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Two of the biggest poker vloggers battle it out in this high stakes cash game hand. Rampage Poker takes on his good friend Mariano in a $81,000 pot!
We view this poker hand from Rampage’s perspective as he wakes up with pocket jacks aka pocket jiggities (coined by the popular Brad Owen!). He faces extreme aggression from Mariano after he faces a 4 bet preflop and then very large bet sizes on the turn and river.
Jonathan discusses what things you should consider when deciding to raise or call against small bet sizes with hands that are vulnerable.
As your opponent’s are more loose & aggressive you should be inclined to make lighter calls against them as their range to continue will contain more bluffs. It is important to be counting combinations of hands that your opponent could have to determine whether they will have enough bluffs in their range. This will help you decide as to whether you should continue in the poker hand or not.
It is well known that Rampage Poker (Ethan Yau) is good friends with Mariano but as you will find out in this poker hand, there are no friends at the poker table!
Thank you to Rampage Poker for allowing me to use the footage from this poker vlog. Check out his amazing poker channel here:
https://youtube.com/rampagepoker
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What is the WORST hand that YOU would call with on the river? 🤔
Did that exhale at 0:16 get anyone else? I’m sitting in bed laughing my ass off
Not sure if you really want to have a club? He's probably supposed to double with front door clubs but it's a poor tripling candidate because it blocks your folding range on the river. His best bluffs are like king-queen or one of those wheel gutters. ATs is the best bluff catcher but QQ is basically equivalent to JJ here because I doubt he piles QQ for value so it doesn't matter that you block it. It's probably some hand you have to call some of the time. I would call because I'm a station.
Snap call
After having seen the result, I think a lot of live regs don't have enough give ups on brick turns. Just feels more masculine to keep going.
the worst hand i could call with here is jacks
I would call, because I think Mariano’s read on Rampage is that he has a decent hand, but is worried about being outnutted. Which means he would bluff right?
With a reasonable preflop range/postflop game we have around 29 combos arriving at this river of which around 1/3 (8 combos) are pure folds and
and 1/5 are clear value beaters (6 combos ). From an mdf perspective we have to defend around 45% of our range so we have to pick around 7 additional calls from the remaining 13 holdings. JJ seems to be a good choice since it unblocks the incredible AX heavy bluffing range the most (it is almost certainly better then QQ which blocks the main pre bluffing hand AQo, similar reasoning goes for ATs). I am not sure if the suit is that relevant since our V should shy away from c bluffs blocking a badload of autofolds (especially the Ac) but oth V might be short of other bluffs that deep i think, so all in all pretty neutral i suppose. Taking everything together this seems a very reasonable call.
This is a hand where it is incredibly important to know villain's preflop tendencies. If they don't 4-bet almost anything but Broadway pairs and suited AK in that spot, you need to pretty strictly set mine, and the T on the flop is a horrific card in addition against someone like that. If they 4-bet light with all sorts of suited connectors and offsuit Broadway combos, you can call down with any overpair or TPTK, unless you get bad vibes from a read/tell/line, in which case you can still revert to bailing out on the first big bet, and write it off as a failed set mining attempt that was still +EV in the grand scheme.
There are a handful of players where I wouldn't call with 66, but for them I would have folded the turn, and even the flop call would have been to set mine 2 outs and/or see if the showdown would be cheap. Bear in mind that most of my experience is against relatively tight New England players, where the correct answer could be 66, AA, or KK. Against players I don't know in Vegas, it might be KK or QQ or AT. In Los Angeles, more likely AT if you don't read them for being a nit.
Very tough spot, because the answer depends so much on who the villain is, and what your own table image and tendencies are in their mind. If you never fold big hands to big bets, you're very exploitable. But if you always fold big hand to big bets, you're even more exploitable. Choose your poisons, and how to balance them.
There is one other thing to be REALLY careful about here, against someone who knows your normal play, If your unexpected call of a big turn bet always means you're making a stand and calling down, and they figure that out, then EVERY bet of theirs on the river is for value. If they think they're behind, they shut down. If they think they're ahead, they shove and the only question becomes how often they are wrong about thinking they're ahead, given whatever your own hand is. There is no better situation in poker than knowing your opponent is making a stand against you, when you do actually have the effective nuts. And there is no worse situation in poker than being a tight player deciding to call down a maniac who has it.
in my games (25nl') i almost alway fold here. But against a lag pro its seems to be a very easy call. Even AK is probably a fold because baby pairs and 67/56 are maybe in his bluffing range. Worst hand is 77 against this lag