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

jizzed in my pants

Always good to hear you'll be making a new series looking forward to it.

woot!

It makes me smile when I watch super successful profesionals run bad. It reminds me that "not being results oriented" is good for your game, but still sucks. And that I am not the only person who can intentionally get stacks in the middle with the worst of it.lol. Glad to hear about the new series.

omg omg!

wow you'd have a hard time beating 2/4nl playing like that... turning that 6T or w/e into a bluff at the beginning when the guy donked into you and you said out loud it was for value and you had very limited history. value cutting yourself here and there... also think it's not cool to call so many people bad. if i was coaching you i'd say don't extrapolate all your theorums before the hand is played or even while it's being played, play the hand in the natural rythym of the game, and then if you notice tendencies or w/e, expound on the theoretical knowledge. doing it in the middle of the hand really fucks shit up and is super tilting to watch as a listener. better luck next time, this video fail lol

Time Link to 00:23:19

i dont really agree with your assessment that giberling's line with the TT was bad. Assuming he has no previous knowledge of UTGs opening range but assumes that he has a fairly tight range for opening and calling a 3bet (not unreasonable) then TT is a hand that gets put in gross spots when it 3bets pf. Especially if they don't have a dynamic that allows him to comfortably get it in pf every time.

Also considering that you seem to be somewhat squeeze and 3bet happy I think calling gains even more value cause he can backraise and be pretty happy getting it in with a lot of dead money against your squeezing range.

I don't think 3betting TT is terrible either, but his line seems fine with an unknown UTG and a really really laggy player acting last.

Time Link to 00:20:27

I don't really like the 5Ts raise in the CO. The hand is just too trashy to want to play even with a fishy player in the SB. Especially when the fishy player just 3bet our last steal so if we had to guess we'd err on the side of him being aggressive.

I also don't really like the turn value bet because we're going to end up in absolutely gross spots on a ton of rivers. and I just don't think we are getting enough value from various draws to make up for the crappy spots we are always going to find ourselves in OOP with 4th pair on a very coordinated board.

imo it's a fold pf, and the turn is probably a c/f as well.

Time Link to 00:26:56

yeah you said it, raise size too big. also this is a spot I wonder about a lot because obvious there is a lot of value to raising fish that donk into you. I tend to prefer raise boards that are a little less coordinated and where I can credibly rep a hand and villain will almost never be 3-bet bluff. For example bluff raising boards that have an A, K, or Q high card where villain can give me credit for top pair and also often won't even have overcard outs and will just give up their donk. I tend to shy away from bluff-raising coordinated boards where villain can have a pair and a GS and just isnt giving up and I'm going to have to make a huge multi-street bluff to blow them off their hand.

thoughts on board textures for bluff-raising donk-bets?

A general thought: you are not the best player at the table as you claim; pmilanov is. Just because you use talk theory, are a DC coach, and speak in an absurdly condescending tone, does not make you close to as good as most of the high stakes winners.

Can't wait to watch this
Thank you!!!

Trying to find something positive in this video ie thinking what I might've learned from it. Seemed to me there was a huge mismatch between theory and application; too many spots seemed questinable in the light of theory pieces from the book, application too hasty and spewy. I just don't think it is possible to take on all the theory concepts and trying to pound on all of them in an hour of 2-tabling.

wow you'd have a hard time beating 2/4nl playing like that... turning that 6T or w/e into a bluff at the beginning when the guy donked into you and you said out loud it was for value and you had very limited history. value cutting yourself here and there... also think it's not cool to call so many people bad. if i was coaching you i'd say don't extrapolate all your theorums before the hand is played or even while it's being played, play the hand in the natural rythym of the game, and then if you notice tendencies or w/e, expound on the theoretical knowledge. doing it in the middle of the hand really fucks shit up and is super tilting to watch as a listener. better luck next time, this video fail lol

+1
Except it was pretty funny. An alternative title could be "How BW rationalises spewing a few buy-ins at 1000nl".

this is one reason i'm not a huge fan of live play/commentary vids. Several times BW would start explaining a concept only to get distracted by a hand - it seemed like he lost his train of thought a few times, or would leap to a new topic without finishing the last thought. One of my fave instructors on DC but I prefer the coaching tree style to this.