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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_0wIBmSrg

I was expecting more "per say" and "does that make sense?". Still gold though

Hey Baluga, just curious who your minor league friend plays for? I actually play minor league baseball myself in the Red Sox organization. I had shoulder surgery this season so I've spent the season rehabbing and trying to get better at poker. I gotta say that your videos have been the most helpful. I've watched them all in the span of about a month and my game has improved significantly. Anyways, thanks for the videos and good luck in the main event! Hopefully we'll get to see you at a feature table!

technically he plays independent league ball but i didnt want to have to get into the distinction on camera haha. he plays for the OC flyers down near LA.

Andrew

Going to give a caveat to some of BW's advice RE: Disneyland.

If you are a euro DO NOT go to Disneyland Paris, unless you like 90min queues and 50eur junk food that is.

I have heard that Florida is a whole different experience though.

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AJo: if the flop does come JT3r, how much of CO reg's thin valuebetting range (when checked to) do you think he will fold when we lead out instead of check?

Also, do you think he will perceive c/c flop, donk turn as stronger than donk flop, donk turn? Or rather, is there a good chance he has different bluffcatching ranges on the turn vs these alternatives?

Do you think that all this could easily pale into insignificance if we consider that by checking flop, sometimes we miss the chance to get 3 streets of value from the fish?

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Baluga, you say here that you think double barrell is a little overdone in these types of spots.

I would have thought that if you want to check to induce floats here, we would be doing it with a much weaker part of our range (eg weaker Ax hands, pps under A) and that when we have the top of our range (which we pretty much have now) we should be betting for value to get calls from the huge number of Ax and pair + gutter hands he is going to have.

Thoughts?

Baluga, you say here that you think double barrell is a little overdone in these types of spots.

I would have thought that if you want to check to induce floats here, we would be doing it with a much weaker part of our range (eg weaker Ax hands, pps under A) and that when we have the top of our range (which we pretty much have now) we should be betting for value to get calls from the huge number of Ax and pair + gutter hands he is going to have.

Thoughts?

my overall point there was about evaluating our opponent's aggressiveness. So, if we think that our opponent v-bets thinly with Ax AND bluffs thinly with pair+draw, then clearly checking is better than betting as we're more likely to get all 3 streets than if we just go bet-bet-bet.

Obviously against a less aggressive opponent, fire awayz.

Going to give a caveat to some of BW's advice RE: Disneyland.

If you are a euro DO NOT go to Disneyland Paris, unless you like 90min queues and 50eur junk food that is.

I have heard that Florida is a whole different experience though.

disneyland= LA
Disneyworld= FLA
EuroDisney= LAME

AJo: if the flop does come JT3r, how much of CO reg's thin valuebetting range (when checked to) do you think he will fold when we lead out instead of check?

Also, do you think he will perceive c/c flop, donk turn as stronger than donk flop, donk turn? Or rather, is there a good chance he has different bluffcatching ranges on the turn vs these alternatives?

Do you think that all this could easily pale into insignificance if we consider that by checking flop, sometimes we miss the chance to get 3 streets of value from the fish?

my point is similar here to the one i just wrote above. This specific situation is best to lead out. you're right-- missing 3 streets of value from the fish would suck way too much to not lead flop.

the point, though, is to be aware of our opponents thin value-betting tendencies and to be able to give smarter, modern/neo-good opponents more rope to thinly value bet and thinly bluff.

Andrew

i hope you guys have checked out when baluga raps. if you havent, here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_0wIBmSrg

/ pontus

edit: I agree that there wasnt to many interesting spots in this vid but lucky for all us DCers we have one of the best coaches in the worlds in Baluga to make the vid interesting anyway. if we do any more vids ill make sure to get myself into a bit more trouble

Do we really defend profitably with 89o in bb when sb steals. Think it's a very loose call. Villain must give up on a lot of boards for that to be +EV since we almost never flop good?

Oh and this was 17.30 in btw on lower right table.

Also I think that if you are not valueowning yourself from time to time you simply aren't valuebetting as light as you should. It's all about villains range, if has more worse hands that he's gonna call with than good hands then our valuebet will be +EV right? As long as it's not a good villain that is gonna be c/r bluffing us a ton cuz then we should polarize our betrange and valuebet less thinly imo.

Do we really defend profitably with 89o in bb when sb steals. Think it's a very loose call. Villain must give up on a lot of boards for that to be +EV since we almost never flop good?

Oh and this was 17.30 in btw on lower right table.

obv there are a few considerations here: obv how good villian is, how much he opens in sb, and what kind of image we have at the table. If we think we have a skill advantage and he opens fairly wide in the SB i think its fine since we have position. We def have to be on our toes here and make life dificult for him on alot of boards...

/ P

Also I think that if you are not valueowning yourself from time to time you simply aren't valuebetting as light as you should. It's all about villains range, if has more worse hands that he's gonna call with than good hands then our valuebet will be +EV right? As long as it's not a good villain that is gonna be c/r bluffing us a ton cuz then we should polarize our betrange and valuebet less thinly imo.

yepp u make some good points here.. we could also keep on betting thinly ( maybe not as thinly obv ) and calling a c/r, if he is c/r a ton ofc. we dont realy need to be super polarized i guess is my point..