maybe you should petition KB to get us to do one 😀

Great idea cousteer! Audio content is soooo much better than listening to Matt n Dave in the mornings. I'd be super interested hearing about poker progressive thinking. i.e. how the game is evolving, deviating away from standard play, and what new tools are available to regs... It seems poker has become Darwinian where only the fittest survive.. and is highly dynamic. The reason why I'm pestering you two love birds is because I believe your level of understanding and aptitude to study the game is at the forefront and many of us can gain a lot from your enthusiasm.

i think tom covered the questions pretty well so i wont go over it again. but yeah, duggs definitely needs to widen his STFU range 😀

.....er-55-run/

none really, our edge from that stack size is far too great to punt for a +.25bb cEV shove, we realise our equity from that stack size by playing better with  our ranges than our opponents, dry heaving caps our own equity so id rather just nit it up and fold pre whilst tilted (or not get tilted)

I shove up to 20bb with an un exploitable range from late positions, but im usually r/c or r/f down to 15bb

1. At 30 min. UTG raises. UTG+1 3x's. BTN shoves. We have AKs in SB. You say that UTG+1 is so tight that the AKs is a fold even if BTN was not in the hand. I agree in a vacuum, but does is this true if UTG+1 knows how aggro UTG has been? UTG is the guy that has 3bet a lot recently I believe. UTG's bet is dead money and I expect UTG+1 and BTN to show up with TT-QQ and AK a lot and KK+ a small percentage of the time considering we have AK. It is probably still a fold since it will likely be AK vs AK vs JJ-QQ or AK vs JJ-QQ with tthe other AK folding. It's a great spot for the BTN with JJ though if UTG+1 is just attacking UTG's aggression.

2. The next couple of hands we pick up K7s and A8o. I agree that we probably better not open these while we are tilted. My question is there are some similiar hands like K9s and ATs that we cant fold because just shoving them is probably +EV. If that is the case, would we rather shove here with 27bb vs playing a pot while tilted? What is the max number of bb you would recommend just open shoving with profitable, but marginal hands to avoid getting played back at or avoid having to play post flop while tilted?

3. At 36 min. The bubble starts and we have 20bb in a major. I was in this exact spot yesterday and talked to duggs into chat about playing nitty to survive the bubble even though I knew it was bad poker. It seems like in this spot we want to chip up without show down, get it in and double, or bust. I understand that but I just need to get used to being there so I can mentally handle the risk of bubbling. My question is if there is a point where we stop risking our stack? For example, if we chip up to say 50bb are we still 3 betting people we think are bullying and 4 betting people who 3 bet us? Or is this riskier than necessary when we can just go after the people (like me, lol) who are folding everything?

The idea that the 3bet is mainly to induce villain to tool out and that this is worth the risk of playing the hand oop is new to me so I definitely learned something here. I now understand the difference between hands 2 and 3. Since they will not likely shove wide after limping, then the incentive to induce is not there so it is not worth the risk of play oop so we shove in a vacuum.

I dont understand what you mean by their limping range is "capped". Please explain. I guess this means they are not limp calling with premiums?

Also, if we value bet AK and they will call with weaker unpaired hands then we have to pot control turn and bluff catch on river with A high top kicker a lot correct? (AKTK, wow thats a new one for me)

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I agree with what you are saying here. An even more extreme case would be r/f KK if you think they will only call a shove with AA. I guess my point is you can only be sure r/f is better if you think both BB and SB are never shoving light. Is this incorrect or is dodging the times BB calls your shove with say AQ+, JJ+ worth the risk of SB getting it in with something like 22+, Kxs+, Ax+? Im guessing it is, but what about if we had like 25bb? Seems like we might want to take the play away from him in that case, but not in this one since his 12bbs hurt us less with this monster stack.

BTW, I think it's cool that you guys sound so good without being in the same room. You should share how you are doing that with all the other guys on the site. I have heard some tandem vids that did not sound as good, but then again maybe they were a few years old. Im not sure.

1/ is tough and kind of read dependent, i think jamming on Ax turns is going to be profitable. On K/10 turns i probably want to bet really small, on hearts i want to c/j, especially higher hearts the Ah or like Qh since we can get hands like 99h-55h to fold on that turn card. 

2/ while that is true and occasionally we will whiff flop when he flats with a dominated range and he connects and we lose a few bets. the purpose of 3betting rather than 3bet shoving isnt just to get called by dominated hands, it also induces lighter shoves as alot of players 4bet jamming range is much wider than their 3bet/calling range. for example hands like A9s A8o etc that will fold to a shove can now jam on us as their profitiabilty v our range is bolstered by their fold equity (v our range not v our hand).

3/ the thing is that our opponents range and likely action is going to change a ton, since like a 16bb stack isnt going to be limp shoving a ton, so shoving is better (but i wouldnt mind a small raise if you think that they limp/shove J10s type hands with this stack size). but with 24bb their limping range is almost always to call and is so much more capped, but the key is that we have their range crushed and can play better than them in position, i would actually make the raise smaller tho, like 3.2bb and 4bet jam if limp/3bet. but we dont need to cbet every board with AK, when we cbet AK in heads up pots it isnt as a bluff, it is for value because they will call with worse unpaired hands. also being in position with a hand that is very rarely dead equity wise BVB is ideal and not somethinh we should be avoiding.

4/ QTs is never a -EV shove from the button, but that doesnt mean it is the optimal line to take, when someones 3bet jamming range is the same as their calling range it is much better to be raise/folding as our equity when shoving comes from their high fold frequency not our equity v their calling range (as we are crushed), in this spot i think its totally fine to r/f like A9s or KJ etc in this same spot if the villain is tight enough. If your calling/rejamming range is JJ-AA and i hold 1010 i have horrible equity when called so r/f would also be better.