The video posted here is the first video effort from turbo player honigmund38, also known as daaviid. He is seeking feedback on this and kindly requests that you take a little time to view the vid and then let us know what you think he did well, what he could have done better, and anything else that you feel would be useful feedback for him.
I enjoyed your video. You explained your thought process well especially about polarizing are 3bet range vs this particular villain.
What are your reasons for 2.5Xing from the small blind. is it opponent specific or is this your standard? What do you think are the benefits over a min raise would you do this vs $100 reg. if you did not have hands on him?
Do you do any 1 on 1 coaching?
first of all,thx for the kind words :)
u def spotted a mistake (actually a couple of mistakes) i made against this opponent :) 2.5xing was my std until i changed it to a std minr, when i thought about it a bit deeper. i guess i was just being lazy, copying what a bunch of people did without questioning it all that much. in my defense, i used to play a lot tighter which made it more reasonable to choose bigger sizings. however, as aggro as i am playing these days it makes a lot more sense to use smaller sizings. same goes for my big 3b sizing. i talked about this with a very smart player and against this type of villain its pretty bad actually cause he wont flat/4b nearly often enough to justify making it any bigger than 120. the bigger we bet, the more we narrow down his range but when his range for continuing against 3bets preflop is already extremely narrow, there is no real need to make it 140 in those spots.
i did coach before/did hh reviews for some friends and people always liked it so far. id love to work with some people again in the future, so maybe we can figure sth out. feel free to pm me (my 2+2 sn is daviid) or add me on skype.
sry for not being able to give u a precise answer to your question. maybe ill make a video discussing this specific topic (sizings in turbos) in the future, who knows :)
Nice video.
The only problem I have with your play is your faith in HUD stats. You say that we should always be barrelling the river after bluffing flop and turn since your opponent has a high river fold percentage. However, at this point, you have never checked down on the river, so any opponent would be much more likely to hero call you later on in the match. HUD stats only tell you the "average" play that your opponent makes and do not take into account adjustments that your opponent will almost always be making.
KcQd - I think this is possibly a little too weak to be 3bet-call. I don't see why you don't flat; your hand flops extremely well.
QdTs - I would still bet the turn to protect your hand.
Jc9c - I agree with the fold. Hard to see him turning up with a draw here. 3x most likely. I think he is bluffing sometimes, but I still think a fold is best.
Ac4s - I agree that c/r is best play on this river. Like your analysis.
regarding the hud stats - he mentioned they have been playing before so they prolly have history in certain spots i would assume. that doesnt mean villain wont adjust at some point o/c but till he does id go with hud reads as well after a certain number of hands.
liked the video, good to see some turbo content here again ! :)
thx for the nice words, as well as the constructive criticism adam :) really trying to improve and make good videos, so that does help a lot.
the hud stats were my only indicator/source of information on how this villain plays. i agree that we cannot always rely on stats and that (good) players will adapt if u try to exploit their leaks. however, i think as a husng player u kind of have to use the information u have at the time. once u get additional info/have some read on a player, taking different lines will surely be better but until this happens my default is to exploit villains leaks as hard as i can. maybe villain will realize that i will barrel him off a ton when he checks back otf and adjust his flop checking back range as the pfr accordingly, but i will only change my play if he really shows me that he is capable of adjusting (which he probably wasnt, as we witnessed in this video).
KcQd - as i tried to explain in the video, this is a bit of a gameflow spot so tough to explain. i look pretty cool when i snapcall against KT but i agree that it might be a bit thin. the way ive been godmoding him, i thought he was just going to jam a lot wider than usual. note that he was also 4bing 20% of the time which is pretty wide as well.
QdTs - i dont think there is too much within his range that i need protection against/that i can get value from. with how few outs he usually has, i assumed that we are in a way ahead- way behind spot where betting makes little sense. i guess its annoying when he has 78o and rivers a 9 and we never bet before but as i said, i think he has very few outs/we might valuetown ourselves occasionally against better hands.
agree with your comments on the other two hands :)
Nice vid, pretty much agree with you reasoning in most spots.
One comment/question regarding 3 barelling and sizings, in first 10 minutes or so. Do you think that when next time we decide to 3 barell bluff we can make our sizings smaller (on boards where he doesnt have huge herocalling range) cause he should be thinking that smaller weights our range to value, especially since he folded to previous 2 or 3 three barells.