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

solid vid as always + great content

BUT

The difference between when kristy/and we see it und Baluga sees it and talks about it, gets really annoying with time. I find it at times hard to follow btw dont (directly, takes a short time^^) understand where we are in the vid^^. And so its pretty hard to focus.

Maybe iam the only one, but i already didnt liked it in the last one.

agree, i was kinda lost sometimes about what hand baluga was commenting

but i don't think there's much they can do about it. great series, thanks baluga

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200% agree with the whole exploiting thing. People often misuse the idea of being exploiting by equating it with folding in general, which is bad thing to do.

+1. been sitting with the remote control in my hand all through this series (the volume issue). good series otherwise

Phatmanrivers -- Good advice. My thoughts were that half pot size c-bets in three-bet pots would be ok because I could get stacks in by the river if I wanted to since there is so much money in preflop. Do you still think I should be making it more?

Kristy,

I wasn't talking about a 3bet pot, this was a single raised pot. 1/2 pot cbets are fine in 3bet pots at 100bb as you can go 3.5bb->11 = 23.5 -> 48 -> 124 -> shove or something like that, so you can still get stacks in by the river. I wouldn't be cbetting 1/2 pot after a 3bet if you were >150bb deep, slightly bigger is better with your entire range in my opinion.

Edit: My >150bb point has nothing to do with anything in your video, but I put it in as it illustrates the point of deciding why one should choose certain sizes for bets.

OOOOHHHH I finally figured out who kristy is after watching the pokernews item about Ivey room yesterday.

I need to keep up with the times

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97s - why are we calling this preflop ?

Good video , good addition to the series imo , every player makes these mistakes but its those who learn from them that come out the better player. I wish more coaches would be open to making videos inwhich they run and play bad.

Just to say I have loved this series, and well done to Kristy for everything so far, sure you will be smashing 200nl in no time!

It's helpful to see people making mistakes we have all done and do, then go over them.

Thanks for this!

OooOO and Guinness is fantastic especially Extra Cold! You should try Guinness Red too if you ever find that lol

OOOOHHHH I finally figured out who Kristy is after watching the poker-news item about Ivey room yesterday.

I need to keep up with the times

Yeah me too. I just watched her Ivey interview yesterday and thought to my self "Oh, there's our DC girl". Great series both Kristy and Baluga. Can't bring myself to take a shot a 200nl never mind record it. Good work.

kristy, being the reg on your left in this video and the biggest winner at 200nl on ftp (winrate+$hr wise) , dont listen to whatever the people in the forum tell you about people not playing back at you without history, or your small bets being -ev

half my bets at this limit are less than 1/2 and some regs ive never seen will call my 4bet and raise my turn bets on boards like QT9x with their AQ and call my shove on the first time it happens..

The fact is, the more you play with 1/2 regs, the less shit they do unless they're part of the 10-20 guys who play 200k hand a month and breakeven (the 2+2 posters)

is I like boomboom a DC member?

Just finished the vid,

Really good vid actually, don't feel too bad about it Kristy, I did this once as well, went supermonkeysh*t when I moved up from nl2 to nl5 when I first realised that A stack was worth more than a bigmac.

Got over that but when I moved up from 10 to 25 I started playing super disgusting weaktight, because I didn't want to go spewspew again.

I think it's pretty damn cool that you get to be coached by a half decent coach and get to talk to phil Ivey for a dayjob tbh. So dont worry about it and own the next session

Hopefully see you soon on FTP!

kristy, being the reg on your left in this video and the biggest winner at 200nl on ftp (winrate+$hr wise) , dont listen to whatever the people in the forum tell you about people not playing back at you without history, or your small bets being -ev

half my bets at this limit are less than 1/2 and some regs ive never seen will call my 4bet and raise my turn bets on boards like QT9x with their AQ and call my shove on the first time it happens..

The fact is, the more you play with 1/2 regs, the less shit they do unless they're part of the 10-20 guys who play 200k hand a month and breakeven (the 2+2 posters)

Boomboom,

When you're making small bets you're doing so with a reason in mind, whether that be to induce bluffs or induce calls to make further barrels profitable. Point being you're doing it for a reason, with an expected result that you can prepare for.

I think Kristy has been doing it as she wants to cbet but sometimes falls into the weak/tight mentality of not wanting to lose money when she's called. In doing this she has none of the benefits of betting small that you experience in whatever spots you decide to do so, and all the negatives.

Thus I think she should consider getting used to the normal lines before she begins to manipulate them in various ways for her needs.

Well, this video is an inevitable outcome of fairly inexperienced players getting powerleveled through limits. She probably is ready for NL200 game theory wise, but definately not ready mentally.

I can also relate to after-work-playing, it's very difficult to maintain any kind of game after long office hours, more so when you're trying to climb the limits.