Matt Vaughan
King of Moody Rants
Bronze Level
8:30ish, TT, I don't like x/r that flop. Are we bluffing? We have a strong second pair so seems bad. For value? Hard to see what he has that's worse and calls.
10:00ish, QQ, good check behind. I don't think you necessarily get another street of value in that spot against most of his range. Your line is the line I would have taken. When you have a decent hand sample, start looking at stats like resteal and 3b out of blinds for BvLP situations preflop. His KJo looks odd, but he might be 3betting more against LP opens, against us in particular, etc.
14:50ish, 97o, I don't HATE 3betting, but we can 3bet pretty wide without 3betting that. He has reggish stats so it's probably fine to cbet wider against his LP opens, but at 5nl in general I wouldn't do that too much with offsuit gappers. Suited connectors seem fine though.
18:30ish, A7o and fish x/min-reraises. First off I don't think this is a mandatory iso at all with a weak, offsuit ace OOP. Second, when he re-raises I think we can chuck it in without reads or like, a very specific plan. Yes we're getting a "sick price," but is it really that sick against his range. Meh. Probably not. As played, I like leading, but I think it's a fold when he jams (that was before I saw the result fwiw).
22:30ish, 55 on the bottom right, I think it's a fold pre. I think people screw up "set-mining" in this spot a lot. For one thing, set-mining works best against a strong range that will stack off a high % of the time. When villain is OTB, he'll only be stacking a very small portion of his wide opening range. The only thing that makes this spot a little better is that he min raised it and we don't actually need to stack him. But we do need to make about $1.80 on average when we hit our set. I'm not saying we definitely don't, but I'm guessing it's close. So unless we start playing our hand for more than set value I think it's close pre but a fold. (Oops you ended up discussing this a bit anyway haha.)
26ish, AQo top left, I like checking back. Don't think he's that likely to call with JJ on that river. Or much else that we beat. NH.
31:45, A4s. Run. Better.
37:30ish, KQs UTG would be a VERY tight fold.
Overall:
- You seem reeeeaaaalllyyy resulted oriented. I'm not preaching, because I suffer from this as much as anyone. But you looked at your BR within like 5 minutes of starting the vid, and then multiple times after that. Seems a good way to induce tilt. Just remember it's all one big session
- Your thought process seems really solid for the most part. You should really be playing 10nl only imo. But ofc, BRM is personal, so ignore me if you feel it's best to
- There were a couple hands where you bet twice with air or a semibluff type hand, and it seemed like your justification was "and now I have THIS hand/draw." I'm sure you were thinking somewhat about villain's range in your head, but I think articulating it more specifically helps.
- Nice vid
10:00ish, QQ, good check behind. I don't think you necessarily get another street of value in that spot against most of his range. Your line is the line I would have taken. When you have a decent hand sample, start looking at stats like resteal and 3b out of blinds for BvLP situations preflop. His KJo looks odd, but he might be 3betting more against LP opens, against us in particular, etc.
14:50ish, 97o, I don't HATE 3betting, but we can 3bet pretty wide without 3betting that. He has reggish stats so it's probably fine to cbet wider against his LP opens, but at 5nl in general I wouldn't do that too much with offsuit gappers. Suited connectors seem fine though.
18:30ish, A7o and fish x/min-reraises. First off I don't think this is a mandatory iso at all with a weak, offsuit ace OOP. Second, when he re-raises I think we can chuck it in without reads or like, a very specific plan. Yes we're getting a "sick price," but is it really that sick against his range. Meh. Probably not. As played, I like leading, but I think it's a fold when he jams (that was before I saw the result fwiw).
22:30ish, 55 on the bottom right, I think it's a fold pre. I think people screw up "set-mining" in this spot a lot. For one thing, set-mining works best against a strong range that will stack off a high % of the time. When villain is OTB, he'll only be stacking a very small portion of his wide opening range. The only thing that makes this spot a little better is that he min raised it and we don't actually need to stack him. But we do need to make about $1.80 on average when we hit our set. I'm not saying we definitely don't, but I'm guessing it's close. So unless we start playing our hand for more than set value I think it's close pre but a fold. (Oops you ended up discussing this a bit anyway haha.)
26ish, AQo top left, I like checking back. Don't think he's that likely to call with JJ on that river. Or much else that we beat. NH.
31:45, A4s. Run. Better.
37:30ish, KQs UTG would be a VERY tight fold.
Overall:
- You seem reeeeaaaalllyyy resulted oriented. I'm not preaching, because I suffer from this as much as anyone. But you looked at your BR within like 5 minutes of starting the vid, and then multiple times after that. Seems a good way to induce tilt. Just remember it's all one big session
- Your thought process seems really solid for the most part. You should really be playing 10nl only imo. But ofc, BRM is personal, so ignore me if you feel it's best to
- There were a couple hands where you bet twice with air or a semibluff type hand, and it seemed like your justification was "and now I have THIS hand/draw." I'm sure you were thinking somewhat about villain's range in your head, but I think articulating it more specifically helps.
- Nice vid
Logan2
Legend
Silver Level
I like the betting dilemas to extract value.
Agree with Scourrge about results oriented, i suffer from that too but i never look on the cashier in middle of a session. Considering your past on tilt probably should try to avoid that.
Run better mate
I think is the first 40min- poker video that see in full in a long time, was really interesting. Glad that 10nl is working for you.
Agree with Scourrge about results oriented, i suffer from that too but i never look on the cashier in middle of a session. Considering your past on tilt probably should try to avoid that.
Run better mate
I think is the first 40min- poker video that see in full in a long time, was really interesting. Glad that 10nl is working for you.
micromachine
Legend
Silver Level
I'll use the mouse for the next vid, I didn't realise how loud the clicking would be!
8:30ish, TT, I don't like x/r that flop. Are we bluffing? We have a strong second pair so seems bad. For value? Hard to see what he has that's worse and calls.
I agree that I played that poorly, calling would've been better
10:00ish, QQ, good check behind. I don't think you necessarily get another street of value in that spot against most of his range. Your line is the line I would have taken. When you have a decent hand sample, start looking at stats like resteal and 3b out of blinds for BvLP situations preflop. His KJo looks odd, but he might be 3betting more against LP opens, against us in particular, etc.
Cool, that's what I thought, couldn't really see any worse hands calling
14:50ish, 97o, I don't HATE 3betting, but we can 3bet pretty wide without 3betting that. He has reggish stats so it's probably fine to cbet wider against his LP opens, but at 5nl in general I wouldn't do that too much with offsuit gappers. Suited connectors seem fine though.
Fair enough, I must admit I don't have a well defined 3bet bluff range
18:30ish, A7o and fish x/min-reraises. First off I don't think this is a mandatory iso at all with a weak, offsuit ace OOP. Second, when he re-raises I think we can chuck it in without reads or like, a very specific plan. Yes we're getting a "sick price," but is it really that sick against his range. Meh. Probably not. As played, I like leading, but I think it's a fold when he jams (that was before I saw the result fwiw).
Glad you liked the lead and agree that I should've folded to the shove
22:30ish, 55 on the bottom right, I think it's a fold pre. I think people screw up "set-mining" in this spot a lot. For one thing, set-mining works best against a strong range that will stack off a high % of the time. When villain is OTB, he'll only be stacking a very small portion of his wide opening range. The only thing that makes this spot a little better is that he min raised it and we don't actually need to stack him. But we do need to make about $1.80 on average when we hit our set. I'm not saying we definitely don't, but I'm guessing it's close. So unless we start playing our hand for more than set value I think it's close pre but a fold. (Oops you ended up discussing this a bit anyway haha.)
Yeah I talked about the trouble with set-mining there a bit, I find it so hard to fold small PP's to a single raise though, especially when deep
26ish, AQo top left, I like checking back. Don't think he's that likely to call with JJ on that river. Or much else that we beat. NH.
31:45, A4s. Run. Better.
Dream flop vs a fish, love it.
37:30ish, KQs UTG would be a VERY tight fold.
I think I said that because I'm trying to consciously tighten up UTG, I used to have a wider opening range, like 15-16% so maybe I'm over-adjusting now. Good UTG range something like 22+, AQ+, AJs, KQs? Would folding KQo be too tight?
Overall:
- You seem reeeeaaaalllyyy resulted oriented. I'm not preaching, because I suffer from this as much as anyone. But you looked at your BR within like 5 minutes of starting the vid, and then multiple times after that. Seems a good way to induce tilt. Just remember it's all one big session
I know, I'm a terrible bankroll checker, playing with the nitty BRM I'm using should ensure that I don't tilt though, like I think I could handle a -10BI session now without steaming. Especially at 5nl, think if that happened at 10nl now, which I have 35BI for it would hurt but I would probably scurry back to 5nl for the rest of the session before losing 10BI.
- Your thought process seems really solid for the most part. You should really be playing 10nl only imo. But ofc, BRM is personal, so ignore me if you feel it's best to
Played only 10nl last night
- There were a couple hands where you bet twice with air or a semibluff type hand, and it seemed like your justification was "and now I have THIS hand/draw." I'm sure you were thinking somewhat about villain's range in your head, but I think articulating it more specifically helps.
Good point, will try and give my thoughts about villains range in more hands for the next vid
- Nice vid
Thanks man and thanks for the feedback
^^
micromachine
Legend
Silver Level
I like the betting dilemas to extract value.
Agree with Scourrge about results oriented, i suffer from that too but i never look on the cashier in middle of a session. Considering your past on tilt probably should try to avoid that.
Run better mate
I think is the first 40min- poker video that see in full in a long time, was really interesting. Glad that 10nl is working for you.
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed the vid. I'll try and run better in future
micromachine
Legend
Silver Level
I used Quicktime screen recording on the Mac with the high quality settings, think the PC guys are using Camtasia but you'll have to ask them more about that, Cafe has done a few Im sure he can point you in the right direction.
Cafeman
Legend
Silver Level
Yeah I use Camtasia as mm says.
BTW, I also thought the same thing when you were suggesting KQs was a possible open fold UTG. I would open that all day long, and a good deal worse if there are tards on my right (as there should be if I've table selected well enough). TBH, in these cases I treat my opening UTG as an iso. A3s, yeah let's do it... KTs, yep why not, the guy in the BB is a mouth breather. You get me?
BTW, I also thought the same thing when you were suggesting KQs was a possible open fold UTG. I would open that all day long, and a good deal worse if there are tards on my right (as there should be if I've table selected well enough). TBH, in these cases I treat my opening UTG as an iso. A3s, yeah let's do it... KTs, yep why not, the guy in the BB is a mouth breather. You get me?
Matt Vaughan
King of Moody Rants
Bronze Level
Cafe makes a good point. Our raise UTG looks strong enough to regs that we can use it as a semibluff vs. them and a value iso vs. fish simultaneously. Pretty sweet actually when you think about it. And yeah, I think folding KQo UTG is fairly tight, but not necessarily bad on all tables. But I'd prob have to have a specific reason for not opening it (like aggressive 3bettors behind).
