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Poker Video: Pot-Limit Omaha by DJ Sensei (Micro/Small Stakes)

Excellent vid! Was just wondering if someone might do something like this for PLO. Like the format, esp. with how we might take different lines against different opponent types.

Niggaz always be hollerin peace, you know what im sayin, peace my brotha, peace this, peace that, you know what im sayin? But, every time I try to get a peace of mind, niggaz try to get a piece of mine, so I gotta grab my piece.

Resubscribing...nnnnnow.

Been coming back to this page several times since yesterday, even though I know I have to wait until next week for next episode.....craaaaaaaaavings - more!!!!

Something I am curious about... was having a sweat session last night with a fellow DC'er, and we were discussing two topics that stuck out to him in my game. One was ISO'ing from the blinds with AAxx and KKxx hands. What kind of coordination should we be looking for before raising a bunch of limpers? Also, preflop raise size adjustments? Not sure if this would fall under the umbrella of this series, because these questions involve almost always LAP's, but I'd be interested in knowing if I should be completing more SB's or if I am mindlessly massing the pot button without reason.

Not sure if I articulated myself very well in the post above. One of things I would like to have covered, even just super breifly, would be generic preflop adjustments one would make given a certain table dynamic. For instance, when you cover the 3betting portion of the series, you could maybe just explain some adjustments for maniac on your left/right, loose passive limpers and your in the blinds, UTG with a super loose table with a mix of player types and such. It's a little elementary, but I think if I/others are not executing it correctly, we get set up for bad postflop scenarios, where our ability to exploit players well goes out the window.

Very nice video! Did you grind up below 100 stakes? I'd like to see more action against some of the more aggressive "semifish". These players are very prevalent in the Merge10-25 stakes, and they either are more stationy or are on the more aggressive side. What kinds of AF or AFq differentiates one from the other?

Something I am curious about... was having a sweat session last night with a fellow DC'er, and we were discussing two topics that stuck out to him in my game. One was ISO'ing from the blinds with AAxx and KKxx hands. What kind of coordination should we be looking for before raising a bunch of limpers? Also, preflop raise size adjustments? Not sure if this would fall under the umbrella of this series, because these questions involve almost always LAP's, but I'd be interested in knowing if I should be completing more SB's or if I am mindlessly massing the pot button without reason.

I guess I probably raise about half my KKs and 2/3 of my AAs from the SB after limpers. Always full pot, of course. Also, the # of limpers matters: against a single limper I'll probably raise any AA/KK (and a wide variety of other strong hands), but against 3 of them I won't be as aggro.

Finished the video last night and took some notes on it. I think it looks like a really strong start to the series. Can't remember if you said at the end of the video if you were going to be looking at some more 2-barreling, but I think that would be good. I liked that you were very thorough in each example. Most DC'ers, myself included, probably could stand to compare different player types to each hand we are analyzing post session. Really excited for the rest of the content!

Very nice video! Did you grind up below 100 stakes? I'd like to see more action against some of the more aggressive "semifish". These players are very prevalent in the Merge10-25 stakes, and they either are more stationy or are on the more aggressive side. What kinds of AF or AFq differentiates one from the other?

I didn't play anything below 100, so I guess I didn't truly start from scratch .

When you say aggressive semifish, you mean guys who are somewhat loose and passive from a VPIP/PFR standpoint but more aggressive postflop? Interesting. As far as aggression postflop goes, I tend to draw the line between 2 and 3 AF. Above that = aggressive, below that = passive. But of course a passive villain doesn't necessarily have to be a station, and an aggressive one can give up pretty easily most of the time. Its important to look at all of the factors!

At 35.37

What is your plan if he bets turn here, and fires again on river ?

If he is floating, seems like a perfect spot for him to take control.

At 35.37

What is your plan if he bets turn here, and fires again on river ?

If he is floating, seems like a perfect spot for him to take control.

Probably call down. The more aggressive he is, the more I like that plan.

Yeah, there are a handful of weird but effective players that have stats like 60/20 or 90/10 that are generally a pain against. I don't have AF listed, what do you think of Agg%? The Agg% can vary, but they tend to call most cbets and either fire when checked to or try to call down. I'm getting into trouble triple barreling the wrong ones, haha

Definitely looking forward to this series.

Hey DJ,
The counter strategies were very interesting to me. I have been using it to play the player and not my hand and it seems to be working over a small sample [at micros] but I understand why and how it works. I think this was a major leak in my game just playing every hand the standard way and not adjusting to how my opponent plays. I am finding value in a lot of spots I did not before by taking lines I would not normally take by adjusting to my opponents play. It has allowed me to not only change my postflop play but also open up my preflop hand selection specially versus Semi Fish who play fit or fold. I prefer broadening the Semi Fish category to Fit or Fold Fish which includes any players who are on the passive side and play Fit or Fold. Had a few questions for you in relation to that...

1. Where do tight passive and nits fall under in these categories? What about others that don’t fit these categories?

2. How do we counter them? I was thinking the counter for tight passive would be similar if not same as Semi Fish since they play fit or fold mostly and Nits would be most similar to TAGs. But are there any adjustments necessary to adjust for the fact that tight passive and nits have tighter ranges than Semi Fish and TAGs respectively.

3. I understand you can’t fit every player into a category and a majority of players do fit into the categories you mentioned but it would be nice to know how to counter the players who do not fit into categories and fall somewhere in between. For example the last hand discussed in the video talked about a player who fell somewhere in between the player types. Would be nice to see more of that.

Thanks for the video and your responses to come.