Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by NoahSD (Mid Stakes)

Insta-5 for first hand alone

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I made a mistake here. 10% of hands and 100 combos is a much better estimate than 20% of hands and 200 combos here. The play's still definitely good, though.

Sorry for not catching that earlier.

Nice vid.

I like this format but it would be cool to see you do a live session 4tabling midstakes at some point. Maybe you could just switch it up for one of your vids by doing a live session and then continue doing what you are doing now.

Also, In that 99 hand vs Sashager. I am pretty sure he is a weaker player and not a standard TAG in those games.

it would be cool to see you do a live session 4tabling midstakes at some point

2/4+ on Cereus would be awesome

UK,
Glad you enjoyed it. The current plan is for me to do a bunch of these. I certainly have nothing against doing a sweat video, though.

I'm trying my best in these vids to give my reads on the players as I had them when I played the hand. For example, I said my read on Sashager was that he was probably decent because I'd seen him around before, so I don't think he'll do anything completely ridiculous. Of course, after he c/cs that river with the nut straight in a spot where I have a flush almost never, I have a different read.

Baz,
Glad you enjoyed it. It's not really up to me what vids I make.. but I'll ask. I'd rather do it on Stars/FTP, though, because Cereus time bank makes it really difficult to play and talk at the same time. This series will definitely have a lot of hands from 3/6 and 5/10 on Cereus, though.

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yes! every time someone says "i needed to balance" against a fish baby jesus kills a kitten...

Nice video again. In the 89 hand you said that he very rarely limps highcards in the sb. I strongly disagree with that, fish(asumption based on the stacksize) limp-call all kind of hands here. I very often see Kx,Ax hands in these spots, and now and then as strong hands as AJ/AT. I still agree on checking tho, since he'll spass bluff almost any turn

Nice video again. In the 89 hand you said that he very rarely limps highcards in the sb. I strongly disagree with that, fish(asumption based on the stacksize) limp-call all kind of hands here. I very often see Kx,Ax hands in these spots, and now and then as strong hands as AJ/AT. I still agree on checking tho, since he'll spass bluff almost any turn

I def don't mean to imply that he never has these hands.. just that they're much less common than the other hands in his range.

you say you're playing 2/4-10/20 on a regular basis, no occasional shots on 25/50 50/1? Is that because you're a BR nit? Don't like the swings?

for the sake of msnl, and I guess most regs are with me here: please stop making vids. you're way too skilled.

awesome.

Actually said "yesss!" out loud when I saw this was up

UK,
Glad you enjoyed it. The current plan is for me to do a bunch of these. I certainly have nothing against doing a sweat video, though.

While I'm sure a sweat video would be good, I really like this format and imo there are plenty of midstakes live play videos on the site so I'd rather have more of these episodes. Just my opinion.

Nah, don't do a sweat, stick to this format. Best series on DC this season along with the eightfold path.

in the first hand (86s) you said that you 3bet him because you expect him to fold a lot. So if he opens about 20% of his hands (thats what you said if I understood it correctly) and he calls about 20% of those and 4bets 5% (I think its reasenable if he folds a lot as you said) his range are just 20 combos. He needs to be bluffing 3 combos (as you calculated right?) to make your push profitable. but 3 combos are about 15% of the time (if my estimations are correct). How do you know he is going to bluffraise here at least 15% of the time? Or are my estimations wrong? You didnt mention that he is aggressive or something and the fact that he folds preflop much, makes him rather passive than agressive. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

Hellsen,
I wouldn't be surprised if I never play 25/50. I only started playing some 10/20 recently even though I've been rolled for it forever, and I only play it very occasionally now anyway. Basically, downswings scare the shit out of me.


david + Magaca,
The plan for the immediate future is def to do more of these, so no worries.

Donkey,
Sorry.. I wish I hadn't screwed that part up.

As I said in the first comment here, the 20% was just a brain fart on my part.. 10% is more accurate. That 10% is supposed to already account for his opening % and his 3-bet calling %. I.e., I think he's opening something like 35% of hands from the CO and calling a 3-bet like 25-30% of the time here (maybe 4-betting like 5-10% of the time). So that's where I got the 10% from.

If he were as tight as you were saying, then he'd be folding most of the stuff that I'm putting in his flop c/ring range to a 3-bet. That'd totally change the math of this play. If he barely has 55/88/diamonds in his preflop range, than he needs to bluff way fewer combos to make this play good.

Also, be careful with your math. If he's opening 20% (which is way too tight for a CO open from a TAG), and calls 20%, then he's calling with 4% of hands total. That would be about 40 combos on this flop.

I wasn´t too impressed by the first video but i have to say that this video is great and contains many very interesting hands!