Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by BalugaWhale (High Stakes)

thanks for vid Anrew. nice watch

Time Link to 00:07:00

On table 4, how do you like floating oop with JTs here? He's probably gonna barrel us a lot, which is bad for us, but we've got lots of backdoordraws and he also can't have too much on this board. Craising might be an option too, but we just dont rep anything, so it's bad, right?

On table 4, how do you like floating oop with JTs here? He's probably gonna barrel us a lot, which is bad for us, but we've got lots of backdoordraws and he also can't have too much on this board. Craising might be an option too, but we just dont rep anything, so it's bad, right?

the real problem here is our lack of equity. we can actually c/r here sometimes because we should def be able to have slowplayed overpairs here as well as 5s, but i'd rather have some overcards that are a little better when they hit.

Andrew

Time Link to 00:28:13

Enjoyed the video as usual - thanks.

Here you bet $152 in to $175 as a bluff when the K flush card hits. Earlier (not sure how to embed another time line) but it was at 3 mins 5 secs you bet $132 in to $172 as a semi-bluff with a double gutter. You spoke about balancing and that $132 was an amount that you felt was "balanceable".

Obviously these spots are different as you have almost zero equity in the second example (gutshot that isn't clean). Could you explain your thought process for the bet sizing here Vs the first bet and what makes you bet bigger or smaller in this example taking your balancing concerns in to account given that the action before each bet was similar (flat PF, flat cbet, bet when checked to on connected board) and neither villain was "bad".

I assume maximizing FE here is key and if it is simply that and that the bet sizing is within the bounds of your value bet/bluff range in both cases then I will have just answered my own question - but I suspect you may have more thoughts!

Thanks.

muy interesante video

are you in a spanish speaking country atm ?

enjoyed watching this, good explanations

it depends highly on the range i'm representing. if it's more air-based (i.e. draws didn't hit), i want to make it smaller because smaller is more balancable (given the air-to-value range i'm representing). If it's more value based (i.e. the draws hit, there's a lot more nuts stuff in my range, a bigger bet is more balancable).

not a huge point, but thats my basic thought

Andrew

muy interesante video

are you in a spanish speaking country atm ?

enjoyed watching this, good explanations

no ahora. on my way to thailand/china soon though

it depends highly on the range i'm representing. if it's more air-based (i.e. draws didn't hit), i want to make it smaller because smaller is more balancable (given the air-to-value range i'm representing). If it's more value based (i.e. the draws hit, there's a lot more nuts stuff in my range, a bigger bet is more balancable).

not a huge point, but thats my basic thought

Andrew

Ty - makes sense. No use to me until I move up quite a bit then as down where I play they're not thinking too much about the range of value hands Vs air you are repping Good concept for me to think about though.

Time Link to 00:14:07

I'm not sure I understand why you call this player a bad player, when you say he has generally played pretty perfect post flop. He doesn't fold to much and he is playing back. Doesn't that mean that he is going to be generally a good player? What would make you think otherwise.

I'm not sure I understand why you call this player a bad player, when you say he has generally played pretty perfect post flop. He doesn't fold to much and he is playing back. Doesn't that mean that he is going to be generally a good player? What would make you think otherwise.

i forget exactly what made me think he was a bad player (i think maybe he called a 3bet or two OOP? i forget), but the reason I say he's going to be "playing perfectly postflop" is that he's not calling with any hands worse than Q2s and that he doesnt like to fold postflop, so in that sense he's "playing perfectly"

Andrew

Can you talk about how we are reacting on the turn when he fires a second barrel in the AhJh 3-bet pot? What are we doing on a total blank? When the board pairs the K or T? When we pair our A or J? When we hit our flush or gutshot?

Can you talk about how we are reacting on the turn when he fires a second barrel in the AhJh 3-bet pot? What are we doing on a total blank? When the board pairs the K or T? When we pair our A or J? When we hit our flush or gutshot?

flatting on blanks/K/T/Q/A/J is probably best, shoving on flushes seems best.
just quick off the top of my head

Andrew

Thanks BalugaWhale, great video.

Here are my notes/questions and would greatly appreciate if you had time to make a response.

-5:30 44 facing 3bet oop from prittay good. Hypothetically you say if were 100 bbs deep it's a ship or fold. Since Prittay good is a regular why are you not worried about balance? he 3bets to 100, usually standard would be to 4bet 2.5x or so, but you suggest shipping $1000. I can see how 4betting getting it in is very non optimal compared to shipping because of the FE difference but it might come to hurt us if villain can get a read on our 4bet ship vs. our standard 4bet.

-8min AJhh If we were 200 bbs you value 4bet AJs? Im struggling to see the value in that because I am not very experienced in deep play.


-29:30 3bet pot 1/3 pot donk looks like TP? What is there reasoning for this? It seems like the small donk bets from fish are often flush draws or some weak pair that doesn't want to C/C

-34:30 great point about not hero calling when villain is likely thinly vbetting.

-39 When we flat 3bet w KJ are we ever folding if we hit a TP? What flops are we playing back with air?

-Also I really liked your comments about flatting/3betting from SB vs. BB.
Solid vid. Thanks.