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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by DJ Sensei (Micro/Small Stakes)

Finished watching this. Great stuff, can't wait for 50NL next week.

Hey DJ,

Do you use any other Tools for Table selection? Or do you just scan the lobby and jump on? If you use something like Spade Eye - what type of players are you looking for?

BMac

Well, it depends on the game. For fullring games, I´m usually playing 10/20 or 25/50 where there aren´t many games running, so I´ll probably play any table where I can get a seat (and then quit if I find that there aren´t any fish there). I don´t use spade eye or similar products, but I think they could be pretty valuable, particularly in mid-stakes games where the stakes are enough to justify the cost and game selection becomes more important.

As far as game selection goes, the first (and pretty much only) thing I´m looking for is fish. Loose passive ones, or crazy maniac ones, either is cool with me. No fish = no game.

DJ Sensei

I really want to get my mum a cardigan for her birthday. I am on a limited budget.

Should I knit or not knit?

DJ Sensei

I really want to get my mum a cardigan for her birthday. I am on a limited budget.

Should I knit or not knit?

1) watch DC videos
2) play online poker
3) use winnings to buy mom´s cardigan
4) use free time not spent knitting cardigan to win more money, or build her a cake or something
5) hugs

As far as game selection goes, the first (and pretty much only) thing I´m looking for is fish. Loose passive ones, or crazy maniac ones, either is cool with me. No fish = no game.

One thing that I am learning as someone at beginner level, fish are a lot easier to play against than maniacs. I find that in my quest to find more fish I occasionally bump into a maniac, when I do either my stack is going to rise or disappear.

I am sure if I was a much better player I could take on the maniacs easier, but for now I find the % a more important figure than the $ as the one might mean there is a table full of maniacs.

Nice start for hopefully a very nice series. However, sometimes I thought it started too much from the beginning but on the other hand it is a primer and especially the ABC preflop hand range was very useful. It will be interesting to follow in the later episodes how ABC will be tweaked.

Anyways, I hope to make the most of this series, and today started to play my usual 50NL 4-tabling with Dan's ABC hands, and aim to tweak my hands/play/game along with the series. Hopefully this series will give me a boost to move up to 100NL, or at least help with it.

ABC preflop hand range...following it to the letter, so far 851 hands and am running 13.04/8.7. Attempt to steal blinds 26.17%, which has followed naturally just from following the hand chart.

Can't wait till next Monday, thanks Dan.

DJ Sensei

I really want to get my mum a cardigan for her birthday. I am on a limited budget.

Should I knit or not knit?

1) watch DC videos
2) play online poker
3) use winnings to buy mom´s cardigan
4) use free time not spent knitting cardigan to win more money, or build her a cake or something
5) hugs

LOL. This series is one of the main reasons why I am going to renew my subscription. It would be cool to see more full ring NL on the site.

DJ Sensei,

Great video. In it, you mentioned you would post your HUD layout. Do you know where I can find that in the forums? Thanks

the HUD is not yet up in the forums, but thats because i´m far away from my home computer. however, i´ll be back there on saturday, and will post it then or shortly thereafter.

I play 6max almost exclusively but felt like watching something different for a change. I was surprised you said you wanted to be on the left of the good players. When I play I always sit to the left of the fish, I'll be playing the majority of my hands against the fish and I'd prefer to play the majority of my hands in position.

You're not going to be playing as many hands against the good (and tight) players and probably won't be making a whole lot off them whether you have position or not. I agree that having position on full stacks is better though.

I was surprised you said you wanted to be on the left of the good players. When I play I always sit to the left of the fish, I'll be playing the majority of my hands against the fish and I'd prefer to play the majority of my hands in position.

You're not going to be playing as many hands against the good (and tight) players and probably won't be making a whole lot off them whether you have position or not. I agree that having position on full stacks is better though.

You beat me to this comment, but I would like to join you in expressing my interest in hearing an elaboration on this topic.

If I use Lobby Edge for table selection, I generally look for people with a history of losing money, and I've tried to sit to the left of the player with the highest loss/hand rate(provided that he still has a stack of decent size).

Is this a mistake? Should I be sitting to the left of the person with the highest win/hand rate?

New to deuces cracked and really am impressed with what I've seen here.

This series in particular is what drove me to join. I've always felt full ring is much more profitable in that the number one mistake fishy opponents make is to play too many marginal hands from early position. Full ring gives them 4 times the opportunity to make that mistake.

Please keep the FR info coming!

I was surprised you said you wanted to be on the left of the good players. When I play I always sit to the left of the fish, I'll be playing the majority of my hands against the fish and I'd prefer to play the majority of my hands in position.

You're not going to be playing as many hands against the good (and tight) players and probably won't be making a whole lot off them whether you have position or not. I agree that having position on full stacks is better though.

You beat me to this comment, but I would like to join you in expressing my interest in hearing an elaboration on this topic.

If I use Lobby Edge for table selection, I generally look for people with a history of losing money, and I've tried to sit to the left of the player with the highest loss/hand rate(provided that he still has a stack of decent size).

Is this a mistake? Should I be sitting to the left of the person with the highest win/hand rate?

Seat selection is certainly a topic worth discussing, and I think reasonable arguments can be made for both sides.

If all of your opponents are either fish or mediocre nits, then you should sit to the left of the biggest fish, or to the left of as many fish as possible. The nits won't give you much trouble if they have position on you, so you can focus on having position on the fish as often as possible.

However, if there are some good loose-aggressive players at the table (and chances are you won't encounter good loose aggressive players in FR games until mid-high stakes), I'd prefer to have the LAG's on my right to avoid headaches. LAGs know how to exploit their positional advantage much better than nits do.

Because you'll be playing a pretty tight game and mostly getting into it with strong hands, position against fish doesn't matter quite as much. It certainly is nice to have it, but the difference between being IP and being OOP is much more significant when you're considering it relative to a strong, aggressive player.


That being said, I almost always look to have the fish on my right, because the situations where I would choose otherwise are pretty rare.

4) use free time not spent knitting cardigan to win more money, or build her a cake or something

"build a cake" LOL!

Anyway, the question I have is "What 5/10 rule for Pocket Pairs?"

Thanks!

the 5/10 rule is a basic guideline that applies to situations when you're facing a preflop raise and have a small or medium pocket pair and want to know if you have the proper implied odds to call the raise. if the size of the raise is less than 5% of remaining effective stacks, then you should almost always call, and if its greater than 10% of remaining effective stacks, you should probably fold. if its somewhere in the middle, then you can make a decision based on other factors.

don't treat the 5/10 rule as law though, it should just be a starting point for understanding implied odds and how to apply them preflop in certain situations.