Aaron plays 4 tables of Zoom as a Leggo lite in preparation for his Zoom videos which will come out later this month. These videos are in leiu of a Curtains' chess video, as Greg is unable to produce a video this week. Curtains' chess videos will go back to their regularly scheduled weekly programming when Greg's health returns.
1) any reconsideration to your turn plan? You like it as played?
2) Do you ever check the flop in that same hand are you betting it 90%+ of time with this hand here. your flop sizing looks good btw.
3)What hands are you not betting on this flop?!
4) and lastly would you ever c/c this flop with any portion of your range?!
5) on the river, do the options really have to be either check or shove the river? how about betting like $125-250. It will lay a cheap price and with his range he will just feel like wtf, especially if he has a heart and you bet this amount he might still shove it for value given he is confused. Your range would mostly consist of value here and maybe occasional random spew that you got here with but its not like he would know that and in zoom where people have to make in game time decisions quickly it would induce a lot of mistakes. thoughts?
Seems like you are minraising from every position these days. Its funny because if someone were to do this in 2009 they would just be labeled a fish. Now it doesnt seem that bad lol. Is your justification for minraising really that you are trying your new mouse out and are lazy? If this is the case you know there are ps mods with preconfigured raise sizes right? I think there are to many spots esp. with fishier and weaker players that it pays to raise bigger then minimum. But keep it up and report back to us on what you think about it.
i mean it's fine as played, if i want to bluff him off of AJ or something on the river, which i really don't. i'd rather probably check call, he might bet stuff like black JJ or something, and i have a sweet backup plan of making a flush. i'm almost always betting, my range is narrow and strong here, i see no reason not to bet so i can keep the lead. if i didn't bet a hand on this flop, it'd probably be an ace or a hand with no redeeming qualities like JTss or something. the former to cc and the latter to cf.
i wouldn't mind betting smaller on the river. i probably shoudl have considered it, i jsut thought that we were in a situation where if he was going to call it was probably with the second or third nuts, and he'd call anything. also, four flush boards get bluffed and stuff.
i wouldn't look into the minraising too much. it's easy, but i'd probably rather be 2.5xing. either way it keeps the psr nice and high so i can be tricky.
i wouldn't mind betting smaller on the river. i probably shoudl have considered it, i jsut thought that we were in a situation where if he was going to call it was probably with the second or third nuts, and he'd call anything. also, four flush boards get bluffed and stuff.
kind of true, but just seems like anyone who gets to the river the way you did is going to have it way more then not when you shove. i.e. compare # of hands you get here with that you are now bluffing with compared to amount you are value shoving (esp. with your turn sizing). hes probably gonna still call you with any flush (and you get max value by shoving) but I always want to annoy the f out of him with that other part of his range where he is just like o man fml and cant piece together the puzzle in time quick enough. it works a lot better against idiot zoom regs that are loose/not good (he didnt seem like he was) not 2knl regs.
we had a few issues with it, vitas is working on it. for me, it usually works, i just had to re-load it and i fast forwarded a few seconds and then it played fine.
Also, u did call 99 in the sb vs a btn open. I always feel like it is so obvious what I have when I call in the sb (like suited broadways and 77-99/TT), and it is hard to be balanced. Also always sucks when the bb squeezes, so I decided not to have a callingrange in the sb anymore unless there is a whale in the bb, what do you think about that?
Also, u did call 99 in the sb vs a btn open. I always feel like it is so obvious what I have when I call in the sb (like suited broadways and 77-99/TT), and it is hard to be balanced. Also always sucks when the bb squeezes, so I decided not to have a callingrange in the sb anymore unless there is a whale in the bb, what do you think about that?
that is fine, but be prepared to be 4-bet a lot if you're 3-betting 20% in the sb 200 bigs deep.
I apologize for the video issue fellas, it seems the flash file is corrupted. I am going to re-convert the file and re-upload it to the server. I hope the have the issue fixed within a few hours.
Very nice short video, looking foward for your series at zoom. I think 4 tables its ok because you can talk very fast and you are very good explaining in a brief way but even so maybe 2 tables of zoom will work better because action is really fast and its always nice to undertsand your thoughts more deeply.
