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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by danzasmack (Micro/Small Stakes)

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i want to thank Chuck for this. Just working with him a little has really helped my game a lot.

I would also encourage all 2/4 3/6 players struggling or running bad at 6max to give HU a try. You can beat the rake. You can do really well on a .50c cap site with any kind or rakeback or bonus.

Game select and play good.... and run hawt!

nice vid guys.

Can we discribe this guy as....LP preflop//LAGG post flop?

he puts no pressure on us PF, allowing us to see flops free or cheaply.
he DOES put pressure on post flop by donking, but this loses its effectiveness because he overdoes it and donks 80-100%.
postflop he seems to continue barreling(pressure us) when not meeting resistance on the flop or turn.
he is capable of some 3 barrels, but sometimes gives up on what he preceives to be a scary board or if he has a SD'able hand.
his reaction to our bets/raises seems to be trustworthy, he bluffs only with the lead.

we can exploit his play by, putting in more bets PF when we have good equity vs a random hand.
we can raise his donks at first with a real hand, hopefully getting to show him that hand, and then adjust our bluffraising his donk by the amount of folding he does.
he keeps folding to our raises, we bluff raise his 100% donk more...etc.
he also liked to bet when checked to, so c/r him more.

danza, is it ever a reasonable idea to NOT bet top pair HU?
for balance it seems to me, if we are always bettting TP, we give up too much info.

now, I go try some HUHU.

attack to make him discard 1 imo, would make this match so much easier

attack to make him discard 1 imo, would make this match so much easier

or just let me necro for like 7 on the turn

danza, is it ever a reasonable idea to NOT bet top pair HU?
for balance it seems to me, if we are always bettting TP, we give up too much info.

Hi Mickey.

I would like to hear what chuck has to say, but I think you can just balance by by betting your worse hands, too. TP is the nuts so often in HU, and so many worse paired, unpaired and draw hands are going to call you that betting TP is going to be best most of the time.

If you want to balance, I would rather do so by betting my marginal/bad hands, than missing value by checking strong ones.

Also remember. At these high rake stakes we want to play fish only. If you have to worry a.bout balancing, you should be quitting and finding a guy to value town with pairs weaker than TP imo

good luck trying out HU!

or just let me necro for like 7 on the turn

good point

nvm i thought it was Nl for a sec^^

nice vid guys...

Funny how Danza messed up with the Stoves

Hi Mickey.

I would like to hear what chuck has to say, but I think you can just balance by by betting your worse hands, too. TP is the nuts so often in HU, and so many worse paired, unpaired and draw hands are going to call you that betting TP is going to be best most of the time.

If you want to balance, I would rather do so by betting my marginal/bad hands, than missing value by checking strong ones.

Also remember. At these high rake stakes we want to play fish only. If you have to worry a.bout balancing, you should be quitting and finding a guy to value town with pairs weaker than TP imo

good luck trying out HU!

Yup, more gas is usually better. People will start calling flops and folding turns, and eventually just not folding @ all, allowing us to get max value. The best part is, like I always say, you just have to do it once or twice for them to think you're always doing it.

At min. 32 of the video you say "You can't call flops with intention to improve on the turn"... I'm kinda stunned to hear that and immediately think there's probably a leak in my game, something I didn't understand so far. Could you please elaborate on this concept? What if you have correct odds (effective or implied) to imrpove ?

At min. 32 of the video you say "You can't call flops with intention to improve on the turn"... I'm kinda stunned to hear that and immediately think there's probably a leak in my game, something I didn't understand so far. Could you please elaborate on this concept? What if you have correct odds (effective or implied) to imrpove ?

The phrase out of context is pretty bad I'd say.

Basically my point is this - you can't just be check/calling flops with the intention of improving on the turn or otherwise folding.

Great example - you have J7 and defend a raise in the bb.

The flop is 234

A lot of players will check/call here basically thinking "it is weak to fold I can call and hit a jack"

In this spot you should be thinking

1) what is the strength of my hand
2) How often is my opponent betting the turn?
3) how does he react to a flop c/r here?
4) If my hand is best now can I get a showdown?
5) how is chuck doing RIGHT now?

More along those lines, thinking about the complete scenario. Check/calling a flush draw on the flop with the intention of improving is for sure fine sometimes, and occasionally vastly superior to c/r'ing.

Sorry if what I said didn't come out too clear.

Also and while people may not think exactly like "oh i can hit a jack!" that's how they play which I think is more important. They c/c the flop vs. an opponent who barrels a lot, and are c/f'ing anything besides a J or 7, and at the same time they aren't making a river bluff in this spot ever.