WCOOP Main Event HH Review with Andrew Brokos (Part 5)
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Concepts In This Video: 3-Betting • C-Betting • hand History • High Stakes • HUD • Late Stages • Pokerstars • Post-flop • pre-flop • WCOOP
Piojos
Great hand at the end Andrew! Can you comment on the timing of hero and villain actions? Did you feel a need to act relatively quickly when executing a plan like this? Did villain tank on the river? Thanks for the videos!!
Foucault
Thanks! I don’t have any memory of the timing, but I also don’t think it’s terribly important. I’m sure I didn’t act quickly – it takes a little while to think through all of this, and I think it’s important to “check your work”, so to speak, before doing something so ambitious. That doesn’t have to convey weakness. As with betting pattern, I want my timing to be consistent with the hand I’m representing. Had I flopped a set, I wouldn’t just snap-call the raise. If nothing else, I’d probably want to consider whether to call or re-raise.
I think there’s a general concern many players exhibit about wanting to act quickly when bluffing, for fear that a delay could seem like a sign of weakness. I think this is unfounded, particularly in cases where you wouldn’t act so quickly with a big hand. In fact, this can easily backfire. It’s a tell that Zach Elwood highlights in his books, as a strong-means-weak and weak-means-strong sort of thing.
As for my opponents’ timing, I don’t remember, but the only thing I can think that would have influenced me is that if ikoon had raised very quickly on the flop, I’d be even less inclined to “believe” him, because of what I said above.
Cabezon
Andrew, this has been a great series. In the 66 hand at approximately 34:00 minutes, did you consider turning your hand into a bluff on the river? This may just be hindsight since we can see his holdings, but it does seem likely that he plays a lot of 10s this way. Would you ever consider targeting that hand with a large river bet, or do you just not have enough better hands in your range at that point?
Foucault
Thanks! I’m sure he does have a lot of Ts, but what makes you think he’s folding them? I mean, maybe he is, but it’s hardly a guarantee. I think rather than trying to guess what your opponent will do with a given hand, it’s good to think in terms of range construction. You should have some bluffs here, but also some hands that don’t bluff. So, why are you bluffing with this specific hand rather than some other hand that you could also reach the river with in this way? AJ, perhaps? If your reasons for bluffing have nothing to do with the cards you’re holding, that’s a warning sign that you may be bluffing at too high of a frequency. That’s fine, if you have reason to believe Villain will fold at too high of a frequency, but I don’t see any reason to believe that here.
Roguehood
Last hand was insane, guess it would only work against the highest calibre of players (trying to get them off trip aces).