14 Responses to “Small Stakes Hand History Review with Andrew Brokos (Part 4)”

  1. linopolido

    Hello Andrew! I love your videos, perhaps my favorite in TPE along with the Merphis. And in recent videos that have featured me is that you defend the BB regardless of the size of your stack, even with very weak hands as Q5o J4o …, based on pot odds. But if we do the math will be profitable defend these hands, because in addition to sometimes put ourselves in tricky spots(Ex. T8o) putting our entire stack at risk, if we add all records of this call pre-flop and on the flop foldaste, and we add the chips won when we defend and we gain will be + EV?I did all, this question arises only by my perception.
    Excuse my English

  2. Foucault

    Hi Lino. I wouldn’t say it’s “regardless of stack size”. With deeper stacks, I do tighten up somewhat, because the problems you mention, such as the difficulty of playing out of position and potential bluff/reverse implied odds, are a bigger concern. But when you are getting 4.5:1 in a spot, you need just 18% equity to call. Against a player opening 30% (say, the HJ or CO), Q4o has 34% equity. So you can afford to have a few things go wrong post-flop and still show a profit.

  3. mjawors2

    Andrew I’m sorry for being results oriented but I have to know what villain called and lost with when we open shoved the T9s

  7. GunnJD

    Hey Andrew,

    That last hand is pretty interesting and I enjoyed your analysis. So it ends up being bad to check/shove essentially because villain’s cbetting range is too strong? And our equity when called is lousy?

    You mention that the cbet size is inducing, but can he really ever bet more? If he’s ever bluffing that is.

    Thank you.

  8. mike666

    At 23.06 – What do you think about calling a flop bet with AK and then possibly folding on turn if you won’t hit a King?

  9. mike666

    At 26.30 you tell about your read on a player with a certain nickname that he is probably participating in poker forums and probably is a decent player. What are your criterias to make such assumptions?

  10. Foucault

    You’re only going to improve your hand about 12% of the time on the turn, so you aren’t getting the immediate pot odds to chase an A or K. That means you have to make up the difference in one of three ways:

    1. Villain checks the turn often and enables you to realize your equity on the river and/or at showdown unimproved.
    2. You manage to find profitable bluff opportunities when you miss.
    3. You have implied odds when you hit.

    I don’t think any of these is the case here.

  11. Foucault

    It’s not 100%, but this was sort of a meme/running joke among the 2+2 crowd for a while. There were a bunch of screennames with the format “XXX_LOL”. “Religion_LOL” and “BlackPeople_LOL” are two that I remember.

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