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  • DustySchmidt DustySchmidt Bluefire Pro Poker Trainee
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    Re: Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    27 Apr 2012 at 7:22pm

    Bluffalobill wrote:

    great video

    Thanks!

  • DustySchmidt DustySchmidt Bluefire Pro Poker Trainee
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    Re: Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    27 Apr 2012 at 7:31pm

    madboy wrote:

    1st Hand: (AQo)

     

    I kinda like your thoughts for the turnplay and hence I like there your move even though you rep a tinny range.

    But I rly cannot see how the flopcall can be any other and bad, tbh.

    I mean,

    SB can for sure lead a strong range here having the worst relative position in this hand on such a coordinated board.

    Your hand provides you much more RIOs than IOs and there is still the PFA left to act.

    Rly think that the flopcall is just -ev longterm.

     

    2nd Hand (T9s);
    Idk tbh -> it is a spot where it is likely better to only call your toprange (flushes) on the turn to prptect the weaker parts of yor callingrange there.

    Furthermore, on this turncard it just looks like a (in practice) solid spot to turn stuff into a bluff.

    Vs. weaker Regs it might be still good...

     

    Hand 3 - T9s:

    Rly cannot see how you wanna implement a ch/raise on this board with this posis into any solid gameplan.

    Exspecially because your raise UTG and you range is overall stronger, it imo makes nore sense to have a betting-strat in general...

    This hand sucks for betting, but for your range a bet is imo best.

    In this particular spot the ch/raise looks imo not too strong because you would bet here all sets (unless maybe with AA we might wanna check), but I guess you would never ch/raise here a strong hand?

    At least it seems to be bad for your gameplan because then your cbetting-range would become rly weak...

     

    With hand 1 I do think that it is close and you may be right about it being -EV. However, when stacks are deep, I really like to hang in there and give myself a chance to spot a good opportunity to take pots away.

     

    With hand #2 check out my response above.

     

    With hand #3, I certainly don't default to this kind of play, but I think it is a good one if you can use it from time to time. There is a lot more value than people might think in having hands that opponents have a lot of trouble putting you on. I see all kinds of goofy stuff from my opponents because it is very difficult to defend against my ranges here. I can literally have anything here. I can have two overs, qj, a random gutshot, sets, TP etc. What is great about it is that by having such a wide range on dry boards like these, they really can't do much about it. If they reraise back, it seems to almost always be a bluff in which case I often just click it back or call or sometime jam. They basically can't represent much and there is a lot I can represent. I am also going to make them play for all or most of their stack quite a lot and a lot of times your regular playing a bunch of tables is just going to give it to you.

  • GabeTheKid GabeTheKid Poker Newbie
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    Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    28 Apr 2012 at 1:51pm
    "Every day before I play I study 2-3 players game and pick them apart based on my notes and my HEM stats" Any chance you can elaborate on how you do this and what you are looking for?
  • DustySchmidt DustySchmidt Bluefire Pro Poker Trainee
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    Re: Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    29 Apr 2012 at 12:39pm

    GabeTheKid wrote:

    "Every day before I play I study 2-3 players game and pick them apart based on my notes and my HEM stats" Any chance you can elaborate on how you do this and what you are looking for?

    I often go to the vs. players tab in HEM and see what's going on there, but mostly I just pull up all the hands I have on them and compare my stats line by line with theirs. My aim is mostly to get a feel for their ranges. For example if I check raise the flop 20% of the time and the opponent I am studying check raises only 8% then I know to give a lot more credit to their check raises than I would someone who plays more like me. 

     

    Comparing stats of theirs to my own is very useful for me because I understand well how wide or narrow I am in common spots so as I understand their ranges better and better I can better counter their strategy. 

  • madboy madboy Poker Newbie
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    Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    29 Apr 2012 at 9:04pm
    thanks for answering above^^ one more question: Min.28: ATo I kinda wonder what woukd be your turnplay if you would have spiked a Ten?
  • madboy madboy Poker Newbie
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    Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    29 Apr 2012 at 9:10pm
    btw, @this at-hand ->he imo cannot fold a chop due to odds b/c he has enough eq to call vs. chops and some 6x-combos.
  • DustySchmidt DustySchmidt Bluefire Pro Poker Trainee
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    Re: Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    30 Apr 2012 at 12:17am

    madboy wrote:

    btw, @this at-hand ->he imo cannot fold a chop due to odds b/c he has enough eq to call vs. chops and some 6x-combos.

    I do agree that he will usually call the river if he did have an ace. He may find a fold from time to time, but not too often I agree.

     

    If a 10 had come on the turn, that is a pretty close one for me. I think betting something like 1/3 pot can be a pretty good idea as can checking back and seeing if the river changes anything. I could possibly check back a 10 and then if some brick hit the river, overbet shove the river when checked to and look pretty fishy. I can expect some light calls there for sure from time to time.

  • madboy madboy Poker Newbie
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    Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    30 Apr 2012 at 12:37am
    Nice answer - thx a lot, rly appreciate it:) I btw. love you strategy to prepare off-game gameplans vs. various opponents and do it myself pretty often. How is it for you personally due to the fact that you do play on average 12+ tables -> do you take also in game some notes or is it just impossible? With your system (developing gameplans vs. REGs with taking notes off game) it woud be imo not such a big deal to not take notes ingame. But what is then with the notes against fishes?
  • vitinhodzi vitinhodzi Poker Newbie
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    Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    1 May 2012 at 4:10am
    I really like the Galfond videos.... but when we talk about Small / Mid stakes.... u are the guy! Congrats!!!
  • madboy madboy Poker Newbie
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    Re: Leatherass9's Keeping Your Eyes Peeled
    2 May 2012 at 3:13am
    MIn. 47 - KQs: Would prefer there a bet Turn - Jam River_line because this way I can rep more valuehands (AQ, AJ-combos(there is a chance that vs. some ppl you can have w AJ 2 streets of Value), AT, A4s, A7s, 77...).