Transitioning From Heads Up NL Cash to Heads Up Sit and Go Series Part 2: Preflop Aggression
In part two of this series, Barewire and Skates discuss 3-bet ranges, 3bet sizing, reacting to limps and shove or fold strategy. They discuss a few main points on slides and also review hands in this video. Recommendations for videos and text on related topics is also present throughout. This video is not only aimed at heads up cash players looking to make the transition into heads up sng, but also heads up sng players that would like to improve their play in many of the same areas heads up cash players often struggle with (specifically mid to end game situations).
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Barewire & Skates, You both have some really good insight on
First of all, I want to say that you guys should learn to use powerpoint so you can do the whole thing in it.
Listening to you two is pretty funny, but there is A LOT of really good information in here that I've never really heard before. Unfortunately a lot of the situations that you discussed are ones that don't apply to my stakes but it's REALLY interesting to hear some really intelligent thinking processes.
I was always raising small PP's against limps and you both made it really clear on why that might not be such a good idea, also I really liked the idea of the go and go that extends to the turn by 3betting 1/6th of your stack.
Again, REALLY good stuff in here.
I do apologize for the layout
I do apologize for the layout being somewhat unprofessional, we had a lot of technology errors the first time around and ended up happy to have a final product come to existence. Hopefully I won't have to record any future videos from my laptop, because I don't recall my earlier videos having any negative feedback on the layout and those were produced from my desktop.
I really appreciate the comments on the content, I'm glad you enjoyed it! If there's anything in particular you didn't understand, or thought was above your level of play, I'd encourage you (and anyone else who's watched) to ask about it in here. I think that even though skates mapped out a lot of his decisions for playing against a very skilled villain, there should still be information for all levels about how to decipher the best play.
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I really liked this one!! For
I really liked this one!!
For me concept videos and (powerpoint ish videos) work so much better for learning.
very much learned in such a short time. will go through it a second time and ask some questions then
good job
If im at 18 bbs oop, vs a guy
If im at 18 bbs oop, vs a guy who raises 80% of hands, is there a way to adapt nash to it?, like adding 2 or 3 bbs to what nash says?
That's the right idea for how
That's the right idea for how to adapt your range as the button opens less than 100%, or at least, that's the way I do it since it makes sense to me. I'm no expert on the shortest stacked stuff but it should hold true that as your opponents range gets stronger your bluffs will be less effective. Therefore, the hands strong enough to play nash at 9bb might not be strong enough to jam over an 80% range posting 9bb, but the hands strong enough to play nash at 11-12bb may very well be strong enough to jam over a range posting 9bb 80%.
I can't say I think there's some exact formulaic relationship (i.e. nash at 9bb/.80 = 11.25bb nash range is certainly not fact), but that's probably a reasonable estimate for a profitable 3b jamming range. It might also be helpful to calculate yourself the way that the chubukov numbers vary when villain's range is top 80% and he calls off every hand he's supposed to against your exact hand. I'd wager the nash ranges change in a very similar proportion.
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Thx for reply :) makes a lot
Thx for reply :) makes a lot of sense