Aaron continues his series of Zoom videos by playing 4 tables of mid stakes Zoom in real time. He explores the merit of turning strong hands into bluff catchers against capable and aggressive opponents. Many absurd pots are played that end in disbelief by our hero. He also bluff raises the river... a lot.
holla aejones, sick video and sick series. Only 30 mins in and for not playing online poker anymore I get off on this. I'll post a few questions. (gonna seem like im really nit picking but you play f good)
Both of these hands are vs status qou who seems to be like a splashy 50bb player in all your videos. As you mentioned he 3bets a shit ton in general, plays back at you light and has some pretty wide ranges in spots.
1.)
Hand 8 min mark, you open btn 10 with A3ss, status quo in bb makes it 30 (170 eff), you call.
Flop A28hhd, he bets 20, you call (smart to ever have a bluffing range/minraise range here?)
Turn 2d (two fd's)....he bets 50 (w/ 65 behind) and you shove.
I'd slightly prefer calling turn here just because i think ev on getting a hero call from hands slightly better then 8x+ and him spazz shoving river when he shouldn't is higher vs ev on him having a fd/bdfd in his range that bets turn/would of called it off but now checks river when it misses. maybe since there are two fd's though im wrong on this. but if you ever have hearts here you concievably might just want to call turn so you are also protecting that portion of your range too.
2.)
status quo opens utg to 12.50 w/ 250 eff stacks, you are on the btn with KJo (no diamond) and make it 30, he snap calls (lol).
Flop comes AT4ddd
He checks, you bet 30 and fold to a shove.
Not a great flop haha. Thoughts on a delayed cbet being better? Still a little value with potential overs and disguised gutshot. Would bet more complete air hands and also hands I want to get it in with but feel like checking this is slightly better. This is kind of a tricky board with stack sizes and all but what kind of checking range should we have on this flop? Pot will be $60 with 220 effective behind. Things like JdKx or QdJx, I would be kind of confused on best plan. Bet/get it in? KdJx probably bet/get it in and embrace coinflp?!
finished watching it. yes you definitely look like a big station in this video, but its pretty evident you are going to be one of the biggest winners in zoom hands down if you play enough. Would you say this is your highest hourly at making $$ online (versus playing higher/bumhunting hu etc.)? Do you enjoy more this then live poker? Good luck during the series sir.
holla aejones, sick video and sick series. Only 30 mins in and for not playing online poker anymore I get off on this. I'll post a few questions. (gonna seem like im really nit picking but you play f good)
Both of these hands are vs status qou who seems to be like a splashy 50bb player in all your videos. As you mentioned he 3bets a shit ton in general, plays back at you light and has some pretty wide ranges in spots.
1.)
Hand 8 min mark, you open btn 10 with A3ss, status quo in bb makes it 30 (170 eff), you call.
Flop A28hhd, he bets 20, you call (smart to ever have a bluffing range/minraise range here?)
Turn 2d (two fd's)....he bets 50 (w/ 65 behind) and you shove.
I'd slightly prefer calling turn here just because i think ev on getting a hero call from hands slightly better then 8x+ and him spazz shoving river when he shouldn't is higher vs ev on him having a fd/bdfd in his range that bets turn/would of called it off but now checks river when it misses. maybe since there are two fd's though im wrong on this. but if you ever have hearts here you concievably might just want to call turn so you are also protecting that portion of your range too.
2.)
status quo opens utg to 12.50 w/ 250 eff stacks, you are on the btn with KJo (no diamond) and make it 30, he snap calls (lol).
Flop comes AT4ddd
He checks, you bet 30 and fold to a shove.
Not a great flop haha. Thoughts on a delayed cbet being better? Still a little value with potential overs and disguised gutshot. Would bet more complete air hands and also hands I want to get it in with but feel like checking this is slightly better. This is kind of a tricky board with stack sizes and all but what kind of checking range should we have on this flop? Pot will be $60 with 220 effective behind. Things like JdKx or QdJx, I would be kind of confused on best plan. Bet/get it in? KdJx probably bet/get it in and embrace coinflp?!
1. imo no one bluffs that river with what little we have behind, hes bet calling too many pairs and draws
2. delayed cbetting is probably fine but i think hes active enough to eitehr bet us off the best hand on a later street or bluff/bet a hand that we could have gotten to fold at some point (a ten, a pocket pair, etc.). i woud definitely just bet and get it in with KJ or KQ with the K of diamonds and i would almost never bet a broadway draw without the nut diamond. this'll matter because he can frequently have the same types of hands, so if we're going to go with it we have to beat other draws and their showdown value. the rest of our checking range can have all sorts of stuff-- top set, super strong flush as slowplays (would basically never check TTT or tiny flush) or jsut about anthing we decide to delayed c-bet. i might check back something like black AK too because our equity goes up a lot vs some hands if the turn is a black 2. also if we jsut have like 98o i'd check it back a fair bit-- it's not a great flop to be c-betting with air 100%, especially against someone who doesn't need something good to keep putting money in.
finished watching it. yes you definitely look like a big station in this video, but its pretty evident you are going to be one of the biggest winners in zoom hands down if you play enough. Would you say this is your highest hourly at making $$ online (versus playing higher/bumhunting hu etc.)? Do you enjoy more this then live poker? Good luck during the series sir.
i doubt it's my highest hourly, but maybe it is. i don't like having to sit at hu tables and wait for action. also i really like not having to deal with the politics of table selecting regs who come to the table as soon as a random sits when im at 6m tables by myself, steal my big blinds, change seats, etc. online poker > live poker but it's enjoyable to mix it up.
