Carbon Poker - Member Leakfinder Video
This is one of our rakeback members (FinishEmOff) plaing NL10 6max on Carbon Poker. The video is fairly short and only on one table but there are two interesting hands that come up which are good spots to talk about. In poker if you can win for 5-10bb (bb being - big blinds) per 100 hands, you are doing well. In the two hands I want to talk about I think nearly 30bb could of been saved and if you can save or make 30bb every twelve minutes then you will be moving in the right direction. Below the video is the leakfinder/hand analysis. The first seven minutes he plays really tight and just folds, which at these stakes is never a bad thing as most of your money will come from players playing inferior hands and not being able to fold top pair or in a lot of cases, second pair with a reasonable kicker. So armed with this knowledge lets take a look at the first hand. Hand One: 55 The first hand I want to talk about comes up at 7:14 into the video and is 55 under the gun (first to act pre flop). The first thing I want to talk about is pre flop bet sizing. I think a standard, defualt raise size is important so that you're not easily read by other players. I like an open raise of anywhere from 3-4 blinds, a pot size bet is 35c (3.5bb). I think open raising to 50c is too much and you are essentially just over betting the pot and you will get the same result if you make it 40c or 50c. So lets make our standard open raise 3-4bb and only raise more than that if we have limpers infront of us in which case I make it an extra big blind for every limper (if I have a hand that I want to raise limpers with) So as played we raise to 50c and get one caller, the flop comes AsKd7s. You c-bet which I think is fine, you bet close to full pot which is ok but again I think 80c will also get the job done. Now when you get called you have to put the guy on a range of hands, he looks a little loose/passive from his stats so I'd say he has a weak ace, some kind of second pair, a flush draw or maybe a random gut shot like QJ or TJ (less likly but possible). On the turn a 9 of spades rolls off completing any potential flushes and our opponent checks to you again at which point you check back which I think is ok as your 55 does have a little showdown value aginst the odd gutshot hands (TJ, QJ) and sometimes you also hit a 5 on the river. Now on the river you get checked to again. I want you to think back through the hand. The guys calls a huge pre flop raise, then calls a pot size bet on the flop which is ace high with a flush draw, so really try to think how the hand played out and what he is likely to hold. The pot on the river is $3 and you fire a $1.50 bet. So I want you to ask yourself "what am I trying to represent?" To a thinking player this line could really look like you have an ace and may fold a king but you are in a pot with a fish at NL10 and remember their weakness is not being able to fold. When you bet here you get all hands like TJ and QJ to fold which is a small part of his range and you had showdown value against (you would of won the pot without betting). When you bet you get snap called by an ace, called/raised by a flush if the guys getting cute and I would guess at these stakes, most kings call also. You can't really represent a flush as you never bet the turn so I would just check the river down, see a showdown and make notes on what the guy has and how he played it for help in the future, if he'll let you show a hand down cheaply that has showdown value and give you infomation on how he's playing, take it. That is 15bb that I think you should have never bet and so if we can save in spots like that we will be on our way to a win rate (it all adds up). Hand Two: Kc9c The second hand I want to talk about comes up after 11:16 and is nearing the end of the video. You have Kc9c in the big blind and the whole table folds around to the player on the button who limps. The guy is playing nealy 50% of his hands so far and looks like a weak player. In this spot I like to raise as the hand is already heads up and the button looks weak which means that you can win the pot there and then a lot. In this spot I do like a raise of between 40-50c but I want you to notice the difference between this spot and the 55 hand. In this hand we have a limper and we are out of position so in this spot I want to discourage a call and try to end the hand here, I also think that you are actually ahead of his limping range and thus are raising also for value. Now as played you opted to check which is not the end of the world, I just preffer raising in this situation as you give yourself more ways to win the hand. But you do infact get a pretty good flop for your hand 5c,5d,Ac giving you the nut flush draw and it is fairly unlikely to have hit him due to card removal for the fives and the fact that most players raise an ace on the button there, but he is playing a 45/0/4.5 so maybe he could limp a rag ace. Back to the hand, the pot is currently 25c and you bet 40c essentially on a bluff (semi bluff but a bluff none the less). Now I like the fact that you bet out at this flop as you'll win it nearly always and even when called you have probably nine good out to improve, giving you a lot of equity in the hand. What I didn't like was the bet size. You nearly doubled the size of the pot when in reality 20c would achieve the same thing here. The flop is so dry that he either has something to continue or he doesn't so 20c into 25c is fine(saving 2bb) and your bluff only has to work half as much to show a profit. When he calls your bet it's hard to say exactly what he has but a rag ace is possible, now you over bet the flop and check the turn, if you really had a strong hand you'd bet the turn but you don't you check so it must looks like you have a flush draw. When you check, he bets pot ($1.05) and you call. I hate calling here as you have 9 outs if you are not drawing dead and one cardto come which means you'll hit a flush about 1 in 5 times. He only has about $3 left to win which means you pay $4 when you call and missand may win $3.5 when you hit, that is if he has a hand strong enough to pay you, what about the times when he is bluffing or has a weak pair like 77? basically you don't have the implied odds to flat call and being out of position will mean you have to shove when you hit and he may fold weaker hands like 66,77,88 bluffs etc. So you are getting the wrong odds to call, especially out of position, no implied odds. In this spot on the river I like fold, shove, call in that order. I hope this has helped in spots more in terms of how to think through situations and why. We look forward to more videos from you so that we can help get you to where you want to be. Good luck BrokerstarOur Top Rated Poker Rooms Below are the poker rooms that we most recommend playing at so join one of these rooms today and use our poker tactics to start raking in the money now.
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