VIDEO DISCUSSION: Nostalgica 3 - Sweat Session Troy 1

[Trikkur]

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Sweat Session with a student playing $6.50 Turbo HUSnG on PokerStars.

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[podbelski]

55 hand - sick he was so fast to call a 3bet... for me it is an obvious 4bet or fold: the opp is already shown himself as crazy aggro so I'm 100% sure he will fire the flop big and maybe(!) the turn. Given there will be so many bad cards on the board and his range is almost ATC you will be in so sick guessing situation... That said, 4bet is 100% better, the only problem is we don't know his tendencies enough: the best is if he folds, but he might 5-bet shove 100% of his range thinking you are FOS and just pissed at him (I've seen this enough already) which is good if you are ready to call. The worse would be if he snap-flats your 4bet and like snap-pots a flop - you can't float I beleive. To discourage this I would have 4bet big, like 3.5-4x and call a shove. But, TBH, currently I'm folding in such spots cause I see he's a huge donk and all I need is to pickup slightly better spot to playback - there is plenty of time left. I prefer not to battle with such a fishy opponent in a marginal spot right away, and IMO your open-folding twice is not the bad thing. It will induce him to continue brainless pressure, just be cautious and catch him later.

QTs hand right after that: why you check-raise turn? obv he has some draw at best, so calling
might make him think you are drawing or hit that 3 and given his big stack he might try to
barrel any river. If he calls your raise, what would you put him on? Or if he shoves?

next KJ: it is a flop which I'm gladly flatting with this guy. By minraising you expect him to fold his "nothing" or spazz-reraise right? I kinda agree to some degree given you raised him off the pot in a previous hand so he might think "wtf this guy thinks he can just push me to win!". Happy to hear you said calling is good too cause really there will be so many good options on the turn even if he won't bet again. I understood you just said that minraising is better than 3x-ing, if so yep I totally agree.

75s OTB later: I see it is too nice of a hand to raise-fold, and he shown to be 3bet-crazy by far, so IMO at that exact spot limp-calling is the right thing to do. I'd better raise-folded a more junky hand like J6o with intention to test is he slowed down or not yet. If not, then I start limping everything that I don't want to fold to 3bet until he ceases aggression.

56o OTB later: here we go again, I see he was not given a reason not to 3bet your opens so it's a limp-call or raise-fold IMO. If I see it right he min3bet? If so calling is ok but bloated pot makes it a bit scary to play. Liked your thought process on turn, currently I'm not sure what to do in such spots. One question - what's your action if he barrels strong? Or if barrels smaller amount? I expect the latter one is scarier, right? What do you think about shoving over his bigger barrel?

KK: he 3bets all of your opens, so I don't see why limping is better then raising here. Limp-reraising is nice but I'm afraid he's folding like always... This sucks, but it is one of the rarest spots where I prefer to limp-call KK (rather than limp-reraise) and see him cbet, hopefully, an Ace-free flop.

[Nostalgica]

55: Yeah I prefer a 3bet, but I don't like folding as you can see showdown sometimes and your hand is very strong in HU.

QTs: He has already shown that he does not continue betting too much, and against draws, we definitely want to put more money in for protection and value. If we think he has a draw, we should raise. We also beat some Qx as we have a very good kicker relatively speaking. Our stack size is small enough that we can't fold any river very comfortably especially when we may perceive him to have a narrower bluff range vs a short stack and less perceived fold equity.

In short, our hand is probably good, he may have worse made hands that he will never fold, and he may have draws. Thus, we make him pay.

KJ: Yep, that's what I mean. I do think the gameflow aspect you mentioned is relevant especially against a spazzy player.

57s: That's fine, although 57s isn't that strong so I think raise/folding is fine too.

56o: I don't think thinking that smaller bets are scarier as a rule is always wise, as you get much better odds and bad players will still bet small to fold you off hands because it is cheaper. That said I may fold with these stacks.

KK: His 3betting frequency isn't actually that high and I feel that he was about to stop. I also feel that he will raise my limps a large amount of times and in chips also. Raising would be fine, and so is limp calling, though I am not planning to fold an ace high flop that much, really.