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

I think this episode is one of the most valuable I've ever watched, just for the discussion about getting played back at. I really shouldn't worry too much about getting run over at the micros. Hearing you say it helped a lot. Thanks for the great video. Keep up the good work.

Yeah this is a great must watch episode.

With the Pocket TT hand that you talk about for a good 5 minutes(dont feel a timestamp is needed). How would this change if it was an Ad2d5x board. I feel in looser live games you may get called even in 5 way pots by 33 and 44 here but you play so few hands it's hard to know.

00:50:00: We flat MP open from blinds w KJo and you suggest a value C/R w TP. With our dynamic with this player are we really getting that much value? Is he calling a C/R worse hands to justify getting more value out of a c/r than c/c and letting villain double? This is a spot where I really don't understand, I mean KTo is just maybe in his PF range and very likely not calling a flop C/R. What are we getting value from?




00:14:28: facing the cbet on K92r- Are you worried about bluff raising not repping many value hands?

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Is there a link to this session? Is it live/online?

Thanks

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I have a question about the AJ hand:

If we at the place of the guy who raise with KJs. I agree that the best play is to just call with this draw. But what are we doing if whowho7878 called the flop. Now the turn comes blank, utg fire a 2barel...we have 13 outs. Is it a shove or a call?

Thanks

Just found this series and loving it, thanks.

On that why is she getting 4bet alot.
At least I am looking at other players 3bet%. And when I see some maniacs with 3bet% over 20, I really start to play back alot. Not that much OOP, but IP I just keep raising. Even if the sample size is small like 40 hands, still 3bet% over 20 or 3bet% bigger than their vpip is enough for me.

Another note, she has HUD up and running but does not use it at all or used it once? Why?

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Hi! One question about the commentary from Baluga Whale there. What does non-polarized mean? Is it to bet with only the best hands right?

look to the posts @ episode 2. clear explanation over there

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Traveling on a plane in 10 days for my trip going on a cruiz... Im going to write all my poker ideas in my new Poker note Book on the plane! Brilliant idea...hahaa I learn something new every vid from you man. Thank you!!!

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Here we talk about Kristy being incorrect to call the 3 bet OOP with AQ suited.

What do you do in this situation correctly? I suspect 4 bet will be the answer, but aren't we going to have to fold to a shove if it comes to that? Aren't we essentially turning the hand into a bluff? We'd be behind almost all of his shoving range I would imagine.

Seems as though it's a little bit of a tough spot (from my newbish perspective).

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I think this is really valuable advice for micro-players here:

When we have a little bit of equity it inclines us to call,
When we've got medium equity we really want to call, (so we don't get blown off our hand)
When we have a lot of equity now we're thinking about raising,
When we have no equity we're thinking about folding,
and if you're thinking about folding..., then you can also think about raising.


And this is epic-hilarious

If we raise our 10-8s on a K93 board and get reraised we dont care, we're not
like... Ohhhh-noooo.... my 10 high..... I was gonna run all kinds of sick moves later

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

jsut getting intp cash after being a pretty succesfull tournament player on pkr....this agro is a shock to my nitty system

baluga, or "b-dawg" as i've christened you. love your tips buttttt how wide sould i make my opening range (assuming it's a fairly standard table (hmmm that's so broad i know))? what i mean is when does opeing become -ev u said in ur last video that j5 suited was the bottom of your opening value range. i'd say that;s pretty loose to be honest. I know there are so many variables that its tough to say, i.e. tanble agression. position and image etc but lets assume it's 6 max (so your never going to be massivley oop and its an average mechanical game), would you be opeing 45 suited or even 106 off? are we raising light for value due to a superior post flop edge or purely on teh premise that they will call any two so hands like j10 can be ahead of a chunk of their range? as i said earlier i'm new to cash games and have had good success at low to mid stakes tourneys so i tend to edge on the nitty side...tho this lag style does seem to work better for cash games i have to agree. its hard to get paid playing three hands an hour

@ 37:27

Here we talk about Kristy being incorrect to call the 3 bet OOP with AQ suited.

What do you do in this situation correctly? I suspect 4 bet will be the answer, but aren't we going to have to fold to a shove if it comes to that? Aren't we essentially turning the hand into a bluff? We'd be behind almost all of his shoving range I would imagine.

Seems as though it's a little bit of a tough spot (from my newbish perspective).

given stacksizes i'd look at it from a tournament perspective and in a tournament i have to say its a shove fold spot depending on stack sizes. you don't flop a pair or better often enough to make this flat good espesh as (if i remember the stacks are short) so i'#d say it's read based if hes often full of shit then jam on him and give him a tough spot with 10 10 or jj
otherwise easy fold imo

aditionally im new to cash games so dont take my advice...which makes typing that a waste of time!!

baluga, or "b-dawg" as i've christened you. love your tips buttttt how wide sould i make my opening range (assuming it's a fairly standard table (hmmm that's so broad i know))? what i mean is when does opeing become -ev u said in ur last video that j5 suited was the bottom of your opening value range. i'd say that;s pretty loose to be honest. I know there are so many variables that its tough to say, i.e. tanble agression. position and image etc but lets assume it's 6 max (so your never going to be massivley oop and its an average mechanical game), would you be opeing 45 suited or even 106 off? are we raising light for value due to a superior post flop edge or purely on teh premise that they will call any two so hands like j10 can be ahead of a chunk of their range? as i said earlier i'm new to cash games and have had good success at low to mid stakes tourneys so i tend to edge on the nitty side...tho this lag style does seem to work better for cash games i have to agree. its hard to get paid playing three hands an hour

the answer to this is "have a reason". opening J7s or K2s or 54o or whatever just because its fun to play loose is NOT a good reason. my reasons are usually "i'm trying to isolate this fish" or "the blinds are nits so i'm just on a cheap bluff".

"too loose" is only a question of how well you play postflop relative to your opponent AND how often you win the blinds preflop. if everyone at your table is only playing AA and NOTHING else, obv you should open any-two-cards and there's no such thing as too loose.

Andrew

the answer to this is "have a reason". opening J7s or K2s or 54o or whatever just because its fun to play loose is NOT a good reason. my reasons are usually "i'm trying to isolate this fish" or "the blinds are nits so i'm just on a cheap bluff".

"too loose" is only a question of how well you play postflop relative to your opponent AND how often you win the blinds preflop. if everyone at your table is only playing AA and NOTHING else, obv you should open any-two-cards and there's no such thing as too loose.

Andrew

yeah i agree as long as you're opening for a reason i guess it doesn't matter, opening 23o is fine if you playing a guy that's just gunna check fold or lead if he hits the flop because he cant flop a pair often enough common sense now i think about it. thanks

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I am learning so much from your videos! THANKS!

by the way, the vast majority of teh value from 3bet-5betting AJ is that they fold off some 28bb w/o variance. You do that a couple times you can get it in vs KK and have a big smile on your face

in short, id still keep 3-betting in general cause i expect people to call OOP, and if theyd on't, you either 3-bet 5-bet a lot or you call a lot, or if you're a true sicko, you do both

Andrew

Baluga--

Isn't this almost what Doyle says in his original Super System? Doyle steals money often enough off fish (back when,.... during live games) that when the fish inevitably calls, Doyle does not mind being the underdog, since his minus equity in this particular hand is more than made up for by the many steals he has made (rather folds created by his aggression before aggro was normal).

A side benefit was that the fish who loses his stack as equity favorite continues to think Doyle is just 'lucky', and keeps playing.

which

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Youre saying that it would be better to raise that K high flop.What hands would we raise that flop with that werent bluffs?AK i think we 3B pre(especially as active as she is).99 the same thing.
the only hand i think we rep there would be 33 but would we really raise that dry of a flop with that?
I dont understand how floating(the line she took),and raisng a good turn,or betting when checked to,isnt a better line to take here.
AWESOME series too btw.youb are the man.And the ninja dolphin is awesome too!

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hi baluga enjoyed the video so far,

when u talk about his 4-bet sizing here... he makes it a bit less then 3x the original raise, then what would be an appropriate sizing like 13$ or so...