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

great video, youre a bit tighter than I. Is that QQQ hand really a fold? i mean i'd call that all day. Do all of you agree that this is a fold?

I think his range on the turn when he shoves is sets, two pair, and flushes. He instacalled on the flop, which could be indicative of a set, but I think most people, even donks, tank for a bit before deciding what to do with a set. More likely, he's a donk who is hardwired to check call his flush draws, so he didn't even consider raising. Any two pair hand with a queen is pretty unlikely seeing as I have three of them. That leaves flushes as the most likely hand. Obviously I am getting a sick price (2:1 or so if I recall, so calling only has to win me the pot 1/3 times), plus I have outs, so calling can't be a huge mistake. And folding may not be a hugely +ev play. It helps me to think of big pots like this, where I might have made a minor error that may not cost me too much money over time but nonetheless stacked me in the short run.

It's so nice to hear someone like Crablar say "$400 is a lot of money". Sometimes I think the top pros forget just how much money that really is to lower stakes donks (like me) who watch these videos, so I really liked his humility on this. Makes me feel less distant from the nosebleeders.

Nice vid, look forward to more.

I think his range on the turn when he shoves is sets, two pair, and flushes. He instacalled on the flop, which could be indicative of a set, but I think most people, even donks, tank for a bit before deciding what to do with a set. More likely, he's a donk who is hardwired to check call his flush draws, so he didn't even consider raising. Any two pair hand with a queen is pretty unlikely seeing as I have three of them. That leaves flushes as the most likely hand. Obviously I am getting a sick price (2:1 or so if I recall, so calling only has to win me the pot 1/3 times), plus I have outs, so calling can't be a huge mistake. And folding may not be a hugely +ev play. It helps me to think of big pots like this, where I might have made a minor error that may not cost me too much money over time but nonetheless stacked me in the short run.

Plus Villain was getting involved in a lot of hands at the time. You were commenting on this in the lead up to the hand.

Hey man
Nice vid.

About the QQQ hand,i would call it anyday,you just had some action vs the guy and picked up most pots and ofcourse he could have a lower set.You still had 10 outs on the flush

Nice video man. Instead of getting down about your downswing, just remember the bad feeling to make upswings all the tastier.

Love,
iRockhoes

honestly i thought you looked pretty weak in this vid, probably an off day but that king turn should 100% be a shove imo. nice insight into more general stuff though.

(Late to the party, I know, but I just wanted to watch this video before looking at the new one from Crablar.)

About the top set QQQ vs nut-flush hand: am I the only one here who thinks the big mistake in the hand was betting the turn?

I mean, the guy's giving you a chance to catch up to his most likely holding for free on the river, why not take it? And if you miss, at worst you would have to sigh and call off a ~$100-140 value bet there, getting away cheap?

I'm checking behind there nearly 100% of the time -- the only exception is if I'm playing someone aggressive who I *know* would check-raise a flush draw on the flop, so flushes are eliminated from his range when he just check/calls.

I mean, the board (Q62T) was super-dry apart from the 3 diamonds. About the only worse hands you can get a call from on the turn with your large bet is 22/66/TT/QT.

(I believe you mention KJ/AdJx when you are trying to find a reason to call his c/r, but come on... KJ/AJ doesn't float that flop OOP. Besides, any draw he decides to semi-bluff with is much more typical to be a c/r *push* on that board.)

But hardly any of those combos makes sense up to that point, in my opinion. TT would most likely have been a 3-bet pre-flop. 22 and 66 would have either led out or -- perhaps more likely -- c/r the flop, because of the flush-draw. QT is unlikely because of card-removal factors, plus it would be a loose call pre-flop, OOP vs a 4x UTG open.

Crablar bet so quickly on the turn aswell, hardly taking more than 2-3 secs before firing out the bet. Is that turn bet really such an easy decision? Seems terrible to me, to be honest.

Actually, the whole session seemed pretty bad to me. I haven't played a lot of $3/6 yet, just a bunch of full-ring, and haven't played too much 6-max above $1/2, so I might not be competent to comment upon the session.

But there seemed to be a lot of spew... at least 3/4 the pot for every c-bet, usually with no draws or anything, and usually with no consideration to the flop texture, nor your opponent in the hand. And when you hit decent, flopping top two with QJ, you insta-checked in a nano-second. Huge timing tell, which repeated itself several times over. Lots of 3.5x - 4x pre-flop opens with weak holdings in EP, lots of calls with weak holdings in position where you just played fit-or-fold on any and every flop, again without even commenting on the flop texture.

Admittedly you ran bad aswell, set-under-set in BvB, flopped top set vs turned flush, flopped top two (with QJ) got a horrible runner-runner board with 4 to a straight (QJxTA), etc, but you were bleeding a *lot* of chips in addition to those cooler hands.

I mean, the board (Q62T) was super-dry apart from the 3 diamonds. About the only worse hands you can get a call from on the turn with your large bet is 22/66/TT/QT.

Correcting myself; I suppose AQ/KQ/QJ should be in the mix aswell. But of those, the only ones you're afraid to give a free river is AdQh/KdQh/QhJd. The other, let's see.. 9 combos of those, you should be happy to give a free river, as he might hit top two pair and pay off a large value bet if he checks in front.

Not a bad video, but I agree with some of the comments regarding being timid, etc. There was a hand 877 on the flop you cbet w AT when the guy as you say is a station... J on the turn you check back and then 7 on the riv. You put him on quads or a straight? Not sure if my thinking is flawed here but there's no way he's betting a straight with trips on the board, and if the guy's calling wide there's no way I'm really considering quads. Just an example above, but I think you missed a couple 4bets and seemed to be getting run over.