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

Yeah, makes sense. Thx

Krantz, I am officially putting you on a performance plan due to FWF not making a series next season. ;-)

That was a great series, job well done by both of you and the back end editing team.

xoxo,

LP

Genius series guys.

epic

unreal level of thinking on the crai hand. nice job fwf

I believe he means that if his range for CR the flop includes a5 and 56 then it contains A LOT of other air type hands. In fact, there are so many other hands that if only 1 out of 10 decides to CR bluff the river then it is a profitable call vs his range. Hope that helps.

this is it. heavily discount flopped made hands because of the turn action then add the wide range he has to have to c/r flop if he rivered a straight (if he c/r 56 or A5 then why not A7 or 78?)

You say tie makes a bad 4bet with jacks, and state the reason he is essentially turning his hand into a bluff.
I agree with that - but does that make ties play bad?

If his range is super polarised and he knows you realise that, surely he can merge his range to get more value from you when you have a bluff catcher and he suspects you do not believe him. Obviously QQ is the top of your "bluff catchers" but you are still in the same situation if you have a pocket pair here. Lets say if you have 66-TT, this situation is the same.
Therefore if he realises that and believes you are likely to get it in with that range JJ helds up quite well vs your bluff catchers (just happens to be the fact QQ was the top of your bluff catching range).

So if we have 77 here are we playing it the same way as the QQ hand. If so why? If not why?
Same with AK, or big Ax type hands.

Also is merging your range preflop bad in this spot for tie, and in which spots should you be merging your ranges, if your opponent believes you have a polarised range.

You say tie makes a bad 4bet with jacks, and state the reason he is essentially turning his hand into a bluff.
I agree with that - but does that make ties play bad?

If his range is super polarised and he knows you realise that, surely he can merge his range to get more value from you when you have a bluff catcher and he suspects you do not believe him. Obviously QQ is the top of your "bluff catchers" but you are still in the same situation if you have a pocket pair here. Lets say if you have 66-TT, this situation is the same.
Therefore if he realises that and believes you are likely to get it in with that range JJ helds up quite well vs your bluff catchers (just happens to be the fact QQ was the top of your bluff catching range).

So if we have 77 here are we playing it the same way as the QQ hand. If so why? If not why?
Same with AK, or big Ax type hands.

Also is merging your range preflop bad in this spot for tie, and in which spots should you be merging your ranges, if your opponent believes you have a polarised range.

This is why I dislike the saying "merge your range" - it is misapplied constantly. This concept is more or less broken down to - value bet a hand in between the nuts and nothing where your hand is almost certainly better than his best bluff catcher. The problem here is the situation - we are almost never catching bluffs in a pot that he 4-bet, considering his 4-bet frequency and the board texture (this guy would have to be the biggest maniac with a super high 4-bet% for us to checkraise 77 on the flop in order to induce some kind of crazy spew shove, and even that line would be less profitable than just turning our hand into a bluff preflop and 5-betting it).

He should not expect us to get all our money in with a hand <QQ on this flop, or even preflop, where if we did play 77 for a rr we would almost entirely be playing for set value and c/f-ing the flop (or c/c and c/f). In addition, he should expect us to fold most of the hands JJ has dominated to the 4-bet itself, preflop, therefore making the 4-bet much more profitable with a hand with no showdown value rather than one that plays so well in position vs an unbalanced reraising range (what FWF was employing at the time to success).

Basically, to answer your question directly, if we have 77, if we have AK, or Ax here, are we playing it the same? No, we wouldn't even have these hands here, because we would fold preflop, so the range with which we do get it in postflop is going to be super strong, where QQ is at the bottom end of that range, so if he "merged his range" (still doesn't make sense when talking about the hand because he isn't value betting postflop, he is 4-betting preflop in a spot where he should have a super polarized range weighted heavily to QQ+ and a few bluffs, and he should expect us to react to it in that way), he would just end up value-cutting himself every single time we don't just c/f the flop, like happened in the video.

Foxwood Fiend great coaching but saying "YOU KNOW" 350 a minute is extremely poor communication.

OMG that KT hand is amazing, I never really thought about it like that. If hes repping A5 56 then his range is super wide with all kinds of hands like them so its an easier call. I know that was just a tiny part of the read but very insightful.

Great series, have anyone found out who he was? Was thinking maybe it could be Ed Harris from the 88percent blog, he was know as an insane limit rusher, and went broke about this time periode i think.

Yo, you know, this is a good series!!