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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by Ansky (High Stakes)

This is more or less everything on my desktop, most of it is from middle of 09 and on. I am not going to make a habit of this, consider this a one time thing thanks to dwater.

First graph is 25/50 NL (everything), Second is 5/10+ 6m only, Third is heads up where I have gotten smoked lately (like I said). Also this probably represents half (?) of my hands since I often play on my mac and I don't use pt on there.

Also I feel like none of the run it twice hands are on here, which have been a huge % in the last 6 months.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7181/2550everything.jpg

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9392/everything6m.jpg

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5931/headsupeverything.jpg

This is more or less everything on my desktop, most of it is from middle of 09 and on. I am not going to make a habit of this, consider this a one time thing thanks to dwater.

First graph is 25/50 NL (everything), Second is 5/10+ 6m only, Third is heads up where I have gotten smoked lately (like I said). Also this probably represents half (?) of my hands since I often play on my mac and I don't use pt on there.

Also I feel like none of the run it twice hands are on here, which have been a huge % in the last 6 months.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7181/2550everything.jpg

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9392/everything6m.jpg

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5931/headsupeverything.jpg

Thats cool, I respect your honesty.

By some of your replies you still seem a bit tilted by people asking questions.

I am asking reasonable questions because I want to learn.

Thats the reason I (and others here) pay a membership fee every month.

Lets see the problem from my (the students) point of view.

I want to learn and get better, so who do I watch to get better?

How do I judge the quality of what I am being taught?

Can you understand how tough it is being a student when coaches have no credentials to judge them by.

In academia there are reasonable standards that soemone must achieve to gain a qualification.

To me its very strange when coaches get very defensive about their results.

If PTR has missed out a ton of your hands then thats OK, I 100% believe you.......

Explain it in a reasonable manner with supplementing data and you will gain both acknowledgement and respect.

But when you start the "HU4ROllZ" or you are an idiot because you use the only source of info available (PTR) it just sounds weak.

I personally use PTR as one of my main sources to judge the quality of the coaching.

If someone has a better way to judge if a coach can beat a certain level (and therefore is likely supplying advice to help me beat that level)

I am more than willing to learn or try something different.

I wanted to also ask you about something you mentioned.

Also this probably represents half (?) of my hands since I often play on my mac and I don't use pt on there.

This left me scratching my head for a number of reasons.

Are you saying you never recorded half your totals hands, meaning that you never had the oppotunity to go back and reveiw the play of yourself and your opponents after the sessions were over?

I have seen many videos where coaches strongly suggest looking over session data.

Personally I tend to go over my bigger hands or hands I felt I have played badly to try and improve.

dwater if your going to make accusations as to how people come off, its only fair I warn you, you come off as a know it all. Not necessarily the worst thing, but not the most pleasant.

3) No definitely not have to, but it certainly makes it more likely to play for stacks when you have 3x pot with top pair shitty kicker, vs 15x pot.

Just want to hash out this 3betting junky hands concept a little more because it's really cool/revelatory to me. So far, it seems we can win (= play profitably) by 3betting junky hands in the following ways:

1) we get a fold pre-flop due to the stronger hands in our range

2) opponents will often fold to a cbet if they miss the flop

3) opponents cannot play speculative hands as profitably because implied odds are reduced

4) opponents cannot bluff/blow us off the best hand because we will easily stack off with relatively weaker hands like top pair no kicker or mid pair good kicker

5) opponents cannot play perfectly with good A-highs (their 3bet calling range?) against our 3bet range when we include junky hands because (at least one card in) our hand is more disguised

6) we can comfortably play very aggressively with comparatively weak hands if we think opponent missed

Some of these points stem from the reduced stack to pot ratio and are related, I think, but does that seem reasonable overall? Please correct me if I'm wrong! If there’s anything you can add/explain/clarify, that'd be great too.

Thanks!

PS. Fellow DC members, can we please focus more on learning poker? Ansky has made other videos before, I don’t see why we need to question his credentials at this time in this thread instead of having a fruitful discussion about poker or his play in the video. Also, use your own brain. If a coach’s advice seems patently absurd or illogical to you, or his advice simply isn’t working in your games and gives you bad results, raise questions to challenge his advice and explain why/how it doesn’t work or make sense. We could all learn from that. Don’t expect to mindlessly watch a coach’s videos and expect some kinda monkey see monkey do osmosis type learning to automatically transfer the coach’s winrate to your own.

PPS. Totally pressed back accidentally and deleted my entire post. Wow...

I wanted to also ask you about something you mentioned.



This left me scratching my head for a number of reasons.

Are you saying you never recorded half your totals hands, meaning that you never had the oppotunity to go back and reveiw the play of yourself and your opponents after the sessions were over?

I have seen many videos where coaches strongly suggest looking over session data.

Personally I tend to go over my bigger hands or hands I felt I have played badly to try and improve.

Of course I save all my HHs, and during sessions I leave notepad open to paste in big/trouble hands. I usually will review them on my own after, and if I still am curious what to do I send the hand to friends to review together.

tcblades QQ agree flatting turn is better, if river bricks completely thoughts on a value raise on river?

As played, pretty clear he was turning his hand into a bluff - but his value range is basically only JJ / A4s 54s that didnt cbet the flop.

Combo wise, he doesn't have to bluff / valueshove worse to make c/c with AQdd pretty safe.

I have so much respect for Ansky now it's borderline gay.

dwater - http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/7-Research-Development-/topics/88731-How-a-DC-coach-becomes-a-#posts-724001

if you have any other questions about why a coach is a member of our team, you can direct them to support@deucescracked.com, please keep this thread to questions and discussion related to the video.

Why min raise? I think you get called a ton. I'd prefer to raise 3x. I have no problem with possibly raising more than I was raising, but I think you just set yourself up to get relentlessly 3bet when you do it too much.

no i mean u openfolded T3o on the btn one time and i think in ante games where the ante is 1/4 of the bb u should openraise every button (3x might be best against most villains in the blinds)

tcblades QQ agree flatting turn is better, if river bricks completely thoughts on a value raise on river?

As played, pretty clear he was turning his hand into a bluff - but his value range is basically only JJ / A4s 54s that didnt cbet the flop.

Combo wise, he doesn't have to bluff / valueshove worse to make c/c with AQdd pretty safe.

I'd say no to the river raise, he needs to both be >50% vs abas calling range and have aba not raise.

Hey Dani,

it's not really relevant to this video as most of the action was actually more 6maxish most of the time with people sitting out but what do you think about openlimping your entire range in the first three positions 200+bb deep in tough games? I've been thinking about this and I actually think your range from EP is weighted towards hands that play well with a limp (pairs, some bigger suited connectors) or limp reraise (big pairs, AK) or get out cheap with a lot of action behind (AJo, KQo, AQo). The amount of money by picking up the blinds seems relatively small to playing big and deep pots OOP with your range being relatively easy to define. This might be more relevant in a non-ante game. Thoughts?

Hey Dani,

it's not really relevant to this video as most of the action was actually more 6maxish most of the time with people sitting out but what do you think about openlimping your entire range in the first three positions 200+bb deep in tough games? I've been thinking about this and I actually think your range from EP is weighted towards hands that play well with a limp (pairs, some bigger suited connectors) or limp reraise (big pairs, AK) or get out cheap with a lot of action behind (AJo, KQo, AQo). The amount of money by picking up the blinds seems relatively small to playing big and deep pots OOP with your range being relatively easy to define. This might be more relevant in a non-ante game. Thoughts?

Interesting.

I don't think entire range makes much sense, but definitely using a mixed strategy with it is probably a decent idea. Theres a lot of hands that you want to play but hate to get reraised that can be better to sometimes limp maybe.

Why should i be studying from someone who doesn't win?

http://www.pokertableratings.com/stars-player-search/supernova9

http://www.pokertableratings.com/fulltilt-player-search/ansky451

Just one more reason PTR is a cancer in the poker community.

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