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Whale Tales: Episode Eight

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Whale Tales: Episode Eight by BalugaWhale

BalugaWhale hits the high stakes with $5/10 NLHE play at 4 tables.

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After taking a break from poker, BalugaWhale returns to the felt. He discusses the best ways to return your game to top shape and showcases his skills at the 6 max NLHE tables.

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  • Game: nlhe
  • Stakes: High Stakes
  • 60 minutes long
  • Posted over 2 years ago

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Fresh_David

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LuigiVampa

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Time Link to 00:06:04

Hi Andrew!
What would you do if he called your second barrel and the river was:
1)Ad
2)Qh ?
What would u do if the turn was offsuit deuce?
Thanks for response.

Posted over 2 years ago

Slash1588

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Time Link to 00:34:05

Great stuff as usual.
Are you taking this fancy line because villain seems quite fishy?I mean,minraising that turn on that board, your value range is very narrow too,so i wouldn't expect a decent player to give u credit(also because of your immage) like never and bluffcatch u on two streets with anything has a decent showdown value.A fishy player,on the contrary,could play quite face up on your min-raise ,allowing u to take easy decision(he is probably going to ship the top of his range on your raise,fold a lot of bluffs and call some draws and weack showdown value hands tha you can bluff of on the river).Is this the sense of your play?

Posted over 2 years ago

Ass Get to Jigglin

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Time Link to 00:31:02

t4-what do you think he can have there that called flop checked back turna and bet river?

Posted over 2 years ago

thelynchmob1

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Time Link to 00:08:22

Here on table 2 you 3bet 35s as a bluff. Don't you normally say that high cards are better in 3bet pots due to the smaller stack-pot ratio? I'm curious why you would 3bet a hand like 35s rather than, say, K5s.

Posted over 2 years ago

Ass Get to Jigglin

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what did you end up writing in that business plan, and did you find that it helped your game?

Posted over 2 years ago

alexhandros

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Time Link to 00:11:53

Not sure why you would assume that a loose passive player is more likely to either bluff or value own himself than he is to pay off a bet. Admittedly, we can't get a lot of value with AJ on that board, but I think betting small (1/3 pot or even smaller) is the best course of action

Posted over 2 years ago

Gorvacofin

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Not sure why you would assume that a loose passive player is more likely to either bluff or value own himself than he is to pay off a bet. Admittedly, we can't get a lot of value with AJ on that board, but I think betting small (1/3 pot or even smaller) is the best course of action



Bet/folding or bet/calling? Don't you have to worry about inducing with that size?

Posted over 2 years ago

Gorvacofin

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Time Link to 00:13:54

Can't we peel to his 4-bet here getting 4 to 1 immediate?

Posted over 2 years ago

feardafronfz33

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Andrew,

As one of your biggest fans (no homo) who has watched all of your series atleast 3 times each, I was wondering if you were going to do a Blueprint episode. I am extremely interested in knowing how you went from playing 25 and 50 NL for a year and a half to playing high stakes. Was there a ta-da moment of enlightenment where everything just made sense and then you started crushing? I am very curious. Thanks

Posted over 2 years ago

Gorvacofin

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Time Link to 00:23:06

Don't you get rebluffed quite often here? You're repping quite a narrow value range, and imo your perceived range contains a lot of air, so villain might choose to click it back often with hands that have no bluffcatcher value.

Posted over 2 years ago

BalugaWhale

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Andrew,

As one of your biggest fans (no homo) who has watched all of your series atleast 3 times each, I was wondering if you were going to do a Blueprint episode. I am extremely interested in knowing how you went from playing 25 and 50 NL for a year and a half to playing high stakes. Was there a ta-da moment of enlightenment where everything just made sense and then you started crushing? I am very curious. Thanks



Hi,

Yes, I am doing a blueprint coming out soon.

Andrew

Posted over 2 years ago

BalugaWhale

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Just a quick FYI-- after discussing with some people, I think the T8s hand is a fold on the river T, but not on a river 8 (or a flush, obv).

Andrew

Posted over 2 years ago

BalugaWhale

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Don't you get rebluffed quite often here? You're repping quite a narrow value range, and imo your perceived range contains a lot of air, so villain might choose to click it back often with hands that have no bluffcatcher value.



potentially, but if I thought that was the case, I could always just raise and then shove. However, I expected him to call with almost everything and fold the rest (which is why I did it). With some more history, though, a raise-ship isn't so bad.

Andrew

Posted over 2 years ago




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