment is to flat a wide range preflop getting 3.5 to 1 immediate odds. I dont see how a strategy of mostly 3-bet or fold can be the correct way to play against BTN minraise.

JamesMa · #9 (**permalink**) 01-31-2012, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ShrimpSoup

I strongly disagree with you regarding playing the big blind vs a button minraise, one of the necessary adjustment is to flat a wide range preflop getting 3.5 to 1 immediate odds. I dont see how a strategy of mostly 3-bet or fold can be the correct way to play against BTN minraise.

I dont think I would advise a 3bet or fold strategy vs a minraise either, I think I flat a wider range than most against minraises