LeggoPoker is happy to announce that Jared "RikaKazak" Bartlett has officially joined the team. His first video will give you unrestricted access to his entire game plan as he 4 tables $1,000 NL Full Ring on Full Tilt. Theory behind cold four bet bluffing and min-raising are a couple of topics that Jared covers. Already a very active member in the LeggoPoker community we look forward to Jared’s tenure as a video producer and coach.
I don´t like how your trying to think on multiple levels. According to PTR you don´t play a ton of hands on these tables and therefore I don´t think you can assume leveling stuff like `he knows I know that I shouldn´t be donking on turns when he´s bluffcatching´. As far as they are concerned you´re an unknown and they underrepresent their hand.
I agree the T8s hand is a turn bet, but not because of the whole leveling theory (you're projecting your way of thinking about poker too much on the villains, e.g. european players don't 'think pot control' ).
The reason it's a good bet is because you have outs and the board hits your flat calling range pretty well. It's just not a very profitable spot for him to bluff catch against your range and what part of it he thinks you'll donkbet on the turn.
Another thing, you´re taking every aggression spot possible in the vid. 3betting, 4betting, raising turns. It can be done when you´re relatively unknown but as soon as people pick up on it, they will play back.
Its tough to stay balanced or back up your frontdoor aggression postflop.
In your comments you're sometimes discussing a player could you explain your HUD at the beginning of the vid or quickly go over the relevant stats? 'the call isn't as easy as it seems' or 'the player doesn't fold to 4bets as often' or 'because of his specific tendency'.
The T9s hand.
I think it's full of contradiction. You're saying because of the board texture you would play KK similarly, but honestly are you ever checking this flop as the aggressor with any overpair, set or 2pair?
Secondly you're check/overshoving a Thi flush draw after you concluded that his flat vs squeezes contains a lot of trappy / strong hands and little air.
With the check/shove you're getting it in against nearly all his overpairs and good hands and you're only folding out his misses and air (but get an extra 130$ of them). I think it's just better to cbet- revaluate the flop. If he shoves it's a fold and you don't have to feel disgusted (his strong defend range) and all other things (mini raise, call, fold) work in your advantage.
I don´t like how your trying to think on multiple levels. According to PTR you don´t play a ton of hands on these tables and therefore I don´t think you can assume leveling stuff like `he knows I know that I shouldn´t be donking on turns when he´s bluffcatching´. As far as they are concerned you´re an unknown and they underrepresent their hand.
I agree the T8s hand is a turn bet, but not because of the whole leveling theory (you're projecting your way of thinking about poker too much on the villains, e.g. european players don't 'think pot control' ).
The reason it's a good bet is because you have outs and the board hits your flat calling range pretty well. It's just not a very profitable spot for him to bluff catch against your range and what part of it he thinks you'll donkbet on the turn.
Another thing, you´re taking every aggression spot possible in the vid. 3betting, 4betting, raising turns. It can be done when you´re relatively unknown but as soon as people pick up on it, they will play back.
Its tough to stay balanced or back up your frontdoor aggression postflop.
In your comments you're sometimes discussing a player could you explain your HUD at the beginning of the vid or quickly go over the relevant stats? 'the call isn't as easy as it seems' or 'the player doesn't fold to 4bets as often' or 'because of his specific tendency'.
The T9s hand.
I think it's full of contradiction. You're saying because of the board texture you would play KK similarly, but honestly are you ever checking this flop as the aggressor with any overpair, set or 2pair?
Secondly you're check/overshoving a Thi flush draw after you concluded that his flat vs squeezes contains a lot of trappy / strong hands and little air.
With the check/shove you're getting it in against nearly all his overpairs and good hands and you're only folding out his misses and air (but get an extra 130$ of them). I think it's just better to cbet- revaluate the flop. If he shoves it's a fold and you don't have to feel disgusted (his strong defend range) and all other things (mini raise, call, fold) work in your advantage.
I think it's pretty ridiculous that you are basing anything off of PTR.
I am obviously aware of the incompleteness/ inaccuracy of PTR and I am not drawing any conclusions regarding his winnings. (probably plays on multiple sites using multiple sn's) I just state that he's an unknown in the 5/10 cash games on FTP. And that fact is backed up with the number of hands he has on villains on the table. At one point (I believe the T9s hand that squeezes preflop) he's going into detail on villain, he has only 165 hands on him.. there is not much history.
Your name looked familiar and saw I had some 200NL FR hands vs you on Full Tilt...do you spread limits, or were you making a video back then?
GLGL and thanks!
I play 200-1,000 regularly. I play 2K when there's a juicy game only.
Unfortunately due to FR not being as "popular" as 6m...you either have to spread limits or spread sites if you want to 15-16 table like I like to. I'm not a big fan of playing multiple sites at the same time (for example, it's annoying to be playing with auto timebank on tilt while you don't have a timebank on cake, makes me time out a lot) So I choose to spread limits.
A very normal session for me right now on say Full Tilt is 1-2 tables of 5/10, 2 tables of 3/6, 6-10 tables of 2/4 and 2-6 tables of 1/2. It's simply not possible to 15 table 5/10 on 1 site :(
I am obviously aware of the incompleteness/ inaccuracy of PTR and I am not drawing any conclusions regarding his winnings. (probably plays on multiple sites using multiple sn's) I just state that he's an unknown in the 5/10 cash games on FTP. And that fact is backed up with the number of hands he has on villains on the table. At one point (I believe the T9s hand that squeezes preflop) he's going into detail on villain, he has only 165 hands on him.. there is not much history.
The "amount of hands" I have on players is a factor of me constantly reformatting my computer :( Unfortunately I have a lemon from Dell and I choose not to back up my hands. Right now I only have ~300K hands total in HEM which is less then 3 months of play. (and that's across multiple sites...so only a fraction of them are even tilt hands)
As far as PTR goes, I have no idea what it says about me. I thought tilt said "no going to PTR" so I just won't log on to the site. Maybe I misread a 2+2 thread or something and tilt is fine with PTR? I don't know...I just err on the side of caution. (I'd just point out that I play every site, and I play multiple skins of the same site when allowed. So I have tons of poker accounts.)
In regards to the T9o hand I agree with your line of thinking 100%. I contradicted myself a lot, and overall I still don't know the best way of playing the hand. TBH if I didn't put that hand in the video, I would of already put it up on LeggoPoker forums looking for advice. On 1 hand I'm like ZOMG 2 pair in a 3 bet pot ALL IN! On the other hand, is my equity really that good if I get it in on the flop?
Thanks for the tip about explaining my HUD more clearly...after rewatching my video I now realize how confusing it can be. Would it be better if in the future I went over all my stats in the beginning? Or would it be better to say the relevant stat outloud, then explain what "an average stat would be" in that situation and then explain how I play differently based on that difference?
Hands down the best video I've ever watched. You put your play into words very well and it was very easy to understand. A+
Although, you did miss a hand vs Zoch, while you were playing the 9To vs his KQs, you also min-raised his blind on the top left table which he 3 bet you. I think that's a tell on his part trying to get you to stack off on the bottom right. I agree that KQs shouldn't be in his calling range but you've 3 been playing pretty aggro and you've been 3 betting him relentlessly, so I think his call was more of a frustration call to get lucky and hit a flop than a plan ahead call. If you think about the hands you're up against, most of them have a good amount of outs against you. Even KK has 3 Jacks, 4 Queens, 2 Kings. But then again, if you check and an 8 comes, you're welcoming him to bluff you off your hand. So you'd either be checking and playing bluff catcher/rebluffer or just getting it in.
Also can you explain the Card Removal Aspect?
And if you don't mind, can you send me your HUD config? I could really use a better hud.
T8s in 3bet pot AJ9x two tone. I like your bet sizing on the turn based on your explanation. Not sure if you mentioned it but what are your thought on bombing/overbetting a blank river?
the 54s hand when he shoved the river J, JJ like instantly came to my head too lol.
I liked it even though I don't necessarily agree with preflop betsizing malarkey yet, need to think about that a bit more. I think postflop analysis was very good and the "he thinks I think he thinks etc etc" did drive the point home with its possible over the top style.
But most importantly for me, what the value of this video was for me is that Rika who makes 200 big ones a year consistently goes into that postflop analysis and I can compare that with CR, DC and stox FR videos by mostly 100nl-400nl solid winning regs and get a glimpse what the difference is - what needs to change in order to make that jump to making lifechanging amounts of money in a span of a few years.
Look forward to the future videos, I liked the format, amount of tables was good and definately warrants a few viewings with some extra notetaking.
Hands down the best video I've ever watched. You put your play into words very well and it was very easy to understand. A+
Although, you did miss a hand vs Zoch, while you were playing the 9To vs his KQs, you also min-raised his blind on the top left table which he 3 bet you. I think that's a tell on his part trying to get you to stack off on the bottom right. I agree that KQs shouldn't be in his calling range but you've 3 been playing pretty aggro and you've been 3 betting him relentlessly, so I think his call was more of a frustration call to get lucky and hit a flop than a plan ahead call. If you think about the hands you're up against, most of them have a good amount of outs against you. Even KK has 3 Jacks, 4 Queens, 2 Kings. But then again, if you check and an 8 comes, you're welcoming him to bluff you off your hand. So you'd either be checking and playing bluff catcher/rebluffer or just getting it in.
Also can you explain the Card Removal Aspect?
And if you don't mind, can you send me your HUD config? I could really use a better hud.
Thanks, great vid
While playing I didn't even notice that he 3b me on the top left during that T9 vs. KQ hand....that's a very interesting observation you made there.
Card removal is basically an idea where if you hold a "relevant" card then it's less likely your opponet has a strong hand. For example, in the hand I 5b if I had say 7,9o...he could have 16 combos of AK, 6 of AA, 6 of KK, 6 of QQ for a total of 34 combos. But because I actually had AT there are only 12 combos of AK, 3 of AA, 6 of KK, and 6 of QQ. For a toal of 27 combos. So it's less likely he has a strong hand because I had an ace.
could you explain the shoving/folding range vs shorties that open in particular from ep, you mucked tens i think, i think the short stack play if something i need to work on and i think i play tens thru vs like a15- 20bb short stack there but that may be a huge leak.
there seems to be a lot of talk about what stake you play at. i found the video interesting and found some points salient although i can say that i'm on tilt about everday and am looking at all the 200-1k NL FR games and i've never seen u at 1k nl but often at 200 and 400. I was taken a bit back by the 1k video bc it seems your bread and butter game is 200 and 400 from what i gather which corroborates with PTR.
the As6s sb v bb hand you took a turn bet line bc you said the player wasn't a good player but actually Joe Henning is a very good player, one of the tougher ones at 5-10 who plays higher than 1k NL a fair amount.
enjoyed the vid, hats off to leggo for having FR content
could you explain the shoving/folding range vs shorties that open in particular from ep, you mucked tens i think, i think the short stack play if something i need to work on and i think i play tens thru vs like a15- 20bb short stack there but that may be a huge leak.
there seems to be a lot of talk about what stake you play at. i found the video interesting and found some points salient although i can say that i'm on tilt about everday and am looking at all the 200-1k NL FR games and i've never seen u at 1k nl but often at 200 and 400. I was taken a bit back by the 1k video bc it seems your bread and butter game is 200 and 400 from what i gather which corroborates with PTR.
the As6s sb v bb hand you took a turn bet line bc you said the player wasn't a good player but actually Joe Henning is a very good player, one of the tougher ones at 5-10 who plays higher than 1k NL a fair amount.
enjoyed the vid, hats off to leggo for having FR content
TT vs. an UTG ss'er who is tight to average is a leak. It's about nuetral EV vs. his opening range, but then if you factor in rake + soemone waking up with a big hand behind it's -EV. (I made a table that goes off what the exact % needed for their EP open % for it to be +EV...I just looked it up and it's 10.1% for TT...I made a TON of assumptions so I'll have to include it in a video some day)
On the issue of Joe...maybe he usually plays higher and only plays down at 5/10 or lower when he's tilting or running bad? That might be why my perception of him is the way it is.
like youre ambitions and youre a good coach...but game theory wise I wasnt impressed, feeling players works for HU but for FR winrates gonna drop alot...
youre 4b from 90-230: really expect him to fold his better SC getting those odds ip? Youre giving him bad odds for shippin how you expekt him to play hands like ajs, aq, ofc hes gonna call otherwise hes 3b-folding way to much...
