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

yes i love baluga videos

I was right! It was a video - Sunday just got a lot better.

I was rooting for a PLO-video to come up this Sunday but a balugawhale video is just as good

"we are pretty excited to find out, what flush this particular player is going to run down right now"
lol xD

nice video so far

vid seems a bit out of sync while streaming but the content in this is really good. i found the early "how to play against shortstackers" quite interesting and useful. thanks.

Good content, sickening hands though. AQ vs. AA w/Ace on flop is gross beyond belief. Good composure throughout dude. Definitely good it's not 25/50!

An excellent demonstration (again) on following "the general game plan". Baluga explained the shortstack strategy and how to combat it in The Coaching Tree episode 7, this time we saw it in practise.

awesome stuff

you run quite good

Baluga,

I do not agree with your flat of QQ vs sb 3bet.

You were quite aggro so we can assume that if you 4bet you might be sick of his 3betting and he might 5bet bluff shove.
He might stick it in with AK and we are happy about that.
He might stick it in with JJ or worse

BUT, most important aspect would be:

HOW are you expecting to stack him when he has a hand he's going with preflop but not postflop because Axx flops will scare him (like it happened) OR flop comes 678 for example and he c/f his AQ/AK??

another question:

You talk about leverage however you bet on 8TQ FD boards into the fish with A3o or similar when the fish always has a draw or a pair he's not willing to fold.

Or you bet 30 into 36 on Q33 with JK when you could bet 20 and make him fold as much as he would if you bet 100, right?

Maybe it's because you got annoyed of how much FTP likes you or did I miss something?

Thanks for this great video and hope to see more in the future.

awesome stuff

you run quite good

Baluga,

I do not agree with your flat of QQ vs sb 3bet.

You were quite aggro so we can assume that if you 4bet you might be sick of his 3betting and he might 5bet bluff shove.
He might stick it in with AK and we are happy about that.
He might stick it in with JJ or worse

BUT, most important aspect would be:

HOW are you expecting to stack him when he has a hand he's going with preflop but not postflop because Axx flops will scare him (like it happened) OR flop comes 678 for example and he c/f his AQ/AK??

That's ofcourse for a large part ofset by the times he 3bets a hand that would fold against a 4bet, but is going to stack of after flopping toppair - or giving a away a cbet a large % of the time.

Great video.
I love your attitude when you lose pot after pot. That must have taken years to master....!

haha i got so housed in this video.

I don't know if it's just me or you're really abusing your microphone. I have it turned down low enough to not see any volume at all but it still sounds like you're talking too loud and that buzzing sound when you overload hurts my ears.

The audio is bit out of synch, but please run better in the future.