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

The quality is fine

Good vid Krantz <3

What color is your lightsaber?

For this to matter he has to actually be 5-bet shoving wide. If he is 5-bet shoving wide, you will always get paid off even if you only 4-bet small with the top of your range. Big difference between theory and practice here. If you narrow your small 4b value range, and the opponent you're playing is jamming every time you 4-b small (pretty extreme example to start), then either start opening tighter or just jam all your bluffs, or fold to his 3-bets. Piece o cake.

Using an extreme example. Lets say we have an opponent he 3bets a huge % of his range - we got a spastic maniac as our opponent for example. So what can the widest range for us be for our small 4bet value range, like {A8+,99+}.
Can we go as far as adding KQ,KJ to that 4bet samll for value range?

The reason is even A8+/99+ is a small part of our range if we are opening reasonably. So if he is 3betting us extremely light we cannot do anything about it with a lot of our opening range. Guess we'll just have to wait for a hand before 4betting then but what Im worried about is the times we do get it in good 4bet/calling will it outweight the times we lose money by opening/folding to his 3bet?

Also what is your adjustment when your opponent realises you are 4bet jamming low pockets pairs (and starts calling with overcards) or does this not matter?

Great job Krantz, i disagree a little bit about a post earlier saying that these nosebleed stakes vids are not as helpful for nl1k,nl2k regs. I definitely learn a lot more in this video than general nl1k grind videos, keep the good work.

I like this format.

love the nosebleed action. a lot more interesting. not sure how i feel about the skipping around though. if it means more nosebleed content i'm cool w/ it, but frustrating to completely miss out on any sort of game flow or recent dynamics, etc.

Great job Krantz, i disagree a little bit about a post earlier saying that these nosebleed stakes vids are not as helpful for nl1k,nl2k regs. I definitely learn a lot more in this video than general nl1k grind videos, keep the good work.

agree


awesome video, like always, keep up the good work!

What color is your lightsaber?

I really wanna know this, too.

32 minutes

You ask for somebody to do the math on your 5bet jam with A9.

Download "The Dude!" dude.

Using an extreme example. Lets say we have an opponent he 3bets a huge % of his range - we got a spastic maniac as our opponent for example. So what can the widest range for us be for our small 4bet value range, like {A8+,99+}.
Can we go as far as adding KQ,KJ to that 4bet samll for value range?

The reason is even A8+/99+ is a small part of our range if we are opening reasonably. So if he is 3betting us extremely light we cannot do anything about it with a lot of our opening range. Guess we'll just have to wait for a hand before 4betting then but what Im worried about is the times we do get it in good 4bet/calling will it outweight the times we lose money by opening/folding to his 3bet?

Also what is your adjustment when your opponent realises you are 4bet jamming low pockets pairs (and starts calling with overcards) or does this not matter?

If he starts calling with overcards you need to start balancing by 4-betting smaller. It's a game of rock paper scissors and the correct counterstrategy depends on whether or not your opponent is making adjustments. This isn't very complicated if you look beyond a cursory examination. If a maniac is constantly 3-betting you, then you should 4-bet bluff wider so he will fold. If every hand he 3-bets he jams over your 4-bet regardless, then expand your 4-bet value range as wide as it takes so long as the hands you are 4-betting are better than the % of hands he is 3-betting. Those opponents are rare, though, and chances are you will never have to deal with anything like that since there are 4 other players at the table that will probably get all-in with him quickly if you don't.

my lightsaber is blue, like my favorite color and luke's before he gets all amputated

Of coruse I saw the two episodes "spaceman in a cowboy hat" They were awesome

very nice video...

So you hit quads 3 times in one session....

I think I hit quads once. March of 2007 I think it was...

Hi Krantz. Nice vid.

I pretty much agreed with you on every point except the hand vs. urindanger.

You say it's wrong for him to 3bet this flop in position with QQ. I think the flop was something like Ts5s3x and you checkraised with 55 after defending your blind. The hands he will put you on are probably TP hands trying to get it in, combodraws/flushdraws going for FE, bluffs, and sometimes a set. Although you'll reraise TT sometimes (I have no experience playing you) and maybe also reraise 55 and 33 a decent percentage of the time. He's completely right in not putting you on a big hand.

There's definitely something to be said for calling your raise in position and shoving turn, this does have the disadvantage of you shutting down with a missed flushdraw or a hand like JJ/KT/AT. Thereby missing value he could have gotten on the flop, big advantage is the extra bet he would pick up if you bluff turn again. All in all, a call might be the best play, but I don't think it's as big of a mistake as you said it was in the video. The flop 3bet might also get you to shove a complete bluff or whatever some percentage of the time? (prolly not though?)

I never played you though, so I'm not sure about ur preflop and postflop ranges after check/raising a flop like this. So my assumptions could be totally off.

K guys, Rusty managed to ninja the hell out of this one and re-construct the video. Please let me know if there are any issues but it should be much prettier now.

Rob

Holy crap, how is it even possible to improve the video quality like that after the original has been recorded at a low resolution? It looks perfect now, I'm seriously impressed...