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Results of the 53dd: Villain folded 77!

Nick shows just how corrosive some ill-conceived range thinking is. 88 (rivered set hand) maybe the top of hero's range but it's still a fold if villain doesn't bet, 3-bet enough worse hands. So what if we are always folding in this spot. We will never see it again and if, by some cosmic fluke, the universe does dish out the same run out and action and hand for hero, it'll be a different opponent who won't know anything about this hand and won't be able to discern anything from seeing this hand in this video. I love BenaBadBeat's approach as shown in the last hand. It is so perfectly right that villain will be sat there going "This guy's an idiot, he so obviously has a 2" all those times he doesn't have a 2 himself. Finding bluffs in the 'he's never bluffing' spots and telling the correct story throughout the whole hand is a rare skill. Really enjoyed this one.

The only punt I see is the first hand. Problem with herocalling maniac whales with ace high is that they can show up with some ridiculous bottom pair hand. These guys are the masters of the value bluff, since their strategy is basically "they checked to me, so I'm betting range".

love the videos with ben (and all the content in general). keep it going nick!

The 53 hand is the best in the series so far, fucking class The "So you're telling me you're trying to get him to fold Ax?" Ashamed Ben - "Yep"

Last hand is hysterical I almost thought it was bean playing 500nl for a minute. Amazing the extra layers of analysis and theory that goes into 500nl a lot of the same stuff but yet it goes so much deeper things I never thought about

Last time I was this early nick was on a heater

Another great video, thank you Nick (& Ben!)

You're. ONE in a BILLION streamer /content creator. Thank you!!!

oh god, here we go

Absolute quality. The 53s had was epic!

I like the 53dd hand fwiw. I dont see how the hand is a punt, we simply have to find some bluffing combos to balance out our quads. This combo seems as good as any. Very good bluff, and a well earned fold otr!

Found your channel a few days ago, great stuff...thanks from Italy!

Ben is a great guest! You do well with this show, NIck! Keep em coming

One of the best poker hand analysis vid i've seen, and lmao the last hand was so sick, that's some next level leveling lol, do not attempt at low stakes tho 😅.

lol Ben is a sicko thats for sure, great PONP episode

Love the last spot since theres so much nuance involved. I'd imagine if Bena checks river, villain has to check some Ax (or should he bet super high freq?). Also, does Bena have 33 or 54h. I would think 54h but idk about 33 turn raise. Can Bena jam some Ax on river too? If villain tanked with 77, maybe that’d be a good exploit.

Nice! Already been waiting for this :)

on the last hand, i think it wasnt mentioned but ben could have a straight flush as well as quads, if hes raising 53s on the flop i assume hed raise 54s ?

Just watching this video, I do not think the last hand was that horrible. I mean it is not just the relevence of 2d being blocked with 53dd which is the best blocker for 2d, the 3d is also very relevant imo. You guys did not really talk about 33 being a better full house now. AA222 < 22333 and we are blocking 33, we are blocking 2d. As far as a better bluff I do not know if you can really find a better one. Also straight flush is on the board, so there is a handfull of combos that do beat an A here, 33, 45h and any 2. If you are gonna bluff, I think this is a sick hand to do it with.

Yay Punt Lounge

That 88 hand, think i'm preparing a bucket and then just call and immediantly throwing up, knowing that it's always a straight. As You both said, he's a rec. (aggro.) player and after that You said that he knows that You don't have AA and TT. It's pretty obv. for us but for him- even if it's immposible- we can have AA and TT. Reason because is that he is a rec. player so he have no idea that top of our range are 88. It means that he assumed that we can have all the monster hands as long with AA and 1010. The only thing we can do is to choose smaller sizing of raising river (not much smaller), coz we still want to have call by combo of 65 and any other two pairs. With that sizing of raise on the river I think rec. player still gonna have some troubles to call down their lowest two pair's and if we raise a little bit smaller on the river, we might also get 3bet but not a shove and this will clearly show us that they just have the nuts- in long term we're going to lose less money. Still, that procces of thinking is sooo much leveling, witch always comes to that spot where they always have the nuts. After read what i wrote i still making a call and fill my bucket xD "Great content. Keep up the good work"- if you remember what You had on that 10 4 9 (10 and 9 was a fd) board, when i 3bet You pre from SB i would love to get an answer ;p Turn was K and then You bet big, on the flop You raised me

Life's hard when you are OOP.

immediately a call down...

having AQ probably the same as AA without heart on the first one

Ben is biggest luckbox in 500z. Very easy talking about being calm when u running above EV 90% of time

51:28 : D

Thanks for bringing in such a high caliber player, I liked the video, but I felt like you chose a bit bad format for it, as you end up doing more talking/analising than Ben.

why SBvBB w KJo not 4 bet pre flop?

I think 88 hand Is an easy fold

first!