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

Im not too sure what to take from your comment, but ya alot, if not all poker decisions should depend on the villian when you are going to make a advanced play here. Not that I think its a great Idea to make a advanced play vs such a aggro villian that was described in this hand. Either way love the vid and love your work with poker. Thank you.

the more aggro the villain-- the better a play this is

Andrew

First hand, I prefer c/r any turn over c/c, c/c because villain has only 80bb to start.

Pot size on turn will be 35bb, if villain bets 2/3 pot that would be 23bb, making total pot size 81bb once we call. Effective stacks will be 40bb.

Even bad aggressive players shutdown their bluffs often when they dont have a significant bet size left to bluff shove. Given that he will likely check rivers a lot I'd jam turn. If he was even just 20bb deeper I like a c/c.

Zach

edit: I agreed with all your other answers. Nice work.

Time Link to 00:19:48

Andrew,

You make a good argument for raising in Round 3, but doesn't always raising here wreak havoc on our calling range? It seems to me that if you raise all your strong hands (boats and trips), then a call suddenly means with 100% certainty "I have a PP jacks or less". And villain has enough value hands that he can just barrel us off it.

Time Link to 00:32:51

"No determining factor of what he does against 3bets"

But do we need to know? We know that he opens wide, and that he gives up. So based on that alone, doesn't it make sense that we would want to keep our weaker hands in our calling range (to give them more value when we bluff them after his flop check backs) and keep our 3betting range full of strong hands?

Time Link to 00:32:51

Small request: Is it possible to download the slides somewhere?

Round 5 (QdJd hand)
I chose answer E) as well, but I thought by "reraising" you meant check-raising, not 3-betting. If he is capable of giving up on the flop sometimes, then it means his c-betting range is stronger = if we want to x/r, we should lean towards value.

Time Link to 00:16:33

I was way off on Round 3 w/the KhKs2h flop with our 22. Let me think through this...(also, when you give the sizes of stacks are we assuming the largest stack is the effective stacks? I assume yes? Otherwise it's useless to say they have 150bb when we only have 100bb...)

Regarding short stack:
- we assume villain has inelastic calling range and will never fold w/fdraws and Kx and will not fold turn with those hands
- whether we call or raise won't matter to this villain (given THIS range) as all his money goes in on turn regardless
- we like raising to prevent a call by short stack w/PP's that might randomly peal if we just call??? Seems like we want a peal from that part of villain's range with so little equity?

Regarding tight-aggressive regular:
- calling twice is not ideal because this villain will NOT bluff rivers w/busted draws
- raising is good because we get more $$$ from the flush draws and Kx in villain's range on both flop and turn AND possibly river if it blanks and villain is stubborn with Kx hands

Therefore:
It's most +EV to extract as much value from flush draws and Kx hands from TAG regular by raising on flop than it is to bait a loose call from the shortstack w/PP's. That makes a ton of sense given the effective stacks of 150bb w/the TAG

When you pause, there's is a minimize button in the top right corner that makes the overlay go away.

That is THE Greatest piece of info I've gotten in a long time. LOL

(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

FANTASTIC IDEA ...would def make the series a little bit easier to follow without constant pause,and re-reading.

Time Link to 00:21:56

So if you had JJ, would it still be clear Raise?

Good episode. V good series.