Fydor_8 Video 09 - Playing an Aggressive Opponent

February 18, 2010 - 22:23

Fydor plays an aggressive opponent and talks about different adjustments that he makes against this type of player.
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Fydor plays an aggressive opponent and talks about different adjustments that he makes against this type of player.
RyPac13 says:
Realized we missed a few days, we'll put up a few more over the weekend to make up for that.
agronoom says:
I wanna thank you for this great vid! I've been making many mistakes that you mentioned in this video when playing against these types of opponents. Watching this will certainly help my game.
I also like that you use the built-in visualizer when looking back at hands instead of plain hand history text.
I enjoy watching live vids with their quick pace and thought processes combined with discussing the most interesting hands in the replayer.
Keep 'em coming:)
Looser Vogel says:
Excellent video! Tons of useful info, well structured and explained!
One question though: you mention the problems you might manoever yourself into by calling hands like J8s or T8s. What about reshoving them? Villain was raising almost every button, we should have some fold equity. Sure this is a marginal spot but you're down to 15BB so maybe it is time to fight back...? Or did you refrain from reshoving since he showed the willingness to call with KQ in the first match?
Thanx, Martin
plepormv says:
Hey just a quick comment,
I would prefer like reckless or kind of maniac player in the title since aggressive players dosnt means bad bluffy players obv
fydor_8 says:
Re-shoving hands like T8s or J8s basically comes down to your feel for his calling range and whether you have fold equity or not. As long as you think that villain is going to be folding a decent range (even like 30% of his hands) you can re-shove these types of hands because of the trouble they can bring you post flop, due to stack sizes and lack of implied odds. But, since we know that he would call pretty wide, I prefer sticking to shoving for value.
We must keep in mind that as long as we think that he has the ability to fold a bunch of hands to a shove, we can shove a range that would play well vs his calling range, in order to minimize the likelyhood that we are way behind when our money is committed.
Hopefully I answered you question. Let me know if you need further clarifications and details.
Good Luck!
Fydor_8
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zakwray says:
At 7m 54s, the Ks 4s hand on Qs 3s 2d you bet 50 and fold to a 210 raise. I don't get why you don't call for 160 more, when you would have 1020 behind, because you are probably going to stack him on any spade or king turn, i would always bet > call this, especially at these effective stacks. And if you were anticipating a C/R, why not just min-bet so when he does raise, he can't raise too much if you min bet 30, he isn't going to bet more than 120 thus making calling super standard with our implied odds?
Also, at 3m 4s, you have Q-10 on 9-8-8 board and he leads out for 2/3s pot. I wouldn't ever expect him to have the 8 here, 9 at best and we have position, 2 overs and a gutshot and again plenty of effective stack behind to make at the very least calling here standard also? I understand why you're trying to avoid marginal situations but I just thought folding to his lead on a paired board (a lot of his range is just air) with us having so many outs was a bit weak, so i'd have gone for calling > raising > folding.
maumau says:
hi rypac :-) unfortunately that bunch of videos to up on the weekend was only 1 :((
RyPac13 says:
Yea, I was infected with some pretty nasty malware Saturday. I know you don't want to hear excuses, posting one tonight, trying to get a bunch more posted ASAP.
zakwray says:
bump
fydor_8 says:
You make a valid arguement but I basically but the main thing is that it was pretty early in the game and no concrete reads were made. What I mean is that since I only had a hypothetical idea of how he would play (loose and aggressive) I didn't know for sure until later on that he would be barrel his stack away. Thus, I prefer to stay out of those marginal situations where value is not 100% certain when I make my hand. Also, for the sake of the video, the main point I was trying to drive through was patience and waiting for the right situations to invest our chips. So folding those hands where turn/river play wouldn't be as obvious as situations where we have a made hand allowed easier understanding of the video...it also helps viewers realize that there are better spots for value where the right decision is super easy/obvious.
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skizzy00 says:
I think the K4ss hand where you flop the flush draw + over and fold to a CR is a mistake. Yes we can get it in in better spots but he's raising us light and we have a lot of equity + can get it in vs worse flush draws. seems like a good spot to "fight back"
qattack says:
I rated this video 4 Stars.
It contains some good information about playing against aggro players, but the opponent was a friend of Fydor's who simulated an aggro player and the play seemed at times very contrived and the game flow didn't seem realistic.
But it seems there is a shortage of videos vs. aggro opponents and I recommend watching this one.