Turning the Corner.

i havent seen much from cardrunners but i like DC. i usually look for the same type of videos you look for too, and theres plenty of that on DC.

since you seem to like balugawhale, he does a good series with whitelime where they critique each others play.

cr sux

i could coldcall Q7s there as well...

Reasons to limp IMO.

Button tends to limp raise pre. BB is so tight it doesn't matter what u do cuz he isn't raising w/o the nuts. You can lead out many flops and still take down the pot easily. If you raise and button calls it can be semi awkward to play vs a villain who ha 50bb stack and ur OOP. He will raise over a lot of flop cbets and every flop will bring an over card pretty much. Also if villain is a calling station as his stats suggest then 77 OOP vs him with 50bb stack will suck cock cuz he'll float flops and turns with midpair type hands which will be beating u most of the time. Like say he won't fold T8 on a 28KQA board or something.

That said, raising is also OK for the reasons you brought up in ur blog. Limping is just a way to keep the pot smaller OOP with a OK hand. Either way to play the hand is almost certainly +ev and i think the difference between the two plays is negligible.

Palak this is NL50, there is no way he will ever try to limp call and try to bluff you with these stats and limp raise more than 5% of the time ever (Maybe the coach just took into account higher stakes players with same stats like you seem to do)

When you raise to $1.25-1.50 you are basically creating a pool of dead money that you will collect enormous % of the time on the flop.
Add the fact that you are slightly ahead of his range and that you create additional FE on the flop by raising pre, and I really can't see how we don't raise.
Oh and another thing - its really hard to get paid off in a limped pot.

Raising a very wide range preflop is profitable here, and 77 should be in the top half of it. (Try to watch the mentioned Real life micro grinder, the isolating oop with very wide range is so awesomely explained there and the coach taught the student how to ridiculously abuse it)

And saying that playing PP on the flop is awkward against any stack size is just lol.

i seen a lot of vids and i think theres a lot of terrible shit there that will just fuck ur game up. i just play lots of hands now myself and try to figure things out.

id usually complete 77, i dont like raising small pairs oop but then again im playing fullring

On November 14 2009 16:45 genjix wrote: i seen a lot of vids and i think theres a lot of terrible shit there that will just fuck ur game up. i just play lots of hands now myself and try to figure things out.

+1

If it's a straight forward or fit or fold fish then I'm raising. If he's one of those annoying "peel everything, minraise with whatever because he feels like it", then I'm completing.

Q7s vs a 40bb stack is fucking awful tho.