AaronBeen Vids

So I just watched AaronBeen's two CR videos. They are both HU and both regular speed 50+2.50 level games.

I found some interesting stuff in this video. He plays very LAG postflop, especially in position. This is something that I do a lot against good players (usually 2+2ers) or very tight-weak players (not nearly as many it seems in the turbos). Lately I've had to play a lot tighter post flop and a lot more aggressive. The first player he played was so weak-tight I think he could have raised any two cards and not gotten into any trouble.

The second match was a little more interesting. He made a pretty good call down but villain's line made such little sense that it was definitely a call down you would have to make if you are a good player.

He talked a lot about playing with low stack-blind ratio. This is good because most HU players that are not 2+2ers play pretty badly at these areas. I feel my advantage hardly decreases against the average opponent at these blind levels because they are so bad, and in some cases actually increases. So for Cardrunners he may have provided the most valuable lesson for the HU customers with that. I read a player by the name of BCM's blogpost about this video improving his endgame play. BCM is a successful 100-200 dollar HUSNG player. This really surprised me because BCM was limping at these blind levels with short stacks before seeing this video. Anyways, it is apparent to me that AB provided a lot of insight to the endgame of a lot of players.

As far as his specifics, I disagreed fairly strongly about one of his moves. Towards the end of the 25-50 blind level, AB has been beating his opponent fairly well. The guy is a little too bluffy and AB came back from an early deficit to take the lead on him more or less through very poorly played hands by villain. AB has him outchipped roughly 2200-800. The guy raises on the button and AB shoves a hand like K6. This is a fine play, I do this a lot in certain situations, usually with a little stronger, but nevertheless this is a good aggressive and IMO profitable play. The opponent had been tilting the last ten or so hands, and called with J9s or something very similar. He sucked out on AB, but that is not a big deal.

Now this is where I feel the error was made. The blinds get to 50-100, Been has about 1k chips. He starts to talk about the endgame, and shoving when the pot is 5x your stack or less (I think he also talked about 7-8x bb or less in stack sizes earlier, no matter). He decides to open shove T7s. Villain folded in this situation, but I disagree with this play in this situation. The way the game is going, the guy called him with J9s before, this is a fairly bad situation for him to shove in 10bb deep. I may be wrong, I've heard people advocating being this aggressive here before, but against a villain that is going to call too wide, I certainly would not want to shove loosely when you are 10bb and he is 20bb deep. Maybe the other HU bloggers can voice their opinions here, but this is definitely too loose for the realms of SAGE at 10bb. SAGE leaves off at 7bbs deep and you shove T7o there as your worst hand.

I guess in retrospect this isn't a hugely bad play or anything, but it seems to be a little bad against the average villain and even worse against one who will call with too many hands here.

Overall it was a very good video though. I wish he would have played turbos, as I got the impression his goal was to replicate the end of a MTT. I also feel his LAG style postflop would put him in a lot of harder situations where I would be interested in seeing how he did in a turbo. Players don't call or fold on 227 flops OOP when you're raising the button 75% and c-betting everything in the turbos. They raise, they shove, they call and raise the turn, etc. It doesn't make them any better because they are so bad in other areas, it just makes them different. And I would like to see how his style plays out in a turbo and what kind of adjustments, if any, he would make.

Anyways, I'm off to dinner. Going to play some more tonight and probably play another 2+2er in some private matches. I would like to make a video soon with commentary and get feedback to improve my play. I would also like to make a video for beginning HU players in the future. Right now I believe I would make too many errors that would take a lot of time to correct/talk about/figure out for a new player to get a lot of value out of, so that will be sometime when I have grown into a more solid player. For now I just need to improve.

I also would like to 2-table in the future, to improve my hourly rate. I am not extremely comfortable 2 tabling at the present time, I feel I miss a little too much and it upsets me, which doesn't help me mentally while I am playing. As of late, nothing has upset me more than missing a bet. I seem to miss a lot more when 2 tabling. I also don't feel I have figured out the best default plays in many situations as of yet. Or at least I cannot figure them out in a few seconds. I feel 2 tabling really increases the leaks in my game currently, and I would like to get rid of them before doing so.

I'll post videos if I play any 2+2ers tonight.

Bankroll $1,836.08