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

Time Link to 00:15:55

Would you rather raise the turn unimproved vs a LAG, or would you rather call the turn again and maybe bluff raise the river if we miss?
What kinda cards are you more likely to bluff on? Higher broadway cards or lower blanks?
Assuming broadways cause he will barrel those more often?

ANDREW HAVE MY BABIES PLEASE

Would you rather raise the turn unimproved vs a LAG, or would you rather call the turn again and maybe bluff raise the river if we miss?
What kinda cards are you more likely to bluff on? Higher broadway cards or lower blanks?
Assuming broadways cause he will barrel those more often?

The asnwer to all of these questions relies on how often he barrels as a bluff. So, if he bluffs broadway cards, then those are good ones. If he bluffs any card on the river, any card is fine.

If he doesn't bluff riv, then i'd rather raise turn.

Andrew

Excellent questions, primarily due to the options based on adjunct inferences. For example, in the penultimate question (#7), we're given an option to 3bet depolarized once we see that his 4bets are more polarized (in the sense that they'll lack nut combos). While I wasn't enthusiastic about the choice, it did prompt me to think about how villain is 4betting, and if he IS 4betting with a decent frequency, then would 3betting depolarized with the thought to bluff shove have any merit? I'm not saying I'd do this, but the option presented caused me to think about it. The video only discussed villain's flatting of 3bets with some consideration to his 4bets in the answer options (folding less to them)

Too bad there's no way to rate the video, or I'd give the series my highest marks. Keep up the great work!

Time Link to 00:42:17

I understand that just because he has a capped range, doesn't mean he'll fold it, but shouldn't we be more inclined to barrel against weaker ranges than ones that include more TP+ hands. I'm not saying we should just barrel mindlessly regardless of the board texture, but it seems like we should want to barrel at least somewhat more often in general.

I understand that just because he has a capped range, doesn't mean he'll fold it, but shouldn't we be more inclined to barrel against weaker ranges than ones that include more TP+ hands. I'm not saying we should just barrel mindlessly regardless of the board texture, but it seems like we should want to barrel at least somewhat more often in general.

of course it helps when your opponent has weaker hands (less hands that definitely wont fold), but I'm just trying to get people to think about players, not cards. If that makes sense.

Andrew

of course it helps when your opponent has weaker hands (less hands that definitely wont fold), but I'm just trying to get people to think about players, not cards. If that makes sense.

Andrew

Yeah, I know what you're saying.

Time Link to 00:40:52

However, if we stack him with 2 pair here after he thinly raised us on the flop, isn't it ambitious to assume that he'll play this kind of situation the same versus us again? Even if he's a bad reg, I assume that most players chill out a bit after getting stacked with a certain line. Any insight on this?

(I have watched only the 1st episode so far)

Feedback to the series
- Excellent idea of "a game show", it is very exciting
- It forces us to think while watching
- It is good for any player, from micro stakes up to mid stakes

I think the series has so much potential, that it could be improved a bit. I'd love to see some pictures and animations (maybe even sounds). Especially pictures, because it would be much easier to answer the question.
Here is my idea of how the "answer screen" could look like:

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5452/round7u.png

very good idea stack, it's quite annoying to go back to video to see all informations and i also agree this is a excellent concept (we could also have questions monday and answers friday, so we think alone and you can make little competition betwenn members on answers)

Time Link to 00:29:37

wow check fold? vs a regular?
we are really face up we raise from utg, we don"t have much flush draws, we dont have much T, we have a lot of overpairs
he's a reg so he has a lotf draws here and he can read us perfectly (at least at nl200 i believe and often at nl100) so he will often turn his made hands in bluffs and bluffs his missed flush draws,
hard to see X/F > X/C
does this answers depends of the level of the reg (and so the limit you play)?

very good idea stack, it's quite annoying to go back to video to see all informations and i also agree this is a excellent concept (we could also have questions monday and answers friday, so we think alone and you can make little competition betwenn members on answers)

When I watched episode one, I paused to think about the answers before continuing. This is a classic Haj School tip, but is more applicable here than ever before. I would definitely recommend doing that while watching. While appearing in the video, you have no choice but to sit there and be tricked by the host and his evil, evil questions.

I notice in these questions we never(?) discuss our image/playstyle(s). Even when we're adjusting to every player, lots of players are going to be looking at our overall stats and their feelings about us. From that, they'll adjust how they play against us. The extra information helps us choose the best play and seems relevant. Is it best to always assume they're going to treat us like an average regular until they show us something else?

I love all your video series. You're sharing awesome concepts. I love that you're teaching the roots of how to think in poker, and I LOVE classroom style videos.

Great series - it's really fun to try to come up with the right answer. Looking forward to number 3. As above, I was initially somewhat doubtful of the ckeck fold with QQ, but the reasoning is quite sound. To be honest I would almost always bet/fold in that situation to avoid being exploited by Reg using position. (I appreciate the argument that it is difficult to see the reg being on the river with a with a worse hand that can call a bet). Is it a huge leak to bet fold in that situation???