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0:00Welcome to story time with Pete, a new
0:02way of reviewing hands to evade YouTube
0:04age restrictions and bring a bit more
0:06color and flair and laid-back chill
0:10storytelling vibes to your weekly hand
0:13review digest here at Carrot Corner.
0:15Let's get into it. I have a cartoon
0:18story, but a true story that happened
0:20earlier today when I was playing a
0:22session. You see, it all began when I
0:24limped under the gun in 6 max online
0:27cash with five four suited. If you're
0:31shocked by this, it's probably because
0:33you don't think about poker correctly.
0:36You see, there were two carp on this
0:37table. Well, I don't actually know they
0:39were carp, but they were some form of
0:41fish, one on the button and one in the
0:43small blind, and they both called along
0:45and the big blind checked. If you have
0:48absolute rules for yourself in poker
0:49like never limp or play three better
0:51fold, those are maybe okay in the very
0:53initial stages of your career where
0:55you're barely learning the rules, but
0:57your job as a poker player is to think
0:58about EV, and if you don't manage to do
1:01that, you're going to make bad
1:03decisions. And here's the thing, when
1:04you have five four suited under the gun,
1:06you could open, you could say, "Okay,
1:07there's fish on the table. I want to
1:08play more hands. I want to get
1:09involved." You could min open, you could
1:11go for a 3x. You can also limp, because
1:13here's the thing, very often the regs
1:15are playing three better fold, and
1:16they're going to iso at 3.6 big blinds
1:18if you limp. A carp is going to call,
1:20you get to call as well, you get to go
1:21three-way. The name of the game here is
1:23not to build those anyone pre-flop with
1:25this hand. It's in it to win it. It's to
1:27see flops with this hand with weak
1:29players at the table. That is what
1:31boosts your EV. Merely existing in these
1:33favorable situations with bad poker
1:36players if lot comes ace 10 deuce
1:38rainbow. What a dream. With the five
1:40four of clubs here the back door back
1:41door,
1:42nut shot to the wheel, and we decided to
1:45start with a small C-bet. This is a good
1:47way to go.
1:48Your opponents are still uncapped here.
1:49People can have pocket tens, pocket
1:51deuces, ace 10, ace deuce, and you just
1:53want to see what's going on. That's not
1:54the sole reason for the bet, by the way.
1:55It's bluff. You're denying equity to
1:57opponents who are making them fold lots
1:58of stuff. We also get to see what's
1:59going on with a small bet. Both fish
2:01call. The small blind checks to us
2:03again, and we go for the gargantuan
2:05overbet. We go for 15.6
2:08big blinds. So, when you look at this,
2:10right? We have a pair. We have a pair of
2:11fives now. We have a gutter. What does
2:13this five do? Does it give us showdown
2:15value? The first trap here is to see
2:17this hand as showdown value. I hit a
2:18pair on the turn. I check. That's not
2:20very good because it stops you assessing
2:22whether bluffing is actually better than
2:24checking. And I think it is because
2:26here's the thing. A fish that limp, they
2:28do have some ace-x, and some of those
2:30hands are are going to be ace-five, but
2:32we do block that. They're going to be
2:33ace-three, they're going to be ace-four.
2:35These hands probably continue. A fish
2:37might well to a giant overbet here in a
2:39multiway climate depending on the type
2:41of fish fold an ace here. I know what
2:43you're thinking. Fish don't fold top
2:45pair. You shouldn't overbet the turn.
2:46This is one of these generalization
2:47fallacies. Your opponents are sometimes
2:49going to fold top pair when you strike
2:51the fear of God into them by making a
2:53randomly unexpected obnoxious bet like
2:55this. It tends to do very, very well. On
2:57this occasion, both of my opponents
2:59folded. I just want to point out here
3:00that when you turn something like third
3:02pair or even flop third pair, very often
3:05these hands function as very nice
3:06bluffs. Because the hand is rarely good.
3:09It doesn't really matter that you have a
3:11pair,
3:12and you have some extra juicy outs here.
3:14Like when you bet the flop with these
3:15third pair hands, you're drawing to
3:17these very nice trips and two pair
3:19hands. You're blocking sets. It makes a
3:21lot of sense. It also makes sense to bet
3:23them when you pick up these baby pairs
3:25on the turn. And the overbet here, I'm
3:28not just stopping at saying I want my
3:30opponent to fold a 10 or I want my
3:32opponent to fold sixes. I'm getting
3:33greedy, and I'm actually saying, "You
3:35don't have that many nutted hands. I
3:37block some of the ones you do have. I'm
3:38going to make you fold ace-nine at a
3:40high frequency." And you might not
3:41believe me. You might want to use some
3:42general maximum like fish never fold
3:44ace-nine. It's simply not true unless
3:47they are uber whales. And as you can see
3:49from these two gentlemen here, they're
3:51not. They're just plain old carp. Okay,
3:53onto the second hand of story time. You
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4:02by me, awesome. Glad to hear it. I'll
4:05make more of it.
4:07And the second hand we're going to talk
4:08about today, I have the ace seven of
4:10hearts. I am in the big blind. And there
4:12is a reg on the button. And as regs like
4:14to do on the button, this gentleman
4:15opens for two big blinds. I don't know
4:17if this is what he looked like. He was
4:18from an Asian country, so I depicted him
4:20as such with chat GPT. Let me know what
4:23you think about this illustration of the
4:25average Asian country reg in in my
4:28games. I think it's it's fairly
4:29accurate. We go for the three bet pre
4:31here and our opponent calls and the flop
4:33goes check check. So, why have I
4:35checked? Why have I not just
4:36automatically bet here like everybody
4:38and their mother does in these games?
4:41Well, here's the thing. I actually play
4:43a B75, a three-quarters pot or check
4:45strategy in three-bet pots. And the
4:47reason I do this is I like to play
4:49strategies that are not common place in
4:51my games. I like regs to be facing
4:53unique decisions. I want them to face
4:55check here when they're not used to
4:56facing that much check. Okay, this is a
4:58board that small blind's going to check
4:59pretty often in theory and a bit more
5:01often than other boards in practice, but
5:03still they're not that used to building
5:05the stab range on the button here. And
5:08they're definitely not used to facing
5:10B75 too much either.
5:12They'll get more used to that the higher
5:14you play. So, it's a novel toolkit, if
5:16you will, playing B75 or check. It's the
5:18way I like to build. I think my hand in
5:20this spot can bet. I think it's low
5:22enough down as far as ace high goes that
5:24it's not a mandatory check. I think it
5:26has enough equity going on to bet here
5:28if it really wants, but I'm not going to
5:29have a high bet frequency for my range
5:31on 556 particularly and check is going
5:33to be my default action. That's more on
5:35the theory balance side of things, but
5:37yeah, I like to talk about my sizing
5:39toolkit. If I'm betting, then what my
5:41hand would do in theory and then decide
5:42what I like best in practice.
5:45I like checking. I think we'll get some
5:46good transparency here. Generally,
5:48people under stab in three-bet pots, but
5:50don't under stab so much in single raise
5:51pots, by the way, when you check as the
5:54pre-flop raiser. It's a little bit of a
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6:30the action, we three-bet big blind
6:32against button small blind against
6:33button, sorry. The reg calls, and we go
6:35to this flop here.
6:38So, 556, I check, and the reg checks
6:40back. So, what's happening here? So, in
6:42theory, they are supposed to slow play
6:44pretty frequently. And by slow play, I
6:46don't mean like check the nuts, I just
6:48mean check pocket pairs that look quite
6:49natural to bet. So, they are supposed to
6:52bet sometimes with hands like eights or
6:54sevens or nines or tens or jacks, but
6:56very often, they're supposed to check
6:57those hands as well. And what I think
7:00happens in reality in the games that
7:02you, the audience, is playing is that
7:04your opponents do not protect their
7:05checking range very much on this low
7:06board. They're going to move much more
7:08towards over cards by not bluffing
7:10enough and ace-x by virtue of the fact
7:13that they don't check enough of their
7:14pairs. So, they're going to have no pair
7:16on this turn very often. Now, that
7:17splits the range into a couple of hands.
7:19They're going to have something like
7:20ace-queen, ace-king, rarely if they
7:22don't four-bet, ace-jack. If they have
7:25those hands, I think I can wait until
7:26river and do a pretty good job of
7:28bluffing on a lot of cards. I can also
7:30take some pots here here with this hand.
7:31It's not going to show down for nothing.
7:33By the river, it's not a favorable board
7:35for range to showing your hand down for
7:36little scraps of EV. It's okay in
7:38unfavorable landscapes. You don't want
7:39to settle for that on boards a bit
7:41better for you with higher cards in this
7:43situation.
7:44And here's the thing, if my opponent
7:45bets the turn here, they're going to
7:47polarize and they're going to polarize
7:48very handily towards bluffs that we
7:51absolutely smash and then value hands
7:53that we wouldn't want to bet the turn
7:54against anyway. So, if we check and face
7:56a bet here, villain is saying they have
7:58an eight, they're saying they have fours
7:59or sevens or nines or tens or jacks or
8:01something like that or maybe 67. And we
8:05are basically saying, "Okay, well, I
8:07don't beat that, but if you're bluffing,
8:08I've got you absolutely crushed cuz I've
8:10got this ace-x with a straight draw and
8:11I'm I'm doing really well against your
8:13your naked overcards." And so,
8:15check-call is a really nice way to go on
8:16this turn. It might not look it, but the
8:18thing is that the hands like ace-ten,
8:19ace-jack, ace-queen are rarely betting.
8:21So, if we face a bet here, it's either
8:23going to be just some value bet or it's
8:24going to be king-queen, king-jack,
8:25king-ten, jack-ten, queen-ten.
8:27And if they're betting too many of that
8:28latter group, they're going to
8:29over-bluff in this spot. I do actually
8:31think this spot's over-bluffed if we
8:32face a bet. So, I decided to check again
8:34with the intention of calling. But,
8:35everything is transient in poker,
8:37everything changes
8:38based on the runout.
8:40And here we have to react to this king.
8:42What's this done? Well, a lot of our
8:44checking twice range was ace-king,
8:45right? Some of it, although less, was
8:47also king-queen or king-jack or
8:49something that has a smidgen of showdown
8:51and didn't want to bluff yet. And so, we
8:53connect with this card very, very hard.
8:55Villain, meanwhile, has less of these
8:56hands naturally preflop. They're
8:58four-betting ace-king. They're going to
8:59be bluffing some amount of their king-x
9:01or folding it preflop. They're going to
9:03be furthermore bluffing some of their
9:05king-x by flop or turn. They're just
9:08going to be more weighted towards bigger
9:09ace-x that doesn't low pairs like threes
9:11or fours or sevens or something. So, our
9:13hand now starts to showdown for less
9:16because the king
9:17basically means that hands we were
9:19beating have now got there and while
9:20we're not trying to make those hands
9:21fold by betting, what we are trying to
9:23do here is make ace-queen fold, which is
9:25a very abundant hand and very likely to
9:27pure fold this spot. It's not the only
9:29hand we're going after here if we decide
9:31to bluff. So, we're basically tracking
9:32our hand. We do get the fold in this
9:33case. We're tracking our hand across
9:36three streets here. We're reacting to
9:38its level of showdown value, we're
9:39reacting to anticipated changes in the
9:41opponent's range if they're to bet, and
9:44we're just being very fluid with our
9:46understanding of our relative hand
9:48strength. Okay, one more hand for you
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10:32Okay, our final hand for the day is the
10:34king nine of clubs. This is played
10:35against another player with I believe
10:36the Filipino flag they've created here.
10:39The AI agent is what's clearly like some
10:41sort of
10:42I don't know, Final Fantasy character.
10:44That's what this looks like, like the
10:45kind of heartthrob Final Fantasy
10:47character. I don't know, something like
10:49that. But he was in a small blind, I was
10:50in hijack with the king nine of clubs,
10:52and a following battle ensued. So, we go
10:55ahead and open to two big blinds here,
10:57not playing limps anymore without it
10:59being the same spot with the carp at the
11:01table. Villain made a very small three
11:03bet. Now, when I see this, I tend to
11:05think it's a weaker regular or
11:07recreational with reg stats. There's
11:08quite a lot of those on a site like GG
11:10Poker because of course you've got like
11:12the fast fold charts and stuff like
11:13that. It's a weird player type, but
11:15basically they they can make quite a lot
11:17of what we call polarization mistakes,
11:18you know, where they they tend to
11:20actually
11:22bet medium hands for no reason and stuff
11:24like this. They look like regs, and
11:25they're kind of not. So, that could be
11:26who our opponent is here, or it could
11:28actually just be a reg that uses a
11:29strange sizing for some reason. Don't
11:31think this is a great sizing. I think
11:33our hand is honestly not a fantastic
11:36call even against a smaller sizing, but
11:38when my opponent outs themselves as a
11:40recreational-ish player, I just take a
11:42hand like this and I just defend it and
11:43I just see what I can do. So, on the
11:45flop here, my opponent quickly checked
11:47and I think timing is quite important
11:48here because it means one of two things
11:50in my opinion. It can or one of three
11:52things. It can just be that they have
11:54air, they have a hand like queen jack or
11:55something. That's quite unlikely though.
11:57Most weak players just bet the flop
11:59small with queen jack here. It's the
12:01most natural thing to do is to just say,
12:02"This board is good for me. I make a
12:04small C-bet. I try and take it down."
12:06So, when they don't do that, I think the
12:08frequency of queen jack is diminished
12:10here. And I think the frequency of a
12:11hand like ace queen is also diminished
12:13here. It could be some almighty nuts
12:15hand like aces or ace king going for a
12:17trap, but most of the time it's going to
12:20be just something medium. It's going to
12:21be what it says on the 10. It's going to
12:23be a hand like kings or queens or jacks
12:26or 10s or nines. I think these are all
12:28very likely and the vast majority of our
12:31opponent's range here, queens, jacks,
12:32and 10s being more likely than kings and
12:34nines due to our blocker effect. So,
12:36we've got two choices. We can say,
12:38"Let's not try and make a guy with weird
12:39three-bet sizing fold a pair. They're
12:41going to under-fold this spot." If your
12:42opponent is like a mega whale, I would
12:44agree with that. I think you're you're
12:46better off just checking here, like
12:47never running into the trap and
12:48realizing equity. I think it's a low
12:50fold equity spot against a mega whale
12:52and you just take your equity and see if
12:54you get there and play transparently
12:55and, you know, put money in when you
12:56want to and not when you mess, right?
12:58But when you're against a
13:01more reggy-ish player, not a mega whale,
13:04you want to get greedy here for fold
13:05equity. And I start by betting 11.3 big
13:07blinds. And this is a very important
13:09spot to understand theoretically because
13:11what is the hijack having called a small
13:13blind three-bet one thing to bet with
13:15here? It's not going to be
13:17that mergey of a range because we don't
13:19have kings, queens, jacks in our range
13:21as much as they do. They have the
13:22monopoly on those hands.
13:24But we have an ace, so we we a much
13:25lower pair or just broadways. So, we
13:27want to actually go quite polar here. We
13:29want to bet fairly big or at least I
13:31like to go fairly big with a hand like
13:33ace jack plus here, maybe ace ten, and
13:35then bluffs. And then on the turn we'll
13:38we'll just proceed from there. It's a
13:39fallacy by the way that you need a plan
13:41for the hand. You do not need a plan for
13:42the hand all the way through. You just
13:44need to figure out what's right with
13:45your range in theory and what your
13:48baseline approach is going to be. Then
13:49you need to take your hand into the real
13:50world and see if you want to deviate
13:52from that. In the real world I think I
13:53can just get a tight looking semi-reg
13:56player to over fold their most common
13:58region here. So, I just start by
13:59betting. It's not a no-brainer bet. It's
14:01not an obvious bet. This spot's very
14:03player dependent and it's not always the
14:04case you just zombie bet your flush
14:06draw. On the turn it's a very good turn
14:08for our range, right? Like we're the one
14:10with four five here probably if anyone
14:12has that hand. We're the one with
14:15pocket threes if anyone has that hand
14:16and I think we certainly do. And this
14:18turn is going to just give us extra
14:20value for that for that reason while not
14:23making our opponent any bluffs or
14:24anything. have ace three. So, very good
14:27card for us and I decide to just keep
14:28blasting here with 28.1 big blinds. Some
14:30people get freaked out. They start to
14:32think I don't want to face a shove. And
14:34again if the opponent's a mega whale,
14:35you need to be very wary of that. Like
14:37they are going to just like have an ace
14:39sometimes or they're going to jam kings
14:40on you because you tilted them and
14:42they're now over that threshold and
14:43they're like screw you. But when it is
14:45the semi-reg type, this is the ABC
14:47player with the like lower VPIP, it's
14:49much more attractive to go after them in
14:51this spot. So, I do bet my hand big
14:53again here. It might seem like a kind of
14:54obvious hand but I think there's a lot
14:55to talk about here from range
14:56construction. In this spot I'm
14:58essentially just saying that I have My
15:01opponent folded by the way. I'm
15:02essentially just saying that I have
15:04ace queen plus. I have deuces. I have
15:08threes. I have four five and I can have
15:09all of those later hands that I just
15:11mentioned there because of the small
15:12three bet sizing. So, keeping track of
15:14the sizing pre can help you figure out
15:16what's going on range versus range
15:18later. But the most important reason for
15:21which this is a pure bet for me on the
15:22turn is that I think my opponent is
15:24drowning too much in 10s, jacks, queens,
15:27kings, etc. Not enough in A6. And I
15:29think these hands are just going to, you
15:30know, get close to a pure fold on the
15:31turn here. It's not a spot that's
15:33bluffed very often. It's not easy for me
15:34to find too many bluffs here barring the
15:36obvious like club club combo. And a lot
15:38of that could be like king queen of
15:39clubs that checks flop. So, I just think
15:41it's it's a very good fold equity spot
15:44against the rate player type.
15:46So, that was a little story time there.
15:48To create this video it was very simple.
15:50I just played a session. I got some
15:52hands and I picked three that I thought
15:54were worth talking about. I got AI to
15:56make the little comic book style
15:58strip of what happened there. And then I
16:00narrate over it just off the cuff. You
16:02guys seem to like the videos where I do
16:04minimal editing where I just talk and
16:06rant and be myself and just I'm pretty
16:08natural. So, if I'm onto something here
16:10and that is what you like and I can also
16:12bypass age restrictions so you can all
16:14see these videos without having to be
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16:18Let me know what you think in the
16:19comments. Do check out Bronze Carrot if
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16:24your structured poker education and I
16:26will see you next time. Bye for now.

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