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

kristy, go rewatch season 1 episode 1 then compare it to this, its so cool to see how much you have progressed as player so far. love it

I really like your words baluga. And I agree that's a good combo with kristy. thank you two : )

The AK hand where we 3bet bet flop and shove turn?

what do you think of that baluga? i wouldn't do that myself..

+1 would be interesting to know Kristy's thought process behind that play and balaga's analyst of the play ! You were on a hand at another table when this hand heppened so you didnt talk about it and I think this is a spot where people have lots of problem.

I have a question for you two:

do you think there is difference with FTP player before/after black friday ? less fish/bad reg?

Time Link to 00:42:01

table 3: QTs

I have a coule of question about this hand:

1. Since we dont really know the vilain (only 13 hands), its not a better to just flat because we dont really know how he respond to 3bet. I dont think he will call with that many worst hand here. what do you think he can call with that is worst than QT ? JT, T9s, T8s, J9s, J8s, low PPs ?

2. Say we expect him to call with worst here. We 3bet him for thin value and this flop comes. Can we assume (because he calls with worst hands than our hand) that he isnt that good at poker because its not profitable to call J9s vs an unknown 3bettor ?. Baluga said cbetting this flop is good to make him fold is JT, J9 type hand. I guess its for capatitalize on the dead money. But since we expect him to call pre with worst (JT, J9, T8, small PPs), can you really expect him to fold his overcard or small PP to one bet ? I think that he would call at least one bet with overcard and PPs and my problem is that I dont know what to do once he called. He can have these overcard and low PPs that would probably fold to a turn barel but he can also have better than mine (AJ, AQ, PP>8 , etc.)

Smooth voice. No, not you Andrew

Like the video, especially thinking out of the box in some standard spots. Thanks!

I have a question for you two:

do you think there is difference with FTP player before/after black friday ? less fish/bad reg?

can't play, so no idea

The AK hand where we 3bet bet flop and shove turn?

what do you think of that baluga? i wouldn't do that myself..

if you bet the flop you should pretty much always shove the turn here.

whether or not you bet the flop is very questionable. usually I would check the flop in this spot. srry i missed it, this would've been good to discuss!

Andrew

table 3: QTs

I have a coule of question about this hand:

1. Since we dont really know the vilain (only 13 hands), its not a better to just flat because we dont really know how he respond to 3bet. I dont think he will call with that many worst hand here. what do you think he can call with that is worst than QT ? JT, T9s, T8s, J9s, J8s, low PPs ?

2. Say we expect him to call with worst here. We 3bet him for thin value and this flop comes. Can we assume (because he calls with worst hands than our hand) that he isnt that good at poker because its not profitable to call J9s vs an unknown 3bettor ?. Baluga said cbetting this flop is good to make him fold is JT, J9 type hand. I guess its for capatitalize on the dead money. But since we expect him to call pre with worst (JT, J9, T8, small PPs), can you really expect him to fold his overcard or small PP to one bet ? I think that he would call at least one bet with overcard and PPs and my problem is that I dont know what to do once he called. He can have these overcard and low PPs that would probably fold to a turn barel but he can also have better than mine (AJ, AQ, PP>8 , etc.)

1) If we 3b QTs there vs an unknown, I'd call it a bluff. I still think its probably better to 3b from the SB. from BB it might be better to call.

2) If I was going to bet the flop, i'd definitely continue on most turns.

Andrew

Time Link to 00:49:28

Table1: KT

Do you expect vilain to fold his Jx hand to a river bet ? After c/c flop, c/r turn and bet river, I think that if vilain is somewhat competent, he will think that you have better than TPTK here. But do you give vilain credit to be competent at 100NL ? I know you (kristy) play 50NL and I think also 25NL and I want to know if you expect the same play to works at 25, 50NL against someone with regish stats ?

And what about a flop c/r instead of float oop? because when we c/c, we must have a plan for what to do on the turn and its hard to know vilain's range for betting the turn and how will he respond to a c/r.
Even at these limit (50NL-100NL), you dont think that you can be vs a loose player that call too much and make our bluff very bad ? the same kind of player that we saw in the first coaching Kristy serie and that we didnt want to bluff..

if you bet the flop you should pretty much always shove the turn here.

whether or not you bet the flop is very questionable. usually I would check the flop in this spot. srry i missed it, this would've been good to discuss!

Andrew

Yeah i thought it was interesting and your kind of hand to talk about

why do we have to shove? is it that we are comitted or something we have put in roughly 15bbs and he has 40bb behind and i cant see him calling with that much that we beat?

Time Link to 00:56:04

Hand 1: 44 (3bet question)

question for you baluga about the postflop play with small PPs after 3betting oop and get called. I would assume vilain's range to something like that: 88/99-JJ/QQ depending on the dynamics, AQ, AJs, and maybe ATs, KQs, KJs and come T9s, 89s but not a lot imo.

So when flop comes KT6, its a clear c/f. But when flop comes 225, you said we cbet for value (and protection I guess). But this is hard to play the turn oop. Vilain can either float with A high or suited broadway, but he can also call with better PP so what to do if turn is:

1) blanks
2) J, Q, K, A

- On a blanks, if we bet, we only get a call by better hand imo. (float will fold)
- On an A turn (for exemple), if we bet, he wont fold better hand (he call with all his 99-TT- JJ hands), wont fold his float turned into a pair (A high float in my exemple), but fold all stuff that we beat (KQ, KJ, etc)

Is there anything wrong with my thought here?

thx

kristy, go rewatch season 1 episode 1 then compare it to this, its so cool to see how much you have progressed as player so far. love it

yup. And she seems more confident, which is good! Another good vid, nice job!

Awesome!

Baluga,

Table 2, the KQs IP vs on the AJx vs the reg w/o history who checks back flop. I don't really understand why you think we should give up on the river. I wouldn't ever expect an unknown reg to go into c/c mode for 3 streets with anything w/o any history.

That plus our raw equity vs his total range, I think would make a 3rd barrel very profitable here, we can even put a very good price on it and make it 2/3 or 1/2 pot and make our bluffs very cheap, this looks very much like value.

When our opponent checks the flop I don't think he's ever planning to call 3 unless he improves, and I don't expect the way this board runs out that he ever improved here.

Basically he could take this line with any J, maybe TT/99, QQ/KK or some weak A's that he's pot controlling. I would expect most reg's to fold all these hands w/o any history or reads on us. When he calls turn I think the worst hand he can have is Jx, but normally I would say that it would be more likely that he holds QQ/KK, Jx which turned a FD (allthought he maybe would have CBET his 2nd pair +BDFD some % of the time), or a weak A. But on a blank river I don't think he calls with anything, if he somehow does manage to do this tho, we get a great read and value bet the shit out of him in the future.

Edit: WoOopz just decided to type a big ass question, w/o a proper thanks for the work here. Excuse me, thanks alot for a great video again!