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

TYTY for the live play DJ

oh great!
been waiting for a live episode!
thanks DJ!

great as usual

Thanks!

I think a live episode does a good job at illustrating the frequency you can use these plays you show in the earlier videos. I think it is easy for watchers after seeing the previous episodes (and Unconventional Wisdom) to go crazy trying to outread and outplay their opponents in spots where it simply is a very poor idea, just because outplaying people is very cool.

DJ, why are you just GoldStar on Stars? Do you mainly play on Full Tilt?

DJ Sensei,

You call a button raise from KiWiKaki with Ac9c in the Big Blind. Flop is 5d Tc 7s and you check fold. That seems weak to me. Ac9c is way ahead of his range isn't it?

That flop looks like it would miss both of you quite often and you could take away the pot if you catch a gutshot or flush draw or pair on the turn.

on minute 1:45 secs you squeeze a mp1 raise with a AQs the hud showed this guy have a pfr of 10 obviously the sample size was really small but do you think spots like this against 9-12% preflop raisers are really profitable or its marginal ev+?
because i would rather squeeze against 13-15% kinda guys

I like seeing a mixture of live play vids and hand history review vids. It's important to see some live play, because you get the whole context. When you're just looking at a single hand in isolation, you don't know what other factors (game flow, image, etc.) might be affecting people's ranges, except in a very general sense. And like others mentioned, it gives us an idea of the frequency which you are making moves, etc. Also, most importantly for me, getting to hear your thought process in real-time when you're having to make quick decisions, is really valuable. Don't worry about not having many interesting hands come up in an hour; I actually thought there were plenty, but even when there is dead time, you can fill it up by talking about other stuff like you did here.

Do you recall what time of day/night it was when you made the video? Those tables are soooo bad. If that's what it's like at 3/6 all the time, I don't see how anybody makes any money there. I'm a big nit about table selection, but at 100NL and 200NL I generally will only stay at tables where there is at minimum a fish in one of the 3 seats to my right with at least a half-stack. And I'm usually able to keep 14-16 such tables going at almost any time of the day/night (obviously certain nights I can be even more selective than that). It's hard to find the motivation to try and move up when I'm making a good hourly rate where I'm at and the higher games appear to be that much tougher. Tell me it's not always that bad!

Oh yeah, how close are you getting to moving up to 5/10?

DJ, why are you just GoldStar on Stars? Do you mainly play on Full Tilt?

Nah I've been playing all the FR for this series on stars, its probably just a monthly thing since I haven't played much yet in June. Before that I didn't really have a ton of hands on the year either. I'm not a sick volume grinder like most of the regs

DJ Sensei,

You call a button raise from KiWiKaki with Ac9c in the Big Blind. Flop is 5d Tc 7s and you check fold. That seems weak to me. Ac9c is way ahead of his range isn't it?

That flop looks like it would miss both of you quite often and you could take away the pot if you catch a gutshot or flush draw or pair on the turn.

I'd probably play back against a lot of dudes, but he's better than most and seems to somewhat have it out for me (as you can clearly see throughout the video!) so I don't expect it to be too easy to show down a winner.

on minute 1:45 secs you squeeze a mp1 raise with a AQs the hud showed this guy have a pfr of 10 obviously the sample size was really small but do you think spots like this against 9-12% preflop raisers are really profitable or its marginal ev+?
because i would rather squeeze against 13-15% kinda guys

I'm pretty sure its profitable to squeeze there. Maybe not if there wasn't a caller in the pot, or if it was an earlier position raise. Sample size definitely makes a difference, too, as I noted.

Do you recall what time of day/night it was when you made the video? Those tables are soooo bad. If that's what it's like at 3/6 all the time, I don't see how anybody makes any money there.

It was midafternoon on a Thursday, so probably not prime time, but yea, the games are often that tough. Honestly, I think its very difficult to maintain a high winrate at 3/6. Even most experts would probably have a higher hourly rate playing 2/4 most of the time imo!

I'm pretty close to 5/10, but I'm not sure how much time I'll have to grind what with the world series and all, so I mayyyyy just jump to 5/10 ahead of schedule for the sake of teaching yall as much as I can. I feel like at this point I've got a pretty good grasp of what 3/6 is about and how to beat it as much as you can, but its definitely a lot of work to win enough money there to move up in my challenge!