Finally got some time to watch the vid. Great stuff.

Agree with the others, A guest vid(s) for TPE featuring Bennymacca, I second that motion

i do plan on doing some more some time. there is another one on my youtube channel but that was a bit boring. i do plan on doing some more though. 

if i get deep in anything tomorrow, (i.e wcoop 1 and 2) i might fire up the recorder again but it depends.

Nice vid, brutal HU though mate!

thanks!

i think recording actually helped in this circumstance because i think i would have gone on monkey tilt otherwise and probably would have finished second

On the flop, I don't really like getting it in. And in ant case, his donk bet was small rather than bigger which indicated a weak hand so he might have folded on the flop anyway if I had raised

FWIW, I was only commenting on the flop call. Checking back the river as played is obviously the best play. 

Secondly, it is a high variance spot and I had been crushing him, so there was really no need to play a huge pot.

On the river I checked back because I didn't think villain would call with a pair lower than an eight. Maybe he does sometimes but I would say the vast majority of his river calling range has me beat on the river. Thin value was just not needed against this villain. Even if it was slightly +EV here I still think you could make an argument for checking back just because of the fact that he was basically handing chips to us in small pots. My play here was entirely villain dependent and so I took a pot control line because of thwt

ShortStackJack said:

I disagree. He donk bets, so technically it's not a cbet. And I think this guy is doing a weak donk lead as a sort of a blocker bet. If he had a 9 or a set, he would have donked bigger. I think we have to charge him here to draw. Sure, he probably folds if we raise, but we save chips in the long run because sometimes his hand gets there. Benny ends up winning the pot, but if V hits one of his 6 outs on the river, we loose a big pot.

thats a typo, i meant to say betting, raising flop is horrible imo since we dont want to stack off. calling river calling most turns and checking river is the best line imo.

I do see your point, but I have been erring on the side of aggression these days. Perhaps I have been watching too many Big Dog vids. His flop lead seems SO weak and the guy has been playing face up. If we bet, he just may fold, but I don't think he jams.  *I* might have jammed. I would have been seriously sick of his donk leading at this point. Maybe spewy on my part. I dunno. (Big Dog: "Chips right in his grill!")

Would you have stacked off to a jam on this board, Benny? Seems like you had no intention of folding. In fact, you said it.  I still feel like I raise him at least and see where I'm at. I remember thinking the first time I watched that letting him draw seemed risky.

I disagree. He donk bets, so technically it's not a cbet. And I think this guy is doing a weak donk lead as a sort of a blocker bet. If he had a 9 or a set, he would have donked bigger. I think we have to charge him here to draw. Sure, he probably folds if we raise, but we save chips in the long run because sometimes his hand gets there. Benny ends up winning the pot, but if V hits one of his 6 outs on the river, we loose a big pot.

thats a typo, i meant to say betting, raising flop is horrible imo since we dont want to stack off. calling river calling most turns and checking river is the best line imo.