[Hand of the Week by donkbee] Week 1 - AJ in MP with 20 BBs (Part 3 Released!)

[donkbee]

I had to watch my own videos again because when I read some of the questions, I had no idea what they were talking about

Despite a perfect flop and turn for AJ on the J75s board, if your not careful you can make the strength of your hand really clear. I think you do that when you bet 800 of your 1800 on a blank turn (you look super strong).

I'm not sure which hand you are talking about... video two shows a turn bet of 800 into a 1595 pot.

Can we discuss overbet jamming in spots where we have TPTK on a reasonably drawy flop?

I know this is frowned upon by some; I used to do this when I first started playing but I read somewhere that it was bad so I stopped. But why?

If we have 12 BBs to start the hand I'm pretty sure no one would object to open-shipping it pre into a pot of 3 BBs; if there's a raise and a call and we have AK in the BB, we can shove all day, so why can't we ship TPTK OOP for ~17.5 BBs into a pot of 6.5 BBs or so? Jx calls, flush draws call, and a lot of people can level themselves into calling with a small pocket pair thinking you missed or have a draw and we lose action on a lot of turn/rivers.

Pushing that flop is +EV but it's not gonna be optimal. People are more likely to call with flush draws when the bets are smaller. We also want 2nd or 3rd pair to call us, but they are much less likely to do so when the bet is huge. People often call standard sized cbets with 2nd and 3rd pair.

on KTxdd flop, I'd assume most competent villains are shoving over when we bet larger, are we comfortable getting it in here?

It really depends on the villain. In the games I play, a competent villain isn't usually shoving here. I can't think of much I would shove here myself (if I'm the villain). If I have Kx, I probably wanna call. I probably min raise or something if I wanna raise. I dunno though, someone else can chime in if they want.

Also, a bet of 500 into 800 isn't so big that someone is automatically gonna become suspicious. It's a pretty standard sized bet for some people on a flop texture like that.