“Check the deuce four suited note one more time” - underrated comedy right there. Great to see you have a channel - I still have your “nooooo it’s too thin!” voice ringing through my ears when I stacked eastyy for 800bbs back in the day on 888. Glgl, champ!
Finally!! I've watched your hand discussion content with eastyy22 explaining in theory like 20x in .75 seconds just to make sure i understand what your explaining and consume all the knowledge and now you have your own channel. I will absolutely 100% support this mate so beautiful!
Have always loved your energy and disposition dude, happy to see a channel from you 🙂. I'm slowly grinding through the mids, so hope to see you at the tables some day! Kudos for not telling us about your 100k downswing whilst crying 🤣 we all would be!
Nice one Ben really enjoyed your first episode! Hope you get out of the downswing soon, look forward to your next videos! Much love from Wellington New Zealand
Great editing and content. Keep at it, and your channel is gonna take off. For the AK hand, we have narrowed his range quite a bit with the big flop sizing, so it is hard to have a ton of bluffs here. He has a ton of 6x and Qx, even with us blocking some KQ. I think we need to block more value, IMO. Ah/As are better.
Been following on and off on 2+2 for a while so good to see you on here, content is great for a first video excited to see what is to come, hopefully get a video with you and clanty in the near future
cool to see you are making videos. ive heard different people say things like "no one is winning at 1k on GG" or "ïts impossible to win below 10k on GG" just curious you thoughts on the ecosystem there. i started shot taking 1k recently on other sites
well I’m currently not the best person to answer this as I have been smoked on gg haha. without leaderboards at 1k, you will only win over a big sample with extreme game selection. honestly, if you have other site options then play most your volume there and select on gg. I’m prob gunna get banned for even promoting this to you lmao
Great first vid Ben! Subd. I wasn't a huge fan of the AhTd hand. I like the logic of the flop raise and given the wild cc range shifting to more x/r> than call seems good. Personally, not a huge fan of the turn barrel. Given fish there are a ton more 7x combos than a normal CC range, our Td blocks a bunch of his T9/T8 that fold turn (considering he'll probably have offsuit) as well as Tx bdfd that folds turn. When you get to the river I agree you probably just have to go with it but feels like a very sigh spot. A4ss was absolute perfection. 99 hand, think not shoving his AQ on river was very, very strange, he probably should shove every non sd combo. I get the human logic of maybe putting you on A3 or 76s but compared to the value combos def a torch. Would have died laughing if you bluffed 65s :D Excited to see more!
yeah that was something i didn't mention in the video - T is a pretty poor card to hold. but when you consider the width of their range of all hands i mentioned, blocking some combos of T9 and T8 probably isn't _that_ detrimental. i hear what you're saying tho! yeah that's the thing, AQ will win here at least some portion. just lucky i had it this time haha
Great vid, look forward to more. One small improvement / feedback would be that the table resolution looks a bit low - small point but would be nice if it was sharper
hey mate. yeah this is something that irks me massively haha. unfortunately with screen recording and then clipping this is pretty much the best quality we can get. i'm considering a stream deck which would likely help with the quality, but that would mean my sessions would have that extra bit of work that could detract from my play. rest assured it's something i'm aware of. ty for feedback!
great video. saw you on the rail of WPT gold coast and everyone probably just thought u were a random fan of poker not knowing the mega beast that u are
@@BenaBadBeatPoker awesome mate, I’ll keep following your content! I even sent you a pm on 2+2 years ago telling you that you seem such a good genuine person, so I’m glad you’re doing well! Good luck for everything!
The last hand, the other guy missing the bluff itself on the river is -8bb in equillibrium and then calling given they did check is another -13bb EV loss
@BenaBadBeatPoker at high stakes do you think the 5k+ regs are still making big EV punts like that on a semi-regular basis that aren't intentional deviations?
I read about an old hand you posted in your twoplustwo and I got curious. Would you say I can call down river vs all oppnents in this spot or is this hand very opponent dependent? And would you have called if you didnt hit the J on turn? Action went like this.: Hero is BB with 4♠ J♠ 2 players fold, CO raises to $12.50, 2 players fold, Hero calls $7.50 Flop: ($27.50) 4♦ 6♦ 6♠ (2 players) Hero checks, CO bets $10.97, Hero raises to $35.96, CO calls $24.99 Turn: ($99.42) J♥ (2 players) Hero bets $67.49, CO calls $67.49 River: ($234.40) T♣ (2 players) Hero checks, CO bets $421.20, Hero calls $421.20 Showdown: CO shows 5♣ 7♣ (a pair of Sixes).
yoyo was this a hand i played? cus if i did, i'm not a fan at all looool. turn size makes little sense because i believe we wanna be more polar. Looks like i'm playing my hand a little bit. as played river looks good for sure. it would depend what the turn was for me to consider calling otr im afraid
@@BenaBadBeatPoker thanks! Yes you played this hans in 2018 or 2019 :). So you saying we can call on rivers that not complete the draws vs all players? This is not player dependent at all? (Im trying to learn poker) Do we turn our hand into river bluff jam on any rivers? Thanx for your answer ❤️
it’s a bit too hard to give you a solid answer but in short, it’s essential you only do this kinda thing vs players who you deem capable of bluffing. At micros, it could well be a torch vs plenty of players, but vs some it prints. Our exact hand probably never bluffs the river and we wouldn’t ever bet the turn for this size with a random 4x so we wouldn’t really have an opportunity to bluff. Hope that makes some sense
Epic content! Snap sub :) that what we need. Question, what bankroll you had to stay that big downswing? Of course you had some rakeback, so overall you lost idk 60/70k? How big roll you need to be alive on 1/2k? I have now big downswing too, same 35/40bi on nl100 and i thought 50/60bi is Sage but now i swe you can lose it in 2/3weeks... When i want Play for a livling on nl100 and my monthly spendings are 15bi, volume 60/80k hands its 100bi safe or not?
hey mate - thanks! good question. I don't really use BRM as much these days as I've built up a good roll over the last 10-15 years. that said, i am a big advocate for frequent and low buy-in shot taking. so for example if you have 50bi for 100nl, i'd look to shot 5bi at 200. if you lose that 5bi (including if you lose 10bi at 100 during your shot) i'd move back down to 100nl only to rebuild and shot again. the danger with only ever shotting the next stake with 100bi is that you can cap your earning potential. while this feels safer, it's certainly -ev longrun imo. feel free to ask any more questions - will be happy to answer! glgl
Would have to give AKo with Ks the punt tag. Also think you are correct about As being good but you have the wrong reason. You mention BU not bluffing his As floats OTR like AJs, ATs etc. This might be true but he also does not have any other Ax floats to bluff in the first place, so As can't possibly be better for this reason, at best it's neutral if BU never bluffs As (which he could at some frequency) The actual reason As is nice is because BU will be jamming turn over your barrel a lot of the time with his AQs, AQo, except AQo with As because he obviously blocks your bluffs, meaning we block more AQ OTR with As than other A. Since missed Ax FD from BU may very well bluff at some frequency river I would say As is roughly neutral in this spot, while Ks is unequivocally very negative.
Hi Ben, great video! What is a realistic winrate for a solid reg in the gg 1k games without an exclusive rakeback deal? Ive always avoided these games due to the absurd rake but a lot of regs seem to play them so obviously there is decent EV there. Looking forward to future vids!
without a rakeback deal i honestly think that 98+% of regs will be flat out losing. if you have other games to play, then continue playing those tbh. unless you can get a good rb deal and grind leaderboards (but this is a pretty rough working life imo) then you can expect around 0.5-1bb/100 post rakeback. take that all with a pinch of salt though!
thats a really thin valuebet with QJs by villain. Dont he thinks we check KQ here? Go for value with AQ and also check traps like QQ, KK, AA with no spades? Do we check call with KQ here with no spade vs. missed flushdraws? and yeah get owned by potential AQ by villain? Because his line is exactly what he had and I suppose he should check back river because we have traps: and hands that x call and beat his QJs. PS: really amazing chanell, dude! love to see the insights of highstakes regs and how they think about hands! great content! (from a 50 NL upcoming grinder here)
thanks mate! it does look like it's on the thin side perhaps, but in reality as you say i'm just shoving all my Qx otr at this spr. you could be right that there may be some AQ, but i do believe that i'll have far more bluff catchers/Ahi. if nothing else, this is a great exploit from ip
In my opinion I think your AK is a good bluff catch. But wouldn't most villains jam combo draws on the turn to realize there Eq and fold out hands like yours? If we think they do... we can eliminate some bluff combos so he raps more value then blüffs. Make that sense to you? Cheers from Germany wish you the best
yeah can definitely see what you're saying to be true. the thing is, lots of people are too scared to shove top pair vs big bet ott in the fear they only get called by better and fold out bluffs (even though this isn't theoretically sound). thanks for watching!
Pro playing must just be pure pressure every hand. Not going to lie, quite a few of them hands you lost I'd never have went for the bluff. But you're a pro and I'm not so I can't really argue
definitely important to have a mind of your own when it comes to poker mate! i'll be making plenty of mistakes but it's about making as many good decisions as possible too haha.
as with ig and 2+2 i'm quite selective with the hands i post tbh. the goal definitely do have less jargon/pio type stuff, and more casual-ish hand review like today. ty for watching!
ATs hand the xR on flop def. not standard or great bcz the fish has like 35 combos of trips compared usual cold call range that has like 1-2 combos in practice so you def. want to stay off from xR and play whole range that continues as a x/C (except A7s, K7s and 66 which can obviously do this play) then his sizes on turn will full signal what he has, playing like this we set ourselves to bluff on bad spots mostly. I def. know this spot very well .
thanks for the feedback! while i agree that they will cc a lot more 7x pre, that will also mean they have a whole host of other trash hands that we deny vs with our xr. having the Ah reduces flop floats too from ip. that said i can certainly be convinced that this line is too spew and unnecessary hahaha
4:00 Why are you raising here, when you admit villain should be super wide here? To get value from draws? If you barrel turn here, he still calls with semi decent draws being in position, and then you have to shutdown alot of rivers? and put in a tough spot? by the way, absolutely love your content mate, outstanding stuff! 6:20 Once you decide to bluff this flop(and I like it because of the 0 backdoor potential plus range advantage), is it almost an automatic double barrel here except on A or K turns? The last hand? Im not good enough to fault you for calling here.
hey! i mentioned the reasons for raising the flop were to cleanse 30-35% of IP's eq that auto folds flop. as for turn, we can definitely expect some folds from 1p holdings, it's not like their entire continuing range otf is going to call turn. hand2 - thanks! hmm i think i would still barrel on Kx some of the time. have to remember that we retain all out strong hands otf and the only hand they improve to is top set which is mega small part of the range. hand3 definitely suss from me but thank you haha
90 k hands in a hole year??? I played that in 2 months playing almost the same stakes 4kNL/2kNL/8kNL, you need much more volume to get through downswings, and to get a decent volume to find out if you are an actual winning player on those stakes. I had a 70 k down on february and at the end of february I got almost all of It back.
yo! that was just gg mate. on the year I played 425k hands over gg, iggy and acr! Here is the breakdown of my year (+300k post rakeback). Glglgl forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=58394163&postcount=9240
So in the AKo hand why do you want to call with a spade suit on the river? Wouldn't it better to not have that one, because then they could bluff with a missed fd? And again in the punt hand, why would it better for AQo to call with a spade suit?
yo! i think you mean why would i want to call the As on the river? The reason you'd like to hold it is because IP won't want to bluff their missed Ahi flush draws. therefore when we have it in our hand, it allows IP to hold more cards that will bluff. As for the AQ i'm not sure i said it would be best for them to call with a spade!
I don't think last hand is too much of a punt from him, 87,67 can easily be around 5-6 combos together, you can trick yourself into turning Asx into bluffs too, so I'd say 8 combos of bluffs are definitely in you range. Do you have >24 combos of value. I don't really think so. Maybe 10 sets,3 two pair, 2 straights, 7-8 Kx. I count 22-23.
big fan of this comment because we aren’t just taking what the solver says as gospel. totally agree on the first 5-6 combos but I gotta say that I’m quite certain I wouldn’t bluff nfd’s. Also have a few more 2p depending on preflop frequency. All that said, and I acknowledged this in the video, it’s not a totally unreasonable call. But I do still believe it loses. Probably not as much as the solver says, but still a decent clip!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker with this SPR especially, it becomes really tricky what you bluffcatch because most of the bluffcatchers prefer to go all-in, exception being 88. So, villain might think that you know that as you said when he checks, it's auto x/f most of the time cause of no need to maintain MDF for x/c with this SPR as OOP, hence you might be bluffing a bit more (Axs into bluffs) and this case AQ is a bit better than 88 maybe. Still frequency call at most, obv.
The last hand why are you suprised when he called your shove and said aq "no spade" Wouldnt he be more likely to call without a spade because you have more flush draws? you said that you check all of your flush draws for more ev? confused lol
he is more likely to call without yes but I can’t hold the Qs cus it’s either QTss for a straight or a paid that i check. I don’t bluff the As ip though so it would be better for them to hold that card because it unblocks more bluffs
Some issues I see. 1). I understand your playing " what makes most money over time" theory, but the guy is never folding trip 7's or a flush and if you know that and put him on it, you are just donating at that point. Only other reason is to buy you some advertising as a river bluffer , tho that may not be needed at that time. 2). Last hand the guy called you with A high because he obv put you on the Draw. Really makes no sense for you to flat on the Turn. Unless the guy spews off on rivers, you ideally want to reraise to build the pot and protect vs flushdraws.
I’m definitely not trying to make them fold trips or a flush! I shared that ofc they’ll have some trips and flushes but the one pair region (given splashy opponent) will all likey turbo fold. If villain is calling too wide ott (which was my assumption) then river shove will massively over realise. as for hand 2, we don’t wanna play raises with sets that are invulnerable here. the idea of ‘protecting vs flush draws’ isn’t really relevant because those hands make up a significantly small portion of their range after what is likely close to a range bet ott. appreciate your feedback!
