Phil's 2000NL HU Member Review

Discussion for Phil's 2000NL HU Member Review.

Hi everyone.

 

Thanks Phil, very interesting :).

 

So here are my comments/thougts/info about me, for you to understand better my thinking :)

 

About the many stats : I actually have played with stats (hud) for only few months, i'm not much into stats or at least i was not at all before. But now I have a lot of them on hud, even if i don't use it all most of the time, just in case.

 

76 on J6KQ it's clearly obvious that the 2 barrel is very bad without shoving the river. I guess I soudainly doubted on the river for no reason, about whether or not he was going to call my river bet more than I previously thought, by a lack of confidence i'd say.

Then just went back to my thought that i was repping so strongly a value hand by 3 barreling this board.

 

JTs on AAK68, wasn't really sure what to do. That's true i have the best hand quite often. I didn't realize at all on the moment he was gonna call me light here... I was just thinking "well i can't really have air" etc but as you said maybe i'm too much concerned about what i'm repping sometimes...

Check raising the river as you said, seems really cool indeed, I like it a lot.

 

 

A5o when I 4bet then 3 barrel QQ39X, i wasn't thinking well, basically wanted to have this pot, classic leak for me. As you said i "have to be carefull not to go crazy everytime i 4bet bluff". So true.

Quite hard for me not to find a 2n barrel after my small sizing flop. Then i have to admit 3barrel is horrible :(.

The problem here is i totally and stupidly leveled myself because of my very small sizings both on turn because of the small flop bet, and on river because of the small turn bet...

I regretted that i didn't bet more on the turn, just to be sure i had an easy check river. But even with these sizings when Phil disects the ranges i can see that indeed he almost can't have pocket pairs because he would have shoved pf most likely, so his range is so Q heavy after calling my turn bet.

Really very impressed by your read on this hand btw, very interesting, and i learnt a lot here :)

 

 

A4o when i get C/R on 9T7A, i generally think most people C/R turns very strong after flop gets checked, because they would generally have bet their draws directly, etc.

I feel like i could be exploitable on this spot by folding way too much. I fold the ace which is almost the top of my range, and i fold every delayed Cbet. So i just call with A7 A9 !!!?

It makes me think i should consider implementing to my game check raising these kinds of turn spots more often as a bluff or semi bluff, which i'm not doing much usually. I certainly will try in the next days, i feel like i should have done it before.

But, I still don't really know what to do when i'm the one who gets C/Raised here... Really interested about what you guys think about these, and especially about when we get C/R on turn after flop got checked, with weak TP ?

 

 

with TT on 8748, i almost never see him slowplay, and even more with his quick timing, i see myself ahead 95% so i just bet in case he has draws he checked and could call with sometimes, and obv to protection and not to be bluffed out on any scared river.

What would you think about a smaller bet like half pot on turn, to induce some light calls by weak draws counting on implied odds that they don't have cause i'm never gonna bet river when called ?

And anyway i could bet smaller with my entire range on this spot ? mmmmmm honnestly not sure if i would bluff small in fact so maybe that's a bad idea ?

 

I was checking a lot of missed flops because i thought I would be giving him the opportunity to take advantage by C/R me out too often, and because i was feeling he wasn't betting much turns when i checked back flops, so i could delayed Cbet more safely.

 

About KQ 3betting when opponents 4bets a lot (just saw the comment above), i was thinking i personnally don't care 5 betting allin everytime i get 4bet if he really 4bets a lot...Don't know if this is correct though.

 

Finally as you said Phil, that's obviously hard to know how i'm reasonning without talking to me as you said so i'll talk a bit about this : I don't think that i'm more concerned about overall gameplan than hand reading as you thought maybe i was. Instead, balancing is something that came quite late in my developpement.

I usually try to take as much value as i can in every spot, if i know how to do it, and try to evaluate from there what i should do next with this image.

I usually don't play "for balancing sake", or at least i don't think to be doing it much. But i guess i must sometimes try to play in a way that will ease the match for me later, or think a bit about it even subconsciously.

Sometimes trying to set things up for future hands, with overbets for example. But that's not my main concern at all.

For the rest it's more "hand by hand" in my head (depending on the previous hands obv, but not planning on the future ones).

Just so you know in what king of spirit i usually am for the second review.

 

Don't really know what i was supposed to say here, maybe that's a bit long, or maybe i'm talking too much about my thinking instead or the strategy. Whatever I hope this is fine.

Often times i put my thoughts even if you Phil, agreed with what i did, just to check if my thinking is ok.

I'll let it here now, before it becomes too heavy/unreadable...

 

Really thanks a lot for the reviewing, i can't say enough how cool this is for me to have a free coaching session reviewed by you Phil :)

 

Bye

 

Thomas.

Great video, did not like the shove on the river on the QQx board when he was holding KQ, but gj.

phil you mentioned in a concept video ( #2 or 3) each decision is independant,and you cant make a past decision + or - EV by the current decision being faced in the moment. Howere you said at the begging of the vid that that a turn second barrel is only +EV if he shoves the river, why is the river decision based on the turn decision, basically im confused. Do past decisions ( in the same hand) alter the EV of future decsions in the same hand ( ie river jam, makes turn barrel good, but turn barrel is bad if the the river isnt jammed ?