New PS+ Pro Eduard "Eddi" Antonyan has made the climb from the small stakes to the high stakes and wants to help you along your own journey. Now playing 10/20 - Eddi is giving back to the community, and helping other aspiring players plug leaks in their game. In each video, Eddi reviews the play of an SSNL - MSNL Online Regular and discusses what adjustment the player should make to beat their current limit. From Pre-Flop decisions to table dynamics, Eddi covers everything he knows to help you reach and conquer 5/10.
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In Part 2 - Eddi looks at a 2p2ers $600 NL Play on Full Tilt. Eddi uses the play to demonstrate solid play at mid-stakes, and comments on how the Hero handles spots better than some other regulars do. There's still room for improvement though, and Eddi discusses: Deepstack Adjustments, Playing with History, Tough tables.
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Awesome video pls make more
Premium User
+1 well done
Basic User
Nice vid, either it had some really good spots in it or you were able to adress the right topics. Probably a bit of both
I've got 2 questions for you.
First is the TT hand vs JJ, villain opens early and checks back on Q8x rainbow.
You say it achieves nothing and villain should always cbet.
Why? Villain won't get check raised much, true, probably only by sets. But if he gets called almost certainly 2 bets will go into the pot. (check back turn and then face a river bet). Villains perceived range is strong and I think you're right that hero valuebets river way too thin. How would you play JJ in villain's position would you cbet-give up? (I mean you can't call a bet after cbetting).
Other question, you love the 3bet with 9's 230bb deep. Why? It doesn't fit with your theory of flopping the nuts. CO openings range isn't that wide here and villain has shown in other pots that he's quite cautious putting $ in the pot.
If we 3bet we're just looking to flop a set, or bluff at overcards. We can't be happy if the 9's are an overpair and more $ go into the pot. And out of position it's just very hard to play boards with 2 or more broadways, we can barrel them but 9's have hardly no equity in those spots (often only 2 outs).
Plus Team
I've got 2 questions for you.
First is the TT hand vs JJ, villain opens early and checks back on Q8x rainbow.
You say it achieves nothing and villain should always cbet.
Why? Villain won't get check raised much, true, probably only by sets. But if he gets called almost certainly 2 bets will go into the pot. (check back turn and then face a river bet). Villains perceived range is strong and I think you're right that hero valuebets river way too thin. How would you play JJ in villain's position would you cbet-give up? (I mean you can't call a bet after cbetting).
Other question, you love the 3bet with 9's 230bb deep. Why? It doesn't fit with your theory of flopping the nuts. CO openings range isn't that wide here and villain has shown in other pots that he's quite cautious putting $ in the pot.
If we 3bet we're just looking to flop a set, or bluff at overcards. We can't be happy if the 9's are an overpair and more $ go into the pot. And out of position it's just very hard to play boards with 2 or more broadways, we can barrel them but 9's have hardly no equity in those spots (often only 2 outs).
You seem to assume that any hand that c/c's Q8x flop is going to bet the river. For one that's not true (and the times he checks river we can valuebet vs some opponents) and for two if it IS true then it's a very easy river call.
re 99: when you flop a set, it's the nuts. The times when you don't flop a set you should be looking to value-bet thin/pick up the dead money sometimes, bluff sometimes and give up sometimes.
Basic User
You seem to assume that any hand that c/c's Q8x flop is going to bet the river. For one that's not true (and the times he checks river we can valuebet vs some opponents) and for two if it IS true then it's a very easy river call.
JJ opens UTG, what would you c/c from the blinds on this board?
I think we can't c/c any pocket lower than 99's (OOP, no bdoor equity, villain has a strong range)
The big blind should not defend much here vs UTG that hits this flop other than good queens. The Q and 8 are far away from each other so the best draw is something like a backdoor flush + GS.
I think that if a cbet JJ won't get a lot of action from worse.
re 99: when you flop a set, it's the nuts. The times when you don't flop a set you should be looking to value-bet thin/pick up the dead money sometimes, bluff sometimes and give up sometimes.
yes 99 flops sets, but that's occassionally, it has never good backdoor equity to continue barreling with. Plus the pair value when deep and OOP is very low and potentially misleading. An overpair might look good while villain will hardly ever put in $'s with worse hands because a part of the range we rep is (big)overpairs .
the bluff / pick up dead money part holds true for your entire 3bet range.
From your reasoning it sounds like 99 is in the value part of your 3bet range, but it really isn't, it's a bluff.
Plus Team
re JJ: 8x, 99/TT, Qx c/c the flop. If he at the same time c/f's all other hands we beat that's great (if he's not going to c/c the flop or auto-bluff later streets if we check flop, we'd rather have him fold 44 or Ax).
re 99: it's not a bluff, it's a value raise pre - we get called by a ton of worse hands when we're deep including all smaller PP's, a lot of SC-type hands etc. Raising 62s would be a bluff. Post-flop you just need to understand what you're doing and why.
Basic User
Hi eddi-have a few questions
-first hand in BvB hero defends K9o and you say the flop of 465r is great for bluff raising? We really have no equity except overcards. Why is it good board to bluff raise? Because there are a ton of turn bluff cards??Please explain. I imagine this board could hit villain's range as it may be wider as it is BvB.
Hero calls with ATo BvB, and gets 3 barrels on a 3FD board, and we have TP on the flop. Since we are at the bottom of our calling range you suggest raising (I assume as a bluff). So, are we doing this as to hope that villain will fold better a hand? Or are we doing this when WE feel that villain's range is wide/weak, but don't want to call and lose on the off chance that he has a slightly better hand?
Also, there is another BvB spot where hero calls with K4 hh. Flop comes AT4 two clubs. Do you like the call instead of raise here? We will not be able to call 2 barrels without improvement and if we bluff raise, do we not gain the ability to bluff more turn cards?
thanks!
Plus Team
We have outs, we have position, more than half the deck is great for bluffing - what more can you want?
ATo: yes, we're trying to fold out better hands - mostly better 1-pair hands and some 2-pairs.
K4: yeah, you can raise, calling is fine too as this is not a board where you'll get double barreled as a bluff too often (contrast this with the 456 board where you'll get double barreled a ton). Also I think calling and raising club turns is way more credible than just raising flop.