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

More 6-tabling plz!

At the end of the video you 3b someone's minraise in position with 45o and you check something like 974r behind. The turn's a Q and you bet. Is this mainly to get some better hands to fold (by perhaps betting the river as well) as it looks like you have a made hand because you checked the flop?

I think you should have paid more attentiion to dogg11 whom called every 3-bet you made? and the floated the flop bet 1/2pot when you checked on turn on several occations, and in the hand when you had A5 vs his QT on T8x8 he elected to check back the turn. I think you should 2-ball or 3-ball or dont ball vs him otherwise youre gonna loose 3-4mediumish pots by c-betting and then giving up everytime which makes up for a 1buyin. Also think you should not 3-bet him so much since he calls so many 3-bets and then floats, with hands that doesnt play well OOP like A5s.

You might be right, he tends to call lots of 3bets. A lot of times though it is easy to get caught up in short term results and let it affect your decision making (ie, if someone calls 50% of 3bets long term, he could easily go 5 hands in a row folding, or 5 hands in a row calling-- it doesnt actually affect his likelihood of calling).

very good vid. a few times during the vid you make some "non standard" 3bet sizes. For example, you 3bet 55 to 140 ip and you squeeze 120 to 360 in another spot. Could you talk a little bit about why you would make the smaller sizes and when is good/bad to do so.

In position I typically RR less than pot, and sometimes even less than 3x their raise. This is for a lot of reasons, most of which I think are fairly obvious, but I'd be happy to explain if you want me to.

Reason behind checking back 88 on this flop? This would seem like a pretty clear cbet I think, or if checking I would think we would be looking to c/f I guess, but this is a pretty dry flop, honestly our hand doesn't have a ton of showdown value so why not just cbet here?

Awesome video overall though, love the way you explain your thought process, and the way you approach the game. Esp the way you explain your actions in context of reads with players, ie balugawhale/kingofcards. A couple HU vids would be sweet!!!

I agree with you, betting is better than checking there with 88. Checking QQ is pretty good though.

At the end of the video you 3b someone's minraise in position with 45o and you check something like 974r behind. The turn's a Q and you bet. Is this mainly to get some better hands to fold (by perhaps betting the river as well) as it looks like you have a made hand because you checked the flop?

I prob should either bet the flop or check again there on the turn w/ the 54

@ChicagoJoey: Do you like your betsizing on the turn? You're setting yourself up for a spot where you need about 9 outs to call if he shoves, I don't think that's a great play with the OESD on that board.

I think he should bet/fold, and bet much smaller. He allows himself to bluff a lot of rivers if I flat, and I am rarely shoving the turn unless I have a very strong hand (KJ, AA are about it). Betting a committing amount isnt really good, because the range of hands he gets me to fold tend to be the same with a small bet or a big one (if I have TT, I am folding if he bets 400 or 800...).

How do does he get that black table and not the green felt? That looked kinda awesome

In position I typically RR less than pot, and sometimes even less than 3x their raise. This is for a lot of reasons, most of which I think are fairly obvious, but I'd be happy to explain if you want me to.

Let me see if I can guess at some of your reasons....

Keep the effective stacks deeper
Better price when you're bluffing
More calls when you have value hands

Are there other reasons you think are obvious that I'm missing?

I think he should bet/fold, and bet much smaller. He allows himself to bluff a lot of rivers if I flat, and I am rarely shoving the turn unless I have a very strong hand (KJ, AA are about it). Betting a committing amount isnt really good, because the range of hands he gets me to fold tend to be the same with a small bet or a big one (if I have TT, I am folding if he bets 400 or 800...).

I don't really like my betsizing on the turn and I wasn't really sure what I should have done on the turn. I don't like folding to begin with and the added win a hand off a 2m2mm guy equity made me want to fold even less lol. I obviously didn't think his range was as strong as it was and I didn't plan on folding at the time so thats why I made a more "committing" looking bet and hopefully he just folds but if not then I have some outs.

its so refreshing to watch a video on this site where the aggression doesnt seem forced. you really come off as a natural talent. also applaud you for being sort of "up to date" on the video making, e.g not commenting on the most obvious fundamentals that everyone has heard and has been mentioned time and time again in every video on every site over the last year or so.

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Both of your assumptions are correct, you're talking very fast and providing a lot of good content. Anyone paying full attention to the video, not just leaving it on in the background, would be grateful for the incredible value per minute you're providing at this blistering pace. Excellent work, you're doing great.

Both of your assumptions are correct, you're talking very fast and providing a lot of good content. Anyone paying full attention to the video, not just leaving it on in the background, would be grateful for the incredible value per minute you're providing at this blistering pace. Excellent work, you're doing great.

100% agree with this.

Both of your assumptions are correct, you're talking very fast and providing a lot of good content. Anyone paying full attention to the video, not just leaving it on in the background, would be grateful for the incredible value per minute you're providing at this blistering pace. Excellent work, you're doing great.

seriously... i did not know you were this good at making videos dani. this one is awesome.

Wow, amazing video, I'd love to see more vids in this format from you !