This two part series is about playing short handed (including heads up) and deep against some of the difficult regulars on Stars. The occasional fish definitely makes an appearance and Aaron concentrates on exploiting ranges that are wide up to the river.
Cool video, just watched it all the way through. I am just in general impressed with your play and sound logic in the last two videos. Your play overall is very good imo.
So the AA hand at the end of the video. Its the hand where you slowplayed aces preflop. I really like your slowplay there and in your reasoning you said it perfectly "i wanna be calling and keep my range strong in a spot that my opponent views me as wide".
flop comes Q53ss,
1) lets change our hand to red kings. Do your like your flop cr more? Or would you still rather cc it?
2) With sets here do you prefer raising or calling? what frequency?
3) Any experimenting with leading in a spot like this? You called a 3b and are now OOP and you now lead into the opponent.
but yeah cc flop with this hand in particular is def. best, shows you are human, and I really liked to see you beat yourself up about it (that's how you are so good). i beat myself up a lot after sessions on hands that i wish i would of done X instead of Y. i wish it were on pots like these instead of my colossal mistakes lmao.
Interested to hear more on why you think calling a2s OOP (but nearly 250bbe) is "inexcusable." It seems like a pretty reasonable hand to call there IMO. Nut flushes are pretty awesome at these stacks sizes, and we can also hit the toppest pair. Finally, I think there will be some opportunities to take it down unimproved postflop.
I understand the simple argument for not calling--reverse implied odds can be pretty bad with a weak ace. But as a default, I think it's fair to assume that most midstakes regs aren't applying enough pressure on A-high boards for it to be a major concern.
I would say the decision to call or fold there is close (and villain dependent) but "inexcusable" just seems too harsh.
Cool video, just watched it all the way through. I am just in general impressed with your play and sound logic in the last two videos. Your play overall is very good imo.
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So the AA hand at the end of the video. Its the hand where you slowplayed aces preflop. I really like your slowplay there and in your reasoning you said it perfectly "i wanna be calling and keep my range strong in a spot that my opponent views me as wide".
flop comes Q53ss,
1) lets change our hand to red kings. Do your like your flop cr more? Or would you still rather cc it?
2) With sets here do you prefer raising or calling? what frequency?
3) Any experimenting with leading in a spot like this? You called a 3b and are now OOP and you now lead into the opponent.
1. CR is so much more important here for protecting, also he has more hands that we're just barely ahead of or have backdoor equity that we are okay with folding or charging.
2. would likely call sets. not sure of frequency, call 3/4 of the time? this is a board i'll have 88 on a lot so i have to scare ppl into barreling me less.
3. might be okay with a different hand, as played i just have too many blockers to stuff. might be okay with red kings actually or maybe a hand like AsJx as a bluff.
but yeah cc flop with this hand in particular is def. best, shows you are human, and I really liked to see you beat yourself up about it (that's how you are so good). i beat myself up a lot after sessions on hands that i wish i would of done X instead of Y. i wish it were on pots like these instead of my colossal mistakes lmao.
important to be as self aware as possible in poker
Guys, make more live session videos. Too bored of non stop obvious blablabla stuff, may be 1 hand is interesting in such videos. With best regards...
going to make some live videos (zoom prob), i mix it up, everyone complains about this-- but we balance it really well imo, and sometimes i have to make pre recorded ones when im not in canada.
Interested to hear more on why you think calling a2s OOP (but nearly 250bbe) is "inexcusable." It seems like a pretty reasonable hand to call there IMO. Nut flushes are pretty awesome at these stacks sizes, and we can also hit the toppest pair. Finally, I think there will be some opportunities to take it down unimproved postflop.
i sometimes exaggerate. it's not that bad. you're prone to lose some money if you make top pair sometimes though, which annoys me. nut flushes are awesome, but hard to make imo (and possibly hard to play the fd with these stacks oop).
I understand the simple argument for not calling--reverse implied odds can be pretty bad with a weak ace. But as a default, I think it's fair to assume that most midstakes regs aren't applying enough pressure on A-high boards for it to be a major concern.
yea maybe, people are decent nowadays thoguh
I would say the decision to call or fold there is close (and villain dependent) but "inexcusable" just seems too harsh.
fair enough i guess, still not a huge fan of it. maybe would rather 4b it actually, i do a little of all 3 in that spot probably, it's not like i never call if i think im better than my opponent or just trying to ride some massive HEAAAAATER.
I just cant keep up when it is 4 tabling. 1 tabling would be so good ! :) In that way you can have more focus and just come with alot of examples like:
- if he bet here i would fold.
- if he raised that, i would do that and that.
- if he did that i would do that
- if i had this hand in this situation i would do that and that. :)
When you flatted a 4-bet with that hand and he c-bet, is it a bad play to call and see if you can improve on the turn ? (you have a backdoor flushdraw) ...
When you flatted a 4-bet with that hand and he c-bet, is it a bad play to call and see if you can improve on the turn ? (you have a backdoor flushdraw) ...
