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

Hi, I don't think it's a mod. I think someone's color ring lights up when the action is on them, or when they are in the pot. It might be a feature of mini-view, not sure.

ah, maybe that is it! i got really excited when i thought it was like the color rings on stars for their note system

thanks for the vids!

figured out the other tags you use. I cant quite figure the orange tag you have on some players???

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Why do you raise this turn? Is it because there are a lot of draws that can call? Plus may call wider if they have a hand like 87s because they have a pair now.. I can see this raise getting a lot of draws to call.. and the villain's sizing is kinda small.. .66 into $1.33 so like half pot.. Raising here usually isn't my standard line, and I want to know if this is a pretty easy play and am I missing value by not making this same raise? I think I'd usually call here, but now I see a flaw in that line because a lot of rivers are ugly, and I can't value bet too thin because he will have a lot of draws and such.. but if the villain calls your turn raise, he's prob got a draw.. never a set.. and will either donk straight/flushes or try to go for a check raise which I presume we will just x/b most rivers correct? (Except Tx because we could VB this since not many villains are going to be just calling your turn raise and checking to us on the river with a set.. If the river is a T, and the villain bets.. Should we raise? He'd do this with all worse Tx hands.. most two pair hands that are beating us prob re-raise us OTT)

Thanks.

Btw, I'm famous! I'm in this video I'm wangtkkik.. That was on March 11th.. I'm now at 25nl after grinding at 10nl I can't wait for the rest of this series. I'll definitely keep track of this. (Btw, I started a PGC thread about my progress and next month's goals will be for me to get to 50nl+)

figured out the other tags you use. I cant quite figure the orange tag you have on some players???

It probably means regs since a few of those guys I know grind 10nl a lot.. probably means TAG or reg

figured out the other tags you use. I cant quite figure the orange tag you have on some players???

yellow = semi-fish or meh reg
orange = solid reg or someone who seems solid so far
green = fish
white with red x = short stacker

Why do you raise this turn? Is it because there are a lot of draws that can call? Plus may call wider if they have a hand like 87s because they have a pair now.. I can see this raise getting a lot of draws to call.. and the villain's sizing is kinda small.. .66 into $1.33 so like half pot.. Raising here usually isn't my standard line, and I want to know if this is a pretty easy play and am I missing value by not making this same raise? I think I'd usually call here, but now I see a flaw in that line because a lot of rivers are ugly, and I can't value bet too thin because he will have a lot of draws and such.. but if the villain calls your turn raise, he's prob got a draw.. never a set.. and will either donk straight/flushes or try to go for a check raise which I presume we will just x/b most rivers correct? (Except Tx because we could VB this since not many villains are going to be just calling your turn raise and checking to us on the river with a set.. If the river is a T, and the villain bets.. Should we raise? He'd do this with all worse Tx hands.. most two pair hands that are beating us prob re-raise us OTT)

Thanks.

Btw, I'm famous! I'm in this video I'm wangtkkik.. That was on March 11th.. I'm now at 25nl after grinding at 10nl I can't wait for the rest of this series. I'll definitely keep track of this. (Btw, I started a PGC thread about my progress and next month's goals will be for me to get to 50nl+)



It probably means regs since a few of those guys I know grind 10nl a lot.. probably means TAG or reg

Hello Wang thanks for the post! You should post more in the forums we'd love to have you in the full ring forum. I raised the turn on that hand because usually when the opponent plays passive pre then calls flop, and leads small on the turn, I find they are probing or trying to 'set the price' with hands like draws and weak one pairs. I think they fear checking and having to call a big bet, like full pot, so they lead out small hoping you will either fold, or just call the bet , letting them see the river for the price they are comfortable with. I find that nutted hands much more often lead big, or checkraise the turn.

Therefore I felt my top pair, ace kicker was good often enough to value raise. If he 3bet I was done.

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Yeah everybody knows but many players still make these common mistakes. I just hope they are fixable . Thanks!!

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Confused as to why you raised a shortstack preflop w/ QTos OOP when he has a high VPIP and is likely to see a flop- putting you in a rough spot for the rest of his stack.

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I also wondered why you would be afraid of 67 getting there when you only have 2 hands against a guy... you assume part of his calling range is a gutshot? I think you should be much more afraid of anything else, and I mean literally anything. But if you can explain why specifically you pegged his range as 67... I'd love to hear it.

I also wondered why you would be afraid of 67 getting there when you only have 2 hands against a guy... you assume part of his calling range is a gutshot? I think you should be much more afraid of anything else, and I mean literally anything. But if you can explain why specifically you pegged his range as 67... I'd love to hear it.

Hello, thanks for the comments. What I meant is that if he raised my turn bet I would fold because a number of hands are beating me there including 67, better 2 pairs, and sets, and my equity is not even great against hands I am ahead of that want to get the money in.

And yes, I do think he would often call the flop with a gutshot, especially if he has the flush draw with it. I don't understand why you'd be more afraid of ANYTHING than him having 6. Especially if he is a loose fish (quite likely at 10nl), that is perfectly within his range for calling preflop and flop, and then raising my turn barrel.

Confused as to why you raised a shortstack preflop w/ QTos OOP when he has a high VPIP and is likely to see a flop- putting you in a rough spot for the rest of his stack.

I may not have noticed the stack size of the limper. since he has only 30 bbs it might be better to just check out of the BB there. I definitely wouldn't mind raising him if he had even 50bbs, because he seems soooo loose and fishy and passive he will be easy to exploit, and QT will dominate a fair number of hands in his limp-calling range.

wow great responses, I look forward to the rest of your series Currently trying to beat 10nl and not really feeling comfortable- although I'm on stars and you were on merge.

Great video. I'm currently thinking of playing some cash alongside the SNG's I play now.

Complete noob cash question.

Why should you auto top up when your money dips below $10? I would guess that is so you can get the highest amount of money when you hit a good hand but wasn't sure as I rarely play cash.

Also what multi table software do you use? I usually only play 4 tables at the moment (sometimes 6) as I am playing on a 15" laptop monitor.

Great video. I'm currently thinking of playing some cash alongside the SNG's I play now.

Complete noob cash question.

Why should you auto top up when your money dips below $10? I would guess that is so you can get the highest amount of money when you hit a good hand but wasn't sure as I rarely play cash.

Also what multi table software do you use? I usually only play 4 tables at the moment (sometimes 6) as I am playing on a 15" laptop monitor.

You should always top up in NL cash imo for several reasons.
1 - You want to be as deep as possible with the inferior players at the table. If a fish suddenly wins big and has a 300 bb stack, you don't want to be sitting there with 50 bb's. Your EV at the table increases the deeper you are with bad players so you want to put yourself in that spot.
2 - You want to get used to having a roughly 100bb stack most of the time, this makes your decisions more practiced and you are used to certain bet sizes. When you get short stacked you should be altering your bet sizes significantly.
3 - You want to practice playing deep as often as possible, this will make you better in the long run. Higher stakes and juicy live games often run pretty deep stacked so you'll want to be practiced.

as for multitabling - on merge I use a script called MergeKeys, you can google to find the download, it's free. I use holdem manager for HUD etc.

Great response thanks!

I'm curious do you balance your range multiway to get value from sets? I also noticed you fold small pairs in the blinds to late position opens, but I wonder if it would be profitable to call this 2 ways vs a tight early position open or even calling suited connectors? but maybe it could also be a leak when repeated thousands of times.
I just find it really difficult to build pots unless you play really LAG and theoretically playing 40/30 is impossible with the rake and people may be a little looser postflop when you are that loose but it seems if you are really tight then you may get more action postflop because people
may think they have more fold equity against you

I'm curious do you balance your range multiway to get value from sets? I also noticed you fold small pairs in the blinds to late position opens, but I wonder if it would be profitable to call this 2 ways vs a tight early position open or even calling suited connectors? but maybe it could also be a leak when repeated thousands of times.
I just find it really difficult to build pots unless you play really LAG and theoretically playing 40/30 is impossible with the rake and people may be a little looser postflop when you are that loose but it seems if you are really tight then you may get more action postflop because people
may think they have more fold equity against you

Hi, sorry I didn't respond to this earlier. I feel that cold calling in general has to have a good justification, and that cold calling weak pp's, suited connectors etc is definitely much better if the pot is multiway. This is especially true when you're unlikely to get 3bet squeezed by someone who is left to act behind your call. I agree that playing 40/30 profitably is near impossible in FR, in order to get action just steal blinds more aggressively, 3bet light more often in good spots, try bluffing a bit more often postflop when you have some equity, etc.

Hey gold. This is just a general question. I play on Stars myself. Do you feel that the average skill of the players on Merge is better, worse, or not much different to that on Stars? I guess another way to put it would be do you find the games to be easier/juicier?

Hey gold. This is just a general question. I play on Stars myself. Do you feel that the average skill of the players on Merge is better, worse, or not much different to that on Stars? I guess another way to put it would be do you find the games to be easier/juicier?

I can't really speak to the skill level of Stars players, I haven't played there since late 2010. I've heard that the 200 and up full ring games are pretty dry though. I would guess that Merge and Revolution are softer than Stars for the most part.

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Well,

I know this videos it's kind of old, but im starting at playing/studying full ring and decided to start with this one.

One question: WTSD and W$SD isn't good stats? I used them to see if i can keep betting or just fit or fold, depending on the stats of the villain.

For example: If i get a villain with high WTSD: 60 and W$SD:30, i know that if i made a hand i can make simultaneous cbet's instead of making some kind of facing play. And also know that is the kind of villain that you shouldn't try to steal, 2barrel the streets.

Is this kind of line correct?