Phil Plays 5/10NL Live

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Phil it would be great if you could team up with Punketty or Giggy and do a review or a live session. I think you would complement well with someone who is more familiar with the current state of these games. Always appreciate the 6m NL content tho, even if like you said its a bit of a boring figured out game maybe there is yet some good thoughts you can provide us.

Hey Phil. Thanks 4 the video, very interesting as usual. Have lots of questions tho:

1)I wanted to hear your thought on the check/raising the dry boards in general. I mean I always thought that i dont want to have a raising range there at all, cuz there is no need to protect my hand + opponent is unlikely to have anything, so i better let him hit something with my 2pair+ and since i dont raise my 2pair+ I cant raise anything cuz it would be too exploitable. The problem with this thinking is that then I dont have enough made hands ti check/call with since im not likely to hit a dry board as well as opponent, but he will have the initiative and make a standard cbet making me fold way to big portion of my range (to the point where im being exploited by his simple 100% cbet strategy). And when I sont have a made hand (2 overs or 2 backdoor draws for ex.) I cant profitably check/call either since ppl barrel too much this days. SO this all makes me wanna start check/raising dry flops and/or expand my turn check/raising range. But im not sure how to approach his spots: how can we balance our range in spot where we have so few value combos? Please explain on 2 hands played by you in this video. 1st hand was on 9-22 and 2nd on 30-20. Please answer my question for both hands: 1) Whats your value range (how many combos)? 2) Whats your bluff range (how many combos)? 3) Im not sure that you have a static bluff range in each spot (like on this kind of texture you always do this and that). If Im right how are you balancing your bluffs? I mean since nobody has nothing + the fact that you dont have static range = very likely that you always weighted more towards bluffs (cuz there are more possible bluff combos in your range)? Hope you understand this one cuz im might make some mistakes since my English is not perfect. 4) What is the best hand you expect villain to fold on the flop? 5) How often will you follow on the turn through unimproved (picking no additional equity/scare cards) and what hands you expect them to fold? 6) which scare cards you would always/very frequently try to represent with a 3 barrel and why? for example a T in the 1st hand (since 89 is a decent part of you bluffing range)?

Sorry, there is a lot of questions but i never saw any complex theory video about check/raising and figured out you are the right guy to ask =) I think it would be just great if you will make a miltipart theory series about check/raising in NLH. It will help a lot of SSNL players to improve their understanding of these spots a lot. If you would like to but dont know how to start and what to include there I will be more than happy to help you with my newbish questions. Just let me know and i will provide you with tons of questions common for SSNL grinders about theory.

I actually feel that you guys need to more often ask users what videos they would like to see, may be make some kind of votes or polls in the forums and definitely include the info about them in your emails (like you did with coach voting recently). Pretty much every training site has same kind of stuff like live-play, post-audio commentary or member leak-finders. But I cant remember a single one which had asked users "what do u wanna see next guys: a)video on playing out of position b) video on calling 3-bets etc." Sorry again for lots of text. If you are a member that read this till the end and agree with me, plz thumb up or post a comment saying you want a check/raise video too and voting or whatever you want. GL HF guys =)

EDIT: Tried to break it up for you.

nice to see you making a NL vid. if you mix limits (2/4+), you should be able to get 4-6 vids of exclusively 250bb tables if you want to get into more postflop spots

hey phil, hopefully youll take a moment to answer my "completely unrelated" poker question or give some thoughts on the issue. basically if you were to start playing poker from ssnl/msnl today (and had a very solid base of everything related to NLHE and know a thing or two of PLO), what would your approach on moving up vs masstabling smaller stakes be (sacrificing smaller edges a la folding 86o BVB to a SB open in order to maximize in bigger EV decisions on more tables while kind of capping your improvement as a player and possibly slowing down your moving up). i assume youd probably advise playing PLO too, how aggressively would you suggest someone who needs some base income but would also like to "make it to the top". i know when you first came up games were quite a bit softer, you took a bunch of aggro shots back and forward and always had the chance of finding HU action etc. but its no secret to anyone that its not quite the case anymore and good action is hard to come across, so basically what would your take on the entire moving up/improving/BR management be. game selecting higher stakes and playing less tables always while trying to improve every god damn day seems like the ideal route to go but its also kind of hard to bank a steady income like that given how its inevitable that at some point youll bounce back. long post but hopefully youll take a few minutes, thanks, good luck and good job on the sick upswing after the gross downer at 25-50 : p

With regards to dry boards, I prefer to play my hands more aggro on dry boards... both my strong hands and my bluffs.  I of course will slowplay some, and float occasionally, but I want to be able to bluff the dry boards at a fairly high frequency.  To do so, I need to play my value hands just as fast.

 

Hey Phil,

 

min 11 you 3bet 89s vs. CO and cbet around half pot. Would you consider betting bigger on the Flop, about 170 into 230, since it is draw heavy and then overbetjam the turn on a blank?  On the Turn we would have an SPR of around 1.4-1.5. I heard you say in a previous video that you should have a jamming range on the Turn with this kinda SPR. We could balance this by shoving draws.

Thanks in advance.

Far fewer edge!! lol You should re-title this video "Phil Plays the far fewer edge 5/10NL Live"