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

Time Link to 00:45:15

Good stuff, lot's of interesting stuff

What your plan for a non-diamond?

Time Link to 00:02:48

That`s funny, because this is actually not true and must be based on variance. Yongsuk Chang only C-Bets 48% of Flops. In fact he very often check/folds Flops like A73r as the Aggr. which makes him very easy to play.

Time Link to 00:50:00

Very interesting video. Adjusting to other regs and adjusting to their adjustments is appliable to all levels and something that takes alot of time to master. So im glad to see more 6max videos with this content.

The hand i got a question about is the 76s on the turn. What makes this such an easy fold on the turn? Clearly your range cant be percieved as very strong when we call preflop and then call this dry flop. Do we fear him valuebetting wide on the turn and/or possible 3 barrel us?

Time Link to 00:45:39

Hey BW, I'm skeptical of this river shove... Though you can rep a fair few boats and big flushes, it's not implausible that he has some combo's of these too, right? Also, I don't think there are a ton of combo's of worse hands that are in his river folding range.

You're shoving to get him off:
low diamond like 99-JJ, which he probably won't get the river with everytime, [say 3-4 combos in his river folding range]
Qx +diamond, which, given he opened UTG is mostly strong diamonds like AdQ KdQ or at least way more often than QJo or QTo [say 2-3 combos in his river folding range]
a low flush, of which there aren't many combos even if he would play them like that everytime [say 1-2 combo in his river folding range]

Thats 6-9 combos. I would expect his river calling range to be wider very often (AdQ(3) KdQ(3) usually, plus the odd overpair with a diamond, a few combos of boats and other nutflushes, and maybe the odd stubborn JdJx).

Do you think my assumptions are reasonable? Particularly how often he calls down with TP/overpair+ and how often he call call folds midpair+

Good stuff, lot's of interesting stuff

What your plan for a non-diamond?

Giving up unimproved in general.

Andrew

That`s funny, because this is actually not true and must be based on variance. Yongsuk Chang only C-Bets 48% of Flops. In fact he very often check/folds Flops like A73r as the Aggr. which makes him very easy to play.

no kidding, maybe he was just feeling aggro. In the rest of this video (which unfortunately is corrupted), i end up raising him like a bajillion times on the flop and he keeps on c-bet/folding.

Very interesting video. Adjusting to other regs and adjusting to their adjustments is appliable to all levels and something that takes alot of time to master. So im glad to see more 6max videos with this content.

The hand i got a question about is the 76s on the turn. What makes this such an easy fold on the turn? Clearly your range cant be percieved as very strong when we call preflop and then call this dry flop. Do we fear him valuebetting wide on the turn and/or possible 3 barrel us?

1) its easy for him to value bet light
2) if he's halfway decent, he's only bluffing with equity, which means that i still don't win THAT often.
3) most people don't 2barrel boards like that too often given it's dryness.

Hey BW, I'm skeptical of this river shove... Though you can rep a fair few boats and big flushes, it's not implausible that he has some combo's of these too, right? Also, I don't think there are a ton of combo's of worse hands that are in his river folding range.

You're shoving to get him off:
low diamond like 99-JJ, which he probably won't get the river with everytime, [say 3-4 combos in his river folding range]
Qx +diamond, which, given he opened UTG is mostly strong diamonds like AdQ KdQ or at least way more often than QJo or QTo [say 2-3 combos in his river folding range]
a low flush, of which there aren't many combos even if he would play them like that everytime [say 1-2 combo in his river folding range]

Thats 6-9 combos. I would expect his river calling range to be wider very often (AdQ(3) KdQ(3) usually, plus the odd overpair with a diamond, a few combos of boats and other nutflushes, and maybe the odd stubborn JdJx).

Do you think my assumptions are reasonable? Particularly how often he calls down with TP/overpair+ and how often he call call folds midpair+

i have to run to the beach so can't fully answer this at the moment, other than that its almost certainly a VERY thin shove and depends highly on what I expect him to do on the turn (i.e. not call with a hand like AdQx too often, but call with a hand like QxJd far more often, which I do believe I can get to fold).

Andrew

Time Link to 00:34:51

Hey Baluga,

here you open J3o on the button on the top right, but fold A9o in the CO on the top left. There's also a poor player behind you that can seemingly call with worse, why do you decide to fold here?

Hey Baluga,

here you open J3o on the button on the top right, but fold A9o in the CO on the top left. There's also a poor player behind you that can seemingly call with worse, why do you decide to fold here?

i actually thought about the A9 and thought it was very close, I suppose I folded because having the worse player come along adds incentive for the good players in the blinds to play their hands and be aggressive in trying to isolate the fish. I think my hand doesn't play phenomenally in those circumstances and decided to fold, but i think it is v v close.

Andrew

Time Link to 00:17:13

here you're 200bb deep with youngsuk and 3bet AA OTB to 120bb vs 30bb CO open.
how does your 3bet size vary as stacks size gets deeper? say you're 300 or 400bb deep; how big do you go and why?

here you're 200bb deep with youngsuk and 3bet AA OTB to 120bb vs 30bb CO open.
how does your 3bet size vary as stacks size gets deeper? say you're 300 or 400bb deep; how big do you go and why?

probably not much more than maybe 12bb. i'm planning on writing an article at some point about how, while depth affects factors like positional value and skill edge, it decreases in impact the deeper you get. for example, 300bb isn't very different than 400bb, and the difference between 400bb and 500bb is even less.

basically we just choose a balanced size that neither gives our opponent good odds nor creates undo dead money. that said, the more a player likes to flat, the bigger i'll make it, the more they like to 4bet, the smaller, etc.

Andrew

Hey Baluga, nice vid.

what did kovy end up having in that spot when yongsuk c/c the river?

also, i noticed you seem to 3bet larger when IP, and smaller when OOP, often 120 from 30 IP and 115 from 30 OOP, can you explain this? Seems like many players take the opposite approach.

Time Link to 00:40:26

I find it interesting that you are debating to ship KTs here so hard, while all we have actually seen from him so far is giveups against you.

Isn't it flawed to see him fold to your 3bets (assuming he does this with air) and then start thinking about shipping relativly light against his first 4bet?

We have no reason to assume he is 4bet bluffing here.

Can you please expand on why you thought about 5betting it in there given the current dynamic?