Short Stacked Big Blind Defense A Little Coffee with Jonathan Little, 4 13 2020

[@thomasgould8857]

Great job as always Johnathan. I admire your work ethic and passion for helping others. Thank You!

[@connman8d617]

I have to say I have never considered check/raising the flop for 1/3 of my stack after defending my BB but, looking at it, it's totally a baller play that can lead to your opponent making too many mistakes. The tendency would be for them to overfold to the small check/raise because they fear the hammer coming down on the turn. Additionally, it takes discipline for a strong made hand to just flat you and then look to flat you on a future street as well. If your opponent doesn't have that discipline and piles the money in you can probably explotatively fold some hands that you would otherwise go broke with and then you'll still have an 8 BB stack to fire as 1 last bullet. I love it.

[@marksimpson2321]

If you are playing with relatively bad players regularly who bluff too much or call too much, I think these ranges are far less +ev than others but obv these would be great against say Fedor Holz or Jonathan Jaffe 😀

[@pawesowinski2854]

Could you explain me why we shove every pair except 66 against UTG, and against HJ/LJ we dont jam A6s, A8s etc. but some weak aces we do?

[@glaubs65]

Hi Jonathan. What is the ante that these charts are working with? 12.5%?

[@hechadwick3]

The club group I play in has played, as a group, a strat of near 100% limp and occasional min raise with no fold range in these spots. How would that change my call/shove ranges? Seems like AA (and some others) could go either way still, but most good hands would realize equity by just shoving. Bottom of the range gets eliminated? Tighten up how much of that range? Still based on position, or can i develop a better comprehensive counter to all limps? (In general I dont limp, and usually abuse the limpers and have developed a very LAG image even though I would consider my play very standard with some aggressive exploits.) Me showing up with good hands has not changed the player pool strat.

[@Jacob-ud9fe]

May be a silly question but would these same concepts apply to sng tourneys

[@JinSID]

For 9-man sng no. He briefly discusses ICM at 23:37.

[@moneymikz]

When did min raising become standard and why??

[@PokerCoaching]

Computer simulations showed us that it leads to the highest EV. When raising larger, when short-stacked, you lose too much with the raise/fold portion of your range when facing a 3bet or a jam.

[@RGC-gn2nm]

Before online poker was a big thing min raising was a power move. The social construct of not getting your butt kicked in the parking lot by people who only played limit poker meant the best hand usually won. Face to face and not in a controlled casino type environment plays like Check Raising, All In Pre-flop, Slow Playing and Slow Rolling were clearly very much frowned upon. Until Moneymaker card games were considered 'social' and only a few well known pros made the circuits. Cincinnati Kid is a far better representation of the game pre-internet than Rounders.

[@moneymikz]

RGC2005 Huh interesting. If only I had a time machine lol

[@moneymikz]

Jonathan Little - Poker Coaching That makes sense but wouldn’t that allow them to call too wide?? I wouldn’t want my KK to be susceptible to a random 662 flop for example

[@RGC-gn2nm]

@@PokerCoaching Min betting also has a psychological impact. Very late game most players are looking for a minimum cash or pay jump. The tactic throws off thier game plan and forces them to think about your range. In the Push Fold game we are in right now not being able to adjust can and will mess opponents up. Like RDP vs Lopez in the 2019 Colossus one donkey play that goes to showdown can mean a fold later when the proper play was a call.

[@luicajucom8109]

The intro was too long.., made me sleep