Great video. Love all the videos you have put out tbh. Think it might be better to review a recorded session though. Seemed like a new spot would come up before you could finish discussing each spot.
i like these pro on pro live play more than anything else i see on the internet. very refreshing and you learn lot more than just 1 guy explaining it. because its like a discussion group where you hear both side of the story to why you should do this in certain spot, what kinda card they would have if they would of do this and that. basically with 2 people you get a range of what you should do, with 1 person you really only get "this is what you should do"
coming from a hs pro, i resonate with you the best by far from all the contents there are here. very good vibes, love ur mindset and ur style when it comes to explain hands. the most important thing that i like about ur videos is that u are trying to understand others thoughts than making them to understand you. doesnt matter if u play 50k, 10k, 1k or 10nl. my respect for u it's above huge.
@@adfdsafsdfsdf5708 He seems to be a player who hard learnt 100bb cash games, doesnt waste time studying multiway pots or niche situations, just a strong foundation that doesnt get too fancy. Then just preys on weaker players and doesnt try too hard to sweat reg vs reg. Its exactly the type of poker I try and learn.
I’ve been watching this channel since it started, and this is by far my favorite video. It’s super interesting to see how certain Weazel seems in certain spots, and you fire back with insightful commentary. I love when people are humble in their approach while still being top-level. Kudos for that. I’m a fish and just splash around on American-regulated sites, I've won the last couple of years I've played over a small sample which tells me how soft the pool must be since I know I'm terrible. Not to bring another podcast into the discussion, I recently saw an interview with Ike Haxton. The most interesting part to me was when he said that people focus so much on bet sizing, yet it’s something that doesn’t really matter. I’m curious about your thoughts on that. He also mentioned that people get too wrapped up in worrying about spots that don’t matter for example bet sizing and should focus on the ones that do. How do you figure out what actually matters? Thanks for the amazing content!
thanks a lot for this comment mate - means a lot and I’m really glad you’re enjoying the content. Ike is absolutely right but we have to be careful how we interpret what is being said. he’s saying that the EV of different size doesn’t matter, but this is only really true once you have an understanding of how a spot should or should not be played. so for example you take a scenario like AJ5fd sb v btn 3bp, you can prob range bet for 25% pot OR you could bet 70% pot and play some checks. the EV of these 2 scenarios will be basically nothing, however making your choice between these sizes and the reasons for doing so (ultimately how you want your strategy to look) is what is very important. hopefully that makes some sense but feel free to shoot me any more questions - happy to answer. good luck!
Great video; at 6:10 what size would we take with a bluff like KQs for example? Would we still bluff for 10% pot, or do we either bluff shove or check to give up?
well firstly I was wrong, there’s no real small sizes on the river, and it’s all in mostly. think AK would be one of our first bluffs. now that I know there is no 10% it’s quite obvious to me cus I don’t wanna use that size with any of my bluffs 🤣
Ben, first of all I'd like to say you have been a huge inspiration to me since the days when I started reading your blog on 2+2 about a decade ago. I have something of a non-poker related question. I remember you used to have hair because I saw some of your old videos from around 2020 where you still had it. I actually started going bald in my 20s and decided to shave it off completely. To be honest I couldn't afford hair transplants and I think they look very obvious on people who have had them. Was that ever an option for you or did you just decide to shave it off right away once you started losing your hair? Being hairless took quite a lot of getting used to for me personally.
really appreciate you following along for such a long time bro! haha, yeah my hair was thinning and during lockdown i decided to go for it and shave it all off. from what i know about hair transplants, it puts your body and brain through so much stress that i didn't feel it to be necessary. I also heard you would have to have multiple transplants for it to properly work and wasn't keen for that. lastly, i was fortunate that i liked the bald look and so did my wife (although she had no choice :D )
I remember studying a similar spot (sb vs button) on the J10 type board, and I'm pretty sure solver liked to overbet, or shrug and jam. Way too many hands that get a good price with halfpot and some super uncomfortable turns. Haven't listened to what you said yet..
@@BenaBadBeatPoker Ah yep, that's a true heuristic. Generally smaller on straight completers. 7 would skew what I said a bit. Sick content Ben keep posting!
at 23:00 how do you both come up with exactly KT being your bottom? is there some kind of rule? Why K9 K7 would not be valuebettable? Also, I still dont get it, why do you wanna go B60 if you used little over B33? how is that correlated? "you arent betting worse than KT, so bigger is better" thats what i dont understand why is that the case that the bottom of your valuebets dictates sizing? Sorry for noob questions, i am just trying to learn the concepts
hey mate! good question and not noob at all. so generally speaking in any spot your bet size is dictated by your value range. you will then fit your bluffs around this designated size. in this hand, you’re right K9 could be in there, but you gotta appreciate how often you will get called by worse. but when you have KT, you beat K9 and also chop with KT - that was why we distinguished KT to be the bottom of the value range. maybe that sounds like a small deal, but it isn’t because you need to think of your overall value range and the sizing that makes sense for the bulk of that range. you don’t wanna carve out more custom sizes for specific hands in your range. you rightly identify that K9 could be worth whatever size, but as a single sizing approach you haemorrhage money going small/too thin with K9. cliffs: always think about worst hand in your range you wanna bet, coupled with all the better hands that wanna bet. by using bottom end AND top end, you can often decipher the optimal sizing for your range. hope that helps a bit!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker thanks man! very good at explaining things, so theoretically, if i chose to bet many weaker hands like K9 K7 or something even wore for example K2, i would have to use very small size since the hand im choosing to bet is weak, and that would drag down also sizing for my strong hands? Maybe i wrote that very cryptic :D, basically, in case i only valuebet KT being the bottom i can use B60 for my valuebetting range, but in case i also include K2, im no longer allowed to use B60, only B30 ?
@@mogue3 yes precisely! because K2 would also include all the other weakish Kx which would therefore brings your average betting hand down =/= smaller betsize.
@@BenaBadBeatPoker not risky, but bad. Avg nl1k player not calling Tx enough to make a jam profitable so you only isolate yourself against better. On the plus side, they dont turn enough hands into bluff OTR so EZ x/fold!
Hey, I think your analysis on KK hand is way off. This is such a good turn that we can actually barrel pretty much any Jx we can have pre and OTR kings are still a relatively easy jam. Saying that we should only 10% block and mostly check otr is just wrong and nitty me thinks 🙄😅 Still good content as usual, keep em coming m8 ❤
@@BenaBadBeatPoker Yeah understandable, when we run bad in spots like this it’s very easy to overestimate the tightness required 😅 Wasn’t trying to be rude or anything, just wanted to point this spot out, so you could investigate it further ☺️
