Simon teams up with former high stakes player and coach Justin "bodymindarts" to discuss his play on 6 tables of $200 NL on Stars. Topics of discussion include bet sizing, game-dynamics, opening-ranges, game plan on various streets, and applying range-analysis to game plan.
first time i have checked one of your videos out and i stopped watching 4 minutes in after the painful discussion on the easiest iso raise in the world with T7s
Is the fold std? Would it be a call with a fish behind? Would it be a call vs UTG opener since his range is stronger and therefore u are more likely to stack him when he has a big pair? Would it be a call vs 3x? Would it be a call 2.5x? What is the worst pair that you call here?
Also at 6:20 table 5 so you call with 33, so I guess this is because you are more likely to get a lot of money in post flop because he seems so tight UTG?
8:15 table 3
Is flatting pre std when u minopen? What about when u 2.5x (and he makes it 8.5bb)? And what about 3x (and he makes it 10bb)? You say that calling is fine because you also have the gutshot. What do you think the best play is with T6s for example? Also good point about the ''repping'' thing, I would basically do what hero did without thinking about my own range lol.
11:00 table 4
What is our worst suited hand that we should iso the fish with? I would open probably 67s+, 8Ts+ and any suited ace.
11:12 table 6
Why fold pre? Same question, worst suited hand we open with?
20:20 table 5
What do you think about raising flop? Would you call or raise with TJo and why?
30:50 table 5
"you valuebet aces''. What do you think his callingrange is? I doubt you have more than 50% equity with aces vs his callingrange.
34:22 table 6
Jamming out of the question to get value from worse sets? Good point btw about villain calling turn and jamming river, really made me think.
39:00 table 6
After 700 hands, the guy 3bets 5%, squeezes 2%, so I guess it will be VERY hard to get it in and dominate his hand. Best case scenario you are up against JJ/QQ I guess. So what do you think about calling pre flop? What about folding?
And why is 3betting AKo deep bad OOP? If he 4bets a lot, u can just call right?
41:35 table 3
Why is the T not a good bluff card vs a fish? I think when you overbet, he folds anything but a K, or is that just wishfull thinking?
43:00 table 1
What about folding pre if btn doesn't 4bet much and bb squeezes a bit? How std is the c-bet? Feels to me like he is gonna call a lot, and your equity when called isn't that great. Also, if the second T on the flop was a J, what do you think about c/f'ing flop? I know you have a gutshot, but I doubt you have enough FE to make it still profitable.
Do you suspect him to bet A high when u check the river? If he checks, c/f is best I guess, but if he bets A high always, does it become a c/c or are u still beat too often? I mean, while betting might be slightly +ev, c/f is +ev as well, and I doubt c/c is, since I doubt he bets A high so often since he beats air. Therefore I think c/f is better, what do you think about this?
43:40 table 2
What about 3betting to iso the fish? What is your 3bettingrange here vs the fish?
first time i have checked one of your videos out and i stopped watching 4 minutes in after the painful discussion on the easiest iso raise in the world with T7s
If i would never discuss some "easiest" spots, i would be quiet the entire video and never learn anything about the guy i am working with, also its not an iso depending on 3bets-stats of the players behind, which is something that some people just dont pay attention to.
Is the fold std? Would it be a call with a fish behind? Would it be a call vs UTG opener since his range is stronger and therefore u are more likely to stack him when he has a big pair? Would it be a call vs 3x? Would it be a call 2.5x? What is the worst pair that you call here?
Also at 6:20 table 5 so you call with 33, so I guess this is because you are more likely to get a lot of money in post flop because he seems so tight UTG?
Yeah, its mainly a fold cause of the likelihood of getting squeezed, and the un-likelihood of playing multiway in a single-raised pot. I dont think our implied odds against a single solid oponent are great, also we realize way less than 100% of our equity (maybe 70%). Against a reeeallly tight UTG-raiser (assuming he also isnt that strong postflop) you can probably setmine this, but in most games nowadays its just a fold.
table 5 we have exactly that situation, a very tight, likely weak UTG-raiser, this cuts peoples ability to squeeze light (cause his range is so tight), it makes our calling-range stronger in general (cause we could easily just call TT, JJ,AK everytime) and our implied odds are better.
8:15 table 3
Is flatting pre std when u minopen? What about when u 2.5x (and he makes it 8.5bb)? And what about 3x (and he makes it 10bb)? You say that calling is fine because you also have the gutshot. What do you think the best play is with T6s for example? Also good point about the ''repping'' thing, I would basically do what hero did without thinking about my own range lol.
Flatting pre is totally std, we can comfortably play flops and turns without having a really sucky spr and our implied odds are very decent. The bigger he 3bets (its not really about our opening-size), the less i would be inclined to call, if he makes it 8.5bb i would look at his cbet-%, if that is low i might peel occasionally, but a fold is gonna be my std vers that size. On the flop i dont think we need to have a raising-range, but if we do i think the optimal strategy is to use a size which allows us to 3barrel (minr flop, underbet turn, jam river for about 70% pot), getting him off of random pairs (at lower stakes, this only makes sense if u think he can fold a weak ace on the
river). we can easily balance that with AQ,AJ,77. If we raise a hand like T6s on the flop, with this strategy we basically b/f b/f jam, which is a pretty decent strategy for that type of weak draw. The gutshot increases our equity and our implied odds (which makes raising less attractive), still the point about our line is to get the oportunity to win the pot against KK,KQ type hands while having decent implied odds vers AK and such.
11:00 table 4
What is our worst suited hand that we should iso the fish with? I would open probably 67s+, 8Ts+ and any suited ace.
Hm i dont think u need to go crazy in MP, and while i do agree that you can open all those hands, i dont think its mandatory, when you have 3 players left to act who have a 3bet-button.
You might save yourself some trouble by folding a bunch of Thigh's or worse, and some hands that dont have two good pairmakers (like A6s).
11:12 table 6
Why fold pre? Same question, worst suited hand we open with?
[COLOR="red"]These things always hinge on 3bet-stats. open this 100% when people dont 3bet u a lot (accumulated 3bet-% like
The answer above is totally messed up, after 11:12 one sentence starts, another ends, both have nothing to do with each other, and everything in between is missing. Ah well, still some good stuff before that. The comment about 43:40 is also fine. Dammit. Gonna do it again.
Edit: Or isnt it? in the forum-section its fine. Just read it there. Took me like 1 hour to write it.
6,40 ~ Table 3 hero defends a 3bet btn vs sb w/T8s. Flop comes AJ7ss and he raises the cbet. First of all, how light do u think that villain cbets this board? What goes through my head is that he proooobably isn't gonna cbet that light? Like he probably have some piece of it a lot of the time? You also said that this is a fine hand to call 2 streets, and bet river if checked to. Thought this was pretty interesting. Is that sth u would only do if u have this much EQ? Or would u do it as well if u only had a gutshot, and not a flushdraw?
24 ~ Table 6 hero defends T7s bb vs btn. Flop comes Q25 which gives us a flushdraw. What do u think about c/c compared to c/r here? I woul probably c/r, cuz we have T high and can't really call any turns since we are oop. Is that a good enough reason to c/r?
Haven't seen the vid as I don't really have the time these days, but have a lot of respect for bodymindarts. Tangle with him a lot at 200NL. Best of luck.
14:00 If we check, will it be a good move from villain to bluff with hands like 78,89,88 ? he can make fold all the Jx and better 9x plus Ax time to time. As bodymindarts says he don't have a lot of air.
6,40 ~ Table 3 hero defends a 3bet btn vs sb w/T8s. Flop comes AJ7ss and he raises the cbet. First of all, how light do u think that villain cbets this board? What goes through my head is that he proooobably isn't gonna cbet that light? Like he probably have some piece of it a lot of the time? You also said that this is a fine hand to call 2 streets, and bet river if checked to. Thought this was pretty interesting. Is that sth u would only do if u have this much EQ? Or would u do it as well if u only had a gutshot, and not a flushdraw?
I have no idea how light villain cbets. He shouldnt be cbetting too light, but then again, we dont really know what range he 3bets in the first place, he definitely has some non-Ax hands in his range which he is gonna cbet for sure (random KQ,QQ,7x). But still, the fact that his range likely hits this board
somewhat makes me wanna doublefloat rather than raise (also gives us the oportunity to fold the worst hand otr on a blank, basically improving our win$:lose$ ratio).
I dont think doublefloating all the time is a great idea here without some reads on villains tendencies,
against some playertypes a gutshot is definitely enough though.
24 ~ Table 6 hero defends T7s bb vs btn. Flop comes Q25 which gives us a flushdraw. What do u think about c/c compared to c/r here? I woul probably c/r, cuz we have T high and can't really call any turns since we are oop. Is that a good enough reason to c/r?
Its fine. A check-raise mainly reps a flushdraw, so i dont wanna do it with any draw whatsoever. Also
on the button he is likely to still bet turns with all kinds of hands when the flush hits, so our implied
odds on calling are really decent.
Def a good video man!
Thanks for your feedback, glad you enjoyed the vid!
14:00 If we check, will it be a good move from villain to bluff with hands like 78,89,88 ? he can make fold all the Jx and better 9x plus Ax time to time. As bodymindarts says he don't have a lot of air.
If you would, sizing?
Definitely a good move (still a funny turncall with those hands though...).
Your sizing doesnt need to be big at all, 60-70% pot, maybe even smaller depending on your image.
I am actually gonna specify about the 88,89 stuff:
If you call turn, you have a mandatory riverbluff. Betsize depends hugely on your image and your opponents tendencies.
