18/06/2008
Hey guys just finished the coaching for today, we went like an hour or so overtime reverting to a little bit of shorthanded doing a public-private coaching with TribunCaesar too ♦ We might do the same thing next week if he's online to give you guys a little bit of a taste of shorthanded which is what you will probably be switching to as you climb the limits!
Some questions asked during the coaching included "How do I beat these players who check/call their strong hands to the river and I end up losing to?"
Basically if they are check/calling their strong hands all the time you are losing less money because if you had a Top/middle pair and they have a set for example let's say you can't fold, you will be raised somewhere along the way against a good player and thus he will make extra money from you, whereas vs a passive player you will gain BB's just from him calling you down because he didn't get him money in as much as possible while ahead. This demonstrably works to your advantage as shown in a hand I played during the coaching below.
Basically at the time I had no reads on this guy but again later I played another interesting hand too which was influenced by the read gained in this one
Known players: (for a description of vp$ip, pfr, ats, folded bb, af, wts, wsd or hands click here)
[tg]Position:hands/vp$ip/pfr/af/wts/ats/foldbb/w$sd;BB:65/5/0/0.0/0/0/0/0;CO:63/6/5/1.5/0/67/14/0;BU:41/24/2/0.1/18/0/0/50;MP2:///////;UTG+2:10/20/10/0.5/33/0/0/0;SB:64/27/3/0.1/53/50/0/44;UTG+1:71/8/6/0.8/44/0/0/25;MP1:131/15/12/2.7/45/50/13/50;MP3:31/74/3/0.0/38/50/0/44;[/tg]
0.10/0.20 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Texas Grabem 1.9 by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J♠, J♦
3 folds, Hero raises, MP3 calls, 2 folds, SB calls, BB calls.
We have pocket jacks and thus make a standard raise for value and to try and filter out worse hands from calling.
Flop: (8.00 SB) 6♠, 8♥, 9♦ (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets, MP3 calls, BB calls.
We have overpair which is a strong made hand so we have no intention of slowing down, and will probably 3-bet if raised due to the possible straight draws etc.
Turn: (5.50 BB) 5♥ (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, MP3 calls, BB folds.
This card makes any 7 beat us but the possibility is not great and if raised here I'd probably calldown to the river depending on my reads of his passiveness. I standardly bet again.
River: (7.50 BB) K♥ (2 players)
Hero bets, MP3 calls.
Against 1 player 1 overcard coming on the river isn't enough to scare me off, vs many players at this limit especially I could find a relatively easy fold if raised here, but he just calls.
Final Pot: 9.50 BB
MP3 shows KK for a 3oak Kings!
WTF?! Anywhere along the line except the river if he raised me it would have been too hard to part with the hand so I would have reverted to calldown mode, earning him extra $$! I assume he was afraid of a straight but not raising the river with top set like that is just plain wrong, he missed out on extra value by not raising and thus saved US money! I noted him after that he played KK passively preflop + postflop and thus can assume he's a pretty damn passive player overall.
This next hand is a good demonstration of using reads like the one above to make more difficult decisions easier.
Known players: (for a description of vp$ip, pfr, ats, folded bb, af, wts, wsd or hands click here)
[tg]Position:hands/vp$ip/pfr/af/wts/ats/foldbb/w$sd;BU:///////;UTG+2:64/27/3/0.1/53/50/0/44;CO:131/15/12/2.7/45/50/13/50;BB:31/74/3/0.0/38/50/0/44;SB:29/21/17/2.5/29/50/0/50;UTG+1:64/6/6/4.0/60/17/13/33;MP1:808/26/18/2.5/32/48/19/45;MP2:48/15/13/0.0/17/0/0/100;MP3:3/67/33/1.0/50/0/0/0;[/tg]
0.10/0.20 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Texas Grabem 1.9 by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop: Hero is BU with A♥, A♣
UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 calls, 2 folds, MP3 calls, CO calls, Hero raises, SB folds, BB calls, UTG+2 folds, MP3 calls, CO calls.
Flop: (9.50 SB) Q♠, 3♠, 7♠ (4 players)
BB checks, MP3 checks, CO checks, Hero bets, BB calls, MP3 calls, CO folds.
Turn: (6.25 BB) 2♣ (3 players)
BB checks, MP3 checks, Hero bets, BB calls, MP3 folds.
River: (8.25 BB) 9♠ (2 players)
BB bets, Hero folds.
Final Pot: 9.25 BB
Only the river play here is interesting to me, villain is the same player as in the JJ hand so I know he's very passive, the river completes the flush and he donks into me. If he c/c with top set I'm quite sure a donkbet here means flush so often that it's unprofitable to call, against some other players this might be a hard decision but our read made it pretty easy.
Note that during the coaching I played without PAHUD running so I couldn't see that the player had an AF of 0.0 after ~30 hands so I just noted him.
I hope you learnt something from todays coaching and will see you all next week same time same place ♦
TerrorBlade