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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by slowlane123 (Micro/Small Stakes)

Watching that last hand history, how often do you think the villain shows up with TT or even 55? I can see a 12/9 flatting TT very easily OOP.

Watching that last hand history, how often do you think the villain shows up with TT or even 55? I can see a 12/9 flatting TT very easily OOP.

I can't watch the video back right now though I remember the HH (but not my thoughts/review during this video).

I think it's pretty unlikely given the x/r on the turn. TT never x/r turn with equity + SD value. 55 maybe, but very rarely imo.

I can't watch the video back right now though I remember the HH (but not my thoughts/review during this video).

I think it's pretty unlikely given the x/r on the turn. TT never x/r turn with equity + SD value. 55 maybe, but very rarely imo.

Thanks for the reply and I am really loving the series. However, pardon my being a noob, but what does "x/r" mean?

I hardly ever see anyone else use this, but it means check-raise. If you're pretty anal about nomenclature, using c/r to mean the same thing looks more like it means call-raise (or backraise), which is in general a possible action on a single street. Some people just go through a little more trouble to ensure less confusion with their notation.

Oh, I also wanted to sort of emphatically concur with what you're saying in the video. I've mostly spent a lot of time moving up and down between 50nl and 100nl over the past year and a half due to some significant long-term negative variance (and subsequently the bad play that can follow when you're not a hardcore experienced grinder). However, a short time ago I dropped down to 25nl for a period of about 40k hands to get some confidence back. I have to agree, 25nl is almost entirely made up of caricatures of poker players at 50nl and above.
The only thing of real substance I would add to the conversation is, 25nl deep-stack play is a little different from 50 and 100nl. There is this sort of strange phenomenon that occurs with nits (possibly at all levels, but particularly at 25nl): they have a very hard time folding, even when it's obvious that they should (I watched them get stacked for 200bb+ vs rec players with 4straights/4flushes on rivers), after they have made a raise earlier post-flop.
An example: we have JT opening from HJ, and a 14/12 calls the SB. This guy likely has a 5% range here. There just isn't enough room for SC's, and he 3b's 4%, so he almost never has AK. That pretty much leaves pp's and anywhere from 4-8 non-paired, suited combos. We are both on 75 dollars, or 300bb. We see a flop of 8d9d4c. We cbet say, 1 dollar into 1.50, planning to bet 3 streets on a lot of boards. Now sometimes, he'll raise to 4.5 or something, and it's an easy call. But a lot of times, they will look at this wet board, and kinda freak out, which I suppose is their normal state of mind when they start putting a raise into a pot. Sometimes he will raise to like, $7, or even $9, or something ridiculous like that. At first this looks like we might fold without the FD, getting somewhere around 1.5-to-1, when we won't hit the straight more than 16% on the turn. And 2 of our outs are "unclean". This 25nl nit, though, will hardly ever semi-bluff, even if he has the combos to do it with preflop, and when he does, he will virtually never put in this much on a bluff of any kind anyway. He basically has top or middle set with this raise size. And even if a flush does come off, you can still stack him for 300bb. He will not fold. I watched my wife do this many, many times on Stars when they first introduced the 250bb buyin back in early 2010. She'd call a massive raise, and then just overbet turn, and shove river for anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 pot, depending on how deep they were. She was laughing telling me about it, so i ran a filter on like 150k of her hands in HEV, and it was like, the nits couldn't find the fold button. Anyway, I have however noticed that 100nl nits could more often find the fold button after taking an ultra strong line and a draw hits when you're quite deep. So there's kind of another difference between 25nl and the higher stakes.

Interesting response, thanks for taking the time.

I've actually noticed similar things in the last couple of days as I've been coaching a 25nl deep student on Stars. It is a bit of a mystery :-)

Sounds like a good spot to bluff at the 100nl tables then doesn't it? Call on any rando draw and bluff the scare cards.