Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by improva (Micro/Small Stakes)

poemmel + tarek + oliver.

nuts imo

Time Link to 00:48:38

hahahaha it's the dutch aggression!!!!

What is this Poemmel guy?
Is he a nit?
Is he a german nit?

<3 it

actually I'm more like 200 and 400NL, 600 did go too bad

Q9 u sicko....

My thoughts on the KQ hand were:
His range is super wide.
The dynamics were just super sick preflop, everybody was playing overaggressively so its an easy call preflop.

Then on the flop I float, cause he doesn't have many TP hands, cause he won't 3bet 9Js/TJs/QJs or something like this (prolly not even KJ) so his value range is pretty slim (AJ and overpairs).

But I can have many TP Hands (QJ, TJ, KJ, AJ) and I could slowplay an overpair (dynamics and ownages in a homegame) so I think he is pretty unlikely to barrel on a brick (people also tend to be more straight forward in 3bet pots).
Plus I don't care if he barrels scare cards (the A would suck obv, despite I would turn a gutshot), cause if he barrels the Q or K i'm lovin it.

So all in all I can take it down a lot on the turn and I can pick up barrels if he bluffs on a K or Q scare card.

Basically what it comes down to is how much he would 2nd barrel a brick.
You think he would do it a lot.
I think he won't

My thoughts on the KQ hand were:
His range is super wide.
The dynamics were just super sick preflop, everybody was playing overaggressively so its an easy call preflop.

Then on the flop I float, cause he doesn't have many TP hands, cause he won't 3bet 9Js/TJs/QJs or something like this (prolly not even KJ) so his value range is pretty slim (AJ and overpairs).

But I can have many TP Hands (QJ, TJ, KJ, AJ) and I could slowplay an overpair (dynamics and ownages in a homegame) so I think he is pretty unlikely to barrel on a brick (people also tend to be more straight forward in 3bet pots).
Plus I don't care if he barrels scare cards (the A would suck obv, despite I would turn a gutshot), cause if he barrels the Q or K i'm lovin it.

So all in all I can take it down a lot on the turn and I can pick up barrels if he bluffs on a K or Q scare card.

Basically what it comes down to is how much he would 2nd barrel a brick.
You think he would do it a lot.
I think he won't

True, it boils down to assumptions. I fully agree.

One a side note: A good player will very seldom just c-bet and give up on that flop. The flop is either a check-fold or multiple barrels (no matter what turn card... well maybe not a J).

Q9 u sicko....

hahaha as I said in the chat
"don't mess with teh Poemmel"

Pretty good stuff. I really enjoyed the leveling and all that. I think the last hand for dr smooth was a pretty clear bet / fold. I think if we bet somewhere around 7.75 on the river we can still get called by some worse hands that floated the flop and made a pair, AT, JT, A8, or definitely some other hero calls that are out there. But it also acts as a blocker vs the smaller hands that still beat us, 66, 99, A9, maybe even the straights don't raise us there because they're never getting called without being beat. I'm a bit of a cash game noob as I haven't played them seriously in over a year so please feel free to rip my thoughts apart .

hahahaha it's the dutch aggression!!!!

ROFLMAO It's so true. I tell Snappie that he is a Dutch Spewtard everyday and he calls me a nit!

ROFLMAO It's so true. I tell Snappie that he is a Dutch Spewtard everyday and he calls me a nit!

i have an excuse now being a spewtard, i am dutch.

Time Link to 00:12:33

Against some opponents you can actually make a small 4-bet/fold with TT and JJ because they will often flat with AK IP and ship only pocket pairs (people assume UTG only has a pure value 4-bet range).

You could also consider developing a limping range from EP and MP if you don't think you will pick up much dead money preflop. JJ and TT are much better played with a very high SPR where you can peel a lot of flops, getting correct odds to hit your set on the turn vs. a higher pair (and you will sometimes navigate to showdown and win UI too).

I don't think the effort it takes to construct a utg limping range that isn't incredibly face up is anywhere reasonable to the ev it MIGHT gain us. I mean we'd have to have some limp/folding hands, limp/calling hands and limp/3betting hands to begin with or observign opponents will eat us alive.

To be honest I'd rather face the one or the other tough spot after raising TT/JJ UTG than using up days of my valuable study time to construct such a range.

Time Link to 00:35:08

Because this is not a spot where I expect villain to check-call a lot I will check back this flop and raise the turn with a very high frequency. If I am betting with a value hand here I have to be willing to 3-bet and get it in.

By checking we achieve so much:
We rep a weak hand that doesn't want to get check-raised, but has some showdown value.
Because of this I don't think he will automatically bet the turn with air.
However, he will lead the turn with a wide value range and we can raise large for pure value when we judge it is there and it makes the river easy to play too. We are able to leverage our position.
Because we expect his turn checking range to be so weak we can delay c-bet the turn with our air very profitably.