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

nice.

I like

God i love you KRANTZ . Very good vid.

about halfway through the vid you stack off with a10 thinking the opener is betting light...were u trying to pick up the pot there, or expecting a call with worse?

also, with the 52c hand, do you think it would have been a decent play to push after he insta-minraise your $200 raise? it seems like he's putting you on complete air, so i suppose you have some fold equity.

Def just trying to find a fold and set up some aggressive meta.

Re: 25c - I get a lot of extra information when I get to see his turn action and I also get to represent a stronger hand. I don't mind shipping it in if I have some outs but with 5 high I'd rather play it safe (even though it gives him possible room to bluff the turn, however unlikely that might be).

You da man Krantz, very entertaining video with lots of action...fun to watch


Love the intro 5 starzzzzzz for that alone!

I definitely don't have a case of the Mondays anymore.

QFT. Great way to start off the week

Finally, someone ran bad. I'll stop complaining now It's just that extracting value is not my main problem, but I have some calling ststion tendencies. So it's good to see some good players stacking off to determine what is appropriate to felt and what's not. Video's of people running bad give a better insight into this than someone runing hot.

Nice series so far. Does this portend a season four series on Jedi mind control (inducing tilt, inducing in chat, using tells)?

I noticed that you re-raised very library in position against the "win flips" guy. Suited 2 gaps and a lot of weak suited stuff but then you suddenly just cold-called with A2s in position. Was this because you didn't have the button or was it because you already had 3B him a lot or is it just that you don't like to 3B AXs?

Is this something that I should use every time I have position on a solid regular, just pound on him until he starts making mistakes?

Also the question that nobody seem to have a good answer to:

How do you know when your opponent is getting feed up and will start playing back at you? How do you know when you should step on the breaks? How do you change your game specifically?
[Have watched a lot of videos and in most cases you never see enough hands to get a good grasp on what they change when they start playing 'tight/solid'. Some fundamental theory on what you change in your game specifically when a opponent is starting to play back would be nice]

I noticed that you re-raised very library in position against the "win flips" guy. Suited 2 gaps and a lot of weak suited stuff but then you suddenly just cold-called with A2s in position. Was this because you didn't have the button or was it because you already had 3B him a lot or is it just that you don't like to 3B AXs?

Is this something that I should use every time I have position on a solid regular, just pound on him until he starts making mistakes?

Also the question that nobody seem to have a good answer to:

How do you know when your opponent is getting feed up and will start playing back at you? How do you know when you should step on the breaks? How do you change your game specifically?
[Have watched a lot of videos and in most cases you never see enough hands to get a good grasp on what they change when they start playing 'tight/solid'. Some fundamental theory on what you change in your game specifically when a opponent is starting to play back would be nice]

yes, go into more depth about your library re-raising pls

I noticed that you re-raised very library in position against the "win flips" guy. Suited 2 gaps and a lot of weak suited stuff but then you suddenly just cold-called with A2s in position. Was this because you didn't have the button or was it because you already had 3B him a lot or is it just that you don't like to 3B AXs?

Is this something that I should use every time I have position on a solid regular, just pound on him until he starts making mistakes?

Also the question that nobody seem to have a good answer to:

How do you know when your opponent is getting feed up and will start playing back at you? How do you know when you should step on the breaks? How do you change your game specifically?
[Have watched a lot of videos and in most cases you never see enough hands to get a good grasp on what they change when they start playing 'tight/solid'. Some fundamental theory on what you change in your game specifically when a opponent is starting to play back would be nice]

I called A2s because I felt like he would start to get fed up with me and I wanted to play that hand in position postflop where if I make TP and play it aggressively, I can get him to potentially stack off or rebluff me with his non-TP holdings. I also don't risk getting blown off the hand preflop, and of course I can make the nut flush (rather than, say, a 9 high flush with something like 96s) which is definitely more valuable against an aggro TAG opening in late position.

To the second part of your question - almost impossible to answer without experience. I can make some general assumptions - because my rring frequency is high and he knows who I am, he will be aware that I am reraising him light and adjust one of four ways - getting it in lighter preflop, bluff me preflop, tighten up preflop, or loosen up preflop and call OOP hoping to hit something or hoping to c/r bluff me postflop. Against the more aggro counter-strategies, you're going to want to tighten up, so sometimes it makes sense to attack them before they attack you and invoke these counter-adjustments on your own terms. If an opponent changes his strategy to counter moves that you're making, but you've already anticipated that change and have made your own adjustments, then you are going to win more money in spots that didn't exist before.

The key is anticipating everything, and that's really only going to come with experience, as far as I can tell.

i think this has high rating sjust because its krantz and i love krantz, but whitelime seemed to be way better at teaching while playing even though it was quiet at times during his new video.
seems like with krantz videos everyone just wants action and comedy which i do as well

How do you know which kind of opponent you are up against? And if he is the more aggressive kind that starts 4B bluff/call light and getting it in light on good boards, how much tighter do you start to play.

Do you only 3B the best hands like TT+/AQ+ and is prepared to get your stack in with JJ+/AQ+?

Or do you still add in some light 3B to keep the aggressive image or is it something I don't really need to consider?

What kind of difference does it make if my solid opponent is playing 5 tables or 9+ tables? Or should I always presume that my opponent is paying enough attention to my aggressive plays? TAG/LAG?

Once again I got the 'standardized' answer "you just need to put in a lot of hands". I have played poker for the last 5 years, been living on it for the last 3 years but have been stuck at $200NL forever. So I don't think it is experience that is missing but some fundamental theory.

Let's use a simile:
In the old days when you were making sales the sales-teacher would say "after you have made a lot of sales you will get a 'feel' for when it is time to close the deal".
Nowadays people know what it takes to close a deal and you can get an exact plan/theory on how to build up the sale and how you will 'know' when it is time to close the deal.

So I'm convinced that you are aware at some level when you know when a person is starting to get feed up and I'm also convinced that you know how he will react, but I guess it is still hard to put your finger at it

How do you know which kind of opponent you are up against? And if he is the more aggressive kind that starts 4B bluff/call light and getting it in light on good boards, how much tighter do you start to play.

Do you only 3B the best hands like TT+/AQ+ and is prepared to get your stack in with JJ+/AQ+?

Or do you still add in some light 3B to keep the aggressive image or is it something I don't really need to consider?

What kind of difference does it make if my solid opponent is playing 5 tables or 9+ tables? Or should I always presume that my opponent is paying enough attention to my aggressive plays? TAG/LAG?

Tighten up and don't be bashful about shoving your stack in with TT+/AQ+. Make notes on what your opponents are 3-betting and 4-betting you with and getting AI preflop with. Then draw conclusions from those notes.

You don't need to continue 3-betting light as players likely have reads on your stats after awhile from PT and if they don't, they probably have notes (mental or otherwise) about what you showed up at showdown and think you're always rring light now (when in fact you have tighten up significantly).

If your solid opponent is playing 1-3 tables your aggression is likely going to make a much bigger difference than it will if he is playing 5 tables or more, when he is likely just on auto-pilot.

Thanks you for all the good answers, it all make sense just nice to hear a really good player say what I have been thinking

I love you Krantz (in a totally non-gay way ofc), and I really love your vids; but how can you berate and laugh at guy(s?) that 4-betpush against your 3bets in some of your videos, and then 4betpush yourself a few vids later (the AT vs AK hand)? You really didn't comment on it neither more than referring to the famous CTS blog post. Maybe I missed something, but I really really just don't get it.
Later on in the vid you 4bet extremely small instead with the Power Aces.