Video: Entity and the Road to Robusto

[Chris Daddy Cool]

yeah i agree i think at fold is pretty bad.

[Entity]

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Rob,

I think your AT fold is really bad. Obviously his most likely hand is a flush and a hand like 65s or T6s could also be betting. But there is too good of a chance he has a hand like T8/T9/JT/QT/KT that waited to see if overcards came and then decided to bet this "safe" river hoping to get a call from a worse pair or A high. Or that he has a ridiculous hand like A6, or he's making a ridiculous bluff with QJ.

I think this is an example of where you overvalued your read. Your read is good in that it tells you that you are beat a lot, more than one would expect without a read. But it's pretty much irrelevant, because the pot is laying you a good enough price (7 to 1) to call.

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At 7:1 I don't think it's even close to a pretty bad fold. It might be slightly bad but the combo of stats and how he had played top pair in the past on very similar boards made me very inclined to think that he's not one to make a thin valuebet at all, and he is one to be afraid the river is going to be checked through. You'll note that I timed out trying to make the decision which is partly a byproduct of talking while making the decision but mostly that I think it's razor-thin vs. this player and anyone saying "it's a bad fold" hasn't played these limits or doesn't remember what a tight-passive player's river value bets are like.

Rob

[Chris Daddy Cool]

could you guys please use a 4 color deck next time? this is especially crucial when you have a black background.

[Gap23Razor]

thank you for putting up the video and inviting questions...here's one re: your play versus loose spastic player on your left in the 1st game

the rule of thumb is to open raise in 6 max rather than limp...

but with a loose player on your left, i thought a few times i thought you might limp early with your low suited 1 or 2 gapped hands, or maybe even with high/low suited hands not A high...you had an opponent to your left that seemed to play all hands usually calling if the pot opened already, and i believe the rest of the table was playing passive--was i wrong on those counts? and if the table was loose passive pre-flop would you play low suited connectors early?...your thoughts: ?

[Fadook]

I don't get the 88 preflop cap. OK, so you've got Sporgitis cold-calling light and the other guy played really badly postflop, but you don't have anything to say that he's crazy preflop. Does 88 really have a big enough equity edge to cap?

[Entity]

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I don't get the 88 preflop cap. OK, so you've got Sporgitis cold-calling light and the other guy played really badly postflop, but you don't have anything to say that he's crazy preflop. Does 88 really have a big enough equity edge to cap?

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I think the advantage that capping will usually have there is that it will help to define my opponent's handrange by their postflop actions vs me much better than if I were to just call. In addition, I get to push a small equity edge preflop but more importantly, this isn't the sort of opponent who I believe will resteal easily postflop vs. me even if the pot is very large, so I get to take advantage of the loose-spastic guy and the somewhat shortstacked (IIRC) guy who is 3-betting a bit wider than normal, IMO.

Rob

[Sushiglutton]

Good 1!

On the J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] hand (~51min) you talk about wanting your opp to make 'bad free-showdown raises' with hans like A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (board was 3 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]). Why would that be so bad [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img].

Another topic you touch a bit that I would be very interested in hearing more of is showng down A-high UI. Based on ur comment I get the feeling I do that way too much. Anyway it would be a good topic.



Korvgubbe = 'hotdog salesman' (don't know the english word), in swedish by the way [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

[Entity]

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Good 1!

On the J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] hand (~51min) you talk about wanting your opp to make 'bad free-showdown raises' with hans like A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (board was 3 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]). Why would that be so bad [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img].

Another topic you touch a bit that I would be very interested in hearing more of is showng down A-high UI. Based on ur comment I get the feeling I do that way too much. Anyway it would be a good topic.



Korvgubbe = 'hotdog salesman' (don't know the english word), in swedish by the way [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

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I like it when my opponents do anything with bad frequencies: if they are good with their FSDR frequencies it's tough, but many people raise the turn when they wouldn't otherwise call the river (the Js8x board is a pretty good example of that, since I know a lot of people who don't think, then raise the turn with AQdd, when they wouldn't call a river bet if they called the turn). Basically I'm saying I want my opponents to make bad plays that are exploitable and that's one of the ones I see most frequently versus aggressive opposition.

Rob

[Sushiglutton]

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many people raise the turn when they wouldn't otherwise call the river (the Js8x board is a pretty good example of that, since I know a lot of people who don't think, then raise the turn with AQdd, when they wouldn't call a river bet if they called the turn

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I would pay off AQ (call, call blank river) here very often, thinking there are so many possible semi-bluffing hands. That is a big leak?

[olliejen]

Rob,

I just wanted to chime in and say that I thought this video was well done. Do you come back and lay the audio track after it's done? You speak pretty clearly (i mean, into the mic, it's clear what you're saying) and you have insightful commentary to your play-by-play.

good stuff!