I liked everything about it, I think this is one of the best videos i have watched thus far, def top 3.
1. One hand i was confused about(sorta) was the QQ hand when he 4 bets you small otb, and has been looking like a clown reshoving air over your monsters. You elect to shove rather than 5 bet, which I do not disagree with but given his "bluffy" nature, and dynamic, would be playing oop with QQ there be so horrible? There aren't to many scary flops, and it seems likely he would barrell a flop against you there almost always if he had taken the lead. More thoughts on that hand?
2. Oh, and also, meta game wise ( i hope i say this right ). If you know that he knows that you know he has been looking like a clown by 5/4bet shoving into you, wouldn't his initial reaction be to continue doing so given the level of thought? (Idk if this makes sense i might need to articulate it better at a different time)
I was going to comment on the player name blanking but you clarified that in the OP :)
Looking foreward to sign up to whatever that birthday thingy will be (if it's not too late)...heading over to the WSOP forum now.
I liked everything about it, I think this is one of the best videos i have watched thus far, def top 3.
1. One hand i was confused about(sorta) was the QQ hand when he 4 bets you small otb, and has been looking like a clown reshoving air over your monsters. You elect to shove rather than 5 bet, which I do not disagree with but given his "bluffy" nature, and dynamic, would be playing oop with QQ there be so horrible? There aren't to many scary flops, and it seems likely he would barrell a flop against you there almost always if he had taken the lead. More thoughts on that hand?
2. Oh, and also, meta game wise ( i hope i say this right ). If you know that he knows that you know he has been looking like a clown by 5/4bet shoving into you, wouldn't his initial reaction be to continue doing so given the level of thought? (Idk if this makes sense i might need to articulate it better at a different time)
1) Yea there is some consideration to this, but I feel like he might interpret that as strength a lot. I actually think this play is pretty good though and I don't mind it one bit.
2) Theoretically you are correct but I have no reason to believe will try to outlevel me there.
I really liked this one and the review video you did in PT like a week or two ago. I don't really like the A2 hand where you induced a rebluff from better or whatever since I feel like he'll get it in with basically everything better and I think it psychologically easier to "rebluff" with something that looks like if it has showdown value then with pure air, but w/e, the thought process was fairly enlightening.
However, the "lol wtf I has a hand lolz"-part might play less of a part when deciding if you should rebluff in HS games then in the mid stakes games I play so it might very well just be that I never really play against this good of opponents.
I really hope you make more of these because I feel that you get more new content and ideas that really helps us when you play HU then in ring games.
Thanks a lot, good luck and keep up the good work!
I really liked this one and the review video you did in PT like a week or two ago. I don't really like the A2 hand where you induced a rebluff from better or whatever since I feel like he'll get it in with basically everything better and I think it psychologically easier to "rebluff" with something that looks like if it has showdown value then with pure air, but w/e, the thought process was fairly enlightening.
However, the "lol wtf I has a hand lolz"-part might play less of a part when deciding if you should rebluff in HS games then in the mid stakes games I play so it might very well just be that I never really play against this good of opponents.
I really hope you make more of these because I feel that you get more new content and ideas that really helps us when you play HU then in ring games.
Thanks a lot, good luck and keep up the good work!
I definitely agree with you on the psychologically easier to "rebluff" with some form of a hand "just in case." I also think that he will still bluff if he has nothing though, given the game flow.
Question: can you tell me what you think about villain? What was your idea about villain when you started playing him and during the match? His skill level, his experience, if he was a fish or a pro or a an ok rich amateur. What made you want to play him or not, etc. Perhaps any key hands involved in this?
It appears that your 'style' leans more towards betting the turn when you're floating instead of checking turn behind and betting river. You say because you won't be able to legitimately rep a good hand if you check behind the turn; however, there have been some other people (including luckychewy imo), that don't mind checking behind turn and betting the river (with floats and or draws). The thing is: people expect you to bet the turn with floats so if you check behind you are at least repping some made hand. Perhaps a made hand that doesn't wanna get c/r? Then on the river villain realizes he can't rep anything so also won't go for the river c/r, but for the c/f.
Advantages of this is that you also get an extra street of info from villan (does he bet or check the river), and you don't risk getting turn c/r if you have a draw.
Question: can you tell me what you think about villain? What was your idea about villain when you started playing him and during the match? His skill level, his experience, if he was a fish or a pro or a an ok rich amateur. What made you want to play him or not, etc. Perhaps any key hands involved in this?
Hey Nielsio,
I don't want to go into my opinion of him too too much, but I didn't think he was very good overall. I thought he was pretty fearless though, which certainly makes him more difficult to play against compared to a lot of the weak/tight regs that I wind up playing.
I would classify him as a pretty decent amateur, most likely rich, and most likely the type of player that is playing poker for fun, and it v successful at business so he will most likely be able to improve a lot from session to session.
It appears that your 'style' leans more towards betting the turn when you're floating instead of checking turn behind and betting river. You say because you won't be able to legitimately rep a good hand if you check behind the turn; however, there have been some other people (including luckychewy imo), that don't mind checking behind turn and betting the river (with floats and or draws). The thing is: people expect you to bet the turn with floats so if you check behind you are at least repping some made hand. Perhaps a made hand that doesn't wanna get c/r? Then on the river villain realizes he can't rep anything so also won't go for the river c/r, but for the c/f.
Advantages of this is that you also get an extra street of info from villan (does he bet or check the river), and you don't risk getting turn c/r if you have a draw.
Thoughts?
My 'style' of betting the turn when floating was 100% opponent specific. If you noticed 9 out of 10 times when he checked the turn after raising the flop he folded. Some opponents will start to c/r the turn or call the turn at least but he didn't so there is no need to mix it up when betting the turn is effective.
I am a pretty big proponent when balancing your frequencies with betting the turn and checking the turn with air. However, consider two other things as well: being 200bb+ deep you generally need to build the pot at every opportunity with a good hand, so checking behind any streets usually denotes weakness as opposed to trickery this deep. Therefore, the hypothetical 'correct' strategy against an opponent who also has good frequencies for c/f, c/r, and c/c the turn after raising the flop still involves betting the turn more often than with 100bb.
