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

Hey Baluga, what do you think about c/shoving AA here on T1. Isn´t this is the kind of board, where you´re giving up a lot with your air, because it´s pretty coordinated and hits villain´s range for calling a 3bet fairly well. + if you do check, villain is very likely to take a stab with most of his range. So I think checking your whole range here and c/shoving good draws and overpairs is a good way to be balanced in this spot.

how about this-- why am I giving up with air here a lot?

Andrew

T4, Whats the bottom of our range to shove against the fishy SS in the BB?

meh idk at this point, not enough info yet to determine if hes aggressive so its still really really tight, maybe AK/JJ+ until further notice.

Andrew

T4, Is it really a +EV spot to shove here on this mono board against his range?

def. he has a lot of random K's that aren't folding, a fair amount of NFD's that aren't folding, def some things like QQ/JJ with a club that aren't folding. clean value.

Andrew

BalugaWhale:
T3
I don't really understand the logic behind 3betting AT. I agree there is some thin value to be had but you said you don't like flatting which confuses me because there are TONS of worse Ax and Tx that hes raising that your ahead of, I don't see how its ever bad to flat AT vs a 53/33 on the BTN especially if you already think you can 3bet for thin value. There are def players that calling with AT is not great but then I wouldn't even think of 3betting them for value.

we don't get anything valuable out of the blinds by flatting (in fact, they're likely to play pretty well, squeeze occasionally with a range that does reasonably well against us, etc). Then, when I consider we can get thin value now, it just seems better to 3b. He has a lot of worse T's and A's, but he also has a lot of better hands and/or hands that have equity, against which I'd be playing pretty well by raising.

tough choice, though, certainly.

Andrew

Why not 4bet the AT here? You say he's only 3bet you twice, but this is the depolarized guy, and he's actually 3bet you 4 times. He did it with the KQ, then when you had QQ, when you had AK, and now. He seems like his 3bet range v your steal is close to if not actually a bad aggressive's 3bet range.

fair observation. i guess i made the choice based purely on feel/flow of the game. i probably need to come up with a better way of explaining feel/flow.

Andrew

Table 2, this guy's raising pretty much every button, and he raised 86o he showed down. Is T9o too thin to call? As much as he's raising, you should be defending pretty wide, no?

gimme A7o, and no worries. T9 is too thin, though, in my opinion.

Andrew

T1, are you minR wAQoff IP to induce a 3bet spaz from the ultra aggro opponent? Whats your plan if Villain 3bet? You call and play him postflop or you 4bet him pre?

call and play postflop, im minraising because i have two decent/active/aggro-ish guys in the blinds and so that will be my standard to preserve stack sizes/positional value.

Andrew

T1, whats the point of calling the turn against this opponent where he often beat our range and he is very likely to bet again the river?

1) there's a decent chance that he somehow doesnt bet river, though not an enormous one.

2) given depth, on certain cards (read: spades) I think we can take the pot away from him (maybe this is optimistic).

3) we still have 3 outs

if premise #2 is wrong, though, then it needs to be a fold.

Andrew

I really love BW vids and respect him a ton

But, i would really like him to put some hours and put out a winning good sample size graph, nickname at PTR (Since his FTP is losing one form last ~2 years, and i don`t know if he plays eurosites under others or smth), because it seems to me he is not playing/winning at current MSNL+ games at all
No offence, again i just wanna be watching quality concent from DC from ppl who actually crush the game

Like addition of newmanni was awesome - i can check out his PTR and see that he is actually winning in TODAYS current games, yea he might not have perfect oral/coaching skills yet, but you can see he is crushing the games

Hi Halvadron,

Hard to post a graph showing how I'm crushing today's games when I haven't been playing regularly for some time now . However, my PTR graph is pretty misleading. Checkout my winrates at 10/20 even until the end-- I'm up like 120k over 110k hands. pretty decent winrate imo. I basically just got slaughtered at 25/50 deep, 40/80, 25/50 cap, (and 10/20 HU I should note). Then, after losing an unconscionable amount of money in a short time, I took a break and traveled all over the world. hooray.

don't forget to check out my stars graph either, bwhale28, which wasn't too shabby either, despite me only playing on stars for a short time.

oh ya, and I also booked like 60k in winnings at cash games over the aussie millions. so, take that for w/e its worth.
so ya, i still think im good at poker.
Andrew

I don't know the dude, and don't care about him.

I think its pretty weird that the last couple of weeks the coaches have been doubted a lot because of a website like PTR and to me it brings a negative vibe

its never good. Either balugawhale tells he had a rough year and people think he is making up excuses or he doesn't respond and he has become a losing player in the eyes of PTR fans

to me PTR is heaven for result oriented people, and i dislike the site a lot but hey, do as you please

just my 2 cents

u dont care about me bro? i care about you

u dont care about me bro? i care about you

Sample size imo... Everyone at DC loves you B-DUB

HATERS GONNA HATE

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This JJ hand where you call the three bet and flop bet and check it down I notice you said on the river you cant value bet (true) but you also said you cant bluff. Isn't turning your hand into a bluff on this river maybe best. This has to be pretty close to the bottom of your range that gets to the river and villain should probably fold any better one pair to a river bet. If not, what is your bluff range on this river?

Sample size imo... Everyone at DC loves you B-DUB

Haters gonna hate

I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about BW.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about BW.

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Hi Halvadron,

Hard to post a graph showing how I'm crushing today's games when I haven't been playing regularly for some time now . However, my PTR graph is pretty misleading. Checkout my winrates at 10/20 even until the end-- I'm up like 120k over 110k hands. pretty decent winrate imo. I basically just got slaughtered at 25/50 deep, 40/80, 25/50 cap, (and 10/20 HU I should note). Then, after losing an unconscionable amount of money in a short time, I took a break and traveled all over the world. hooray.

don't forget to check out my stars graph either, bwhale28, which wasn't too shabby either, despite me only playing on stars for a short time.

oh ya, and I also booked like 60k in winnings at cash games over the aussie millions. so, take that for w/e its worth.
so ya, i still think im good at poker.
Andrew

Your downswing may have elluded many other but its clear to me what happened - distractions during coaching kristy series.. I know I was distracted.. lol