The Well: Whale

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Are you taking on any students? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Vammakala]

Will you be my mentor?

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Hi Whale

Tks for doing this. let me say congratulations on your success since your analysis of a downswing episode -you've certainly boomeranged back. It's good to see you back posting again after your summer break too.

Some good questions so far . I've got a few...

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3) reading villains and taking advantage of what I know they have (i.e. vs. a donk villain, if you have 44 and the flop is AA4, and you bet the flop and he calls, I usually just open push any turn cause they're not folding)


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Any more examples, particularly vs OKish players do you find they have more defined ranges?

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not sure I understand your question, but I am usually not cbetting vs 2 opponents.
5) Not cbetting into multiple opponents (this helped my game/winrate a ton)


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Interesting. I cbet vs 2 opponents sometimes but I suspect too much as it sound like you v. rarely do this- when do you consider/factors it appropriate to cbet 3way?(NL50/Nl100) if stakes relevant.

Sometimes I check,it's checked through then I 'Cbet' turn and am often called is this spewy since PPs are likely to call?

Do you play AJo KQo OOP UTG and reraise Ak/AQo in blinds vs EP raiser?

Almost last question. I asked Pokey in the well about value betting the river, so I'll be interested in your views too.

This situation below I think I may be mising value.
Say for example(contrived)
100bb stacks
Villan PFR UTG 20/10/2 TAGGY player
Hero calls with SC on BTN.
Villan cbets 2tone flop (assume he holds an overpair/2pair), Hero calls.
he checks the turn, I bet 2/3pot and have hit my str8 on the turn. He calls.
River completes the frush (Hero doesn't hold). Villan checks.

Now can I bet my str8 for value given there's a flush on the board. Would worse hands call i.e an overpair/2pair?


In you opinion how have FT /players changed post Frist?
Baluga after your short break, how are your business ventures going?
Hope you enjoy college/uni (whatever it's called in the States) and don't play too much poker [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
- I'm sure if the online poker thing had happened when I was at Uni I would've lost time playing than doing other fun stuff with friends though it's probably nice to be a college balla [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]



Sorry to ask so many poker questions and make so much use of you. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[HitNRunPoster]

Hey man, thanks for the thread.

Do you ever limp in EP?

When do you call PF? (since you're 19/16 I'm curious... you say that you call otb with hands like 98 when there's a pfr...)

Also, do you ever check really big hands vs two players OOP after you raise pf?

[ama0330]

This thread is amazing, thanks for the effort BW its much appreciated.

I don't think anyone has touched on playing from the blinds yet. I'd be interested to know if you deviate from the "play as tight as possible from the blinds" advice usually given. Note here I am not talking about blind vs blind as that is a little different. Example:

25 or 50NL, You are in the SB with KQs. All your opponents suck and are running stats of like 40/10. Its a family pot and is limped to you (this is honestly standard, I see this all the time). Limp along, or raise it up big? I have found that often raising will take the pot, but sometimes I'll get like two callers and end up playing a raised pot OOP against more than one opponent - bad.

Whats better - to raise and risk that, or to play the hand multiway OOP in a limped family pot? I haven't played enough hands to decide which is more EV...

I guess this seems like a basic question (i.e. don't raise, moran) but I'd like to see if you can shed any light on your blind play in general.

Cheers!

[whodatdare]

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This thread is amazing, thanks for the effort BW its much appreciated.

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I agree, ama, this is pure gold. I can't believe more people arent asking questions. EMc, can we get this stickied, please?

[HitNRunPoster]

Do you ever make non-standard raises.

i.e. minraise to get a tight sb out with a really weak hand vs a really bad bb (say you hold something like t6o in the co and you want to play anything in position vs a certain player).

i.e. 3 limpers and you raise to 3bb otb with 98s.

[Vammakala]

Shall you one day vindicate the vigilante and the virtuous?

[BalugaWhale]

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Man, sorry you had to elaborate on all that, but I was mainly interested in what you meant by "I learned how to use the board effectively to pressure my opponents and get a ton of extra value." Although I guess you did kinda touch on that and the other stuff you said is real solid advice (like folding hands like ATo, JTs etc. UTG--such good advice, I think a lot of people try to have LAG stats so they just play more hands period, not play more hands in position and other favorable spots).

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Its all good, just remember that your opponent likely has weak holdings, and anytime betting convinces him he is beat, it is a good thing (if you have nothing). Players call flop bets iwth a lot of bad hands just to see what you're going to do.

[BalugaWhale]

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Are you taking on any students?

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Will you be my mentor

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I used to coach, but it isn't really worth my time unless I am coaching at like 1/2. Feel free to PM me with questions anytime though, or just post about it. Thats what I did, and I think posting probably works best.